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Posted by a friend on facebook.  Danger lurks everywhere, stay safe out there!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151396876272507&set=vb.561952506&type=2&theater (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151396876272507&set=vb.561952506&type=2&theater)

Saw that one on YouTube last night... It's lucky (or good planning) that the riders stopped on the shoulder. This is also the type of accident I'm most afraid of while riding in stop and go traffic.

ok, so I guess i understand the whole "stop out of respect" (being from jersey, i've never heard of this practice though) but let's be realistic - one person stopped in the middle of an otherwise open road?  i dont get it...

obviously the dude on the bike was very lucky, and the guy in the truck was paying no attention what so ever, but this seems like it could've been avoided quite easily...

may be opening myself up to flames here lol...

i am not sure there is any legal right to stop in the road except for traffic or danger. 

that being said, the truck is required to maintain a safe lookout.

but the car should have had the hazards on.

That car freaking launched forward like 100 ft. A bike would have been launched to the moon.

DAMN!!! Didnt see that one comin'.....

Don't have the Facebook.  Any link to a youtube version?

Don't think the vid is private... I was able to see it on Facebook (without having to log in)...

Here's the YouTube link... near death experience on motorcycle? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fy5_JmwxU4#)

Been there, got the t-shirt. Inexperienced buddy next to me wasn't so lucky. Leave it in gear and listen up!!!

^^^^^^ What he said!

Many years ago I got knocked off my bike (rear ended) as well.  Luckily It was only at 5mph.....  I have been scared and staring at my mirrors (in gear) for the last 30 years.  Lucky to be alive with that pickup going WAY more than 45mph....  Maybe he had to many  [drink]

Is it common to pull in the shoulder like the rider filming this did?  I check my mirrors but don't bother pulling to the side, but now I think that may be a good habit to develop.

Always, even in a car.

agreed... keep moving jackasses!

Another old geezer who used to ride with me was rear-ended 18 months ago at a light by a dumb broad in an SUV who was texting and "didn't see him" on his Yamaha Voyager! Poor guy comes to bike events but still isn't able to ride. He'd been riding for 40+ years and was even a bike dealer for a while. Not even sure covering his mirrors would have worked for this one though, but I wasn't there. In this video there was brake squeal for 2 - 3 seconds. My incident was similar and I darted to the shoulder in the nick of time!

Watch the video. You'll note he got well off the road without a millisecond hesitation. Cagers are blind to bikes. Even if they see them, it doesn't register.

glad i'm not the only one of this opinion. 

Also, I try to make a habit of leaving myself an out - pulling off to one side or another on the lane at traffic lights, etc, so i'm not directly in the path of someone like that dude.  one of the comments in the video did point out that this might not be the safest idea either, as if the dude in the truck had noticed he was about to smash the shit out of that car he might have tried to avoid it by using the shoulder...in which case the dude on the bike gets launched...i dunno

One of the 5 Seeing Habits (http://agreycat.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/the-5-seeing-habits/). While UPS did not come up with them, they are a very good way of helping to avoid being in an accident. They work out great for motorcyclists. Even Nick Ienatsch used them in "Sport riding Techniques."

No flaming here, want to stop, fine, pull off the road.  But why stop?  Just for a stiff?  No thanks.

Then again, it's Jersey.  Probably 50 years ago it would have gotten you shot for not paying respect to the capo that got offed.

Not just Jersey. It is common practice in small southern towns, to pull over and stop.

I think all 3 of them are in the wrong. There is barely any shoulder on that road. Unless there was an emergency, there is no reason the bike ahead should have been there. They could have ridden to a spot where there was a wider shoulder, or gone out on the unpaved portion.
The car had no reason to slow down that much. He could have rolled past the bike at a moderate speed.
The truck pretty much had no idea what was going on on the road.

The driver of the truck is supposed to pay attention to what is happening ahead of him and react accordingly. He did neither