Near death experience riding today (a friend's video)

[Barney]

agreed... keep moving jackasses!

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

[krolik]

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. 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."

[ducatiz]

agreed... keep moving jackasses!

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.

[Dry Martini]

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.

[sgollapalle]

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.

[Dry Martini]

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