A lot of bike riders are in cars blind spots and continue to sit their,i drive a lifted 4wd and havent cut off or hit any bikes though. Almost ran over a little mr2 because it was so small and in my blind spot.
If bikes want to be seen either sit eye level or slightly a head of cars next to them or get right out the way. It is a very dangerous position to be putting you self into when even you get on a bike and making youself seen should be #1 priority for any riders. I only ride offroad but from a drivers point of vision bikes are one of the hardest things to see if in a blind spot.
Rick
I personally don't sit in people's blind spots, but this gets more difficult on highways in heavy traffic. I'd definitely recommend that people do a proper head check before changing lanes though. Anyone in the riding community who sits in blind spots deliberately will be get strips torn off them if other bikers find out that they do it, most of the bikers I've talked to have been responsible ones.
yes you had to move over just a lil bit
Into the
gutter.
but what did you expect that bus driver to do , slam his foot on the brakes do you have any idea the stopping power of a large bus like that ?
I expect them to exercise caution and responsibility in a street that they travel all the time and
know is narrow and that cars park in places that make things difficult. This is just around the corner from where I live and other people in the street have had trouble with the buses too. They come through there too fast and more than one person living in this area has had near misses with them because of that. Even though the speed limit for that road is 50km I was doing 40km because of it being narrow and difficult because of where the cars are parked.
My lane was clear, the cars were on his side which he would have seen coming around there. as far as the law goes it was him that should have given way which would have been easier for him to do if he was going slower which common sense would advise given that you can't see all the way into that corner when going around it.
The thing that's easy to forget here is that this all happened within a few seconds, I moved into the gutter because I didn't trust him to stop, and I moved that far over because there was a parked car on the other side of the road.
He was going to have to move in closer to get past it. Had I been driving a car I'll bet he would have been more likely to stop. When this happens you don't have the luxury of analyzing the situation the way you can with a video.
An incident doesn't have to be a near bar clipper to be too close. I also have to point out that this did not happen to you, and that makes it harder for you to judge the situation. Watching the video from the safety of a computer chair is one thing, experiencing it is quite different.
I stand by calling him inconsiderate.
