Make that sometimes. The advantage is that you're not loitering in a blind spot. But when you've cleared the dense traffic and found a niche of vacant space, you're better off at the speed of traffic, enjoying the respite from immediate threats for as long as you can.Ladies and Gentlemen, just remember; its always safer to go a little faster that traffic around you.
Ladies and Gentlemen, just remember; its always safer to go a little faster that traffic around you.
Make that sometimes. The advantage is that you're not loitering in a blind spot. But when you've cleared the dense traffic and found a niche of vacant space, you're better off at the speed of traffic, enjoying the respite from immediate threats for as long as you can.
Wrong. Speed makes it more difficult to be seen, and it increases the time and space you need to maneuver to avoid an incursion.Speed is life.
Wrong. Speed makes it more difficult to be seen, and it increases the time and space you need to maneuver to avoid an incursion.
You can enjoy speed when you're at the track, and on the street when you have enough space and sight distance to avoid hazards that may enter your path.
Wrong. Speed makes it more difficult to be seen, and it increases the time and space you need to maneuver to avoid an incursion.
Okay. I'll just pootle along at 55, letting the threats come approach from an axis where my vision is impaired. Sounds like a good plan.
Or, I maintain a healthy forward motion relative to the cars around me, and keep my eyes up and scanning for anything that might develop into a problem, while maintaining an awareness of at least two escape routes and what is behind me at all times such that if I have to brake in a hurry, I won't get ass-packed (however, the up-and-scanning part should reduce the likelihood of this being necessary; nine times out of ten, we panic brake because of something *WE* did or because we weren't paying attention).
So in deference to you, sir, I revise...
Speed + Situational Awareness = Life
Okay. I'll just pootle along at 55, letting the threats come approach from an axis where my vision is impaired. Sounds like a good plan.
Or, I maintain a healthy forward motion relative to the cars around me, and keep my eyes up and scanning for anything that might develop into a problem, while maintaining an awareness of at least two escape routes and what is behind me at all times such that if I have to brake in a hurry, I won't get ass-packed (however, the up-and-scanning part should reduce the likelihood of this being necessary; nine times out of ten, we panic brake because of something *WE* did or because we weren't paying attention).
So in deference to you, sir, I revise...
Speed + Situational Awareness = Life
This is the San Francisco Bay Area: When are there NOT cars around?
And your assertion in paragraph totally wrong. If you're taking advantage of your width, you'll be splitting through traffic, and your chance of being ass-packed goes down immensely.
But DataDan JUST SAID that, quote, "Speed makes it more difficult to be seen, and it increases the time and space you need to maneuver to avoid an incursion," unquote.
Therefore, I should CLEARLY travel at the lowest speed where I won't be ticketed for impeding the flow of traffic, the better to be seen and maneuver and all that...
Hmmm...
Oh, I'm sorry, I should just limit my riding to times when there's wide-open spaces on the freeways and streets. Must be nice to have options like that.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you... :rolleyes
Let's not talk about what I do and do not comprehend. You don't know me from the Pope. I don't go saying things like that about you.
How is it that speed can make you go unseen by a motorist ahead?A key factor in being seen is traveling at a speed that other motorists expect.
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Limited opportunity to be seen in the mirror
Finally, speed reduces the visibility of a motorcycle to vehicles ahead traveling in the same direction because it decreases time spent in the mirror field, and that reduces the chance of being seen by a motorist scanning for traffic approaching from behind. The driver may check his mirrors carefully enough to spot a vehicle traveling 5 or 10 mph faster than he, but not enough to see a motorcycle going substantially faster. If the motorcycle overtakes at +20mph, it will be in the visual field covered by the driver's mirrors only one-fourth as long as it would if it were at +5mph. One-fourth the time means one-fourth the likelihood of being seen.