Beautiful days bring out the worst drivers.

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gsxr750xl

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Was around yorkgate mall by Jane and finch..behind the no-frills on that side road with a couple bends...saw a lady on her cell phone in a van up ahead on the opposite side..so I tried to make myself noticeable by driving to the left tire track thinking she'd see my bright a** 6K HID's and my hyperwhite bike....well she didnt!!...she came around the turn n ended up half way into my lane which forced me to the extreme right almost hitting the curb...

I'm so glad that I was paying attention...if I wasn't she would've hit
Me head on at about 60km n I probably wouldn't be writing this.

Point of this is to remind all us riders to be aware of wtf's going on around us...cagers get worse on such nice days..it's a shame.

Ride safe everyone and be aware!
 
Toronto drivers are bad, we know this as fact. You as a rider are observant enough to identify the trouble vehicle, the sex of the driver and that the driver was talking on the phone. You should not think that your fancy pants freaking bright lights make you visible. This would seem logical, but the driver is human and illogical. She was distracted and in her mind's eye you disappeared.

If you can see and predict trouble, either honk your horn, hopefully upgraded to something obnoxiously loud, and/or hit the brakes in anticipation of her bad driving.

Yes, you had right of way, but as a rider this matters little. We as riders are better drivers than the rest.
 
In the span of a 40 minute jaunt from KW to Mississauga early this morning, 3 drivers flicked their cigarette butts out the window (one must have been a cigar by the size of it), one almost hitting me, some inattentive driver had her turn signal on for at least 2 minutes (I saw it on closing in on her from a distance, passed her, and still had it on long afterwards in my rearviews), and worst of all, a guy in a minivan cut off a fully loaded transport truck - missed the truck by less than an estimated 2 feet (I was behind the minivan and had a birds eye view). If the truck driver wouldn't have been paying attention and applied his brakes it would have been an accident for sure.

*sigh*
 
perhaps your overly bright lights are what caused her to come into your lane!!

for all the people that think running with your highbeams on is smart need to think about target fixation. she was probs starring at your lights as its the natural thing to do and went towards them.

just saying.
 
geoff-9 said:
perhaps your overly bright lights are what caused her to come into your lane!!

for all the people that think running with your highbeams on is smart need to think about target fixation. she was probs starring at your lights as its the natural thing to do and went towards them.

just saying.
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High-beams weren't on, n that wasn't the Case. She didn't see me at all.
 
Yesterday right downtown a couple of spoiled kids, 16 Y/O girl in the driver seat with seemingly her 13 Y/O brother on the passenger side, driving dad's or mum's huge Audi S8 (you how much that costs?) really nearly missed hitting not one, but two motorbikes, completely disregarding any traffic on any other lane but theirs; talk about old drivers being the dangerous ones...
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