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Originally Posted by RickLafayette
If you're riding, assume every driver around you is texting and no one sees you. Car drivers who are inexperienced at riding motorcycles are not psychologically intimidated by motorcycles due to their smaller sizes. If an 18 wheeler was next to their car it would have one hundred percent of their attention. To be clear, most car drivers are good drivers, just that a lot of them are unaware. They don't know a motorcycle can brake in half the distance of their car at the same speed. You have to ride a motorcycle as defensively as possible. If you take the bad *** attitude that you have the right of way, screw them....you're a dead man walking. (riding)
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This is why I got rid of my bike. I learned quickly that it didn't matter how careful I was. the soccer mom in that big SUV tending to her kids while eating lunch and talking on her phone is not.