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    Default Ride like you're invisible.

    This is why you should ride like you're invisible, because to some people you are. The guy in the blue car came out of the Chevron parking lot while the gray car was still blocking his view of on coming traffic. Luckily I had already spotted him ahead of time, so I was prepared for him to do something stupid. That look of absolute terror on his face though was priceless.

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    Unfortunate - glad you are safe

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    Always good to be looking ahead, far ahead and it is not always cars or deer.

    I remember heading home after an evening shift at Sylmar Converter Station, circa 1978, on a 1976 Honda CB750 F.
    It was winter, I was cold (could have used a better jacket for 18 mile commute).
    Simi Freeway was empty, no headlights in mirrors, no taillights ahead.
    I cranked it on up the grade, probably out driving my high beam.
    Barely in time I saw a mattress on the #2 lane, dead ahead.
    A lane change sufficed, but had I been inattentive...
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    good advice....whats that white stuff on the ground?
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    Quote Originally Posted by mully View Post
    good advice....whats that white stuff on the ground?
    A harbinger of things to come.....
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    i'm closing in on 130,000 miles of smiles on my various 3 SPYD3RS.....
    i can't tell you just how many CLOSE CALLS i've had, and just how INVISABLE we all are... 2 wheels, 3 wheels, 4 wheels or even 18 wheels.... some people JUST DO NOT CARE about the rest of the world around them...
    KUDO's to your video, i'm passing it onto my closets 1000 emails frenz.... thx & Merry Christmas, and hope to hell 2021 is a lot better than 2020....
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    Not to detract from the very sound advice to "ride like you are invisible" (which to many, we are), I had zero close calls during 6,000 miles on the Ryker.
    Perhaps it is the width or dual headlights, but a Y machine may be more visible than a M/C.

    I do not recall any close calls on the Honda CB1100 (12,000+ miles in 10 months), but had a few on the Moto Guzzi V7II (3 on one trip):

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    A car is more visible than Spyder, a truck is more visible than a car, a semi is more visible than a truck, a fire truck is
    more visible than a semi, and a locomotive is more visible than a fire truck. Yet people continue to pull out in front of all of
    them.

    If you don't ride as if you're invisible, you most likely will be smitten by the dolts. In this era of cell phones, electronic
    dashboards, and YouTube, you'd best have your head on a swivel all the time.
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    One of the closest calls I've ever had was in a roundabout. I was in the proper lane, wearing my screaming high-viz gear ... and could tell the person merging in from the right didn't realize I was RIGHT THERE.

    She finally did stop. So did I, about 5 feet from her SUV's hood. We just stared at each other. I could tell she was horrified by what she had nearly done.

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    It seems as though that after I've been riding my Rally like a ghost for a while now. I actually do more head swiveling while in my Van or on my bicycle. I'm always doing a double/triple take before pulling out. I think riding a cageless 2-3 wheeler cautiously carries over into driving the 4 wheelers.

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    For those who might be wondering, I didn't flip the driver off. On a scale of one to five, I rated his driving as a one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by canamryder View Post
    ...always doing a double/triple take before pulling out. I think riding a cageless 2-3 wheeler cautiously carries over into driving the 4 wheelers.
    Yeeeah man. No Doubt.
    Since I’ve gotten a Spyder, driving my truck anymore... you’d think I got paid by the head turn.


    Quote Originally Posted by gkamer View Post
    For those who might be wondering, I didn't flip the driver off. On a scale of one to five, I rated his driving as a one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rogue Hawk View Post
    That's fine except for the lack of camo gloves and WHITE shoes! Not much of a soldier, is he?

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    I tried an internet search but couldn't find anything specific but I would bet that anyone who has ridden 2 or 3 wheels has a lower accident rate in their 4 wheel vehicles than those who have not. You just get tuned up, made more aware on 2/3 wheels and I notice it in my own driving even with a career in EMS and many high performance driving schools.

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    one is being generous. Dale

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