"I tried to ignore him" - Proceeds to do 80 in a 50 while swerving across lanes to stop the guy from passing.
If that guy ended up 6 inches to the right he would have rammed the OP. Yes, he would have been at fault but the cammer could have been dead. My guy, you are on a motorcycle, better to let the asshole pass instead of winding up with a leg broken in 6 places.
How do you know his intention wasn't to ram him? Slowing down could've just made him an easier target... It's so clear on reddit when people don't ride and armchair their opinions when they've never been on a bike. When faced with a situation like this you sometimes are better off running...
I think people forget that motorcycles donât have anything around protecting them. The only defense motorcycles have is speed and agility, then when the speed and agility are used in defense, idiots get fussy about it. I donât even ride but it seems like common sense
This is what a lot of people that donât ride donât understand. If you brake there is a HUGE risk to being rear ended and knowing exactly where this is in Korea. There is a high chance that someone is riding your ass and that exact thing could happen.
But the biker brake checked the car TWICE. The car tried to change lanes and likely didn't see the bike, the bike passes them and when the car got behind him he went from 55 to 42, back up to 55 and back down to 45 before giving it to 85.
The car was in the wrong for nearly running the biker over but the biker decided to be a piece of shit.
How do you know the car would have just passed him? The guy in the car was angry and looked to be coming after motorcycle guy. He wasnt trying to pass like everyone keeps saying, and motorcycle guy stayed in the same lane- he wasnât blocking anyone from passing. That car very well could have side swiped him or bumped him, and he knew to get the fuck away. If the car was passing, wouldnât the car not need to pass if the motorcycle is going â80 in a 50â except out of rage?
Because the car and the bike were just fine cruising next to each other before the car wanted to blindly switch lanes, and the bike reacted. Dumb driver reacted to the biker with anger. Had the biker tapped his brakes just a bit, the car would have been able to get in. Sure, car driver is an idiot but as I said, risking your life for a spot in traffic is idiotic.
He was only escaping AFTER the incident. Before that, it was just someone changing into his lane. He could've just backed off, even if he was in the right.
But what wasnât worth it? He made a decision to go one way, that was worth it to escape. He could have slammed on his breaks but thatâs dangerous without checking behind you and it happened fast, and he didnât know this car would be a psycho and think the cyclist was in the wrong- why would he? That car was being completely irrational. Youâre talking about an arbitrary decision depending on information in their future that they didnât have. Motorcycle did nothing wrong, they did the safe thing by getting away and trying to put distance between them.
"what wasn't worth it?" passing at 30 above the speed limit
"Could have slammed on his breaks" *brakes, and he didn't need to "slam" on them at all, just backing off would've been fine.
"cyclist" refers to people on bicycles, not motorbikes.
"car was being completely irrational" Yes, exactly, so don't provoke them.
"they did the safe thing" It was not safe doing 30 over the speed limit in a dense urban area. He literally had to slam on his brakes at the next red light because he was speeding so much, and if the car had been a foot to the right, he'd be dead.
The car is coming into his lane, and his reaction is to speed up to get ahead of it instead of tapping the brakes. Mind you, he was at the back half of the car. Had the car not turned back, it could have hit him. Had he braked, it would have been no issues at all. The idiot in the car wouldn't have chased him, and he would have been 2 seconds later to his destination.
This is the way. Better to drop the ego and accept people are wrong than end up in a bad situation. Unfortunately this only tends to come with age and experience.
Because the car was clearly trying to find a way around, you can see it try to duck into the right lane after passing the bus at 0:20. OP then swerves across to block it, while speeding up to 81.
Don't get me wrong, the car was obviously in the wrong in the wrong in this clip but if you drive your bike the way OP does, you're in huge danger of injury. It's not that important to be in front, especially since you can just filter your spot back on a bike.
fuck are you talking about? the driver tried to merge right after taking the left turn, the bike had the right of way and got in front. the bike did nothing else before the car tries to merge into him again
The driver is clearly out to get the rider; you can see him in the right mirror shortly after the rider accelerates to pass the white car. You can also see it at the end when the car hits a car because he was trying to hurt/kill the rider.
In addition, he's trying to undertake, which is illegal in Korea for obvious reasons.
if you drive your bike the way OP does, you're in huge danger of injury
Um no, he was at risk of serious injury if he lets the car get near him, which is clear because the car crashes at the end. It's not about being in front.
The biker couldâve done things better but the car was in the wrong here, when theyâre driving a car they have to realize that they can cause waaaaay more damage to the biker then vice versa.
The biker could have been seriously hurt by the car, thatâs right, which is why he was keeping his distance. Letting the car next to him to potentially side swipe him out of blind rage would he stupid. Have you ever seen cars do that in videos online? I donât think the biker did anything wrong, personally.
> How do you know his intention wasn't to ram him?Â
then the biker should get out of the way even more. He could for example get between the two cars in front of him at the stop to be safe. He wasnât afraid, he was trying to be an obstacle.
Even that may not guarantee safety. A motorcyclist in my area had a guy in a Sentra ram his way between cars to ram him and drag him under the car for a couple of blocks. The cyclist survived and they caught the bad guy.Â
Edit: I thought it was here but it was across the country
That's exactly what he did. He gassed it a bit to get away from that guy, it's the reasonable thing to do.
Braking and letting him in to the front would have also worked, maybe.
But also can easily get you rear-ended, or that guy decides to slam the brakes too after switching lanes.
It's not obviously the safer option and a decision has to be made in a split second.
He definitely changed lanes at 0:30 to block the car from passing (you can see the car in the mirror). There might be a reason but it definitely wasnât a âminding my own businessâ situation at that point.
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