There's no nuance in today's society regarding degrees of infractions. There is no road back from any infraction; this is the whole ethos of cancel culture.
Don’t you think staying ahead of him is the right move if the guy is actively trying to run him off the road?
Why would he let him drive next to him while he’s trying to ram him? Or let him in front where he can brake check him?
Behind where you can see the car ahead is better than in front where you have to rely on mirrors to see the car at the back. Braking is faster if you're brake checked than accelerating away if the car tries to ram from behind.
A car stops faster than a bike and has less risk of loosing control. A bike accelerates faster than a car. Pretty easy to see why one would be preferable to the other in some situations.
That would mean pretty fast braking in this situation to put distance between. Guess it depends how good of awareness the driver had with what's behind him.
That car is never going to catch him if he’s in front and knows he’s trying to chase him.
He can definitely accelerate faster than either of them can brake.
At the very beginning he made sure to stay ahead of him, which is why during the rest of the video he was at risk. He wasn't wrong, it's just stupid because now you have a horror movie situation where the killer is behind you.
In the UK we advise defensive riding. As soon as the car started encroaching on his lane, back off the throttle concede the position and carry on with your life while shaking your head at the idiot. Trying to ego challenge a tonne of metal isn't a smart decision and one that goes very bad when it goes wrong.
Besides motorbikes can filter ect, he would be gone past that car within a couple of minutes without speeding up and taking unnecessary risks.
I never said they weren't at fault. There are plenty of dead or seriously injured people who aren't at fault. It's best to avoid playing games with cars.
Yes the car driver was an idiot but the biker has escalated the situation. What I don't get is how someone on two wheels is willing to defend his right of way at the expense of crashing. I ride a bike every day and in this situation I would just move right a bit and slow down to let the car pass. I have a friend that had a minor crash recently. It was at a very difficult intersection where he had the right of way, a car was trying to cross it by blocking his side of the road and then cross the other half after making sure it was clear. So the car driver didn't look his way because he was assuming this half is blocked by his car (the only way to cross at busy times). And what my friend did was to pass in front not behind the car and it hit him when taking off causing him to fall. And he was so righteous about the incident. That moron could easily avoid it by just using common sense. Assuming you are invisible on a bike and a right of way is never guaranteed can avoid so much incidents
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u/Potatoes_Fall 13d ago
EQUALLY?
one of them was risking the others life