| Everyone who uses a motorcycle daily, knows that | | | | traffic? These kind of cages can do surprising moves |
| riding it differs from driving a cage. When on two | | | | indeed. Position yourself so that if the cage suddenly |
| wheels and surrounded by traffic, you cant just keep | | | | brakes or switches lanes, you can either brake or |
| going and thinking whatever you are thinking. Or at | | | | steer away from it. |
| least that is what you should avoid. One of the things | | | | Try avoiding blind spots. Every cage has an angle of |
| that makes me love riding my bike is that I feel more | | | | view backwards where the driver cant see you. Can |
| aware, everything feels more real than inside a cage. | | | | you see the drivers face from his side mirror? If yes |
| I simply have to watch for what is happening. | | | | then he/she can see yours. Best of all, do not drive a |
| When in traffic, there's just one person that you can | | | | couple of meters behind and to the side of cages, |
| trust - yourself. Everyone else can do whatever they | | | | you'll may end up at the blind spot. |
| do whenever they do. Expect anything to happen, | | | | Try thinking that if the worst happens, if a cage |
| trust no-one. Do not expect that people will follow | | | | suddenly brakes or switch lanes or drives in front of |
| traffic rules. Sure, they should, but they always wont. | | | | you from an intersection, do you have enough time |
| Somebody can block your right of way anytime, and | | | | and space to make evasive action? Do you need |
| if you go too fast or aren't prepared to brake you'll | | | | more distance between you and the cages in front |
| crash. | | | | of you, do you ride slowly enough that you have |
| Always when I see a cage that is waiting in an | | | | time to brake in an intersection? |
| intersection to join my lane, I prepare to brake. It | | | | Can you use your bike to make the cagers to notify |
| has happened that they just wont see me and they'll | | | | you? Rev your engine high, they'll hear you, blink the |
| start to move in and block my way. This is very | | | | lights, use the horn. Whatever is better, than |
| common cause for motorcycle accidents. | | | | overtaking them and totally surprising them while |
| Another common cause is riders who go too fast, | | | | doing so. Try not to get provoked by other peoples |
| cagers have no time to react to bikes. Lets say they | | | | mistakes. Its very very easy to get angry about |
| expect the bike to move 60 mph and if it moves 160 | | | | someone who is making a stupid mistake. This is one |
| mph they have no means to judge its speed | | | | of the most difficult things in life in general - how to |
| accurately. They think "hey I have plenty of time to | | | | face stupidity without getting involved to it. |
| cross this road". | | | | Keeping the guards up for a long period of time is |
| Also you have to learn to read cagers in city traffic: | | | | difficult, many a times I have caught myself not |
| is the driver talking to a cell phone or to the kids, is | | | | thinking of the traffic but something else. Maybe |
| he/she looking for the right address where to turn? | | | | practicing it is the only way to perform better. |
| Is the driver focused on something other than | | | | |