Oh BTW, dodging an imaginary pothole is a great way to wake up drivers, and makes tailgaters back off. I throw in some swerves from time to time for this purpose, besides it's good practice. Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
-----Original Message----- From: "Allen Thomas" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 10:52:31 To: Nightwawk Lovers<[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] Motion Camouflage I actually already do this, when I approach a car that is going to cross my lane of travel. I move to the opposite side of my lane, slow down, and watch their tires to see if they start to move. That gives me a head start on maneuvering around them should they start to pull out. But I hear you about paying attention and predicting what will occur. If I can, I try to time it so that I'm already past the intersection prior to the cars arrival, or vice versa. When I can't, I do as above. Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sender: [email protected] Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 02:46:47 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] Motion Camouflage I like being seen, and I do some things to make myself more visible as well, but some of the example diagrams were not so good. For instance, I'm not moving from the left to the right of my lane coming into an intersection simply to become more visible to a car stopped coming from the other direction. Wouldn't that potentially put me in a more precarious position and give me less of a visual perspective to "unseen in the photo" traffic approaching from the right? My company is big on driver safety and we take these online refreshers annually from the Smith Driver training, and some of the bigger points they push are relative to keeping a safe following distance and scanning as far in front of you as feasible while traveling, These tips are even more important on a bike. The further you can look ahead the less likely you will find yourself in an "Oh Crap" I gotta brake hard moment. And your not only protecting yourself from that scenario, but "more importantly" you are protecting the guy behind you from it, and he's the one that may be driving you into the car that you had been following, or taking part of your taillight home as a hood ornament. All I'm saying is that the more you think and process while riding, the more you can grow and evolve. But don't over do it, keep it as simple as possible, the more you try to out think it, the more likely you are to forget something basic and screw it up. Perhaps I'm being overly cynical, but there are some folks out there that will read an article like this and begin this lane positioning activity while tailgating in heavy traffic. That's where organized rides can be good, the more you ride with others the more you can learn from the older guys, some of which will share their knowledge and experiences, some of course may simply decide not to ride with you once they see you on the road. LOL Mike -----Original Message----- From: Pastor Ron <[email protected]> To: nighthawk_lovers <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, May 14, 2013 6:50 am Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Motion Camouflage Thought this was pretty interesting on motion and not being seen. http://www.motoress.com/readarticle.asp?articleid=730&c=technique -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
