ROG wrote:Did you indicate as early as you could after seeing the parked vehicle?
foxtrot_mike wrote:The reason for this is because i was encouraged on my D1 training not to signal very much when passing parked cars!
I have also been told somewhere along the likes (even with Advanced theory) that you dont always have to signal if there is no one to benefit from it, the IAM book P27 says "signal where necessary", Roadcraft P50 says "give it, the earlier the better."
On the road I was going with what I was brought up with but I actually agree with road craft and I personally dont agree with not giving any signal at all if the road is empty (unless it of course gives conflicting information)
foxtrot_mike wrote: I see a parked car in front of me . . . I was preparing for him to overtake . . . I held back slightly . . . motorbike pulled out exactly the same time
foxtrot_mike wrote: Aside to that the the motorcyclist was wearing a high vis jacket, sensible yes but did it give me a false sense of security?
martine wrote:foxtrot_mike wrote:The reason for this is because i was encouraged on my D1 training not to signal very much when passing parked cars!
There clearly was someone to benefit from indicating.
Don't be hard on yourself...at least you noticed his ill-timed overtake and responded well. Of course if the m/c had been using the classic triangle to overtake he might have seen the parked cars before committing.
Angus wrote: I wonder what Darwin would have made of motorcyclists
Horse wrote:Angus wrote: I wonder what Darwin would have made of motorcyclists
I don't know.
This 'Darwin', was he the sort of bod to sit quietly at home, or would he travel around the world at a time when seafaring was extremely hazardous?
Angus wrote:Horse wrote:Angus wrote: I wonder what Darwin would have made of motorcyclists
I don't know.
This 'Darwin', was he the sort of bod to sit quietly at home, or would he travel around the world at a time when seafaring was extremely hazardous?
He was the one interested in natural selection
Horse wrote: D'ya know, I might have heard of that. But, as I asked - and this time I'll expand:
Was he the person who spent five years sailing around the world, in a ship from a type known as 'coffin brigs' because of their poor stability, and which ran aground once?
ie He didn't choose the 'safe' option, did he? 'What' someone does is different to the 'how' he determined his theory.
Horse wrote:Motorcyclists are known in the medical world as 'organ donors', because of the way they die quickly but otherwise fit and young -but think about how many lives one rider might save. Factor that into Darwinian theory, I dare you!
Angus wrote:Still sounds like natural selection to me.
Angus wrote: . . . they had a different attitude to personal safety in the 19th century.
. . . Still sounds like natural selection to me.
Gareth wrote:Angus wrote:Still sounds like natural selection to me.
I suspect a large part of natural selection is luck, and maybe another large part is based on the balance between fear and false confidence.
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