Two-wheeled awareness....
07-30-08, 11:02 PM
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Two-wheeled awareness....
I was riding on the road today, with my daughter (10, she handled it really well!), and we were approached from behind by a delivery truck, a flatbed like from a lumber company. The truck started to move left to pass us (safe distance, I was amazed!), when I heard the insistent wail of a motorcycle horn on his other side.
The truck driver had a rather energetic conversation with the biker, with hands a-waving, as he passed us. The biker hollered as a closing salvo, something on the order of, "You got something you want to say, dead man?"
I thought maybe the biker didn't know we were there, and was going to get stupid with the guy who DID do the right thing by us; after all, I didn't know at the time if the biker just accelerated up on him as he moved over, or what. So I pulled up next to the biker, wanting to be the peacemaker, and said, "Dude -- he was moving over for US." (Yes, just that calmly!)
To my surprise, the biker said, "I KNOW! That doesn't mean he can take ME out either -- he shoulda just waited behind you a few seconds!"
He was right. I had to agree with him.
The biker was cool about it, not laying a finger of guilt on us.
So...how much more aware are 'we on two wheels', generally, about the proper way to do things in traffic? I'm not talking about the red light/stop sign running that happens with ALL modes of transport, I'm talking about navigating when around other types of vehicles?
The truck driver had a rather energetic conversation with the biker, with hands a-waving, as he passed us. The biker hollered as a closing salvo, something on the order of, "You got something you want to say, dead man?"
I thought maybe the biker didn't know we were there, and was going to get stupid with the guy who DID do the right thing by us; after all, I didn't know at the time if the biker just accelerated up on him as he moved over, or what. So I pulled up next to the biker, wanting to be the peacemaker, and said, "Dude -- he was moving over for US." (Yes, just that calmly!)
To my surprise, the biker said, "I KNOW! That doesn't mean he can take ME out either -- he shoulda just waited behind you a few seconds!"
He was right. I had to agree with him.
The biker was cool about it, not laying a finger of guilt on us.
So...how much more aware are 'we on two wheels', generally, about the proper way to do things in traffic? I'm not talking about the red light/stop sign running that happens with ALL modes of transport, I'm talking about navigating when around other types of vehicles?
