Originally Posted by
Chopper1
plenty of skills <snip by lowcel>. I did slow down, but my bike does not have antilock brakes. Maybe yours does? This is a busy street and there is not a tom of shoulder. My other option would have been swerving into traffic.
If it was me and I felt like swerving around the situation, instead of safely stopping for the pedestrian, I would have checked traffic, and determined, as you did, that there were no cars, and then grab the part of the lane farthest from the pedestrian, and push into a full sprint to safely pass him.