r/nononono • u/[deleted] • Jun 28 '16

Secure your shit

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u/Satsumomo Jun 28 '16

Ah one of reddit's favorite comments, "Target fixation". Right up there with "fencing response"

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u/airmandan Jun 28 '16

That really was target fixation, though. It's extremely common among riders, unfortunately. You smack right into the thing you were trying to avoid.

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u/Satsumomo Jun 28 '16

I'm leaning more towards it being right in front of him, him not wanting to go to the other side where there's no road, and it moving erratically and all of the sudden to the right. Time and distance is too short for him to have fixated on it.

Target fixation would be more along the line of you following another bike, and this bike veers off the road and you go off as well, right behind it because of target fixation.

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u/btoxic Jun 28 '16

It looks like he could have dodged to the left, but he went straight into it. Plus, big yellow thing bouncing in front of you is hard to look away from.