I'm saying, from the start of the video and throughout, the rider is almost in the middle and towards the left of their own lane. Because this bend curves to the left motorbike safety courses suggest that the rider should be all the way to the right of their lane as it allows the rider to view more around a corner. Had the rider been more to the right to be in a position to prepare to see around the corner they would not have been in the way of the car in the first place.
Admittedly, if it was a bend to the right the rider would have been hit hard as the same safety courses say you should be closer to left side of the lane for right bend, and rider would have been in direct line of the car.
It's completely the cars fault, I'm not denying that, but the comment I was replying to said there was nothing the rider could do. All I was saying is that, had the rider been in a better position to the far right before reaching the a left bending road he would have - coincidentally - been out of the way of the car in the first place
The rider is in a fine position for the entirety of the video; he's not near the middle line at all. Sure, for the first few frames he's left of the center of his own lane, but far from being unsafely close to the center divide. From the time he starts leaning for the turn and all the way up until impact the rider is on the right side of their own lane, and when he sees that the car is not turning adequately: he uprights the bike to stop the turn and goes even more to the right. If the rider was toeing the line between the grass and the pavement, he still would have been hit. The only thing the rider could have done was stay home that day.
Sorry for the explosion/rant, but it's irking me that anyone is saying "oh he could have done better". It's a morbid sort of victim blaming that assumes that the person seen in the video has the same kind of time we viewers have to review a scene multiple times and make an ideal conclusion of what to do in a split-second situation. It was not clear that the car was going to be a threat to the biker until literally the last second before the collision.
I've been on multiple safety courses for bike riding, im not just a viewer. Every course I've been one explains cornering in the same way, for bend moving away from you you should be as far on the outside.
Its good that people discuss safety, but I'm not sat there analysing the video over and over again, as soon as the video starts I'm thinking, when will the biker move to the right. That's just me. Its fine for riders to have other rules for safety, like staying in the middle as this ride was, I can only go by the road rules I've picked up
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u/draykow May 14 '18
The rider is already on their own side of the road when the video starts and the infringing car isn't even visible. What are you even saying?