Comments on: Psychic Motorcyclist

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:11:11 +0000

Yes, it’s true. I seem to have been able to ‘predict’ the sudden and un-planned (on their part) of the movements of the vehicle next to me on several occasions. That is precisely the reason I don’t allow myself to be put into ‘the box’ when riding in heavy rush hour traffic. I always try to leave an emergency escape route if you will in the event of sudden and unplanned driver movements and/or lane changes. So far so good and I’ve been riding for over 30 years.

By: tommybahama

tommybahama — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:24:17 +0000

It should be MANDATORY that anyone applying for a car/truck drivers licence spend at least 50hrs on a motorcycle and 25 hours on a bicycle as part of their drivers ed course . These hours would be logged during “rush hour” periods in city traffic. Their motorbike and bikes would have a large “L” sticker on them . ONLY AFTER these hours have been logged would they be allowed to proceed to the car lic.

By: Don Ingram

Don Ingram — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:55:14 +0000

As Gary says watch for the clues, some movement, body language etc.

By: Anirban

Anirban — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:17:34 +0000

The thought in the above piece is just the pleasurly feel I have sometimes regarding myself possesing traffic foresight.
No, not a joke; I think this intuition is purely incremental with more & more years of experience in traffic congested metros (read an old city called Calcutta, where I grew up).
While still at school, I would be navigating from the rear of my dad on his Enfield through holes opening up within stuck lorry traffic on one of the oldest roads still existing in the world, the Grand Trunk Road of India. A distance of some 20kms home to school would take one and half hours in thick industrial traffic & those were my initial years of learning traffic riding techniques of evasion; whether to overtake from the right or left (it isn’t illegal in my home town), which open gap in a preceeding jam to exploit and which to avoid like plague in order to be the quicker to get out on the other side, I used to be the judge which my dad over time realised to be dependable & so, he would follow the line unquestionably. Over the years I have graduated from my dad’s happy navigator to the motorcycle guy myself but inspite of all the technical knowledge behind riding ( & touring ), I still value pure intuition a very important piece in my motorcycle intelligence.

By: christine

christine — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:13:57 +0000

This “psychic” ability has saved my life several times. The last time I was minding my own business on the freeway a Friday night and suddenly got the idea to step on the breaks which I then promptly did and a car full of loud teenagers cut right in right in front of me to exit (they saw the exit a bit late) and they narrowly missed my front wheel with about 1/4th of an inch — hair raising to say the least.