Comments on: Psychic Motorcyclist

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:31:09 +0000

One’s I had a strange experience about 30 years ago:
I was driving with high speed 80-90 miles/h (highway) and looked at my sided so I did not noticed that a car in front off me hit a bird and performed a panic brake.
Suddenly I found myselff hitting the brake’s then I looked in front off me and realized it just saved me !

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:40:43 +0000

After so many years (64) behind the wheel and aboard a bike, I think it boils down to “experience”. We have been in similar situations so many times that the cause and effect plays in our mind like an old movie, so we slow down or take other measures to mitigate what might have been a bad outcome. And that’s why we’re still here at 80, and hope to be around for a while, yet.

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.