Similar. I drive a car like I'm on a bike (minus the leaning, LOL) and my family were truckers so I have a lot of respect for them. It's terrifying to be in a car with someone that has never ridden a bike nor has knowledge of trucks. Their driving is totally reactive and not all predictive.

Spot on. Sadly, most "accidents" are just negligence and misunderstanding of the rider's own skills. And we all have to live paranoid because of that. In most cases where there was an accident, almost all involved parties were pushing things further than they had to.

Agreed, I have over 3 million accident free miles in a Semi. It is the best possible discipline for strategy while on a motorcycle.

@@vincenttarquini4235 yep, still a little shy of three million but getting there.

I drive an 88,000 pound fire truck and drive like I am in that thing all the time. All the training I have taught me that everyone around me is not paying attention, so plan on stupid happening all the time.

Do you ever feel it’s acceptable for a rider to NOT use there brakes during an accident and if they do not. Hit a vehicle- and get injured do you believe that it would be their fault.

A racer that lives out in Aspen, CO told me to treat every corner in Colorado as a dangerous one.

Don't ever feel that you're not ever in danger!!

I tend to manage the traffic behind me by leaving extra space in front of me forcing the behind car to take notice of long slowing down and the flashing on-off my brake lights

I have seen that video...I think it was a joke??? Not sure though.

@@MCrider Me neither!

Ride it like a surf board!😮 Hahaha 😂

@@edwarddollbaum5671 A surfboard with hot exhaust and engine parts.

Which has greater grip - steel motorcycle frame or leather jacket/pants. I'll let the bike go sliding ahead of me thanks.

I don't believe this is correct. I've seen video demonstrations of wide tyres vs skinny on the same vehicle. It's the weight that determines the total grip, rather than the size of the contact patch. Eg. 1Kg of weight spread over 1 square metre produces the same grip as 1 Kg spread over 1 square centimetre.

The greatest skills any motorcyclist can have is acute situational awareness, a defensive driving mindset, and a certain amount of fear about what could happen. Over-confidence without rationale thought processes breeds greater risk taking and reduces margin of error. Most accidents are a culmination of a variety of factors and one's reaction in a unexpected situation is not easily practiced or predictable. Riders get older and their physical skills gradually decline over time (visual acuity, reaction time, physical strenghth). If you want to ride a motorcycle and significantly increase your safety margin then accept that the most sophisticated rider aids such as 6-axis IMU with lean angle ABS traction control and linked braking will be your best defense. Anyone who believes their finely honed, ninja-like braking techniques can outperform such tech should think again because testing has proven otherwise. This is no longer the 70's, 80's, 90's, early 2000, 2010 stone ages of machismo motorcycling. The latest tech can leverage a human's intuitive nature to grab full brake in panic situation to achieve maximum braking rate as fast as possible while preventing rear wheel from coming off the ground causing loss of all steering control. The systems allow one to maintain line in a corner while braking without needing to stand the motorcycle up which then takes you out of the turn radius and off the road. Similarly, your practiced braking on dry road surfaces is ONLY good for that condition but what happens where there is something on roadway (sand, oil, diesel, leaves, grass, mud, water). Guess what your practiced braking technique will put you immediately on the ground. When riders don't need to focus on braking they instead be focused on finding a path out to maneuver the motorcycle. Then when they do and let's say that path is off the road and onto the shoulder of gravel the braking system will help manage that and not the rider. In my youth I low-sided two times off-road without any warning at low speeds on grass. In both situations I grossly over-estimated the available traction conditions either due to dew on the grass or the speed at which I could brake or lean. It was the best place to learn but I will never forget those events even though I had been riding offroad for some time prior and NEVER layed a bike on the ground previously. It was a wake-up call to the unexpected. I have encountered similar pucker moments on the street spilled diesel, sand on a roadway, and a deer that suddenly jumped out of ditch and decided to run alongside and in front of me but fortunately no lowside or accidents. My final point being most responsible individuals carry insurance even though we don't plan to get in an accident. Yet we can never practice enough to keep our skills at high level because time is a fixed quantity and to be honest such things take effort and we all have tendency to revert to the path of least resistance. The new tech does not reduce you manhood or intrude on the otherwise normal skills of motorcycling. It does not cost that much (probably less than $500) embedded in price of a higher-end motorcycle and is best insurance policy against your own failings regardless of skill set or age.

ABS changes nothing about the technique itself. If ABS kicks in, then it is saving you by not allowing you to lock the wheel. Ideally you take it right to the line before ABS kicks in (for when you find yourself on a bike without ABS). Edit: see starting at 7:45 where Kevin covers the ABS topic.

The rider/driver presses the pedal and ABS does the rest!! If ABS fails completely, engine braking by changing to a lower gear should help on a bike. But defensive driving is the best.

Who is even thinking not to use the front brake? There are centrainly several who don’t know how to use the back one

Wow, just wow. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Think fast, pick an option, and might not be the right one, but as long as you can live to ride another day, you did something right. In 50 years, one broken leg and some broken parts say success to me.

You are correct in understanding that your VFR does not have cornering ABS. But why are you afraid of activating the ABS on your Honda? Unless there is a ABS error light shining on your instrument panel the ABS system is not going to allow your tires to lock up. I've owned a 2001 Honda GL 1800 with ABS, purposely engaging it to understand how it felt was not a scary thing to experience.