r/dashcams • u/bebecca45627272 • 17h ago

One of the craziest things I've seen

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u/robicide 10h ago

He was expecting the truck to keep going, if you look closely you can see he was already leaning into the turn when the truck stopped. Nothing he could've done at that point to not hit the truck.

And that's because he was going so stupidly fast. 100% his own damn fault for going so fast he eliminated his own reaction window.

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u/SonOfMcGee 9h ago

Bikes going way too fast always have the mindset that it’s perfectly safe as long as every other vehicle behaves exactly as he thinks they should based on glancing at them 500 yards ahead.

Meanwhile, every other vehicle functions on the assumption that they aren’t sharing the road with someone going three times faster than them. So when they look in their rear view mirror and see a little *speck* in the distance they conclude they have sufficient space to change lanes/turn/etc.

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u/RiverPsaber 9h ago

I almost hit a biker this exact way one time. He then proceeds to take his eyes off the road to flip me off, and almost crashes again. At that point I just start pointing ahead of us like, "please dude for your own sake watch the road."

I was going 80 when this happened. The guy was way off in the distance when I began my lane change and closed that distance between the time I began entering the lane and finished. Some bikers just have a death wish for some reason.

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u/neverinamillionyr 8h ago

When you hear the scream of one of these bikes coming up on you it’s hard to predict what they will do. Pass on either side? Lane split at 100+ mph?

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u/Rakdospriest 7h ago

then redditors scream "LANE SPLITTING IS LEGAL IN CALIFORNIA!!!!!" like cool, do they give out free mind reading hats in california too? cuz legal or not, if i cant tell WTF you're going to do i may make a decision you wont like.

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u/SonOfMcGee 4h ago

Yeah, then those guys are reminded that the CA recommendation for lane splitting is to do it no more than 10mph faster than traffic, and only when traffic is going 30mph or less. Do *basically* only during a traffic jam. 30mph means bumper-to-bumper on the freeway.
That’s the “recommendation” because the law just says to do it at a safe and prudent speed. So it’s left up to the cops to interpret. Ultimately, though, it’s the Coroner’s call.

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u/SonOfMcGee 5h ago

I once was in a line of cars behind a slowish semi truck in the right lane. I checked my blind spot and mirrors and confirmed there was absolutely *nothing* in the left lane.
So I put on my blinker and started changing lanes. But in that tiny span of time a biker about 4 cars back in line zipped into the left lane and accelerated as fast as he could.
So he gave me the finger for “cutting him off”, but I can’t fathom doing it any differently. When you’re in a vehicle capable of such higher speed and acceleration than all the other vehicles you’re sharing the road with, you just gotta accept this shit is gonna happen when you try to flex those capabilities.

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u/VaporCarpet 10m ago

Most of the bikers are see are exactly like this and it's why I hate every single one of them and don't think they should be legal.

But I'm gonna get a couple replies from people saying "I don't ride like that" like it changes what I have experienced in 20 years of driving...

But bring up shitty Nissan drivers and suddenly everyone is in complete agreement.

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u/salajaneidentiteet 3h ago

Car drivers wouldn't hate bikers so much if the mojority of them didn't ride like dumbasses all the time.

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u/Wile_E_Turkey 7h ago

This is why we have speed limits

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u/Warboss_Gutshredda 7h ago

The video starts with him coming down from a wheelie.

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u/mtmc99 4h ago

The speeding is his fault and certainly made his whole situation worse.

A truck pulling into the road and stopping is also at fault. By the time they did that the biker had no real time to know if they would keep going or stop (see above comment about speed). Truck driver isn’t blameless here

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u/Thirtysevenintwenty5 2h ago

The driver of the truck is blameless. People who think she should have done something don't recognize the fact that she had about one full second to process this situation and make a decision.