3 Laws that Endanger Motorcycle Riders

[Music] so that's my stopping distance when you're an expert at threshold braking you become proficient at using the minimum amount of space so if we want to be like a little more exciting maybe stand just like right here for the next shot and get like yeah yeah it gets super close like my front tire won't even graze you like right there i blame ban ki-moon see anti-lock brakes are mandatory in many countries which is fair enough except for where slowing down requires a skid on low traction surfaces anti-lock brakes just keep rolling until you roll into your cameraman which is why there are provisions for disabling abs off-road again fair enough however and this is where i blame ban ki-moon abs is legally required to re-arm itself on every ignition cycle according to united nations global technical regulation number three which is a hellish law i get what they're trying to prevent some idiot goes off-road disables his abs forgets his own settings when he rejoins the pavement then grabs a ham fist of breaks and dies but in trying to save the from himself the law hurts a more conscientious rider who turns his abs off wants it off but is screwed when the bike automatically re-arms itself and careens off a dirt road because the tires refuse to lock up our law should presume intelligence rather than incompetence the safest place for abs settings to be is wherever the rider decided to leave them now picture this you're cruising down pennsylvania avenue when you hit the crush of traffic stop here and you're liable to get rear-ended by the first tweeting twit or senile septugenarian to drive up behind you on a motorcycle that's fatal the solution is lane filtering allowing motorcyclists to pass between cars when traffic is moving slower than 30 kilometers an hour and the motorcycle is moving less than 10 kilometers an hour faster than traffic not to be confused with lane splitting which requires suicidal faith in other people's driving and is rightfully illegal the problem is that slow lane filtering is illegal too in much of the states in canada and a few similarly primitive countries why if we stack bikes here they're sitting ducks and the jam is bigger for everybody whereas if we let motorcycles filter through then the jam is smaller for everyone plus all these cars have seen the bikes go by that's a better motorcycle awareness program than the ads your government pays for we also avoid overheating air-cooled engines which happens when they stand still in traffic not to mention that every vehicle gets zero miles per gallon and suffocates baby seal when it's not moving the only reason filtering hasn't been legalized is safety and yes there are studies to show how low speed accidents increase when cars and motorcycles are in such close proximity there are also studies that show how filtering decreases a rider's chance of being seriously injured and even more statistics that prove that motorcycle accidents per capita are lower in the countries that allow filtering my professional opinion is that anyone pulling safety conclusions from the current body of research might as well pull them from their ass meaning this is the true reason lane filtering is illegal crab is like if i'm gonna die we all gonna die like crabs in a bucket a car driver mentality is if i can't get out neither can you perhaps it's unsurprising that people who drive boxes can't think outside of them but these are the same folk who complain about traffic who call themselves the green generation hypocrites you want fewer cars on the road then legalize filtering so there's actually some motivation for commuters to switch to a bike now motorcyclists can't turn right crashes on right-hand curves heavily outweigh those on left-handers a phenomenon that also plagues cars as noted by the association for the advancement of automotive medicine it's true motorists suck at turning right i'm not an ambi turner it's a problem i had since i was a baby stupid as it sounds the behavior is logically explainable compared to a rider curving left the right hander always has a tighter radius and therefore requires a lower speed then there's our sight line when we look ahead through a left curve we have no choice but to notice the lane of oncoming traffic whereas when we look through a right curve we're blind to whatever else is happening on the road there's a psychological factor too i won't take left-handers quickly because i know if i overshoot them i'm going into the trees whereas riders are more likely to push themselves and right-handers because subconsciously they're aware that they can drift wide without running out of pavement so right curves are more dangerous and the reasons trace back to our most fundamental law that we must drive on the right side of the road now before ut sippers get all chuffed know that riding on the left wouldn't help that just creates the same dangers in reverse there's no universal solution like american politics left and right are both undesirable but going up the middle isn't an option there is a personal solution however just be more careful in right-hand curves thanks for watching [Music] that's it

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Keywords: motorcycle laws, crashes, tips, bad traffic rules, lane filtering, lane splitting, traffic, carbon footprint, motorcyclist, cyclists, bike lanes, traffic laws, speed cameras, green cities, commuters, bmw, harley davidson, suzuki, ducati, ktm, honda, kawasaki, riding tips, tricks, beginners, car vs bike, accidents

Id: JFucZaiUoZg

Length: 6min 50sec (410 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 29 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/ogonga]

I want to filter here in Georgia. Motorcycles were designed to bypass traffic.

[u/Allroy_66]

People always flip out on bicycles doing things they're not allowed too... the amount of times I've heard car drivers whining about a bicycle that rolls through a redlight... as if its the worst thing to happen on that road of speeding/texting/non turn signaling/road raging drivers in control of 3000+lbs is laughable, but beyond that every single time I've ever passed a moving car on a bicycle they've all immediately stomped on the gas to pass me. Its just some weird dominance thing car drivers have.

[u/Naeloo]

So you either have to pay attention to turn ABS back on when you get back on the road or pay attention to turn it back off offroad after an ignition cycle. Of the two similar evils, I'd rather have the one that defaults to what's safer in 99% of use cases.

[u/Darkspine89]

I'm confused; what's the third law in this video? Ryan talks about ABS laws, lane filtering laws, and then about turning right with no law mentioned.

[u/Flipgary]

My concern with lane filtering especially here in North America, is the growing negative reactions from drivers. Our road culture has not experienced lane filtering and my concern is the distain from people in cars. As both a rider and a driver, I fear that not every rider would be skilled enough to filter safely, and not every driver would respect the riders safety. Too me, it’s just a tinderbox.

[u/BrianBigBoss]

That left handed spin he did to walk to his right side got me good at the end!

[u/asodfhgiqowgrq2piwhy]

I don't really consider the "turn on after each ignition" a big deal. I already have to do this in my car for brake hold, it disengages if the seatbelt is released or the car is turned off.

On the same vein though, I can't even turn ABS off on my current motorcycle, without modding in a physical kill switch to do so.

[u/Chief-Bromden86]

Very interesting never realized it but I’m more reckless on left corners. Abs saved me as a new rider but with experience I don’t really panic brake anymore I’ve only locked my rear tire up once while on road, scared the crap out of a pedestrian crossing the road!

[u/starkmojo]

I think for lane filtering to work in the USA I feel like there should be a max width of motorcycles after seeing a hard bagged Harley yard sale on the Freeway in Oakland.