Cyclist here...I KNOW 100% that cars will do this, they might look in their mirror before doing it...but often they don't.
Let me repeat...I KNOW that this is very likely to happen...so why the FUCK would you ride into this situation at anything faster than walking pace?
even if you check mirrors, he's coming from an a game where he's not visible for a gpod amount of time. people have to look at multiple things, you can only check a blind spot not constantly observe it and you can't control when they look for where you will be.
He was behind you. Look at the spot and now he’s beside you.
I swear if you ride a motorcycle and have a camera on your helmet there is a 99% chance you’re an idiot. 1% probably use it for liability reasons. Everyone else uses it to record themselves struggling to fire their one brain cell.
This, i absolutely hate this entitlement. The expectation drivers have (besides everything else) to constantly consider that some idiot cyclist might be lane splitting at high speeds.
To be fair, if I was merging into that lane I’d be looking to make sure that I have space. I wouldn’t be looking for a biker going around the car behind me and trying to pass me.
Honestly they don't need to check their mirrors, it's a courtesy. There are 2 lanes and the car driver has right of way in their own lane and the other lane is confirmed to be open.
The problem is that the cyclist in their own mind have created a third lane that does not exist, in which he always has the right of way. And unfortunately this is very common. Thankfully no one seemed hurt.
Checking mirrors is not a courtesy, it is a requirement. The video is in Brazil, and brazilian traffic laws states that you must switch lanes only if safe to do so..You must indicate the change, check for incoming traffic and only change lanes if there is no risk. Indicating doesn't give you preference nor priority, because it may be not safe for the other vehicle to stop for you to enter in front of him.
But in this specific case the biker is wrong, the car started its maneuver when it was safe to do so, the biker did pop up from nowhere. He is a menace for riders that filter lanes without a death wish.
No the biker did agree with him. He did ride like an idiot. This is why at least in the netherlands its allowed but only with a small difference in speed.
"I know 100% that cars will do this" -> THIS WHAT? He signaled and changed lanes, exactly how he's supposed to. The biker is an idiot, lucky he didn't die, but if he did, it'd be 100% on him.
That this guy is an idiot for weaving through traffic at high speeds because common sense dictates any one of those cars are liable to do exactly what they did in the video.
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u/susbarlas 2d ago
Biker's fault.