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Ratyson
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 05:29 pm: | 
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Au contraire, there are a number of things one can do to avoid the "deer jumping into the side of [your] car".
I would like to hear some of these things that you are referring to as well.} |
Aesquire
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 09:47 pm: |
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As I was riding through a local "native American" reservation one night, I passed a pickup truck with serious lights on the roof, aimed down/right into the woods. In Motion. With armed men in back. Just some locals legaly hunting deer on their own land....despite it being an expressway.
Get em! that's my attitude. ( and venison chili rocks )
My Buddy lives next to Mendon Ponds park and the ride to & from his house, well, if I don't see deer, I assume I wasn't looking hard enough. Sometimes I've slowly cruised ( 20-30mph ) right through a herd crossing the road, stopped, lifted the visor, and politely asked the deer to move. It's only a matter of time before I hit one, but until then, I run the speed limit, or slower, & usually keep off the main roads. Even though the deer concentration is higher on the back roads, I don't have the pressure of a tailgater to urge me to go too fast out there.
I just treat it like I was riding through a school yard during recess.
I don't know about deer whistles. Near the park they put twinkle reflectors on poles every 50 feet or so to flash car headlights into the woods & scare the deer. I haven't seen a difference in dead deer on the road. |
99savage
| | Posted on Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 05:28 pm: |
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As probably the least skilled rider here I learned something today that I think could be useful.
All previous experience was w/ light scooters. When I decided to get the Ulysses took the MSF course & learned "Counter-Steering" which to me seemed to mean pushing down on the bar on the side you want to turn to. Had intuitively been doing something similar all along. - Did not see the "Counter" in it.
When this thread started it paralyzed me a bit - Sure could not find the "Counter" in what I was doing.
Today when going thru the twisties using the MSF "push down" technique tried, ever so gently, pulling the other end of the bar towards me (i.e. really counter steering). - Damned but I could feel it anchor into the curve just a bit better. |
Old_man
| | Posted on Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 07:09 pm: |
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Now that you see what you are actually doing. - turning the bar left to go right.
Practise this until it becomes second nature to you. - Actually turn the bar a little.
So that when you find that you are going a little too hot into a corner, you don't make the mistake of turning the bar to the right to go right.
I saw this mistake in most fatal accidents I investigated. |
Ratbuell
| | Posted on Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 09:47 pm: |
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Accidents happen, and sometimes you CAN'T stop it. Case in point:
Wife and I are headed to the airport a couple weeks ago. She's driving, I'm shotgun, in her Magnum R/T station wagon. Headlights and foglights on, bright silver metallic paint (I know, silver can be tough to see, but the sun was out, not overcast), SLP Loudmouth exhaust that growls nearly as much as my Uly's Drummer. 35mph zone, we were doing 32 (pulled the info out of the 'incident recorder' portion of the car's ECM). Left hand lane of a 4 lane non-divided surface street, 2 lanes each direction. Minivan in the right lane, turning right onto a side street. Car coming off the side street pops out from behind that van aimed right at us. I didn't even have time to say "Kim" before I had a sidecurtain airbag in my face. It pushed us a full lane to the left. Smacked our car right between the wheels, right in the doors. If we'd been on a motorcycle, we'd have gone through her windshield - the bags don't deploy until there's a 31mph impact to the side of the vehicle. It's a HARD hit at that point.
End result? Car's totalled, <insert> other driver didn't even APOLOGIZE, and I had to spend the whole trip in Key West for our anniversary dealing with insurance crap over the 'net and on the phone. Wheee.
Moral of the story? It *can* happen, all of a sudden, any time at all. Most times, you can fix it with attention and training (and a little luck).
Sometimes, you're just along for the ride. |
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