Scruit Posted October 8, 2011 Report Share Posted October 8, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CMERub7jbcComments? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FIJI-9-Brother Posted October 8, 2011 Report Share Posted October 8, 2011 wow... i bet they were all texting eachother Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisknight Posted October 8, 2011 Report Share Posted October 8, 2011 Is that N. Sawmill? That happens to me every time there. People around here don't understand roundabouts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garvinzoom Posted October 8, 2011 Report Share Posted October 8, 2011 Morons.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jporter12 Posted October 8, 2011 Report Share Posted October 8, 2011 The other day, 62 @ Morse rd, I had someone STOP in the middle of the roundabout to let traffic merge into the roundabout! He get a good blasting of my horn, and continued on when the traffic wasn't merging in. Ya, people around here really don't have a clue when it comes to roundabouts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottb Posted October 8, 2011 Report Share Posted October 8, 2011 I think circles confuse people? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helmutt Posted October 8, 2011 Report Share Posted October 8, 2011 I still have trouble getting my head around the fact that people dont have the mere pocket change to pay attention on the roads......like a bunch of blind, deaf mutes out there driving anymore - I love having 6 lights on the front of my bike, and I usually run my brights at all times too - if they cant hear my megaphone exhaust, the light tips them off that I do exist out there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhaag Posted October 8, 2011 Report Share Posted October 8, 2011 driving has become an afterthought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadTrainDriver Posted October 8, 2011 Report Share Posted October 8, 2011 Dude, you're on a V-Strom...go straight, thru the grass, no need to "roundabout"!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruit Posted October 8, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2011 Dude, you're on a V-Strom...go straight, thru the grass, no need to "roundabout"!!I was actually thing maybe just installing a pair of paintball gun firing paintballs full of paint stripper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gixxus Christ! Posted October 8, 2011 Report Share Posted October 8, 2011 I go around a 2 lane roundabout every day to work and back, guess how many times people have just obpiviously wandered from the inside lane to.the outside lane while.getting on. I grew up in tallmadge which has an 8 exit circle in the center of.town. twice I have seen people.with west Virginia tags going around.the wrong way. I've also.seen people.slam on the brakes and try to reverse after missing their exit, as if they weren't allowed to drive around it again. Tallmadge circle has the highest number of accidents in summit co. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadyone Posted October 8, 2011 Report Share Posted October 8, 2011 There is a very small roundabout in somerset Ohio. That has signs that say yield to incoming traffic from the right or something along those lines so they actually expect people to stop in the middle. I got pulled over because I didn't yield to a cop entering from my right. I told him the intersection was set up incorrectly. He let me off with a warning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jporter12 Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Yielding to the incoming traffic will just cause a backup, exactly what a roundabout is there to avoid! I never really noticed the signage in Somerset, I'll have to pay attention next time I'm through there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWing'R Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 (edited) Comments?Probably not the comment you want to hear, but part of the issue isyour attitude; after reading your comments on youtube its obvious youare expecting people to drive correctly including yielding when they should.When riding a bike, you need to ride with the exact opposite attitude, if you want to stay alive that is.Your comment here is what I am referring to..."I saw the cars coming, but I knew they had to yield"An attitude like that will get you killed!You have to ride with the expectation that....- the car will NOT yield- the car WILL come in your lane- the car WILL turn in front of you- the car did NOT see youI am not condoning the actions of the drivers in your video, just my thoughts. Edited October 9, 2011 by SWing'R 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWing'R Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 There is a very small roundabout in somerset Ohio. That has signs that say yield to incoming traffic from the right or something along those lines so they actually expect people to stop in the middle. I got pulled over because I didn't yield to a cop entering from my right. I told him the intersection was set up incorrectly. He let me off with a warning.That roundabout is a disaster. I hate it. Why design one like that I'll never figure out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruit Posted October 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Probably not the comment you want to hear' date=' but part of the issue is[b']your attitude; after reading your comments on youtube its obvious youare expecting people to drive correctly including yielding when they should.When riding a bike, you need to ride with the exact opposite attitude, if you want to stay alive that is.Your comment here is what I am referring to..."I saw the cars coming, but I knew they had to yield"An attitude like that will get you killed!You have to ride with the expectation that....- the car will NOT yield- the car WILL come in your lane- the car WILL turn in front of you- the car did NOT see youI am not condoning the actions of the drivers in your video, just my thoughts.I am fully aware that people break the law. I was also prepared to avoid them, as I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beegreenstrings Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 so where are you? north side of Cbus? Dublin/ hilliard area. I know there is a couple over there that are like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizzer Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 from youtube comment: "You're going too fast for the roundabout, so they just did not expect to see you"Apparently this person has such superb mental processing that they assume all humans are capable of only scanning the field of vision within which one can assume a vehicle traveling the speed limit would be. No need to look elsewhere, since everybody should be following the law, right? But in seriousness, this represents the common view that we as motorcyclists are always going "wayyy too fast." There's no good way from a video like that to judge your speed, but the pre-conceived notion of all bikers are lawless hooligans comes raging out. The cars entering the roundabout don't appear to have slowed much prior to their entry, but apparently you should have according to these folk.If you think riding a motorcycle through a roundabout is bad, try a bicycle. I'll be in the roundabout and people coming up from behind (entered the roundabout well after me) will honk and give me the finger as if I have no business being in one, even though I stay as far right in my lane as is possible. In this country if you aren't driving a tank sized SUV, you don't have any right of way ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruit Posted October 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 (edited) so where are you? north side of Cbus? Dublin/ hilliard area. I know there is a couple over there that are like that.Live in Delaware, work in Dublin. This is Sawmill Parkway @ Hyatts. Edited October 10, 2011 by Scruit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruit Posted October 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 (edited) There's no good way from a video like that to judge your speedThere IS... 2011-10-07 16:08:08 899 ft 47 mph 2011-10-07 16:08:43 895 ft 30 mph 2011-10-07 16:09:14 856 ft 41 mph My theft recovery GPS tracker allows me to download data...It's about a minute off the camera time. ie 16:08 on the GPS track is 16:09 on the camera. I did 47mph approaching the roundabout and 30mph leaving it. 50mph limit.The camera adds to the sense of speed - the loud wind noise, lean angle and vibration make it seem like you're going much faster. Car drivers simply don't understand. They think "45mph is smooth as silk in my car so noisy/vibration much be 90!" Edited October 11, 2011 by Scruit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gixxus Christ! Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 Yeah I went to tallmadge, class of 97. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh1234 Posted October 13, 2011 Report Share Posted October 13, 2011 Probably not the comment you want to hear' date=' but part of the issue is[b']your attitude; after reading your comments on youtube its obvious youare expecting people to drive correctly including yielding when they should.When riding a bike, you need to ride with the exact opposite attitude, if you want to stay alive that is.Your comment here is what I am referring to..."I saw the cars coming, but I knew they had to yield"An attitude like that will get you killed!You have to ride with the expectation that....- the car will NOT yield- the car WILL come in your lane- the car WILL turn in front of you- the car did NOT see youI am not condoning the actions of the drivers in your video, just my thoughts.Defensive riding FTW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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