Reason why I don't like attempting to predict what they're gonna do is because it may influence the options you present yourself.

Basically if you say to yourself "He's gonna turn left before me" you may not plan for him turning left and suddenly stopping in your lane. I've noticed driver don't plan their turns based on the motorcycle in the near lane. They tend to plan for the car in the far lane or behind you. Whether they don't see the bike, dismiss it as a threat or assume superior maneuverability from the bike they plan their turn on the cage in the lane to the right or behind you. That can toss a wildcard into the game when they suddenly realize the car is coming up faster than they thought. Suddenly they brake blocking your path of travel and you may have planned for them being clear.

This exact scenario happened to me last Tuesday. I think the driver was actually target fixated on me and didn't see the car to my 5 o'clock overtaking me. But I had already planned an escape route if exactly this had happened and just needed to tell my body to execute it: swerve left and around the back end of the car. The backup plan, if the path behind the car wasn't clear, was to brake harder and stop. But that was the poorer choice to me as it depended on the car behind me stopping as well.

 

Good job Kuroshio!

 

Thanks for adding to this post with your own advice on staying safe out there people!

 

So if the guy has spinners im screwed? LOL, good advice though.

 

Lol!!!!

I didn't see your post until just now.

Heck, if he has spinners I'll just go wide open throttle

 

His wheels are spinning but he isn't going anywhere *confused* lol. Have a way out don't try to predict what someone else will do. They will always surprise you.

 

ill add this and say , the majority of drivers out there are idiots and will swerve over four lanes to whip into a burger king, no time to predict , just always leave yourself an out, and dont lull in traffic....

 

All good advice people!

 

And practice. I've been working on a lot of my technique lately and it has served well. Working on my braking has opened up options that weren't availible to me before. Before my choices would have been to lock the front and kick the bike away during the lowside. Recently, I lifted the rear wheel during an extremely hard stop when an asshat pulled a surprise u-turn in front of me to get to the movie theater she passed.