This is the mount I got.



I have it mounted on the crossbar to the far right. I can still see my display and all the indicators. I think it does an excellent job of recording on city streets but on the highway you can see a slight vibrate. I also like that when I get to work all I have to do is unscrew the camera and stick it in my pocket.

 

No wonder people are messing with you, you're riding on the wrong side of the road!

 

Meh! They all do that there so it evens out!

 

Somebody had to say it.. LOL

 

This is like the hazard perception vids I watched with my daughter to prepare for her driving test.

IMHO:

Incident #1. The guy is indeed a tw@t. He obviously had some sort of grevance with you, maybe you overtook him earlier? Some people don't like being overtaken, they seem to get upset if something delays them by 1/2 a second!

Incident #2. The person in the silver car thought you were letting them out, most likely because you hung back a bit. Difficult one - most car drivers don't realise that MC riders like a bit of space around them for safety.

Incident #3. Genuine "didn't see you coming" moment. Get yourself a DRL and keep riding defensively.

 

#1 nope as I said in a earlier post, from the start of the first traffic light there wasn't anyone in my lane behind me. So I'm too surprised as to why this occurred and there for no reasoning for it.

#2 I was hanging back so I can see further up the road to see any oncoming traffic. I don't think this justifies that the driver has the right to presume that I'm letting them out. I think the possible case here was that he didn't see me.

I do appreciate all your opinions.

 

I've been riding motorcycles on the road nearly 40 years and have had more close calls than I can remember. I've been rear ended twice, once two up on a sport bike and it was lucky nobody died. Fed-ex van in a real hurry the other time by a friend who was thinking he was going to pass me as we pulled away from a stop sign. I've been ran into ditches both as accidents and on purpose. It gets to the point that I have a traffic sense where I can usually see the idiots before they show themselves. But crap still happens, I also no if it's your time it's your time.

 

You guys ain't seen reckless driving until you've spent a few years negotiating the madness on the roads here, with the meandering around the smashed up motor bikes or swerving around pools of blood covered in sand by the police. The Thais ride & drive everything with no training & have a ridiculously easy to get license!

Once you get used to riding telepathically, trying to predict when the locals that will stupidly undertake/overtake, tailgate, ghostride(ride on wrong side of the road), jump traffic lights or do an un-signalled u-turn.....that's hard enough to stay alive but then we got to put up with the million tourists per year that get drunk & hire anything from scooters to R1's, these guys usually have never or not had much experience on bikes. $5/day for a scooter & $30 for an er-6 or $40 for an R1....no license needed just hand over the money & your passport & off you roar!! There are no speed cameras or breathalyzers & police that will always take a backhander! The worst tourists for bad riding are Russians, Chinese, Korean, Italian & French with many more countries like Indians, Pakistanis, Burmese, Nepalese & Eastern Europeans that cause just as much carnage on the roads!!

We are No.6 on the table below & the US No.107. As much as I enjoy the lawless freedom of riding here, I will never drop my guard or forget how easy it is to have a big smash or even die at the the hands of an idiot reckless local or a drunk tourist that's used to driving on the opposite side of the road in their home country!

ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS DEATH RATE BY COUNTRY

This was the view from my truck last week driving into work! The guy under the coach died at the scene & the other two had serious injuries. This is almost a weekly event on this particular twisty fast hill road.





Be careful out there folks

 

Today was a very nice day here so thought id grab the gopro and get out on the bike for a hour. Then i saw this...

It might not be as reckless some but was quite humorous depending on where you were sat

 

Doing the speed limit in a residential zone last week, when all of a sudden, I hear a rush of wind to my left. F'in hybrids, they're always in a rush. Note the "Be Kind" and Waldorf School bumper stickers and the double yellow.
And she got where she was going 3 seconds ahead of me, 5 miles later.
She won't do it again...