Author Topic: Webmonster rant....Tailgating! (Read 6154 times)

Daytona · « **Reply #15 on:** April 19, 2006, 12:45:43 PM »

Quote from: "EODSarge"

Interesting; I just got done teaching a National Safety Council Defensive Driving Class (10% discount on your car insurance!) and one of the points I made was the importance of giving adequate following distance. Three seconds is the suggestion... when the car in front of you passes an object, like a telephone pole, count to three and you should pass the same object on three. Why? Well, let's look at some things:

1) The average reaction time is one second. That's the time it will take you to see the guy in front of you jam on his brakes, realize what he's doing, and get on your brakes.

2) If you're doing, say, 60 mph; that's 5280 x 60 feet per 3600 seconds, or 88 feet per second. Each second you ride, you travel 88 feet.

Now, say you give one car length between you and the car in front of you. Average car is what, 11 feet long? In that one second that it takes you to react to the car in front of you, you've travelled 88 feet. Where are you now? Answer: In his back seat, wondering what happened.

Likewise, if *you're* being tailgated, you should *increase* the distance between you and the car in front of you. This gives you more time to react to him stopping, so you can come to a gradual stop rather than having to jam on your brakes and have that tailgater eat your Cheng-Shins.

Thus endeth the DDC lesson for the day.

Is that good for say 2%??! I can sure use it! Ins discount? Just remember 2 wheelers always loooooz! Thin air is is not a good cushion.

lucas · « **Reply #16 on:** April 21, 2006, 10:34:10 PM »

I know a member of the Hells Angels that collects old spark plugs and when someone tailgates him he starts tossing spark plugs over his shoulder. No one seems to tailgate him for very long! He's one crazy MF.

Daytona · « **Reply #17 on:** April 22, 2006, 02:25:20 AM »

Quote from: "theroamr"

If your on the bandit and have a tailgater riding you, heres a lil trick. With your left boot heel gently push down your center stand. Then watch your rear view mirror. It normally throws a rooster tail of sparks and scares the cager to death. This normally fixes or aggravates the tail gating problem. This is obviously more dramatic at night. Make sure if you attempt this there are no pot holes or anything in the road to catch the center stand or you will not appreciate this trick.

Do you reline your hard stand pads! Remember the horse shoe cleats they would put on boots? They would do the same thing. No wonder i went thru alot of shoes!!

Red01 · « **Reply #18 on:** April 22, 2006, 12:22:09 PM »

Quote from: "Daytona"

Quote from: "theroamr"
If your on the bandit and have a tailgater riding you, heres a lil trick. With your left boot heel gently push down your center stand. Then watch your rear view mirror. It normally throws a rooster tail of sparks and scares the cager to death. This normally fixes or aggravates the tail gating problem. This is obviously more dramatic at night. Make sure if you attempt this there are no pot holes or anything in the road to catch the center stand or you will not appreciate this trick.
Do you reline your hard stand pads! Remember the horse shoe cleats they would put on boots? They would do the same thing. No wonder i went thru alot of shoes!!

I've used this trick over the years on every bike that had a centerstand. Never wore one down enough to be a concern. It doesn't take many sparks to make them back off and it takes a LOT of grinding to wear thru the stand.