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While searching his youtube channel for that video, I saw that his (I assume it's him) gsx-r has a studded knobby on the rear :suicide

After spending time on gsxr.com, I took a shower and am back. I signed up over there same time as here (2011) and after my 2 posts yesterday, my post-count is now up to 3 :lol
 
Don't know about you , but if I'm about to be run over by a car wouldn't it be nice to be able to get out of the way ASAP !!!
True, like I said before if I didn't have anyone behind me then I would leave in gear.

Mostly I have stopped at or near the front of the line, there's no point in having a motorbike and sitting in a line cars:laugh:
 
It's hard to tell from the video, but there was definitely no partial pullout. He went for that shit without touching the brakes until he was already in my lane lol. That's why I couldn't believe it. The fact he didn't even try to stop until he was in the road. If he would have hit his gas though instead of the brakes that would have been "normal" for Guam. Anytime you're on the street you see someone pull up to an intersection like that and just go without ever taking their foot off the gas. It's crazy to see. I didn't go around to the left for two reasons. 1) That tuck I passed was somewhere just behind me. I hadn't gone very far past him and decided to focus on braking rather than looking to see where he was. 2) Trying to go around someone without braking is how I got into my first and only accident. 17/18 years old, coming back from work at McDonald's, and actually doing the speed limit for once, I had a car making a right on red who decided to just turn without stopping and he turned all the way in to the left lane (your supposed to turn into the closest lane to you) which was the lane I was in. He cut me off much worse than this guy, and while I could have slammed on my brakes, I decided to change lanes and go around him. Well he realized last second how bad he cut me off and also went to go change lanes to the right (yes he basically cut me off twice now lol). At that point it was too late. I made the sharpest turn I could to go back to the left, but my front passenger side bumper hit his rear driver side bumper. I learned then to just do the wise thing and brake lol. On top of that, I didn't want to go around the front of his car when he decides to pull another dumb move and hit the gas again.
Clearly you made a good choice as you avoided an accident, that's the most important thing.

That said, it seems like you are thinking like a car driver not a motorcyclist.

If there are two lanes of traffic then on a motorbike there is also a gap between the two lanes which you can almost always use [big trucks aside]f. If you ride in the primary position which is around the same location where a car tyre would be, on the side nearest to the other lane then you always have options. You can brake (as you did), you can change lane (small movement left or right) or you can drive between the two lanes.

What if you couldn't stop in time, you would have had loads of space to go around the car without having to move into another lane of traffic if you just went down the middle. Of course there a risk the driver also changes lane but it's rare people pull out across two lanes at once.
 
Clearly you made a good choice as you avoided an accident, that's the most important thing.

That said, it seems like you are thinking like a car driver not a motorcyclist.

If there are two lanes of traffic then on a motorbike there is also a gap between the two lanes which you can almost always use [big trucks aside]f. If you ride in the primary position which is around the same location where a car tyre would be, on the side nearest to the other lane then you always have options. You can brake (as you did), you can change lane (small movement left or right) or you can drive between the two lanes.

What if you couldn't stop in time, you would have had loads of space to go around the car without having to move into another lane of traffic if you just went down the middle. Of course there a risk the driver also changes lane but it's rare people pull out across two lanes at once.
Splitting lanes is illegal here in the US aside from California.
 
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While searching his youtube channel for that video, I saw that his (I assume it's him) gsx-r has a studded knobby on the rear :suicide

After spending time on gsxr.com, I took a shower and am back. I signed up over there same time as here (2011) and after my 2 posts yesterday, my post-count is now up to 3 :lol
Haha outstanding :cheers
 
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...you can change lane (small movement left or right) or you can drive between the two lanes.

What if you couldn't stop in time, you would have had loads of space to go around the car without having to move into another lane of traffic if you just went down the middle. Of course there a risk the driver also changes lane but it's rare people pull out across two lanes at once.
Once again, there was a truck like two feet behind me who could have been speeding up to pass for all I knew, and if you think its unusual for people to cut multiple lanes than I'd say the US and UK have VERY different driving styles and Guam is 10x worse. Its hard to tell because they don't mark their lanes well here, but the guy was already into the second lane. Plus to further complainant shit the guy was a Japanese tourist, so who knows wtf he's thinking lol. I once stated on my Facebook that "I'd rather take my chances on a moped in Indonesia than drive on Guam."
 
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More photos of Guam driving. If the guy in the first photo stopped any further in the intersection he would've been on the other side and in the second I passed a sign saying "left lane closed" but then had to merge left lol.
 

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