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Originally Posted by Triple Jim
Around here, if you assume a turn is clear but can't see all the way through it, you might easily come across a tractor pulling a tobacco wagon at 8 mph, or two pickup trucks stopped in the middle of the road, driver to driver, talking, or a 1/2" thick layer of grass clippings, or sand that washed out in the last rainstorm. As safe as riding out in the country where there are few cars seems to be, there are still plenty of things waiting to kill you if you let your guard down.
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I learnt this the hard way. Well, almost the hard way. A corner I'd ridden many times at what I thought was a reasonable pace bore witness to me nearly t-boning an SUV pulling into a driveway I'd not realy noted was there; just out of frame on this grab from Streetview:
Luckily the driver didn't stop in a panic, and I managed to keep the bike upright during some fairly urgent braking while gently standing it up, missing his rear bumper by about a foot.
Complacency's a killer.