[Abu_Mishary]

Originally Posted by adouglas

More to the point: What's the difference between driving a car and riding a bike? The other guy "played it like a car" and braked hard. Why is a bike any different?

The image this presents to me (no evidence, just inference from what was written) is that a bike is so small and can accelerate so fast that you can zip into a time/space gap that a car cannot.

While true, this is not safe riding practice most of the time. It suggests an amped-up, aggressive mindset. Squids do this a lot. I just LOVE it when I'm cruising along in my car and some jackass passes me IN MY OWN LANE at +30 mph. Not saying this kind of nonsense happened by any means. But the question of why "playing it like a car" was unexpected remains.

Having said this, it's not necessary to ride like a grandma. Yeah, I do routinely break speed limits and no, I do not leave six car lengths at 60 mph all the time. But there's a difference between fast-but-responsible and dive bombing traffic.

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