Thank you Horn!

[nvxdiz]

On Golf Rd. in Morton Grove, IL

Going about 50 mph on the left lane of a 2 lane street w/ some heavy oncoming traffic.

I caught a glimpse of a speeding elantra on my right side through the side view mirror then I begin looking straight ahead again. I think, she's going fast enough, I'll let her pass me.

Before I know it, I'm in her blind spot and she's already in the action of merging onto my lane heading right towards me. In my head I'm thinking what the f*ck is this person thinking.

She's already about 1-2 ft. inside the yellow dotted lines in my lane. There's no way I could've applied the brakes fast enough without losing control/flipping over. Going towards the oncoming traffic was just asking for it.

Then as fast as I could find the Horn button, I pressed that button like there's no tomorrow. Thankfully her senses were good enough to hear that and realize that completing her action would have been very consequential.

Then she realized how much of an idiot she was and slowed down and waited for me to be way ahead of her before finally changing lanes.

All that took place in just a few seconds.

TLDR: close call, reacted correctly in a oh sh*t situation, and still riding safely.

[csmith12]

[00NissanNinja]

Just don't completely depend on your horn, I've had quite a few people just shrug it off, never pay attention to it, or give me a stupid look even though they almost hit me. I laid on my horn one time when this camry all of sudden jerked into my lane to get to a turn he was going to miss; he did not even care and if he looked out of his window he would have seen my bike easily. Narrowly made it away from him...Camry drivers seem to hate my bike or they generally suck at driving...

[ricochet08]

glad the situation turned out ok

i'd love a louder horn though, MUCH louder

[choneofakind]

Originally Posted by csmith12

try this bad boy instead

[Jono]

Lucky! Some people don't even hear my cars horn when they cut me off. Don't depend on that horn to save you again.

[CZroe]

I've had drivers completely ignore my horn and run me out of my lane then continue to change lanes without signaling and STILL never hear my horn.

In one case, I followed the driver to her destination just to let her know that she had almost killed me and was completely oblivious to it. She did it many more times and she only heard my horn once (started changing lanes without signalling, snapped back into her lane and wondered why someone honked, then changed lanes without signalling AGAIN). While she honestly didn't see me, not signalling compounds the problem and reduces the information I need to make judgements. It was clear that she would have gone on doing it if I didn't point out the problem it almost caused.

[Motofool]

Originally Posted by nvxdiz

.....In my head I'm thinking what the f*ck is this person thinking........Then as fast as I could find the Horn button, I pressed that button like there's no tomorrow.......There's no way I could've applied the brakes fast enough without losing control/flipping over.

You wasted precious fractions of seconds while thinking and pressing that button.

Yes, you could have applied the brakes effectively enough to slow your bike down and to create space to get out of her way.

However, if you didn't practice emergency braking in a safe environment and enough times, you would have probably fallen.

[lgk]

Do not rely on the horn, your bike's advantage is maneuverability.

[Malicious Logic]

Originally Posted by Motofool

You wasted precious fractions of seconds while thinking and pressing that button.

Yes, you could have applied the brakes effectively enough to slow your bike down and to create space to get out of her way.

However, if you didn't practice emergency braking in a safe environment and enough times, you would have probably fallen.

Took the words right out of my brain.

[Motofool]

Similar situation, similar reaction (forward to 0:28):

Link to original page on YouTube.

Note that this rider is consistently going too fast for the conditions, running into potentially dangerous situations..........and yelling !

Most of the dangerous situations take several seconds of development; they become an accident when we just become aware of it in the last two seconds.

Those two seconds can or not save our bacon, but they need all our concentration and the use of the proper riding skill or evasive maneuver.

Link to original page on YouTube.

[xSean13]

I prefer to use the rev-limiter as a 'warning' or after someone does something stupid (no, I don't WOT with the clutch in instead of using the correct avoidance maneuver first). Way louder than the puny ninjette horn.