QUOTE(RicoT @ Jul 15 2016, 05:10 PM)
It is not for Quazacolt alone but for the whole biking community to think over of their biking mentality and risk mitigation. I too want to ride a bike but at the current state of things, it is not worth my limbs and life to riding a bike.
As I advocate, you get what you paid for. Motorcyclist paid no toll to highway operators and hence, the sad state of bike lanes now. Bike lanes have lower speed limit as there are no external protection on bikers when accidents happen, so ride slowly and firmly in bike lanes. Advocate for motorcyclist to be able to pay toll to have better maintained bike lanes. If riders cannot afford to pay the toll? Dont use highway and use normal roads as these roads are what roadtax paid for. Simple as that. Riding on purpose built bike lane highways is still safer than riding on car lane highways with cars/lorries/busses. There is nothing free in this world, I wouldnt mind paying extra RM0.20/toll for bike lane highways to save time, than gamble with lives and limbs on car lane highways. Harsh truth but this is one way to improve the current situation.
I don't know who is wrong and who is right la in that case. But, whatever happen happened.
Even car on car also have some pretty nasty accidents let alone bike on car. There is no real way of preventing it because one bad apple will drag the entire community down. The mentality of people who live for speed is not always something normal road users can fathom let alone live it.
There is always the solution to ask them to go track, but the streets is the streets and it is a different thing.
Whether bike lanes have or will impact the safety of motorcyclists or not. That i have no straight answer. Sometimes you see even motorcyclists riding out on the road with cars when there is evidently motorcycle lanes. Not to mention having someone keep to a rather narrow lane on long expressways is an extremely hard thing to do no matter what speed they are doing.
At the end of the day, car drivers can only tell motorcyclists bad luck they did not choose a car when shit happens. But, running away is totally another crappy deal.