ShareTheRoad PSA2 -- Open Door to Disaster

[saberswordsmen1]

may have just been the angle, but that seemed like an unsafe change to primary position. Should have either merged sooner or waited to for the truck to pass.

[Scottypowpow]

Hahaha the pickup is like shi!!!.. Fyck you u ceazy asshole get off the god damn road!!! Bang bang die bitch!!

[SwingingDickOfDoom]

HAHAHAHAH that will teach you Lance Armstrong wanna be obnoxious mother fuckers!!! STAY OUT OF TRAFFIC!!! or get on the sidewalk. Make all the rules and laws you want.. a 4000 pound car will ALWAYS win in a collision with a spandex clad asshole!! Go ride in a park, or off road somewhere.. OR peddal your ass off so you can keep up with the flow of traffic, streets are for MOTOR VEHICLES! If you hit a parked car you shouldnt be riding your gay little bike any fuckin way!

[rexregum]

the door gift isn't juz a hazard for bicycles, motocycles too...

[p1q0]

Any biker that doesn't keep a sharp eye out for this is a fool. Expecting people to look front and back every time they open a door is ridiculous.

[WholeTruth]

Good job, parked driver!

[hartleymartin]

When I see a parked car, I anticipate this by changing lanes into the main lane of traffic well before I reach the vehicle and then move back over to the side of the road. Most motorists realise that I am only avoiding a hazard and that losing 3 seconds on their trip isn't much of an inconvenience, but there are plenty of idiots who try to over-take you as soon as you signal a merge because they don't want to wait those extra 3 seconds.

[ramtes1971]

I have to say the same that hartleymarting.

[svref]

Merge into the vehicular flow only when there are at least two seconds of reaction time for the overtaking motorist to slow down. The video shows an atypical situation of a motorist travelling in lock-step speed to a cyclist in a wide lane. Typically, motorists will be quite a bit faster, and if the cyclist were to swerve out in front of the motorist with that little lead room, it could be bad.

[vinilla]

every road should have cycle lanes

[blairdeee]

HAHAHA I do that on purpose! Stupid bikers!

[mcevoy31]

thats bad,,the drive could have damaged his door, it would have been better to shove a broom out of his window to have the satans bastard cyclist off the bike

[iyf1]

thats true. bikes are much more harmful to the world than cars

[ramtes1971]

mcevoy, are you from USA? Normally that ideas come from americans, however, I know some few good people from US.

[metromusicamphibian]

A car free world!!

[dmayfield2]

would suck

[dollydagger509]

I know this is a serious video, as I am a bicyclist myself, but oh boy did I laugh my ass off at such a beautifully created video. HA!!! :)

[peaceandloveletsblow]

I always thought does that sine address the bike or the car? I guess both!

[Trusten1984]

This is the driver, had responsibility her, not the others, look careful the shoulder, before opening the car-door.

"Full responsibility are the driver who open the car-door or passenger !"

[Izekio]

You know those idiots in Critical Mass could learn alot from watching this.

I'd wager most don't even know proper hand signals.

[AKING3RD]

Taking the lane after scanning rearward traffic is indeed the best approach in this instance. Statistically, cyclists don't get rear-ended so much as cut off or not seen from the front. If you consider, most road bikers average about 16mph or more, that speed reduces the "speed gap" guite a bit. A driver going 50 is approaching the bicycle at a closing speed just over 30. Much easier for the car to safely slow down.

[geoave]

Signalling is great, but scanning (checking behind you) is even more important. Scanning will help you confirm that your signal will not get you injured.

I find it much more helpful to imagine a 90 degree triangle with the car and the edge of the (imagined) opened door the short leg of the triangle, and my current position connected

by the hypotenuse. I drive along the hypotenuse by scanning, and is quite easy for fellow drivers to understand my intent

[I3ernie]

you should all shut up and vote to ban bicyclist not only from riding on our public transportation roads, but also ban them from wearing those gay ass sperm suits they wear. stay the fuck off OUR roads. not only are you a hazard to yourselves but your also a hazard to the normal sane people trying to get from point A to point B in one piece. if u wanna be on these roads, license, registration and proof of insurance should be mandatory. get a real hobby you fucking crybaby!!!!!

[mcBikie]

This video seems to give a choice between hit the door, or swerve! I'd let the pickup go ahead, then move left into the lane WELL BEFORE I was anywhere near the SUV.

I do NOT look for a driver in the vehicle, I NEVER ride in the door zone!

[ShareTheRoad]

Exactly! Plan ahead, signal your intent and make your move.

STR

[timofuckenfee]

damn i wanted 2 c some guy get owned

[paulmpianist]

Take the lane? Stay out of the way. I ride a bike. I wouldn't trust a car. Are you out of your mind?  I ride a bike for all my transportation, when I can't drive my car. That's a lot of miles. I stay out of the way. Buy some colors and imagine you're Lance Armstrong, then a car impacting your body will bounce right off. "Take the Road!!!! You don't have good advice for life in the big city.

[Missy5537]

Not the cyclist's fault! Isn't it common sense for a driver to look in the mirror for traffic before opening the vehicle's door while parked in the street? I guess not. People around here, often some idiot on the phone, just swing the door open, with no regard for traffic at all!

It's so frightening to almost hit someone. I can't believe people value themselves so little that they'd put their own lives at such risk, let alone scaring the drivers of the moving vehicles half to death!

[urbanlegend65]

It happen to me I should have been aware, but those BMW doors are long and pointed..like shark tail.

If it was done on purpose I really fucked up the door It couldn't close. My witness said the driver should of looked first.

Actually I screwed up 2 different car doors.

It is worth it if done on purposed....$.

[doogle322]

gd advice

[genob52]

I like your productions on bicycle safety. Have you ever thought of sharing these videos with elementary schools?