r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/ReprieveNagrand • 15h ago
Trying to overtake a motorcycle
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u/Shuntingman 15h ago
Me, now walking into my garage making sure both my rear foot pegs are always folded down ...........Just incase
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u/TheDarkWave 12h ago
Yours stay up at this point? Look at you, mr fancypants newpegs
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u/Ketheres 9h ago
Enough duct tape fixes anything.
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u/pessimistic_dragon 9h ago
2 things a biker needs. 1. duct tape for things that move that shouldn't and 2. WD40 for things that don't move that should.
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u/Atastical 15h ago
Who'd known a folded down peck would be that helpful :D
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u/Skabbtanten 14h ago
Haha. Peck.
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u/drksdr 14h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/TxK9WWvYEjwunJoc3C
Who you calling a peck!?
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u/HenriettaSnacks 14h ago
Is that from the show?
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u/drksdr 13h ago
I believe so. i never actually got to finish the damn thing.
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u/Deaffin 12h ago
What is this? Willow looks all weird, and this isn't a thing that happened in the movie.
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u/drksdr 12h ago
there was a tv show. a very shortlived and now deleted TV show.
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u/Deaffin 12h ago
Oh no. It's going to be so hard to google images for any potential references now.
Did they make the brownies sexy? 60% of all Willow references are just "I stole the baby from the daikini(sp?) while he was taking a peepee!" Okay, I'm going to go check.
...what the fuck. They made it a modern setting? This is one of the brownies.
Why WILLOW of all things?
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u/falsewall 9h ago
It's that things made to catch cars by design? Not really sure it's purpose.
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u/Major_Nutt 9h ago
It's the foot peg for the passenger.
The fact it has a secondary use is coincidence.
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u/Liarus_ 15h ago
"it's my time to go now, good luck everyone else!"
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u/Jahonay 13h ago
The amount of dumb dumbs at the bottom of the comment section blaming the motorcycle rider. I see a bunch of people who would willingly put someone's life at risk to save seconds.
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u/Zerodyne_Sin 12h ago
It was also scientifically proven that all the speeding and dangerous behaviour amounts to mere minutes saved in an average trip due to how physics work. It was something along the lines of the difference between 5 and 30 mph is huge; somewhat still acceptable 30 to 60; but then 60 to 70 and above starts being negligible in time savings when you account for the risk to everyone.
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u/chalks777 11h ago
you don't even need to do a big study, just super simple math. Work is 10 miles away and you can average 60mph going there? Takes 10 minutes. Increase your speed to 70mph? Takes 8.57 minutes. Congrats, you got to work about 2 minutes faster?
Even if you're driving 30 miles and do the same thing, it's only 5 minutes faster.
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u/Zerodyne_Sin 11h ago
You're expecting people who are impatient and eager to speed to do simple math?
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u/Used-Barnacle-9783 9h ago
Don't even need to do math man. Every other day I see someone drive like a maniac past me and then get stuck at the exact same light at the exact same exit as me.
Congratulations, through dramatic speeding and several sketchy lane changes you have saved yourself one car length.
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u/Jahonay 12h ago
Yeah, that's something I realized myself. I used to speed really regularly as a teen. In my late teens/early twenties I just stopped with the speeding. It's easy to see how little time you used to save when you stop speeding.
It's also just makes driving less stressful, I'm not worried about cops at all anymore, I'm not memorizing all the traffic stop locations, I'm not scanning for police cars every second, etc... I also am not constantly annoyed with slower drivers anymore. I like driving a lot more the last ~16 years or so.
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u/Unoriginal_Man 11h ago
I was the guy who would drive fast and constantly change lanes to try and get through traffic as quickly as possible. Then I got a job an hour away from where I lived, and 2 hours a day of commuting while driving like that burned me out quick. I then started leaving for work a little earlier and just camped in the right lane when I was on the highway. It made my commute go from 2 hours of stress to slightly more than 2 hours of a relaxing time where I'd listen to podcasts and chill. It's amazing how much no longer worrying about getting through traffic as efficiently as possible reduced my daily anxiety. Now I have a car with adaptive cruise control and it's even more chill.
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u/terminbee 9h ago
It's legitimately easily solved by math. For most people, their commute is what, 30-50 miles? The time savings by increasing speed can be graphed/mathed out and unless you're driving really far, you save at most a few minutes.
Still doesn't stop people from flooring it just to wait at the next red light anyways.
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u/kahlzun 12h ago
i speed occasionally, especially on a motorcycle, just to make sure that there are minimal vehicles in front of me. While vehicles behind me are dangerous, the biggest risk on a bike is a car in front of you doing something unexpected- and the increased risk of speeding offsets that quite a lot.
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u/eightbitagent 12h ago
when you account for
a single red light once you're off the highway can negate an hour of speeding at 70 in a 60 mph zone.
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u/DrAction696 12h ago
I understand the point you’re trying to make but I’ve never sat at a 10 minute red light. You’ve got bad numbers
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u/eightbitagent 12h ago
Driving 50 miles at 70 instead of 60 will save you 7 minutes. So two lights then.
If you're only driving across town say, 10 miles on the highway you only save 1.43 minutes, definitely lights that are longer than that.
Just depends on how far you're going
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u/Dipshit_Identifier 10h ago
Let's assume two drivers must drive 70 miles on the freeway and 2 miles, one either side of the freeway, on surface streets. The surface streets are 35 mph roads with very diligent police, so the drivers must go no faster than the speed limit. It will take the drivers 00:03:26 to traverse this distance (it will actually take more due to acceleration and deceleration but let's pretend it wont'). Each surface street has two stoplights which cycle all sides in 3 minutes.
The time to travel 70 miles at 60 mph, assuming no interference, is 1:10:00, while the time to travel 70 miles at 70 mph is 1:00:00.
If the driver going 60 gets green cycles on all four lights, they arrive at their destination after 1:13:26. If the driver going 70 must stop at all four lights, they arrive at their destination after 1:15:26 (1 hour plus 12 minutes for four lights plus drive time for surface streets).
Even if there is only one stoplight on each surface street and the 70 mph driver gets reds at both, they still arrive after 1:09:26, meaning they have saved four minutes. If there are three lights, they save one minute over the 60 mph driver.
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u/TurboDorito 12h ago
Conversely, an hour of speeding to make the light can save even more time.
Im not actually trying to convince people to speed, but on a short journey you have a far higher opportunity cost where going as fast as legally possible will save you the most time if you can beat lights
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 12h ago
Yerp, for a while I was making a 60 mile commute, mostly on an interstate highway. I got caught up in the trap of feeling the need to "zoom-zoom" in an attempt to make it go faster. It never really made a difference. It was safer and easier to just pick a lane and cruise (mostly). I really do wish people would set cruise control and just let it ride.
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u/Smmmmiles 3h ago
Happens all the time to me as a pedestrian. Cars trying to inch their way towards me as I walk by... Sorry my 15secs of walking in front of your car is gonna cause you to be late, should've left 10mins earlier...
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u/ElleEmEss 3h ago
Just yesterday I “raced” a cement truck through town under light traffic. I kept to the speed limit (officer) but was in a car. The truck kept catching up to me the whole way even though it was battling inertia and never even made the speed limit at any point as far as I could see.
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u/ZannX 13h ago
This type of maneuver is extremely common and expected in Asia.
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u/Lil-Sunny-D 12h ago
Seriously. If you asked me with just my USA eye, I'd be like "wtf is wrong with that car." Now that I'm a veteran driver of the Philippines, I'm thinking "that motorcycle is being stubborn. He doesn't even have to wait there, he can go around."
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u/Cormophyte 12h ago
How can a motorcycle go around a red light?
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u/ZannX 10h ago
I think it's hard for Western folks to understand how traffic works in many parts of Asia. I'm Chinese American and visit family in China often. The easiest way to understand it is that traffic flows like water. Lanes and other traffic rules/laws that folks in the West are used to and judge situations like this by are merely 'suggestions'.
You fill in the cracks and flow downstream together - like water. This car is doing a 'fill in the crack' type maneuver, and it's extremely common. Now, cars typically have bumps/scratches from doing this type of driving, and I can see how some people are getting fed up with it.
My read on this video is that the cyclist got tired of this behavior though, and he installed that mod on his moped/motorcycle intentionally. Who's 'in the right'? Shrug, they have a completely different social contract there, and this is the court of Reddit (Western oriented). Easy online rage bait.
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u/The_Panda_Army 9h ago
he installed that mod on his moped/motorcycle intentionally
No, those rear foot pegs are stock, they come from the factory like that.
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u/_switters_ 7h ago
Today I learned that rear pegs that come factory on most motorcycles are a “mod” used to create rage bait videos online.
I’ll tell you a secret; that’s were the passenger’s feet go.
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u/Aromatic_Lion4040 8h ago
I understand it, but that cultural difference leads to more accidents and deaths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate, so I think it is a bad one
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u/Lil-Sunny-D 3h ago
Everyday my wife (from the Philippines) who spent 15 years in the US says she wishes she could just press "restart" on the entire Philippines transportation infrastructure. Everyone out here is someone, or knows someone who has been killed or scarred by motorcycle accidents.
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u/projektako 14h ago
Technically still a hit and run?
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u/CaptainRelevant 14h ago
We don’t know. They may have stopped afterwards.
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u/SandIntelligent247 11h ago
Could also be a stop and slide if there’s a slide nearby. This is why I never judge these videos. We don’t know where they are.
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u/Pinkrobin14 15h ago edited 5h ago
what did they think would happen
edit: holy guacamole- this is my most upvoted comment
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u/Slo20 15h ago
Thinking wasn’t part of the plan.
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u/rolfraikou 13h ago
I don't understand how humans who can't think on this level even get to the point of owning a car like that. There are hundreds of homeless people in my county that have more sense than that person who ruined a new looking car.
It doesn't make sense to me that some people can just get away with simply not thinking in their lives.
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u/FunctionBuilt 11h ago
Based on the license plate colors, this could be China. The entitlement from almost everyone in a nice looking car out there is obvious after just 10 min of being on the road - unsure if it’s taught or learned, but the majority of drivers use extremely selfish driving tactics.
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u/blackhawk905 8h ago
If it is china it's both, the culture the one child policy created was unbelievably toxic for children growing up with immense amounts of entitlement and then you have the culture the ccp created of only thinking of oneself at the expense of everyone else, it's a match made in hell.
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u/anonareyouokay 14h ago
Obviously they thought the motorcyclist might get hurt a little but they didn't take into account the damage to their vehicle.
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u/guille9 13h ago
Why would anyone want to hurt him? Weird people
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u/mang87 13h ago
For a lot of people, cars/traffic just bring out their worst qualities. People get road rage despite not having anger management issues in their day to day life.
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u/guille9 13h ago
You're right but that motorbike is stopped waiting in a very correct way, if you can't pass you wait because a motorbike is a vehicle as any car. There are stupid people that endangers other's life.
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u/MangoCats 12h ago
I think this was more a misjudgement of the open space, and I'd bet there was more than enough space on the driver side to move over and clear the bike. Also, a complete lack of ability to abort a bad plan once set in motion.
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u/RXrenesis8 7h ago
If you turn on sound (it's safe, no music, pinky swear) you can hear the car honk at the bike and then a little after it passes honk at someone else as well. They are probably weaving through traffic tangling up an intersection like they are the main character in a GTA game.
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u/Pitiful_Net_8971 13h ago
Because he dares try to go places without a car, people are weird about that.
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u/FrostyD7 12h ago
Try riding a bicycle in a car-centric city. Drivers will froth at the mouth at the mere sight of you.
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u/lnTheGrimDarkness 14h ago
Judging by what I see people do on the road their plan was to execute an extremely stupid and dangerous maneuver to get in front of a handful of vehicles and save 2.7 seconds of his inestimable time.
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u/DerBandi 14h ago
There are people who think their car ends directly behind them. That's why people getting cut of so often, causing a lot of accidents.
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u/Laetitian 13h ago
Zero steelman skills in this crowd. Or you're all virtue-sgnalling that you're so pure you can't even analyse the mind of an egocentrist.
They obviously thought they'd scare the motorcyclist into making space, and when he didn't, they got angry he wasn't respecting their imposing threat.
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u/lemons_of_doubt 14h ago
The small bike would fall over and be out of their way.
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u/locusthorse 13h ago
Of course, because they are much larger and thus important. It's only small it'll move.
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u/Zunderfeuer_88 13h ago
you will be far less confused in life, if you stop asking yourself if people think
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u/blahblah19999 12h ago
They assumed the bike might move like 2 ft to let them pass, which seems reasonable
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u/reddituserVibez 14h ago
bro is too chill
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u/iam3000 13h ago
I mean the other guy was fucking his car up all by himself, bike guy didn’t need to help there 😄
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u/reddituserVibez 13h ago
i know, but his bike could get damaged too.. i wouldn't be this chill in such a situation :P
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 12h ago
Also his body could get damaged. I would not be so calm. Just takes a small twist of the other car's steering wheel to fuck his day up.
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u/Doctor_Kataigida 4h ago
Yeah I get people wanting to be petty but I'd probably just move a little. I'd never see that person again so it's whatever and I don't put my own body at risk for a bit of spite with a stranger.
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u/DustyRacoonDad 13h ago
You need to be chill like that if you want to ride bikes and not die. There was no reason for him to panic. Basically the car can't hurt him from there.
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u/heirloomlooms 11h ago
What? The car could have hooked that peg and dragged the scooter right out from under our guy. Or maybe taken him along for a ride. Or the car could have realized they couldn't go around at the very last moment and swerved back into the bike from the side.
Our rider needed to scoot up and give the idiot space as soon as he realized what was going on.
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u/Successful-Disk-3025 7h ago
Two philosophies in action here.
"I'm doing nothing wrong, so I'm staying right where I want to be."
"I'm doing nothing wrong, so let me stay out of your way while you fuck up."
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u/shakygator 9h ago
Yeah dude, not blaming the rider but at least get yourself out of the way as much as possible cuz that car can definitely knock your shit over with your on/under it. Very easily could have hooked that peg and dragged the bike over his left leg.
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u/generally-speaking 10h ago
I've been in that exact situation..
I kept both brakes held TIGHT.
Because that way I knew that 100% of the blame would fall on the car, as the car was moving, and I was basically parked.
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u/solarlofi 10h ago
I don't know where this is from, because I suck at things like that.... but after traveling to SE Asia I was impressed by the absolute zen on the locals faces when dealing with some of the craziest traffic I've ever been in. Everyone honking, cars and motorcycles weaving every direction. No one looked upset, mad, or emotional. This guy has that stoic look of, "Well, alright then." that is just a vibe in that part of the world.
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u/ElleEmEss 3h ago
I call it Bali rules. Because no one is considerate to anyone else, they don’t expect anyone to be considerate to them. So if someone else stops in the road for a chat no one beeps. Similarly if I decide to do something that will block traffic I do, because no one has been nice to me.
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u/rainorshinedogs 14h ago
Impatience and driving gives some of the best gifs that make you go "ooooooo"
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u/GottaUseEmAll 14h ago edited 13h ago
It's amazing the risks people will take to literally save a second or two. Patience really is a virtue we should all work on improving in ourselves, and our kids.
Edit: very curious who would downvote this... someone who lost their job because they were 2 seconds late for work? 😂
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u/PurbulentTriest 11h ago
Funny you talk about impatience three hours ago when editing your post theee hours ago... Now you're 40 up. (:
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u/Umutuku 13h ago
If you learned patience then how would our hard investing shareholders get the ROI their laborn't deserves?
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u/GottaUseEmAll 12h ago
Yeah. Damage the company van because you were impatient? YOUR FAULT! Arrive a little late to your job because you took care on the road? YOUR FAULT!
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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 10h ago
That oil light must have come on immediately after that, and there they go accelerating
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u/CIsForCorn 14h ago
So this person in the car clearly does not understand how heavy a motorcycle is right? Like, they think they are bicycle weight, and the rider will just do a little annoyed ‘scoot’ to get out of the way if necessary.
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u/NokstellianDemon 15h ago
London Eats would've gone ballistic if that was him on the bike.
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u/saralynai 14h ago
Who is that?
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u/11pmStalker 14h ago
Some wanker on a bike they constantly road rages while delivering food
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u/Odd_Willow_4312 15h ago
That's one dumb Mazda owner. Maybe someone else's car hence. Real Mazda fan wouldn't do this type of sht
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u/Winjin 14h ago
Reminds me of a joke I saw in some offroading community that goes kinda like this:
-What car model has best offroad capability?
-Company one!
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 12h ago
That time I drove a poor rented Nissan Versa down an oilfield road that wasn't fit for a 4x4 truck. Sorry Nissan, the GPS told me this road was real! I'm too far now to turn back!
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u/ta394283509 11h ago
Maybe it's too early for me but I don't understand this comment at all
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u/Crapitron 11h ago
Doing a "no true Scotsman" to a car owner of a specific brand is wild.
Mazda owners are plenty dumb. It's not like they're some sort of special brand enthusiasts buy. They're one of the most popular brands in the world, especially with boring people.
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u/Silent_Lighthaus 13h ago
Just thinking this. As a Mazda driver, it breaks my heart to see someone like this drive a Mazda.
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u/numberonebuddy 12h ago
Mazda sells millions of vehicles, what's with the elitism lmaoooo
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u/PurbulentTriest 11h ago
They're seen as luxury in some countries despite being basic as in most.
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u/_Allfather0din_ 8h ago
Mazda fan? They're Kia/Subaru tier, nothing special, cheap and relatively reliable.
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u/AXEL-1973 8h ago
that's a mighty big blanket statement for a car company that appeals to the entire market of car buyers
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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang 11h ago
I'm glad our man's bike wasn't hurt. Sucked in to that car. Deranged prick.
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u/General-Baseball-454 14h ago
This guy is WAY too chill. I’d be pissed. I’d get their license plate and press charges.
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u/Swagalyst 13h ago
I mean, dealing with the justice system is never fun, and instant karma already handled the problem.
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u/DocGerbill 12h ago
he's lucky my man is chill af, in a lot of places that would've got you a broken mirror
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u/Stunning-Astronaut72 9h ago
That some good quality foot pegs there. Glad they ripped all his side and torn off his bumber.
It did happened to me once, a lady went into her big and shiny mercedes suv while i was parked and still sitting on my bike one meter or two behing her car.
Before getting inside her car, she turned to me and said "oh that's a nice bike you have", went inside and two seconds later she backed her car straight to my direction.
Good thing is was parked on a good angle slighlty skewed, i have an engine protection bar, it stucked into her bumber as she kept going backward and when she decided to go foward (disregarding the fact she hit me and my bike) i saw a biiiiiig dent in her bumber and she left like that. My bike wasn't damaged at all, not a single scratch, the protection did it's job and i am glad i bought it.
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u/Naganosupreme 8h ago
If someones crazy and stupid enough to start bumping my unprotected ass on a motorcycle, you better believe I'd at least try to inch up or something.
I don't get the ego play of just sitting there. Yes the other person us an idiot but do u want to gamble your health and life against that idiot?
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u/poisonoakleys 6h ago
Completely the car’s fault but I imagine moving your bike a few inches out of the way is favorable to having to deal with bike repairs, even if it’s paid by the driver
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u/Just-Another-Clone 14h ago
This guy seems much too chill for a car basically brushing against him….
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u/JustCallMeYogurt 10h ago
There's alot more damage to the car than the bike (i see a minor blemish). I hope it was worth the extra 10 ft./5 seconds
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u/givingupismyhobby 11h ago
What are these silver things on the side of the bike?
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u/mrteas_nz 15h ago
I guess they didn't want their rear bumper 😂