Andre wrote:Hello
I would like to understand why the motorcyclists when it rides on a road almost always runs close to the center line on the road?
Method taught, because of the wear of the road made by cars? , so as not to be overtaken?
I thought it made more sense to drive in the middle of the half lane much like cars and other vehicles?
Probably there must be a reason that motorcycle practitioners know.
Andre
it depends on the circumstances: in a straight line when you have no one in front, you usually drive logically in the middle of its tread, but when you get closer to a vehicle, you shift towards the center of the road while simply because in the event of sudden braking of the vehicle in front, it makes it easy to avoid, a motorcycle braking much less than a car especially if it is recent (wide tires + abs), ditto of course if we intend to exceed.
If the road is dirty, we also tend to drive on the parts cleaned by the wheels of cars, rather towards the middle of the road because on the outside there are often unpleasant surprises (sand, gravel, various debris. .) ... ditto if there are potholes (it sometimes happens in the mountains when the road has not yet been patched up with winter damage, the lowland roads are generally in very good condition in the main countries European (I know that this is not necessarily the case for example in the USA where the maintenance is much more lax).
When cornering, it is rather the ideal trajectory that controls: exterior-interior-exterior or vice versa depending on the direction of rotation ...
Then there are also the good or bad habits of bikers ...
In terms of safety, there are many who confuse the road and the speed circuit, or who simply have dangerous driving: slalom between cars, bad anticipation, lack of attention, failure to respect safety distances, error of judgment, e.g. : widening of the trajectory due to an excessive speed compared to the curvature of the turn which often occurs when it is turns which "close": near my home there was recently a frontal collision between 1 motorbike and 1 truck in a tight blind bend on a narrow mountain road: the motorcycle arrived too quickly: lane offset and the truck widened its trajectory to be able to take the bend ... In the same place, I experienced the same thing, but like I arrived quietly, I was able to easily correct my trajectory towards the outside to avoid the truck ... sometimes people don't give a damn because I "drag myself", but I am still alive and have never done drop on motorcycle, forcompensate for the many falls on my bike that I experienced young no doubt ...
