Three Mistakes Every Motorcyclist Makes

Get a room.

Fantastic stuff, as always, Ryan!! Lost on many riders is the idea that their side-by-side high beam lights can easily be perceived as a car in a distance. It's all the more reason that we, as riders, need to be extremely vigilant and watchful, and we need to be constantly honing our road skills and road strategy as we ride.

"A single light is .....unmistakably a motorcycle ". Not in Africa I'm afraid. A single light can be anything from an 18 wheeler to an agricultural implement. Usually one is grateful for the single light. It's the ones with no lights at all that are scary.

you're signaling incorrectly. its two fingers down. it looks nothing like a turn signal.

Valuable information delivered with humour.

Car driver here, joining the others, I distinctly remember making the 2 headlights-perspective mistake while making a left turn. Wasn't close but still unsettling to not see the expected vehicle, with the expected distance, in my mirror

In the UK , because we drive on the correct side of the road (yes.....feel free to roast me on that) but because waving would make us take our hands off the throttle we simply nod our heads to say hi at other bikers 😁

What is that bike?

Wtf dude- u must open a motorcycle university— awesome not just this one- almost all of your videos

travel with up two riding are safer for rear slows down)) and better road wheel contact)) but...
she/he must be a very good number by response for turns

“Single headlight is unmistakably a motorcycle” yeahh not always. One time I was driving late with my brother. it was pitch black and in the distance we see a single headlight we assume motorcycle, but no. It was in fact an 18 wheeler with no lights on other than a single headlight 😂

i love this vid

Got it. No lights, fast cornering, never wave.

the mistake i always make is let people use my motorcycle to learn to ride. i just want to get everyone into motorcycles but my bike ends up paying the price

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I go for the head nod

In Australia we just nod

I just don't wave. I seriously doubt that I will like the person on the bike any more than I like the person in the car, and I never wave at cars either.

Is no one gonna talk about how good of a twilight zone parody this video was

You forgot the worst mistake a rider can make.
Buying a Harley

The wave thing isn't an issue for those of us who ride on the correct (left) side of the road.

My 3 month old loves your videos

The proper Motorcycle Salute is the two finger “V” with the left arm down by your side, at an angle of maybe 5˚ or so. No way does that look like a left turn signal.

Left foot low wave.

Sorry but this video ain't it!

I love the detail that goes into your videos keep uo the hard work your videos are very amusing and very knowledgeable to watch for motorcyclist

I grab my belt and wave like Forrest Gump.

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Well done. Imaginative.

Awesome Video!!!!

....a car with only one headlight.....😣😣

I watch too much fortnine....but love the videos, keep it up 👍❤️

Motorcycles have been approved for flashing light! I use a white strobe front and a red strobe rear. I even show well in fog and rain.

i always do a little 2 finger salute towards bikers and i just do it cause i'm goofy, never thought it'd be safer 😂

I have horizontally mounted lights...05 speed triple. The bulbs are H4s - dual filament, so they both always run when the low-beams are on.

I run a high Kelvin bulb on one side, and a yellow fog bulb on the other. The horizontal blue and yellow lights make it easier to recognize it as a motorcycle.

I actually watch this guy for his fine sense of humor 🤣

The first mistake - ride a motorcycle

Entertaining ! And good tips too. Thanks

Bro hasn't aged in 5 years

A nod of the head from motorcycle to motorcycle here in the UK, unless you ride a Harley or a BMW GS where you are then above nodding to lesser mere mortal motorcycle riders

Turn brights off anytime there’s another light or two anywhere

Hand at your side barely up two finger down can’t get confused with arm straight out people that doesn’t ride don’t know either of these things anyways.

In France we don't use the hand signal to tell we're going to stop, go right and so on, we only count on the blinkers and stop light.

Daily stooopid.
1. False dilemma speculation based on passive riding strategy.
2. Again, stupid theoretical out of context false dilemma. Find one time this has actually happened. And if it ever did, it's a statistical outlier and proves nothing.
3. Doesn't understand the physics. A bike may feeeel more stable under braking or acceleration, but this is the result of fictitious forces similar to the notorious "centrifugal force". Yup, feeeling planted is pretty awesome. Love it. But the increase in momentum of the bike that creates that feeling is more danger potential.

The contact patch merely increases in response to the force vector of the pavement resisting the changes in multiple force/momentum vectors. That doesn't make the bike more stable. It makes the bike much more susceptible to negative effects of a rapid change in traction. Essentially, the bike is in a battle with the pavement for dominance. This is a very dynamic state and sudden changes have the greatest effect in that paradigm.

There is a reason we might coast over tar strips, steel grates and flat steel road construction covers.

There's a reason we avoid braking and accelerating when taking a corner full of gravel wash after a rain storm.

In Australia, the throttle is still on the right side but so is our brethren, so we don't salute, we just give a knowing nod which allows us to keep our hands on the handlebars

Your channel is CRAZY MAN
I can binge watch all afternoon, one video after another. Your production values, subject knowledge , and humor keep me engaged. Like cat videos, but productive 😎🇺🇸🤙🏻