[rustynutz]

[Dazzler]

It is a good message Rusty.. so easy to miss them 

[AlanHo]

It is a good message Rusty.. so easy to miss them 

Especially in a 2012 i30 - the three quarter rear vision is so poor that when you pull up at an oblique angled junction you need to be a contortionist to see down the road properly.

[peon2t]

Unfortunately it's true... driving a motorcycle is death in instalments. The only chance to survive is when you die another way before you get killed on your bike.  This summer there was a study published in Switzerland which said that the chances of getting killed in traffic are more than 20 times higher for a motor biker compared to a car driver. 

I drove a motor bike myself for a bit more than two years but stopped earlier this year after tourist bus driver shot me down performing a lane change at the speed of about 40 to 50 km/h. Thanks to my resistant protection gear and immediate braking I only suffered bruises (which haunted me for almost half a year) but it could have been much worse at higher speeds. (The blind bus driver was a hit and runner on top of that)

When I realized that there was nothing in this situation that I could have done better and that your life as a biker is just depending on wether you happen to meet one of a huge number of nearly unconscious drivers or not, I decided that it's time to sell the remnant of the bike.

[Dazzler]

@ peon 

[Just Rick]

Top message, have to agree with AlanHo some visabilty in the I30's is pretty ordinary,but only getting rid of my last bike around seven years ago, I have had my share of spills, I would probably call it fifty fifty,my stupidity and other road users blindness,I found it interesting that WA is the only state that does not have a lights on law for bike riders, unless that has been updated in the past few years

[rustynutz]

I found it interesting that WA is the only state that does not have a lights on law for bike riders, unless that has been updated in the past few years

There's no law Australia wide that requires motorcycle riders to have their lights on during the day, Rick.... 

[rustynutz]

Just to clarify this, ADR 19/01 was introduced on the 1st March, 1992, which required all new motorcycles to have their headlight hard-wired to come on when the ignition was turned on.

This rule was repealed on 1st January, 1997 so use of a (motorcycle) headlight during daylight hours is not a legal requirement in any State of Australia......