molgrips - Member
"Well, if you hear them coming up behind you and then you hear them brake when they're alongside (or almost) then you have a good inkling something's up. And then when the noise gets closer you know they are turning into you."
Once they're alongside you should have them in your peripheral vision anyway. "When the noise gets closer", are you serious? Hearing's a precise tool but it's not that precise. And it's far less useful than your eyesight, which is what you should be using to learn about a car that's passing you. I guess if your visual obs are awful then hearing could be of more use, you're blind in your right eye or you never look anywhere but dead ahead in tunnelvision mode.
The scenario you describe just makes no sense. When people overtake you then cut you up turning left they don't do it by trying to drive straight through you, they try and get past then turn across and if you fail to see that coming then your hearing won't help you either, you'll learn far more from your eyes. And even if it did make sense- in this hypothetical situation where people gun it to come alongside then instantly turn into you while alongside (ie, they're not trying to pass you, but actively trying to murder you) what are you going to do? Jump off the bike every time someone overtakes?


