If you've never ridden a bike, you'd be amazed that so many things that look stupid and letal from car drivers point of view, are actually very safe and easy to do on a bike, overtaking being the main one.
A bend that's blind in a car, might not necessarily be so for a bike. It's all to do with road positioning, anticipation, careful planning, an elevated and wider field of view..... And of course acceleration far in advance of what a car can do, and being physically a lot smaller
this is absolutely true. Non bikers have no idea of the abilities of bikes. Often you know the roads well as well - altho I have not ridden for a couple of years now there are favourite roads that I know every corner, braking point and so on on. Many of these I know of totally safe overtakes on corners as by looking further up the road you can tell that the corner is clear to overtake on. Glen Dochart being one. From knowing the road you can watch a section a couple of miles ahead and thus know when the set of corners has no traffic on it.
