The problems exist on both sides but are greatly inflated by media reporting with bias, the simple truth is this, drivers and riders are not perfect they make mistakes. Some minority on both sides flout the laws, both sides should openly highlight those doing so, but good people tend to stay silent, and it tends to be the case that until an incident becomes serious the overloaded authorities aren't interested either.
On the technical front, I'm all for more cameras and bike registration, if a bike lane is 25% of the road surface it should also be taxed at 25% of the annual fees.
On the car side of things, more and more vehicles are fitted with cameras now, and as much as some activists riders have been using cameras for political purposes, the vehicle cameras confirm the problem is not unilateral.
But no matter what laws or society say, riders can't win in a conflict with 1400kg of flammable fuel packed alloy, actually now with EVs becoming more prevalent it's more like 2000kg of high voltage alloy.
eScooters are making the situation even worse, they are the new plague, like the monkey bikes were 10 years ago!
Riders dream of a nirvana with roads full of of two wheels, but anyone who has spent 5 minutes driving around Denpasar, Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh or the like will know otherwise, it's not nirvana it's hell! I've had business associates killed by trucks swerving to avoid a falling rider, another associate hand signalling a turn/lane swap lost his arm to a lane splitting motorbike rider, and another associate suffering long term PSTD from being on the scene of a tragic collision between a turning rider and a cement truck.
On the technical front, I'm all for more cameras and bike registration, if a bike lane is 25% of the road surface it should also be taxed at 25% of the annual fees.
On the car side of things, more and more vehicles are fitted with cameras now, and as much as some activists riders have been using cameras for political purposes, the vehicle cameras confirm the problem is not unilateral.
But no matter what laws or society say, riders can't win in a conflict with 1400kg of flammable fuel packed alloy, actually now with EVs becoming more prevalent it's more like 2000kg of high voltage alloy.
eScooters are making the situation even worse, they are the new plague, like the monkey bikes were 10 years ago!
Riders dream of a nirvana with roads full of of two wheels, but anyone who has spent 5 minutes driving around Denpasar, Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh or the like will know otherwise, it's not nirvana it's hell! I've had business associates killed by trucks swerving to avoid a falling rider, another associate hand signalling a turn/lane swap lost his arm to a lane splitting motorbike rider, and another associate suffering long term PSTD from being on the scene of a tragic collision between a turning rider and a cement truck.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"