Riding skills

[Olyrider]

I live outside Seattle. I avoid it as much as possible for many reasons, but am probably surrounded by a large percentage of “Seattle drivers” when on the interstates and highways. So riding my CB1100 puts me in their crosshairs. It has become a given that drivers will speed up to make a lane change in front of me 90% of the time. Or…make their left turn in a hurry to “beat traffic”.
Even though there might be 150 yards of open road behind me, they will speed up to merge in front of me. In order to squeeze into a space that doesn’t really exist. I always ride with a safe following distance in front of me so they take that space as their entitlement. I accept that everything about the vast majority of people nowadays is more selfish, uncaring and frankly dangerous than it used to be. This is magnified on the roads I am familiar with, but also in so many other facets of daily life.
I do what I can to reduce my risks, but they will never recede to become insignificant, IMHO.
Certainly the trend is going strongly in one direction with zero signs of abatement.
We can only do what we feel we NEED to do each time we leave our homes. Sometimes, what happens next is simply out of our control.

We are who we are.
We are where we are supposed to be.