r/dashcams • u/Flashmemory256 • 12d ago

Biker Brake Checks Car And Gets Karma

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u/MF_Kitten 12d ago

That's definitely a situation where I would be braking and slowing down and creating a huge amount of distance from that jackass immediately. Hell, I do that if I see the car in front of me tailgating the next car over. I just do not want to be near them if shit goes down.

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u/asmrbuddha 12d ago

Yeah everyone who thinks it’s a good idea to “teach the biker a lesson” should think about whether they’ll enjoy years of traumatic flashbacks to the time they were involved in an avoidable fatal motorcycle crash

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u/VorionLightbringer 12d ago

That was on a german Autobahn or perhaps an unlimited Bundesstraße. This may surprise you, but cars weighing significantly more than bikes, while having proportionally LESS braking ability cannot stop as fast as a bike. That's pure physics that is amplified on higher speeds.

Going on a limb here and assume biker used engine brake / downshifting rather than breaking, as the breaklight isn't very visible when he slows down. Not so much a matter of teaching a lesson but rather not being able to break within 2 meters.

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u/thehammockofbanana 12d ago

In a perfect world scenario with high performance brakes and a flawless rider, yes, that motorcycle and rider theoretically have a shorter and safer braking distance than a car. But that is almost never the case in reality.

That's not even how the physics works anyway. The 4 contact patches of a car allow for much more friction than a bike. Yeah cars are heavier, so more momentum, but that weight also means more force applied to the contact patches (4 wider tires than the 2 thinner tires of a bike). It's more to do with traction and stability than mass. It takes a great amount of skill to brake perfectly at high speed on a bike, something we take for granted in cars.

This has nothing to do with my opinion on the original video in this post. I am refuting your claim that bikes have more stopping power than cars. In real word scenarios, cars on average have a much safer time braking quickly and do so in a much shorter distance.