What you fail to understand, is that on any freeway there are curves. One of those bikes can come up on you in a split second out of a blind spot. Unless I keep my eyes continually in the rear view mirror, or have my head turned toward the back, I can’t possibly catch them.
I’m having to deal with stop and go traffic, trying to keep from rear ending someone in front of me, or a split second chance to change lanes, and you want me to solely concentrate on the traffic behind me.
That’s unrealistic, and a terrible dangerous mindset from you. It causes you to unrealistically think someone else will catch that glimpse of you in time, when it simply isn’t always possible.
Look at you. You blamed this on me, which clearly isn’t the case. You need to come to terms with that.
Nope ... if you change lanes ... make sure a bike is not coming up on you. It’s the law that we bikers have to have our headlight on. We are pretty easy to spot IF you take the time to look. Remember we are NOT talking about the idiot who splits lanes in 60 MPH traffic. Rather we are speaking about splitting lanes in dead stop or near dead stop traffic. In Calif EXPECT a bike to be there. As long as you perform a normal lane change there will be no problem as I will see you too. I do NOT expect you to “glimpse me in time rather I will spot YOU in time. And no it is NOT a dangerous and unrealistic mindset.