HazardsBuses and pickups on your line
รถบัสและรถกระบะกินเลน
A vehicle longer than the corner has to use some of your lane, and it will.
What it is
Route 1095 and the mountain half of Route 108 are two lanes, and the minibuses, songthaews and delivery trucks that serve these towns take a hairpin by crossing the centre line.
The long version
Inference — this is geometry, not bad driving. A vehicle with a long wheelbase physically cannot hold its own lane through a radius this tight, so it takes the width it needs. The rider's job is to assume it.
What that means on the road is that the correct position entering a blind left-hander is not the racing line. It is wide, slow enough to stop in the distance you can see, and off the centre line. The Chiang Mai to Pai minibus runs this road all day at a schedule, and it knows the corners far better than you do — which is the point: it is going faster than you through them and it is using your lane to do it.
Runs with
- termHairpin — The radius that forces it.
- roadRoute 1095 — Where the minibuses run.
Named here by
- roadRoute 1095 — Who else is using these corners.
- termSongthaew — The wider version of this problem.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | inference | general riding knowledge applied to this circuit's measured shape | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Hairpin turn — Wikipedia (en)
- Motorcycle safety — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there