Quote Originally Posted by Trek420
Glad you're ok, those poles always scare me. It'll be "see the pole, ride smack right into the pole" for me.
This is actually a recognised phenomanom (sp?).

An article in a the local AA magazine (thats Automobile Assoc) was discussing why, when they have a whole road and side of road, motorbikes will so often crash into a tree or a power pole...

They found that the riders were so busy concentrating on/watching the tree/pole/whatever to make sure they didn't crash if they got out of control, that they actually ended up aiming for it.

The same thing was happening if they watched oncoming headlights.

So the trick is to look for the space between the poles, or to the side of lights - and hopefully that is where you will end up, rather than wrapped around something unforgiving.