This will flash your brake light. The tailgater may be looking only at you and fail to see something farther ahead that will make you slow down. Though the size of a motorcycle can make it harder for other drivers to spot you, you can make size work to your advantage. A car driver has very little choice about where he positions his car in a lane. However, each marked lane gives a motorcyclist three possible paths of travel, as indicated in the illustration.
Some people fee that riding in the center portion is dangerous.
Such fears are overblown. Grease strips are usually no more than two feet wide. Since the center portion of the lane is four feet wide, you can operate to the left or right of the grease strip and still be within the center portion. Unless the road is wet with rain, the average grease strip gives just as much traction as the rest of the pavement. In other words, ride where it will be most difficult for other drivers to miss seeing you.