Car drivers - STOP TRYING TO KILL AND/OR HURT ME

PardonTheWait · 1 Mar 2008 at 14:23

I'm getting ****ed off with this!

Last thursday I get crashed into on the A13 and somehow manage to stay on

Two days later someone decides to use about four lanes of a two lane roundabout and comes within inches of knocking me off

Now some daft woman just turned in front of me (across my lane, from the opposite lane) to go in a car park like I was't there - and then LAUGHED

In none of these situations was I indulging in any hooligan-like behaviour, or speeding.

STOP IT! IT'S ANNOYING!

AtreuS · 1 Mar 2008 at 14:33

Are you on a motorbike?

georges · 1 Mar 2008 at 14:34

You didn't have words with the woman?

Akira · 1 Mar 2008 at 14:37

That's what annoyed me more than anything, when someone almost KILLS YOU and then laughs, as if you almost slipped on a banana skin they dropped rather than almost flew over their bonnet and were paralysed for life. I seriously wanted to hurt those people.

fini · 1 Mar 2008 at 14:39

Mohinder said:
Now some daft woman just turned in front of me (across my lane, from the opposite lane) to go in a car park like I was't there - and then LAUGHED

Can I suggest you don't browse the forums whilst driving then?

ChoÞÞer · 1 Mar 2008 at 14:51

fini said:
Can I suggest you don't browse the forums whilst driving then?

NathanE · 1 Mar 2008 at 15:00

Get a car.

PardonTheWait · 1 Mar 2008 at 15:14

georges said:
You didn't have words with the woman?

I didn't have anything to say to her. I would only have got aggro and annoyed, so I just went.

The dozy bird that crashed into me I had words with, but that's different.

NathanE said:
Get a car.

Nice one, sensible input there. I will get a car sooner or later, but I'm not getting a car just because people are too ****ing stupid to look around them when they're in control of over a ton of motorised death.

SB118 · 1 Mar 2008 at 15:15

Mohinder said:
And I will get a car sooner or later, but I'm not getting a car just because people are too stupid to look around them when they're in control of over a ton of motorised death.

*cough* Darwin *cough*

PardonTheWait · 1 Mar 2008 at 15:18

SB118 said:
*cough* Darwin *cough*

It's the wrong way though! THEY'RE stupid, so I get hurt.

I may fit a giant spike to the front of my bike soon, so if anyone pulls out on me I hopefully take them with me.

Akira said:
That's what annoyed me more than anything, when someone almost KILLS YOU and then laughs, as if you almost slipped on a banana skin they dropped rather than almost flew over their bonnet and were paralysed for life. I seriously wanted to hurt those people.

Yeah, it really really ****ed me off. In fairness it was presumably shock/nerves that made her laugh, but come on... It's not funny, if I was unlucky my girlfriend and I would have gone over her bonnet.

Enfield · 1 Mar 2008 at 15:18

NathanE said:
Get a car.

I drive a great big red honda accord with a huge spoiler on the back and yet I had some stupid women pull straight out in front of me!

Do you drive with your headlights on Mohinder?

PardonTheWait · 1 Mar 2008 at 15:20

Enfield said:
Do you drive with your headlights on Mohinder?

Always.

My bike's got a luminous orange and yellow stripe down the middle of it too, and with me, my girlfriend, and a 52 litre topbox it's not what you'd call small, either.

Scuzi · 1 Mar 2008 at 15:27

Mohinder said:
Nice one, sensible input there. I will get a car sooner or later, but I'm not getting a car just because people are too ****ing stupid to look around them when they're in control of over a ton of motorised death.

I agree with NathanE. Get a car if you don't want to get killed. I used a motorbike as my sole method of transport for a few years and I as much as I prefer motorbikes, I gave it up for my own health. I'm too young to die and it was only a matter of time.

Motorbikes and kamikaze car drivers go hand in hand with each other, it's a fact of life. When I get enough space to keep a bike I'll get one as a weekend toy but I'll never go back to using it as my sole method of transport. The risks are too high.

PardonTheWait · 1 Mar 2008 at 15:28

A car's coming. I reserve the right to rant about stupid car drivers though, it's our right, nay our duty, as bikers!

Scuzi · 1 Mar 2008 at 15:29

Mohinder said:
A car's coming. I reserve the right to rant about stupid car drivers though, it's our right, nay our duty, as bikers!

Oh I agree!
What percentage of your near death experiences are caused by women drivers? I'd take a stab at a figure of 80% of mine.

penski · 1 Mar 2008 at 15:33

Titanium screws on the tips of your boots; cool sparks when giving it beans and useful for the side of stupid driver's cars.

*n

Enfield · 1 Mar 2008 at 15:34

I have a theory.

You know at night when you see a car coming it usually looks like there are far away because the two headlights look like one...

Perhaps people see one light on a bike and think it is actually further away than what they think it is? And obviously the bike is smaller than the car.

PardonTheWait · 1 Mar 2008 at 15:39

Scuzi said:
Oh I agree!
What percentage of your near death experiences are caused by women drivers? I'd take a stab at a figure of 80% of mine.

*thinks*

I think it's 80% of the ones I can remember, actually.

[TR]SweetSpotOz · 1 Mar 2008 at 15:45

PardonTheWait · 1 Mar 2008 at 15:54

markyp23 said:
Your reluctance to adapt to their stupidity suggests otherwise.

What the ****?

I don't understand this. People do things that are beyond my control which endanger me, and people in this thread are suggesting it's my fault? Are you mental?

I adapted to her stupidity by coming to a rather sharp stop as opposed to hitting her front wing and being flung through the air, I'd say that was pretty adaptive.

The way you're talking, you sound like you think I have no right to expect to ride a motorbike without people crashing into me, like they're doing nothing wrong and aren't to blame.

Do you drive around with your eyes shut?