The minority of rider's in Brecon Beacons today, who managed to make we feel ashamed of being a rider today.
I ride regularly in pretty much all weather type's, so I like to think that I have enough experience to judge my driving pattern on different types of surface and weather pattern.
But to day whilst riding with a friend (vfr400 in undercoat white, riding with a classic BSA) it was like the every retard and village idiot seemed to be riding 600cc super bikes like they were on a race track.
The fact that really annoyed me was that in the local parking road with a ice cream truck, was that these muppets were complaining about car drivers. I'd be the first to admit that car driver do sometime misses riders on junction's. But they were verbally complaining about them not being seen when overtaking....
This really annoys the hell out of me, Firstly if your undertaking a manoeuvre on the road, such as a overtake its up to you to make sure you are seen and are telegraphing your plan's to other road users. i.e. sitting back from the car so your sat in the mirrors and using your indicators.
I followed these guys over the top passed penn-y-fan and they were sitting on the arse of the car and a van at one point, there is really no wonder that there are so many accidents during overtaking.
The next thing I noticed a lot of today was the impatience of riders today, such as trying to overtake car's that are trying to overtake each other. I don't know what happens to peoples mind's when they get on bike's but its small wonder riders have such bad names.
And my final pet peeve of the day was the number of riders going around with full racing exhausts. They come out with the usual rubbish of load exhausts saves lives's, as they rev the balls of the bikes in built up area's annoying everyone around them, And god help you when you mention having a bright colour bike and a day glow jacket would increase the chance of being viewed (Apparently in Muppet world Physics doesn't actually exist i.e. the Doppler effect, Sound directionality and the fact every car has soundproofing/ sound system..)
The worst of the lot I had the displeasure of meeting today was a 40 year old rider on a gsxr 750, who insisted on sticking to the bumper of cars, overtaking cars that where ahead of him and attempting to overtake resulting in them having to swerve to avoid him plus filtering at 60+mph on country lanes....
But the worse thing I saw was a overtake around a blind corner.....
When I got around the corner their was a people carrier full of kids with thick black lines and a driver and front passenger looking like they were going to be sick.
When I caught up with the ****, I said I like the bike, he said it was his first after passing his das last month...
How the hell can he be allowed a gsxr 750 after 1 month of riding???
I really think the need to bring in a limit like the a1 and a2 schemes of 2 years probation on a small horsepower machine, because people like this not only give the sensible riders bad names but like today he nearly either wiped out a family or at least made some orphans.
Rember guy's when your out their, there is no way you can judge or preconceive what others are doing or going to do.
Also if you want to ride like a racing driver go to a track day, their less likely to be a car full of kids coming the other way.
I ride regularly in pretty much all weather type's, so I like to think that I have enough experience to judge my driving pattern on different types of surface and weather pattern.
But to day whilst riding with a friend (vfr400 in undercoat white, riding with a classic BSA) it was like the every retard and village idiot seemed to be riding 600cc super bikes like they were on a race track.
The fact that really annoyed me was that in the local parking road with a ice cream truck, was that these muppets were complaining about car drivers. I'd be the first to admit that car driver do sometime misses riders on junction's. But they were verbally complaining about them not being seen when overtaking....
This really annoys the hell out of me, Firstly if your undertaking a manoeuvre on the road, such as a overtake its up to you to make sure you are seen and are telegraphing your plan's to other road users. i.e. sitting back from the car so your sat in the mirrors and using your indicators.
I followed these guys over the top passed penn-y-fan and they were sitting on the arse of the car and a van at one point, there is really no wonder that there are so many accidents during overtaking.
The next thing I noticed a lot of today was the impatience of riders today, such as trying to overtake car's that are trying to overtake each other. I don't know what happens to peoples mind's when they get on bike's but its small wonder riders have such bad names.
And my final pet peeve of the day was the number of riders going around with full racing exhausts. They come out with the usual rubbish of load exhausts saves lives's, as they rev the balls of the bikes in built up area's annoying everyone around them, And god help you when you mention having a bright colour bike and a day glow jacket would increase the chance of being viewed (Apparently in Muppet world Physics doesn't actually exist i.e. the Doppler effect, Sound directionality and the fact every car has soundproofing/ sound system..)
The worst of the lot I had the displeasure of meeting today was a 40 year old rider on a gsxr 750, who insisted on sticking to the bumper of cars, overtaking cars that where ahead of him and attempting to overtake resulting in them having to swerve to avoid him plus filtering at 60+mph on country lanes....
But the worse thing I saw was a overtake around a blind corner.....
When I got around the corner their was a people carrier full of kids with thick black lines and a driver and front passenger looking like they were going to be sick.
When I caught up with the ****, I said I like the bike, he said it was his first after passing his das last month...
How the hell can he be allowed a gsxr 750 after 1 month of riding???
I really think the need to bring in a limit like the a1 and a2 schemes of 2 years probation on a small horsepower machine, because people like this not only give the sensible riders bad names but like today he nearly either wiped out a family or at least made some orphans.
Rember guy's when your out their, there is no way you can judge or preconceive what others are doing or going to do.
Also if you want to ride like a racing driver go to a track day, their less likely to be a car full of kids coming the other way.
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