Excessive Sentence : 166mph biker

i maxed a car recently, although i only noticed after it wouldn't keep accelerating. turns out the manufacturers are right :p
it can take forever though, so it's really not worth the risk.
 
iaind said:
Are you sure? A 200kg motorbike hitting a car at 160mph is going to exert the same force as a 1000kg car doing 30mph, only it's going to be much more focussed due to the narrow shape.

That sort of impact in the side of a car could kill the driver I reckon
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An old school friend of mine pulled out of a side junction in front of a bike doing 70 ish. Bike hit the car in the drivers door hard enough to put the car on its side, killed my friend instantly (rider died instantly too) and put his wife, who was sat in the passenger seat in intensive care for a couple of weeks. She suffered massive injuries because the impact of the bike pushed the drivers door/seat/driver all the way in past the centre console and crushed her. Very small impact area, so all that weight impacts at a single point, the front wheel.

Car drivers should think about that before they pull out in front of a bike, I might miss the drivers door, I might hit the rear door where your kids are sat.

Fog
 
Freefaller said:
Well I've always been taught (and this by a Class 1 police driver) that to minimise the TED (time exposed to danger) you should overtake swiftly. This means dropping back, allowing yourself space to build up speed so that by the time you perform the overtake you are at a significant speed to make the overtake procedure as quick as possible.
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Depends on your vehicle's performance. If you have good acceleration the official police technique is to stay reasonably close behind and match speed. Pull over on to the wrong side of the road to view ahead. If it is safe, boot it; if not, pull back. This avoids the situation of accelerating up behind another vehicle, pulling out, then having slam on the brakes because it's no longer safe. It also blocks other vehicles from trying to overtake both of you and makes clear to the vehicle(s) ahead what you plan. But yes, in the average eurobox you'll need a run-up so this won't be possible a lot of the time.

It has to be said that when I overtake I seriously boot it: I've had at least three clowns swerve into my path to try to stop me, so I like to get past before people realise what I'm doing. And also make clear that it's not a race. Unless they like losing. This can leave me finishing an overtake at cough and coughety-cough miles an hour.


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I suppose it depends on the road as well and how good the visibility is. :)

When I overtake I also make sure I give it 100% if I do do the pull out and go for it approach. :)
 
Foghorn Leghorn said:
An old school friend of mine pulled out of a side junction in front of a bike doing 70 ish. Bike hit the car in the drivers door hard enough to put the car on its side, killed my friend instantly (rider died instantly too) and put his wife, who was sat in the passenger seat in intensive care for a couple of weeks. She suffered massive injuries because the impact of the bike pushed the drivers door/seat/driver all the way in past the centre console and crushed her. Very small impact area, so all that weight impacts at a single point, the front wheel.

Car drivers should think about that before they pull out in front of a bike, I might miss the drivers door, I might hit the rear door where your kids are sat.

Fog
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Sorry to hear about your friend!
But thats what I hate about that think bike advert where the bike leaves a dent in the door, NO if you pull out on a biker and he hits your drivers side door most likely you are going to die or be seriously injured too.
 
Meridian said:
... I've had at least three clowns swerve into my path to try to stop me ...
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Some of you people must encounter / have encountered some pretty freakish drivers. I don't think I have EVER suspected that a driver has swerved or pulled out deliberately to stop me overtaking.

I have not infrequently had drivers change lane or start making a turn simply because they didn't see me; on a couple of occasions knocking me off my bike and then apologising profusely that they hadn't seen me - as if that somehow absolved them from blame. However, I don't think it has EVER been deliberate.

As a driver, having a bike blast past me as fast as he is able irritates the hell out of me me but I would never try to hold anyone back or knock them off; let them go, life is too short.
 
stockhausen said:
Some of you people must encounter / have encountered some pretty freakish drivers. I don't think I have EVER suspected that a driver has swerved or pulled out deliberately to stop me overtaking.
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To be fair I'd hope overtaking is something you don't consider doing bar slow moving goods vehicles given such a maneouver in something as underpowered as an i20 is likely to be dangerous.

I've had somebody pull out on me once to stop me - it was 700 yards before a merge point on a dual carriageway. Just as I got near a van he pulled out to block me and I ended up in the gravel inches from the central reservation :eek:
 
[TW]Fox;15207802 said:
To be fair I'd hope overtaking is something you don't consider doing bar slow moving goods vehicles given such a maneouver in something as underpowered as an i20 is likely to be dangerous.
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Someone more observant than you would probably have realised by now that a Hyundai i20 has four wheels rather than two; you sound like the target audience for the "Think Bike!" series of adverts :p

[TW]Fox;15207802 said:
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I've had somebody pull out on me once to stop me - it was 700 yards before a merge point on a dual carriageway. Just as I got near a van he pulled out to block me and I ended up in the gravel inches from the central reservation :eek:
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To be fair, I can understand why someone might be tempted to do this to a BMW driver since they do tend to be the most arrogant, up themselves of all road users and in the case of a white van man, anyone with half a brain would pretty much expect him to succumb to temptation :D
 
Fireskull said:
Sorry to hear about your friend!
But thats what I hate about that think bike advert where the bike leaves a dent in the door, NO if you pull out on a biker and he hits your drivers side door most likely you are going to die or be seriously injured too.
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Cheers, was a couple of years ago. The worst thing for the family was knowing that it was his fault :(

[TW]Fox;15207802 said:
I've had somebody pull out on me once to stop me - it was 700 yards before a merge point on a dual carriageway. Just as I got near a van he pulled out to block me and I ended up in the gravel inches from the central reservation :eek:
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Sadly merge in turn seems to be far beyond the average British driver. It's an affront to there masculinity doncha know (even the women :D ).


Fog
 
stockhausen said:
To be fair, I can understand why someone might be tempted to do this to a BMW driver since they do tend to be the most arrogant, up themselves of all road users and in the case of a white van man, anyone with half a brain would pretty much expect him to succumb to temptation :D
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I was driving a Ford Mondeo :)
 
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