Bikers Youtube thread

Sin_Chase said:
That was your fault. The two other vehicles had stopped progressing to allow the bus to pass. You overtook both of them and entered the road the bus had ALREADY claimed to pass.

If you have been using some forward vision/anticipation you would have planned for that.
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They were both parked.

The bus driver didn't even see me and kept moving across.
 
The_Abyss said:
They were both parked.

The bus driver didn't even see me and kept moving across.
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Now you are just making stuff up :p

They both illuminated brake lights, there were drivers waiting in them. Their positioning, illumination of brakes lights clearly shows they are not parked? Opposite a junction, on an angle and immediately prior to parked cars on the offside. The bus was already claiming and filling the road you wanted to take before you passed the second waiting vehicle. It was VERY MUCH in the road you wanted to take when you entered it.

I get that you feel aggrieved the bus did not 'give way' to you. But it was his road, claimed well before you and should have remained clear as not one, but two vehicles had already given way to let him pass.

No harm done at the end of the day, experience to draw on for the next situation like that you encounter!
 
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The_Abyss said:
They were both parked.

The bus driver didn't even see me and kept moving across.
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I thought that at first watch, but the flatbed van and the lorry in front both have their brake lights on, and the small van is at a 'funny angle' as if he's just gone round the parked white van and had to turn in sharp, or he's turned out of the side turning behind the lorry. In fact the lorry brake lights only come on just as you're passing.

On first impressions they look like they're parked, but they ain't. In real time, it'd be very very easy to think that though, seeing as the white van IS parked up. Unfortunately the bus had to move out the make the gap between the lorry and the parked cars. If you realised just as you were passing the lorry that the bus was coming through you should have ducked tight in front of the lorry.
 
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Hmm, perhaps I may have been wrong then. But I had two mates on bikes behind me who didn't go through the gap and waiting behind those vehicles, and neither moved once the bus had gone through. Aldeburgh high street is like that - very cluttered and the deliveries take place on yellow lines. There isn't a lot of space.

I appreciate the bus had to move, but the driver never once looked over at me. He could have at least slowed to allow an orderly pass. If I made a mistake, then fine - I'd accept that. But it doesn't mean you keep on driving and force a biker onto the kerb.
 
The_Abyss said:
Hmm, perhaps I may have been wrong then. But I had two mates on bikes behind me who didn't go through the gap and waiting behind those vehicles, and neither moved once the bus had gone through. Aldeburgh high street is like that - very cluttered and the deliveries take place on yellow lines. There isn't a lot of space.

I appreciate the bus had to move, but the driver never once looked over at me. He could have at least slowed to allow an orderly pass. If I made a mistake, then fine - I'd accept that. But it doesn't mean you keep on driving and force a biker onto the kerb.
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They may have been stopped there for some time, but it appears and seems unlikely in those positions. Especially considering there were driver's who have actuated the brakes. Which means ignition on, handbrake off in all likeliness.

The bus was there, it was never going to stop and reverse back to let you though. You could have pulled into the nearside much earlier. Could he have tucked further in to his nearside? Yes, but then he would be quite close to the parked cars doors, which is not ideal either.

It's one of those things, you'll recall this the next time you are in similar circumstances and your plan/action will trigger much quicker and likely with a different outcome!
 
Pretty sure busses have right of way or something. That's to say, if you can let a bus out you should and the bus will expect you to do so as well.
 
It's not strictly bike related, but it is gopro related - behind the scenes of a gopro production. How many cameras! :eek:

And that gopro array was very cool, I did wonder how they did that matrix style shot.
 
If the tuono had a little more tank range I could probably justify it as a 2nd summer bike for touring :DD

The sound, oh the sound. Best sounding bike ever IMO.
 
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