Mad motorcycleist - a very near miss :(

PyroboyUK · 22 Apr 2007 at 11:58

West said:
Yeh, I have no objections to bikes, although I wouldnt be caught on one as I think they are death traps.. you've got no protection bar your helmet and pads.. but like someone said, the minority of bikers that ride properly are just that, a minority!

I wouldnt agree with them being death traps, having something around you like the roof etc may sound like good protection, but when a car pulled out infront of me when i was doing 50mph i went straight over his bonnet and i was fine. If i was in a car and hit a stationary object at 50mph i could have came off a lot worse. Although that could depend what kind of car i am in. Would prob be a lot better off in a nice big volvo than a little car.

Fireskull · 22 Apr 2007 at 12:19

Lol i had a idiot do this to me when i was on my driving test lol already nervous and he filters along hankers on the breaks in front of me and turns left, if i wasnt a biker myself and noticed him coming he would have been in the side of me, the only reason i didnt turn right when i could have was becaus of him lol, but as said some idiots out there that give the rest of us a bad name.

LoadsaMoney · 22 Apr 2007 at 12:51

Im confused by the pic, why did the red card come along the side of you then go through the middle of the you and the green car, and where is the biker on there, if the red dots and the red block are the bike, wheres the red car he overtook. :confused:

InvaderGIR · 22 Apr 2007 at 13:19

LoadsaMoney said:
Im confused by the pic, why did the red card come along the side of you then go through the middle of the you and the green car, and where is the biker on there, if the red dots and the red block are the bike, wheres the red car he overtook.

The red 'car' you talk of is the bike.

InvG

Gixer · 22 Apr 2007 at 13:40

As said there is good and bad of car and bike drivers.

I ride / drive and I am now only a nice weather rider as I have become fed up with crudding up my bikes in winter. I also count myself lucky as in the 8winters I have ridden in any weather, including snow, I never came off. Now I have my car license I see no point in risking my life to say I ride all year round, just a personaly view. I also now have a lovely spankingly mint Honda SP-2 that I would hate anything to happen too!!

I had a little incident last night with a biker, i was in my car. Sat at some traffic lights, van to my right with very little room between us and a biker tried to filter through this gap. I knew the biker was there but as of the gap size thought he'd be insane to try squeeze through it so was concentrating on the lights. Lights go green, i start to pull away and what suddenly appears next to me, yup the out of control wibbly wobbly biker trying to make himself physically smaller. I swerved but his foot peg hit my front right wheel. I didn't know at the time it was my wheel and was in front of him as he practically stopped when he hit me so I positioned myself so he couldnt pass and indicated to him to pull into a petrol station. I stopped he followed me in as I was getting out he rode off!! Grr, did that make my blood boil. I mananged to catch him up further ahead and flashed him and had my indicator on until he pulled over. He said he had pulled into the petrol station to look for a pressure washer?? likely story I thought.

He has't done too much damage to the wheel, two areas about 15cm diameter on different spokes. Reckon I should bother claiming off him? the damage he has done isn't as bad as the bit of curbing the previous owner did but then he still caused more damage to my wheel.

dirtydog · 22 Apr 2007 at 13:43

LoadsaMoney said:
Im confused by the pic, why did the red card come along the side of you then go through the middle of the you and the green car, and where is the biker on there, if the red dots and the red block are the bike, wheres the red car he overtook.

I was (am) confused too. But I didn't want to say anything for fear of looking foolish

(yes I know.. it doesn't usually stop me

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helpimcrap · 22 Apr 2007 at 13:48

yeah it was stupid move looking at that. but thats one biker out a loads. im sure theres been an equally proportionate number of car drivers to pull out in front of you etc. FWIW i ride motorbikes and drive cars, but i've not had a biker do a stupid move on me yet. however i've had a lot of cars pull out in front of me on roundabouts and on the motorway causing me to swerve or stop harshly. i'm not saying all car drivers are the same... its just theres more car drivers on the roads.

Enfield · 22 Apr 2007 at 13:59

I had some mad motorbiker overtake a long queue of cars when I was travelling the opposite direction, cue me flashing my lights and asking if he wants salt with that!

Sagalout · 22 Apr 2007 at 14:38

Maybe I'll start a thread everytime some car driver pulls out on me, tries to block me when filtering, throws a cigarette out of their window into my face, sits a cars length from the next on an A road and drives round my residential street at stupid speeds with windows down and crap music blaring.

Dano · 22 Apr 2007 at 14:40

Sagalout said:
Maybe I'll start a thread everytime some car driver pulls out on me, tries to block me when filtering, throws a cigarette out of their window into my face, sits a cars length from the next on an A road and drives round my residential street at stupid speeds with windows down and crap music blaring.

You forgot using windscreen washers when you're behind them and going to full beam after you overtake them at night

phykell · 22 Apr 2007 at 15:03

chesterstu said:
Personally, i think most morotcyclists drive like this and are utter tossers. the standard excuse would be its the car drivers he tried to kill me.

You're wrong.

Bobbler said:
They are numbnuts most of them and as a "regular" motorcyclist I despise them in the main too. They are so obsessed with being in front all the time that they are willing to risk life and limb to do it. They can't filter properly and they never look over their shoulders to check before switching lanes.

I don't use my m/c all year anymore but it doesn't make me a bad rider. I'm still as aware of the highway code and still have the same level of roadcraft I always did so I don't think your generalisation is appropriate. Now go and answer my problem about my starter motor (please)

Fireskull · 22 Apr 2007 at 15:04

Dano said:
You forgot using windscreen washers when you're behind them and going to full beam after you overtake them at night

I thank them for that, 1 it washes my visors and screen, and the second one lights up the road better for me

And in answer to segalots post, if i were to do that aswell there would be at least 1 a week, and my commute is only 7 miles each way and im not a bad rider lol (my personal opinion

but what i mean is i dont nail it everywhere i go

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Bobbler · 22 Apr 2007 at 16:17

phykell said:
I don't use my m/c all year anymore but it doesn't make me a bad rider. I'm still as aware of the highway code and still have the same level of roadcraft I always did so I don't think your generalisation is appropriate. Now go and answer my problem about my starter motor (please)

Sorry mate, I didnt mean it as a generalisation. I meant in regards to the summer nutters as detailed in the OP which carve up riders and motorists alike.
And I know nothing about starter motors LOL.

phykell · 22 Apr 2007 at 16:20

Bobbler said:
Sorry mate, I didnt mean it as a generalisation. I meant in regards to the summer nutters as detailed in the OP which carve up riders and motorists alike.
And I know nothing about starter motors LOL.

Yeah, I know what you mean, I've seen plenty of those too unfortunately. I used to love my weekend route to Sheffield via the Cat/Fiddle and back via Snake Pass years ago but the nutters ruined that for all of us

PyroboyUK · 22 Apr 2007 at 16:22

chesterstu said:
Personally, i think most morotcyclists drive like this and are utter tossers. the standard excuse would be its the car drivers he tried to kill me.

You cant just sum up "most motorcyclists". You will find most of us ride carefully and dont take risks, its a small minority that act like idiots.

goreblast · 22 Apr 2007 at 21:41

Dano said:
You forgot using windscreen washers when you're behind them

I do that when I overtake a convertible car! Never works though as I don't have very powerful jets!

West · 25 Apr 2007 at 16:46

You know me Fox - I like starting a good argument

Yes I am inexperienced - I admit that, but like I said, that was the closest i've ever come to a full on accident..

Solari · 25 Apr 2007 at 18:23

I find the 16 year olds on mopeds/scooters are more worrying than bikers in general. I've had a few freaked out moments in my short experience and now have a habit of leaving the driver side window open a bit so I can hear them better - they weave around and seem to come from nowhere sometimes