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Gaygle said:
One of the riders said earlier that car drivers don't realise how quickly bikes can go from "60-120+". On the face of it one might take the view that this is something he regularly does? Let me guess, that was done on a closed road/race track right? ;)
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I've had a bike at an indicated 180+ mph before, on a circuit & the autobahn in Germany.

I think my above post explains the context of what I was saying clear enough, i expect you hadn't seen it when writing your post
 
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meh, it's fun ;)

I'm a fairly considerate biker, i do my silly things like go between 2 cars doing 70, lorries are the best, scary as hell, but we aren't all completely stupid, just the majority ;)
 
Bikers have the same %age of total morons as users as car drivers do.

My favourite trick of theirs is weaving in and out on motorways stopping occasionally to hide in drivers blind spots
 
The moron bikers give REAL bikers like me a bad name. What sort of biker wheelies through a 30 limit built up area wearing shorts and trainers and hides in blind spots...(this was an example i witnessed the other week with the nice weather we had).
There is a part of me that thinks that maybe they haven't had an accident yet and kinda wish they did so they would learn and stop mucking about.

Not all bikers are like this, i would go as far to say that most bikers are actually very good riders and are better car drivers than those who don't ride.
 
It's all relative there's good riders bad riders and complete idiots just like on 4 wheels


I've seen some sights on the roads over the years idiots in cars on the whole though there is More idiots in cars than on bikes apart from the loopy biker I saw doing endos on the m8 in traffic last year
 
I think it's a bit different to compare idiot bikers and idiot drivers like for like. A biker can filter and make progress easily and that massively increases peoples encounters of bikers 'going for it'. Cars are too big and slow to make the same progress.
 
Rossi~ said:
Not all bikers are like this, i would go as far to say that most bikers are actually very good riders and are better car drivers than those who don't ride.
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I agree because decent bike riders are better at reading the road ahead, whilst most car drivers barely read the road any further than the end of their bonnet.
 
Bear said:
I agree because decent bike riders are better at reading the road ahead, whilst most car drivers barely read the road any further than the end of their bonnet.
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110% This. I see so many drivers who are totally incapable of anticipating the road ahead and consequences of their actions.
 
Remember also It's summer, meaning as said above, we get all the summer-riders dusting off their litre bikes and filling up the hospitals. A few months later they're all too cold or broken and the loony ratio begins to reset itself.

Of course I'm generalising, like a lot of us like to do!
 
All I see here is a sweeping generalisation and a I hate all bikers because I saw a couple of people riding a little quickly, and making progress in traffic when I was stuck.

Sorry mate, but your rant is just another one of those rants I see all the time.

I don't ride at the moment and haven't done for a little while, and spend hours on the road every week, and I see more ****s on 4 wheels, especially truckers and van drivers, and 4x4 drivers than I do witness dangerous bikers - but that's perhaps because I don't really care about the biker making progress and let them get on with it, because ultimately, they're more vulnerable, so just leave them to get on with it.

However, I do admit of having my altercations with some bikers who think it's their given right to filter no matter what, but in general, it's not worth the arguments or knocking their teeth out because more often than not they're probably in shock after the near miss.
 
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Oh, and bikers on huge bikes with huge pannier boxes who think the can filter though traffic like other normal sized bikes. If they can't get through they ride in stupid positions relative to the cars impatiently trying to force a gap to open

GET A NORMAL SIZED BIKE IF YOU WANT TO RIDE LIKE A BIKER
 
I must be lucky, I've not seen many idiot bikers around so far this year. Seen the midlife crisis fair weather ones in their full colour matched bought last weekend bike and leather combos. But no nutters so far.
I've got to be honest, even though I've pretty much always had a motorbike apart from the last 18 months or so, I just can't stand to be associated with most of the people that seem to ride them these days, as they all seem to be *******s of one kind or another.
(round here anyway)
 
Freefaller said:
All I see here is a sweeping generalisation and a I hate all bikers because I saw a couple of people riding a little quickly, and making progress in traffic when I was stuck.

Sorry mate, but your rant is just another one of those rants I see all the time.

I don't ride at the moment and haven't done for a little while, and spend hours on the road every week, and I see more ****s on 4 wheels, especially truckers and van drivers, and 4x4 drivers than I do witness dangerous bikers - but that's perhaps because I don't really care about the biker making progress and let them get on with it, because ultimately, they're more vulnerable, so just leave them to get on with it.

However, I do admit of having my altercations with some bikers who think it's their given right to filter no matter what, but in general, it's not worth the arguments or knocking their teeth out because more often than not they're probably in shock after the near miss.
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Im sorry if it came across as a rant. I feel a lot differently now that I have a family to think about. When I am in the car on my own, then fine, I just laugh to myself and think "what a plonker"

I still make allowances, but why should I have to make more allowances for people who think its their god given right to act like muppets?

I'm one of those people who couldn't care what they do as long as they do it away from myself, but consider this, you are driving down the road and see the aftermath of a crash. That I can deal with. What I don't want is having my wife and 5 year old child subjected to the sickening sight which could have been avoided had the biker used some common sense.

Thank you for taking the time to reply and comment rather than an unhelpful comment that add no value other than to increase the post count.
 
The majority of bikers I see out and about are perfectly safe, probably because I tend to be on the road at 6.30ish am and either 4.30 or 6.30 pm and these guys are the ones who commute every day on their bike.

Even on a summers day up along the west coast (Scotland) recently - the majority were perfectly safe. There are always one or two mentalists but that's the same story no matter what is being driven/ridden. One was even holding me up in a way as I was expecting him to come past me on numerous occasions when I could easily have overtaken the car infront but he didnt - then again the guy was perhaps worried that I would pull out right into him on the short clear stretches.

The sane bikers normally give a thanks when moving in a little to let them past easier or moving to the right/left when they're filtering on the motorway - it's the little things like that that encourage people to keep being courteous to each other.
 
On a day to day basis the most annoying thing I find is drivers overreaction to seeing a biker in the rear view mirror. I have to drive a 7 mile stretch of NSL A road every day and as soon as people see a biker coming up the middle, even if they are a spec in the distance they are straight into the curb to "make way".

How they don't realise that by driving in the rain gully and firing stones and **** at the car / bike behind and opening up a 1/4 lane width gap isn't going to help the biker get past amazes me. No, the biker isn't going to squeeze between you and on coming traffic at over 60mph but thanks for the shot blasting you've just given my car for the last half a mile while you do your bit, ****.

On the whole I haven't had an issue with bikers since the film Biker Boys came out and there was a gang of power rangers that used to do wheelies, endos and all sorts of stupid stuff on a stretch of road that I had to commute down. Last thing I need after a day at work is 20+ adrenalin fuelled ***** in crash helmets after me because I flattened one of their crew while he was trying to ride his bike while standing upright on the seat.
 
Can't say I've noticed this - ocassionally I've had bikes coming past me at ridiculous speeds - not dangerous per se, but the 'what ifs' become a lot more serious at that speed.

More often than not I notice people driving badly near motorbikes and panicking when one comes up behind or along side, and I can't work it out.

For what it's worth, I'm a driver, not a rider, I have never ridden motorbikes and am not biased.

I have also witnessed, on several occasions, drivers apparently deliberately making it more difficult for a biker to pass.
 
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