I've always liked the whole biking community thing and have always had good reactions from other bikers. Generally most of the bikers I know have been excellent riders and drivers who push on only where appropriate and don't really do biking for the sheer speed.

I am however in a bit of a quandry. In my village there is a complete moron who owns a very nice GSXR-600 with an Akroprovic can on. He goes to work at about 8:30am every day. My house is on the street and I have to cross the road (30 limit) to get to my car. This chimp comes round the corner at the top of the road (about 200yards away) and then guns it down the village. by the time he passes me he's doing about 60-70 and a further 200 yards down the road he's doing 80-100.

I'm seriously considering shopping him as it's beginning to make my blood boil. I've got a one year old and another on the way and the thought of him hitting a child makes me want to put a stick through his spokes.

I don't want to do this, but he doesn't pay any attention to the waving of arms and evil death stares from me every time I see him.

Git.

What do you all think?

Shop him!

You've tried to slow him down by other means and he hasn't bothered taking any notice. He should know better if he was an understanding biker, but instead he's putting others (as well as his own) lifes at risk!

As a last ditch you could always hold up a large placard telling him "Slow down or your shopped! " :D

go out 1 morning wearing a yellow jacket and point a hairdryer at him, that'll scare him witless and slow him down as he then expects a summons through his letterbox

It's Bikers like these that give us all a bad name images/smilies/mad.gif

Without being there it's difficult to really say but 80-100 in a 30 sounds like madness. I doubt if you shop him anything will be done about it but if it's the same time every day, then perhaps they will bother.

Let us know what happens!

Matt :)

Have you tried going round and talking to him? Maybe tell him you're getting abuse from locals because of his behaviour and if he doesn't calm down you'll have to shop him, he may be reasonable?

Couldn't you wait at the top of the road on your bike and grab him before he gets a chance to gun it, IMO hes more likely to listen to you as a fellow biker than as a placard waving NIMBY.

I check on my kids pony every morning in a village where we keep it, and I've had a local geezer waiving at me to slow down as I've been riding through. The thing is I ride through in second gear @ 25/30mph as there are a lot of blind side turnings, which the locals think nothing of just pulling out of without looking, so with the race can and 5-6k rpm they can hear me coming a long way off. I must admit, I have driven through faster in the car and the same geezer doesn't bat an eyelid.

shop him - the guy's obviously an idiot. Let plod deal with it.

Shop him, it's due to idiots like him that most forces are so anti-bike.

Cheers for the comments chaps. I thought I was turning into Scrooge for a second. As for the talking with him, I think I'd be more likely to try and deck him than have a reasonable convo.....

I'll let you know what happens.
Simon

As a father of a little 2 year old girl (who's MAD about bikes BTW! *grin*) you only have one option... even if it turns the local biker community against you (worse case scenario)... isn't that preferable to loosing a child? Bit of a no brainer there. The idiot's giving the rest of us a bad name... get him dealt with.

Try the "one-biker-to-another" chat first if you can... it's doubtful, but always possible he's not aware of the trouble he's causing... and will be embarassed to have it pointed out to him... but at the end of the day, the child's more important... get it done now!

Shop him for definate. I ride quickly everywhere EXCEPT villages & built up residential areas.

A word from a bike friendly copper (there are loads, beleive it or not) would do 10 times as much as anything else. Flag down a bike cop (I know, impossible in Essex) and have a word-they would rather this than scrape his victims off of the road.

Following this, as you know where he lives, how about leaving a squashed pushchair smeared with tomato sauce right by his bike-he may put two and two together and realise the answer is to slow down.

Err, a bit wierd but looking at where you live and I live we seem to have the same problem. Guy who lives in my road has a Suzuki GSXR1000 and canes it everywhere irrespective of the speed limit. He's already been subject to a mass complaint from the residents of our street and the police are taking a very close interest now.

It's only a matter of time before he has an accident and kills himself. I'm not bothered if he kills himself, just the people that he might take with him. We who ride bikes (and I used to ride a GSXR600) know how quick these things are, but there's a time and a place for everything!

But I thought the idea was that inappropriate speed for the conditions is the real killer.

If the road is clear and there are no children stood on the sidelines ready to make a dash into the road, then is it really so dangerous?

If he is doing driving too fast when there are kids about then shop him.

Perhaps he is an advanced motorcyclist who is just reading the road ahead and driving at an appropriate speed for the conditions.

If everyone did that, then that would greatly improve road casualty figures.

Just a thought.

If it was a car driver I don't believe you would think twice about shopping him.

I think you should shop him.

So, any news? :)