Too true.

Bikers are like anyone else good, bad and indifferent.

Some are real t**ts. I've had a car kicked because I didn't brake hard AFTER he pulled into a non existannt gap! T**T!

 

But then a biker would say that !!

Its not that I dont look cos I do. What i mean is you guys just shoot up in between cars that are all going about the same speed in each lane in a gap about the width of a dvd case.

Its just rude, arrogant and 'i couldnt give a **** about you cars-ish'. So even if i stray 6inches to my left in a lane I risk having my mirror clipped by some flange on a bike who cant wait.

 

paul-s

Some bikers filter too fast, overly aggressively and without due regard for their fellow road users.

Some car drivers are dangerous, blinkered fools who have no concept of anything going on outside their very narrow awareness bubble.

The majority of bikers and drivers are reasonably courteous, well at least fair, to other road users and travel at a pace which is vaguely sensible.

Of course, as a biker it's the arsehole drivers who stand out, as well as the cretinous bikers. Who are often on scooters, but that's another rant. Funnily enough, it's the same ones who stand out when I'm in the car.

It's like going on the train. Every year, if you commute by train you probably make about 650 journeys. Of those 650, maybe 10 will be seriously late or delayed somehow, probably fewer. Forget overcrowding because that's a different issue. Yet if someone asks a train commuter what it's like they'll invariably complain about it trains being unreliable. That's what sticks in the memory.

Generalisations are all wrong, see?

SB

PS Yes, I do recognise irony. And yes, it was intentional.

 

 

Hey - your definition of sensible may not be the same as mine

SB

 

bikers certainly are not always to blame , 3 months ago an oncoming car turned right in front of me and i had no where to go other than into the side of her ford fiesta, its alot of the time car drivers not paying enough attention and looking where they are going.

OH yeah and regards to the comment about us all feeling invincible thats the biggest pile of ****e i have ever heard, most of the bikers i know and i work within the industry, feel very vulnerable

 

What if the Bikers also moved a little bit with more consideration to other road users....namely cars, bombing down in the slow moving of trafic at speeds upwards of 40 mph should be a BIG no no.

I would like to leave here an experience I had a few years ago.

I was stoped at a trafic light when a motorcycle stoped beside me (on the left hand side).
I then pulled out, when stoping at the next set of trafic lights, the tosser punched my side mirror, and broke it.
Reason being (from what I understood with all the shouting the tosser was doing) that I had driven over his foot, when I was going off the lights.........
Now you tell me.....What did I do wrong????

Fortunately there was a police car a few cars behind that saw the whole thing and got him for roadrage and he had to pay for the damages.....******* tosser

 

You failed to stop while still on his foot

 

Next time run the **** down.

Jasey - bikers can't kick your bumper off from underneath your car.

 

How was I to know the Tosser spread his legs so far away to be on the path of my tyres???????
I shoulda grabbed the baseball bat I carry( for my goddaughter to play down the park....honest..) and broken his mirrors.....after smashing his helmet of his ******* head........but I spotted the met finest at the back and erased those thoughts.....

 

There is no reason why a biker shouldn't filter through slow traffic as long as it is done sensibly and at a safe speed. Also a lot of people don't know that a biker is entitled to overtake on solid double lines if there is sufficient room for him to do so without crossing the lines. This would apply to cars too if thare was enough room.

I personally don't see why a bilker needs to be held back if he can filter through the traffic.

Les

 

That's the whole point of owning & riding a motorbike

 

Eh, thanks for my first rep whoever it was!

Yes, I am indeed a road warrior