A horrible welcome

[dirtsk8]

..not to me, but to the guy who owns the immaculate VFR 800 that was on its side outside my workplace:smt012

I helped him pick it up and the customers in the cafe accross the road got the number of the car that reversed into it, but what a horrible sight to see such a handsome bike on its side with vital fluids peeing out of it :(

There was a tiny bit of me that was thankful it wasn't my SV - is that wrong?

[rsredline]

I hope he finds the ****er....

[carty]

There was a tiny bit of me that was thankful it wasn't my SV - is that wrong?

Nope - much as you can feel sorry for the guy it's not at all wrong to be glad it wasn't your own!

[anna]

seeing a bike on it's side is just plain wrong

[Kate Moss]

Ouchy!

[Foxy]

You are not wrong in being thankful that it wasn't you.

You did help the guy pick it up and helped to make sure he had the number of the car etc... from the people in the cafe across the road.

The sheer ignorance from the driver who probably didn't even take a second glance let alone a first when reversing is most annoying :rolleyes:

[embee]

Makes you wonder sometimes about who's out there on the road.

I went to a friend's yeaterday to do some work for them, parked the car in the road as the drive was full. This is in a quiet cul-de-sac, all big detached houses.

The person from directly opposite came across and asked/suggested/advised that I might want to park a bit further along since her mother, well into her 80's, wasn't a very good driver and might hit my car while getting out of the drive, she had already hit a previous visitor's car.

I suppose it was nice of her to warn me, but how about locking the old dear in her room so she wouldn't be a danger to the rest of the public? :confused:

[the_lone_wolf]

I suppose it was nice of her to warn me, but how about locking the old dear in her room so she wouldn't be a danger to the rest of the public? :confused:
i don't think i'd have been so polite, we can't go a week on the island without a pensioner having another ridiculous crash, completely misjudging a gap, driving into walls, road signs, forgetting to stop at give way markings and of course, attempting to park

unfortunately it's often a biker they don't see, i think the tally is something like 7-8 major car+bike crashes and 5 fatals this year so far, all of them due to elderly people not looking, only one fatality from a biker going too fast into a corner and losing control

absolutely hopeless, i hope i have the soundness of mind or my relatives have the balls to tell me i shouldn't be driving any more when that time comes...

[sv-robo]

You are not wrong in being thankful that it wasn't you.

You did help the guy pick it up and helped to make sure he had the number of the car etc... from the people in the cafe across the road.

The sheer ignorance from the driver who probably didn't even take a second glance let alone a first when reversing is most annoying :rolleyes:
+1 definately

[Foxy]

i don't think i'd have been so polite, we can't go a week on the island without a pensioner having another ridiculous crash, completely misjudging a gap, driving into walls, road signs, forgetting to stop at give way markings and of course, attempting to park

unfortunately it's often a biker they don't see, i think the tally is something like 7-8 major car+bike crashes and 5 fatals this year so far, all of them due to elderly people not looking, only one fatality from a biker going too fast into a corner and losing control

absolutely hopeless, i hope i have the soundness of mind or my relatives have the balls to tell me i shouldn't be driving any more when that time comes...

Yes and although I do realise that some elderly people have all their scruples about them, you would think they would take another driving test after a certain age(s) wouldn't you? It might prevent such incidents which you have described...:rolleyes:

[yorkie_chris]

Driving test? I'm sure half of the bloody fossils on the road haven't had an eye test for at least 15 years.

[phil24_7]

I wouldn't say the elderly need to re-take their test, perhaps just some form of competency test to prove they can still drive a car to a decent enough standard!

[Lozzo]

seeing a bike on it's side is just plain wrong

I remember the feeling I got when I opened the back of our van and saw my CBR600 on its side... then I remembered it was just a trackbike and I shouldn't get all emotional about it, cos sooner or later I'm probably going to be helping to pull it out of a gravel trap.

We'd heard a noise about 80 miles previously when we hit a huge hump in the road, but the radio blaring out hid most of the crunch so we didn't think to stop and check. Luckily all it sustained was a few more scuffs on the panels