View Full Version : Stupid guy i work with..
Hohbein
02-11-04, 09:25 AM
just came in saying how he knocked a motorcyclist off his bike..... at first i was asking him what happened, thinking maybe it was a genuine bad luck kinda accident, but then he proceeded to tell me how he was sitting in traffic, wanted to turn right a little way up the road, so indicated, pulled out and wham, a poor biker gets the side of his car in his face :( the guy was alright apparently, just rather irritated, quite understandably. but it doesnt end there unfortunatly, the guy i work with then proceeded to get wound up with the biker and swore at him numerous times for being an idiot, the (police ended up being called etc.......) but i told the guy i work with he's a bit of an idiot, and he's the kinda guy bikers have to watch out for (stupid people)...
its just the first time i've ever really heard about a bike accident from the other side of things, when the person that causes it is someone i know, being very stupid.
so watch out for a short fat kiwi bloke when your riding to work guys! :shock:
Sid Squid
02-11-04, 09:30 AM
:toss:
wanted to turn right a little way up the road, so indicated, pulled out and wham, a poor biker gets the side of his car in his face :(
Head on, or was the biker overtaking a line of stationary traffic?
Either way, your Antipodean colleague is a :toss: er.
Hohbein
02-11-04, 09:53 AM
the guy was just travelling down the side of the traffic, the bloke in the car just clipped the poor buggers wheel apparently.... it wasnt bad as in no one was hurt, but i told the guy he's really gotta be more careful, if the guy had been going faster or whatever he could have killed him....
the guy was apparently complaining cos the bike was new, and his new boots had been mangled which he wasnt happy about either...... the kiwi bloke said.. and i quote "i could get you those boots from a charity shop for a fiver!"....... :roll: some people....
Maybe you could sorta accidentally divulge his email and we could kinda advise him of the error of his ways? :wink:
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Hohbein
02-11-04, 10:01 AM
hehehe good idea jonboy.
na, he's a nice chap, i've known him for a few years and he's a good guy, but he is known to be stupid about certain things.... road safety being one of them! i had a word with him and he seems to understand now that the next guy might not be so lucky, i think he'll be more careful because of it... i hope!
i think he'll be more careful because of it... i hope!
If you want to frighten him a bit, send him the link to the BigApe and Sincs threads/pictures................
Oh............. can you ask him to get me a pair of Sidi Black Rain Evos from the charity shop for the fiver he mentioned? I'll pay postage, of course :thumbsup:
quite appalling really :toss:
Professor
02-11-04, 11:45 AM
Hohbein, just tell you colleague that a group of really rough SVers :evil:
may turn up and break his legs :crutches: . Tell him we eat Hells Angels
for breakfast so we got kinda bored recently, looking for something to do.
Hohbein, I'm very impressed with your tolerance, if you filter you should be expecting some twit to pull out, it seems both parties have the stupid gene.
............if you filter you should be expecting some twit to pull out, it seems both parties have the stupid gene.
Do you filter, Kev? :wink:
I find people who don't filter, just plain weird. I came up to a line of traffic the other day and there was a sportsbike sitting directly behind a car that was several away from a set of lights waiting for them to change. Plenty of room at the front and I calmly sailed past to the head of the queue and moved off sedately (a first for me!) when they changed.
If this is how you ride in traffic, why not buy a car?
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iprideaux
02-11-04, 12:28 PM
Steal the :toss:'s car keys, unlock his car and then flush the keys down the toilet. He's too stupid to be allowed to keep either of them.
Jelster
02-11-04, 01:06 PM
I find people who don't filter, just plain weird. I came up to a line of traffic the other day and there was a sportsbike sitting directly behind a car that was several away from a set of lights waiting for them to change. Plenty of room at the front and I calmly sailed past to the head of the queue and moved off sedately (a first for me!) when they changed.
If this is how you ride in traffic, why not buy a car?
Exactly, why buy a bike and not filter ? It doesn't make sense to me either. We all know about the disadvantages of riding a bike (longevity being one of them) but filtering has to be the major advantage. As long as you're careful and trust no-one :shock: .
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Yes Jabba, I filter. My point was that "Kiwi" does not have all the blame, just 99% of it, (I still want to deck him). I've taken just this sort of knock, pushed me right across the road and into a wall. I still think if you filter down the line and there's a right hand junction off thats where they pull out, it's often a last second decision by the cage driver 'cause (s)he's fed up of waiting.
Wiltshire7
02-11-04, 05:23 PM
I saw a guy pull out on a bike this morning in the rain. he must have seen him cos he did it like he was trying to work out if the bike could stop in time or not.
I just thought what a total ****, in the rain aswell... the bike only just managed to stop in time without locking up.
Im getting a new bike next week and i honestly think ill lose it if someone pulls infront of me. a good kick to a side panel should do the job me thinks.
I saw a guy pull out on a bike this morning in the rain. he must have seen him cos he did it like he was trying to work out if the bike could stop in time or not.
I just thought what a total ****, in the rain aswell... the bike only just managed to stop in time without locking up.
Im getting a new bike next week and i honestly think ill lose it if someone pulls infront of me. a good kick to a side panel should do the job me thinks.
What you getting, Dan? I hope to get a bike Saturday too but it's nowt exotic, just an ER5 to poodle around on as a winter hack.
Wiltshire7
02-11-04, 07:59 PM
I think im gonna get an old sv for the winter. then a k5 naked come febuary/march.
Whats going on saturday then?
northwind
02-11-04, 08:25 PM
But filtering past a car on the right on the approach to a right turn is not a wise move... Just the same as overtaking by a junction. Especially if Kiwi indicated, which I think you said he did... Makes it a bit of a split fault accident.
Filtering, you have to expect cars to suddenly drive in front of you, I think. I'm quite aggressive in traffic and make myself as noisy and as visible as possible, but even then the only reason I've not been hit a dozen times is that I like to think "What's the worst this driver can do" and plan for that... Slows you down, but not by too much.
yeah, when filtering past junctions especially - slow right down - keep your revs high , and check out the wheels - if any start to move , thats the first sign that someone is moving out
comes second nature after a while . .. . and you dont even realise your doing it
not filtering on a bike . . . .whats the point ? if you aint gonna filter or overtake
buy a car . . .
or even worse . . . . a cruiser.
northwind
02-11-04, 09:00 PM
Hah, I could filter better on the Virago than on the SV, it was about 3 inches narrower and better balanced for slow work... Though it did lack a bit in the getaway department :)
But filtering past a car on the right on the approach to a right turn is not a wise move... Just the same as overtaking by a junction. Especially if Kiwi indicated, which I think you said he did... Makes it a bit of a split fault accident.
Filtering, you have to expect cars to suddenly drive in front of you, I think. I'm quite aggressive in traffic and make myself as noisy and as visible as possible, but even then the only reason I've not been hit a dozen times is that I like to think "What's the worst this driver can do" and plan for that... Slows you down, but not by too much.
I agree totally.
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I think im gonna get an old sv for the winter. then a k5 naked come febuary/march.
Whats going on saturday then?
I've been wanting to see this bike for 2 weeks but the seller lives in a remote area on the Shropshire/Powys border, you almost need a Garmin to find it, and the river flooded so the only way in was by tractor. Test ride was simply not on. Flooding's gone down now but I work in Telford so not exactly convenient for west Shropshire, especially as it gets dark so early. So Saturday it is. Somehow I think I'll have ridden it before, as Fast Trak in S'bury sold off their fleet of 02 bikes a few months back and I can't think how a blue ER5 02 will have ended up in such a remote spot unless it came from them.
Ed
Nick762
05-11-04, 05:26 PM
... I hope to get a bike Saturday too but it's nowt exotic, just an ER5 to poodle around on as a winter hack.
That's what I love about bikes, nothing exotic, just a hack but it will still out accelerate most sports cars... well, to start with anyway 8)
Been thinking about one of those ex MOD Harleys as a winter/foul weather hack.
I'm seeing it tomorrow morning. Even though it's hardly a dream bike I can't help but feel excited - I haven't ridden for so long now, I had a day with the instructor a few months back and before that - well it was June 7 and I had a one way trip on my SV.
northwind
07-11-04, 12:27 AM
How did it go?
Shooter
08-11-04, 03:25 AM
So overtaking a car with its indicators flashing is clever...thats what the damn things are for and filtering does not alter the fact. Big difference if the driver had not indicated. Only question is how long were the indicators on before he made his turn...
Ceri JC
11-11-04, 10:17 AM
Filtering, you have to expect cars to suddenly drive in front of you, I think. I'm quite aggressive in traffic and make myself as noisy and as visible as possible, but even then the only reason I've not been hit a dozen times is that I like to think "What's the worst this driver can do" and plan for that... Slows you down, but not by too much.
I tend to filter like that too, headlights on full beam, slip the clutch a bit and gun the engine, finger over the horn. I want to know they're lying when they say, "didn't see you mate". The other thing is watch for gaps like a hawk and imagine that no cars will ever indicate, ride like they're going to try to take you off...
GS500_man
12-11-04, 10:19 PM
When I ride in any situation, I assume that every car may pull out on me. That's the only way to be as ready and as safe as is possible. The R1 riders and Gixer riders that do 95mph past junctions (in 30/40/50mph roads are asking for trouble). They must know that cars pull out without looking properly, yet still take that sort of risk.
:shock:
PS: I'm one of those that you see sitting in a queue of traffic!! (and that's on a Honda ANF125 Innova as well (you know, the one that replaced the Cub 90) :shock: )I only overtake queues if they are really long or totally gridlocked. I don't see the point in overtaking 2, 4, 6 or 8 cars when they'll be gone in a few seconds.
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