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Blue_SV650S
30-10-07, 09:12 AM
When you stop after a ride and you KNOW you have ridden like and absolute C*** [-X :D ... after the adrenalin subsides, do you get an overwhelming feeling of guilt 8-[ … sure you got away with it, but you know you have been naughty … :-$
Luckypants
30-10-07, 09:19 AM
I'm no saint, but try to never ride like that. Hence I do not feel guilty after a ride.
I would like to think I never ride like the C word.
Sure I go at fairly a reasonable pace and when I get home sit and consider that today I could have lost my licence and therefore my job, and I could have indeed lost my life had my concentration lapsed briefly or something unexpected happen.
I sometimes feel slight guilt that I could have potentially left my girlfriend alone today.
I think you sometimes need to think like that to keep you 120% on ball whilst on a bike.
plowsie
30-10-07, 09:27 AM
Get it some of the time, think i may have done a risky overtake there or what ifs etc...
Worst for me is where i'm somewhere i don't know and think **** was there a camera there?
Warthog
30-10-07, 09:53 AM
Yeah I get that sometimes. Not because I have ridden like a c***, but I may have ridden dangerously and I am ashamed of myself.
Yes, but some of it is a chemical come down after the adrenalin.
Luckypants
30-10-07, 10:07 AM
Not because I have ridden like a c***, but I may have ridden dangerously and I am ashamed of myself.
Aren't those two things the same?
Fizzy Fish
30-10-07, 10:18 AM
i know what you mean - there's the odd occasion when i get caught up in the heat of the commuter run and am not as considerate as i'd like myself to be towards other road users, or have cut something a bit close. Doesn't happen often tho and i am pretty hard on myself after it!
kwak zzr
30-10-07, 10:44 AM
i am a saint and when i get back on my bike i'm gonna ride like a gurl.(sorry gurls)
When I ride agressively, I do it in a way that, if I were driving the car I'm about to overtake, I personally wouldn't flinch. But then, it's not me in the car, I'm on the bike that's about to overtake them.
During the commute to Denbigh & back there were times where I'd seriously push things to make up ground. But then I realised that I could fight and fight for around an hour, pushing hard, taking risks, but it only made up about 3mins on the road.
For anyone that doesn't believe me, next time you're out riding hard, pick a couple of cars/trucks and take a mental note. After a while, pull over & see how long it takes any of them to catch you up.
Recently, I've been bimbling everywhere, and you see SO much more. However, I'm not opposed to a quick blast somewhere, but there's too much at stake to take risks to gain a couple of minutes.
Jester666
30-10-07, 10:51 AM
No guilt! Just a big smile! Then worried looks for flashing blue lights!
DanDare
30-10-07, 11:03 AM
Get it some of the time, think i may have done a risky overtake there or what ifs etc...
Worst for me is where i'm somewhere i don't know and think **** was there a camera there?
Know exactly what you mean, I had a blast down the dual carriageway a few weeks ago and some idiot in a crapped out Escort decides he want to ride pillion. After a dodgy overtake move on me, I see red and blast past him at just over 100 for a few seconds, then I think s**t what if there'd been a camera van or a unmarked car behind. Guilt overcame me and I slowed down.
The escort flew by again.
I even went up the carriage way again to check any white vans sitting in a lay by. :(
Biker Biggles
30-10-07, 11:12 AM
Guilt?
Must look that up sometime.:cool:
Warthog
30-10-07, 11:57 AM
Aren't those two things the same?
I suppose it depends how you interpret c***, I took it to mean cutting people up and swearing at them and punching wing mirrors, when I mean more just overtaking at dodgy times, going too fast etc.
Ratty46
30-10-07, 01:00 PM
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Worst for me is where i'm somewhere i don't know and think **** was there a camera there?[/quote]
me too! i hate that....went through one a bit quick the other week, my mate behind was sure it didnt flash:D he was going at the required speed...oops...
i do get a guilty feeling sometimes, not alot tho, cos thats why i have a bike! to go out and have fun, sometimes i think, well i could have took this corner better not gone so wide etc buit i never really ride like a c***.
dont think of the what ifs...ever...its no good thinking like that. be aware be carefull, if i thought of the what ifs i wouldnt ride...its thinking like someone that doesnt ride.
Ratty46
30-10-07, 01:01 PM
punching wing mirrors...
sometimes thats called for:smt077
Blue_SV650S
30-10-07, 01:04 PM
I suppose it depends how you interpret c***, I took it to mean cutting people up and swearing at them and punching wing mirrors, when I mean more just overtaking at dodgy times, going too fast etc.
I mean/meant the latter, I never do the former!! [-X
The guilt is 2 fold, first is the 'oh my, what if I had got caught doing that?!' (or even wonder if I did and don't know it yet/going to get reported) and secondly what if it had gone wrong ...
The finally the feeling of 'Was it really worth it'??? :neutral:
Luckypants
30-10-07, 01:53 PM
I suppose it depends how you interpret c***, I took it to mean cutting people up and swearing at them and punching wing mirrors, when I mean more just overtaking at dodgy times, going too fast etc.
I mean/meant the latter, I never do the former!! [-X
The guilt is 2 fold, first is the 'oh my, what if I had got caught doing that?!' (or even wonder if I did and don't know it yet/going to get reported) and secondly what if it had gone wrong ...
The finally the feeling of 'Was it really worth it'??? :neutral:
Ahh well, I thought you meant the former, as a riding style. The second one is 'making good progress' is it not? As long as you are not endangering or inconveniencing other road users (slow sports bike riders excepted :smt077) then it is ok? Unless making 'good progress' puts you / license at serious risk...
Blue_SV650S
30-10-07, 04:44 PM
Ahh well, I thought you meant the former, as a riding style. The second one is 'making good progress' is it not? As long as you are not endangering or inconveniencing other road users (slow sports bike riders excepted :smt077) then it is ok? Unless making 'good progress' puts you / license at serious risk...
Again, the latter I am afraid :oops:
yorkie_chris
31-10-07, 12:49 AM
I took it to mean cutting people up and swearing at them and punching wing mirrors,
I try not to cut people up but sometimes I do feel a little guilty for dodgy merges from filtering and such, I know I had sufficient gap there, but the cager has just shat themselves.
Wing mirrors, may have come into contact with a few when called for, but I always feel a c### for doing so because that particular driver may act even mroe homicidally next time (to some other poor sod). I try to keep the temper at bay and just give them a nice, patronising [-X
One thing that you may consider c###-like, but I can never resist is being a total hooligan when theres pedestrians around. Watching a group of lemmings being shaken out of the herding instinct by a 6000rpm backfire is very entertaining. :smt077
philipMac
31-10-07, 01:06 AM
Not any more.
I used to, for sure. I used to joke that I had my virtual reality helmet on, not my
real life one.
But, yeah, its not that clever really. I suppose it might be from being out in the
US for so long, but I have a feeling that I got a very lucky run of it (just the one
cop car, one JCB, and misc other vehicles and hedges along with some
unbelievably dodgey merges and overtakes in Ireland), so now I have to pay
back that luck by driving extra carefully.
So far in yank land I just had the one Taxi encounter, and a bit of a truck incident.
And one minor falling out with a car in a pay booth. Nothing too serious.
Blue_SV650S
31-10-07, 08:21 AM
Thing is I never learn ... I do it every day ... I am sat here feeling really guilty again :oops:
Alpinestarhero
31-10-07, 08:21 AM
When you stop after a ride and you KNOW you have ridden like and absolute C*** [-X :D ... after the adrenalin subsides, do you get an overwhelming feeling of guilt 8-[ … sure you got away with it, but you know you have been naughty … :-$
Yes. I've done one commute where I filtered like mad, ****ing everyone off.
I shan't do it again, as it was very dangerous and I was the person I despise the most for that 45 minutes. I much prefer a gentle bimble into uni, filtering carefully and not squeezing through gaps that are almost too small.
Matt
Blue_SV650S
31-10-07, 08:42 AM
Yes. I've done one commute where I filtered like mad, ****ing everyone off.
I shan't do it again, as it was very dangerous and I was the person I despise the most for that 45 minutes. I much prefer a gentle bimble into uni, filtering carefully and not squeezing through gaps that are almost too small.
Matt
I am not sure I piddle anyone off with my actions as I don't prevent anyone doing anything, but I am sure LOTS of them are thinking 'idiot' - he is gonna die!! (or words to that effect!!)
Steve_God
31-10-07, 09:19 AM
No guilt! Just a big smile! Then worried looks for flashing blue lights!
+1!
The only time I feel quilt if if I've been tazzing it down some country lane, (more than I should have been...) and suddenly see a copper parked up in a lay-by as I go past, and then ride that little bit faster 'just in-case'.
When I stop from that journey is the only time I get that 'guilt' feeling.
philipMac
31-10-07, 12:46 PM
Thing is I never learn ... I do it every day ... I am sat here feeling really guilty again :oops:
What will happen blue, is one day you wont want to drive, and then that will be
it. You will just stop biking.
I have seen it a fair bit, lads that were exactly the same as what you are saying,
to an extent I was very similar, once I was on the bike it was like autopilot. It
takes a bit of work to change the ..ahem... rhythm.
(Edit, As in, at one point a cop pulled me over, and then said he wasn't going to
bother giving me a ticket, since I wouldn't live long enough to actually pay it.)
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