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Old 13-02-05, 07:35 PM   #1
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Default Dangerous biker who rides a black BMW scooter with the cage

Hi, just going to have myself a quick moan and get this off my chest... I commute every morning over chelsea bridge and then along the embankment towads the city, usually btwn 9-920... There is a guy who rides a black bmw scooter c3 with the cage, no gloves, sunglasses, open face helmet, goatee beard... well I just want to warn you that he has not once but twice nearly taken out myself and others on his merry commute. One day he is going to take out a tourist outside the houses of parliament. You will not believe how fast and recklesly he drives. Last week I was stopped at the pedestrian crossing outside the houses of parliament, a whole group of people crossing and lo and behold who appears out of knowhere, flatout across the crossing, while all the decent bikers wait patiently, it was unreal. Anyway, going along near embankment tube, he ducks between a tour bus and a truck hitting the back of his bike on the side of the bus. I stop next to him at the traffic lights and ask him who the hell he thinks he is and what the hell he is doing... Well, he went ballistic. F.. u this, f u that... I didn't do f..ng anything wrong... I said mate, i am not worried about you, its the innocent tourist and other bikers and drivers that I am worried about, and that he is lucky he has that cage around him... Anyway, so just warned to warn all that take this route, watch out cos he is going to cause someone an accident one day. Believe me I am no kill joy, his riding is beyond confident, it is just plain dangerous and reckless. Wonder if he has a family who love him, cos I have a family who love me....james
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Old 13-02-05, 08:02 PM   #2
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pretty sure I've seen this charachter heading home, I was struck by the "car driving mentality" of the chap
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Old 13-02-05, 08:08 PM   #3
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Is this another one of those BMW hate campaigns :P

He sounds like a proper knob, have a word with a local plod, there must be a few regulars outside the Brown Sauce building
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Old 13-02-05, 08:17 PM   #4
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You may think i starting a bmw thing, but no its purely about this person... its just amazing that i have seen him ride this way on so many occasions, going to take his reg next time and report it.. I see guys doing mad things on r6's and gsxr's in south london where i live (usually on the wider straight roads around here), but you can just see that they know what they are doing, and theres a time and a place! What this guy does is not skill its just blatant idiocrasy....and in rush hour and such a built up area...
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Old 13-02-05, 08:51 PM   #5
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well he's gotta be a bloomin idiot to even consider buying one of these in the first place



I saw one the other day with a BMW Williams F1 paintjob..
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Old 14-02-05, 08:35 AM   #6
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If you speak to him again, ask him if his name's Jimmyjam?
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Old 14-02-05, 08:44 AM   #7
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If you speak to him again, ask him if his name's Jimmyjam?


I was thinking the same thing.

It must be a BMW driver thing, ain't that right OF.uk
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Old 14-02-05, 09:10 AM   #8
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If you speak to him again, ask him if his name's Jimmyjam?


I was thinking the same thing.

It must be a BMW driver thing, ain't that right OF.uk
oi, there's nowt wrong with my driving!! Don't start































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Old 14-02-05, 09:24 AM   #9
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ouch sounds like an accident waiting to happen.....thing is riders like that are making it harder for the rest of us to be taken seriously....because, unfortunately we all get tarred with the same brush.....


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Old 14-02-05, 10:46 AM   #10
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hmm..don't want to add fuel to the BMW rider fire but....

I ride home through elephant & Castle, Camberwell Green and up to dulwhich. most nights on the way home. I get two different BMW riders who make me EXTREMELY uncomfortable. one of them with german plates. I think they are rg1200S or something like that? they ride about two feet off my back wheel in a really aggressive style, and then move just outside my left flank when filtering so i can only see them by lifesaver glances. *******s are going to have me off soon...
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