Rant

[garynortheast]

Last Sunday I rode down to Abergavenny to visit Dave, my FiL in hospital where he's laid up after his recent spill courtesy of an inattentive car driver. I took the route from Newtown which involves using the section of road from Newtown to Llandrindod Wells, a piece of road I generally avoid during the weekends as it's used by a number of people as a bit of a racetrack. I wish now I'd gone a different way as it was much worse than I ever recall it being before.
I'm sorry to say that a large proportion of the people on two wheels on that stretch of road on Sunday were a crowd of gormless inconsiderate w@nkers who could do with having their bikes confiscated and crushed in front of them, their licenses burned, and then restricted to nothing any bigger than a moped for the rest of their days.
A good example was represented by the bunch of 6 or 7 brainless sh!ts who came past me several times. They were doing 4 or 5 miles and then stopping at a layby (presumably for a willy comparison) before hammering off to the next layby. I'm not exaggerating when I say that every overtake I saw by every member of of this group of effing idiots was so dangerous and ill considered as to make me involuntarily avert my eyes from what I thought was going to be a really unpleasant accident. Brows of hills, blind bends, double whites, in the face of close and rapidly approaching oncoming vehicles, hanging off the back of cars with no possible escape route if they needed to change their minds about an overtake they'd just started. They must have frightened the living daylights out of any number of other road users.


I don't suppose that any of them (or any of the rest of the large number of riders behaving in similar fashion that day) are reading this but just in case you are, you are a bunch of brain dead 2hats with no obvious thought for anyone else but yourselves. If you wish to remove yourselves from the gene pool by smearing yourselves along a piece of tarmac then please do so. You'd be doing us all a big favour. But please go and do it where it won't involve injuring, killing or traumatising any innocent passer by whether on foot, two or four wheels and preferably get one of your mates to come and hose the road down and sweep away the remaing rubbish afterwards so that the emergency services don't have to waste their time carting your remains off to hospital or the morgue.


Crowd of fwcing oxygen thieves.

[Luckypants]

Now breathe Gary I think you are talking about the A483? Which I have to agree is populated by some idiotic riders on most Sundays, but also by others who do show some consideration. I rode it twice this weekend, on Saturday with my cycling buddies and Sunday on the VFR. Both times the road was surprisingly quiet, not too many bikes about.

I did see some sportsbikes pulled over in a few laybyes but thought nothing of it. You get good and bad drivers on all roads, you have to let go, live and let live and all that.

[garynortheast]

I know what you mean Mike and generally it is a mix of riding styles and abilities that I see when I'm out. Maybe I just picked a bad time to go down that road but it was the fact that almost every overtake I saw, especially by the bunch in question, was within an ace of causing a serious accident that would have probably have resulted the death or injuring of some unsuspecting and probably innocent soul.
It was the pure selfishness of their actions that really p1ssed me off.

Yeah I love that rode too, my favourite actually so far, but you can get knobs there if you go at the wrong times.
We went a couple of weeks ago on a Saturday morning which was damp in places and I don't think we saw another bike at all on there.

I've had bikes coming the other way cross the lines a bit on corners so if I would've been on the edge of my lines they would've hit me.
On blind corners if you keep doing stuff like that it's only a matter of time, you will come a cropper in time, that's guaranteed.

[Bluepete]

That's why I rarely go out on weekends.

Their time will come.

Hopefully, it won't involve a third party when they go.

Pete

[Geodude]

Aye there are some nuggets about. If im tootling on a weekend i do try to find alternative routes off the race/roads if i can. Most of the time i slow up and let them past if i get a chance cos i dont like them buzzing my rsend.

I went out early on sunday in northumberland somewhere. I kenw it was time to come home and put the bike in a shed when a **** on a DRZ came round a blind corner right over my side. Luckily my old man IAM positioning had me tucked in a little (just in case) and i wasn't in a head on. I know its tempting to ride like a ****, but I don't want to become a roadstain. The two KTMs who were behind me wanting to race on the way home were waved passed too. Mentallists. One had a pillion in protective trainers and jeans and he hammered passed me.

[Geodude]

Originally Posted by Jackie_Black

One had a pillion in protective trainers and jeans and he hammered passed me.

Saw one of those too and thought you musn't care at all about your pillion. Was a bloke on a gixxer shot by me at warp speed in full protective gear with his girl on the back wearing shoes, 3/4 trouser things, a little vest, no gloves but did have a helmet on! I don't understand.

I have to admit though when i get people behind me i do immediately get the red mist. In the car i'd probably give another car a shock but on bikes its far too dangerous! I know a 990 ktm is fast in a straight line now though!!

[garynortheast]

It is mostly the potential damage that these idiots can cause to anybody in their way but it's also the ammunition they hand to the people who see motorcycling as dangerous and to be regulated or curtailed. We have no right to complain about legislative "discrimination" as long as we tolerate numpties like this in our ranks as it were. The restrictive legislation will arrive by default if we all sit back and do no more than tut about this sort of lunatic riding. I'm not quite sure what it is possible to do about people who behave in that way though.
My concern though is as I said at the start, mostly about the possibility of someone innocent being in the way.