Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[ophic]

Originally Posted by shiftin_gear98

IJust retards who ride along in the now pitch black at 6.20 am doing 60 on a 70 dual carriageway so that all the cagers **** themselves at the last minute because they were too busy watching porn on their phones.
Who then slam on their brakes and nearly cause a pile up.

So the actual problem is the drivers?

[kaivalagi]

Originally Posted by ophic

So the actual problem is the drivers?

I'd say the problem is the drivers and the muppet dressed up as police

[Sir Trev]

Have just watched one of the cops'n'camera shows on Channel 5, new series, recorded from Monday I think. It was a themed "scare" episode about bikes. Although they showed one bikecam scene where a blind cage turns right, into the path of the bike, the episode made out the majority of accidents were rider error or recklessness. What annoyed me most was a crash where an overtaking biker was almost killed by a car pulling right out of a side road - the bike was probably going too fast, should not have been overtaking at a junction and poor obs and the car driver admitted she was on the school run and not looking out for anyone except her son in the back* but could not see beyond the cars that were to her right and just pulled out. The upshot is the police decided neither of these two were especially to blame and no action was taken. WHAT ABOUT THE DOZY TWOT THAT FLASHED/WAVED THE CAR OUT WITHOUT CHECKING TO SEE IF IT WAS SAFE TO DO SO????? Didn't even mention this. Pathetic.


*people like this boil my urine. And to admit it on camera should be grounds for revocation of licence in a perfect world.

[shiftin_gear98]

Originally Posted by ophic

So the actual problem is the drivers?

Ophic - please tell me you are not one of them.



We all know cagers are a breed to themselves in their self righteous metal bubbles, they believe they do no wrong. Ok so they are at fault for not paying attention to the road in the dark, the lure of porn on their phones is too strong.


However I'm going to suggest that if there wasn't a ****ing retard trying to style it up like a copper then there wouldn't have been the situation in the first place.


"polite" = t####r




Now if only one of those cagers - the ones in the big cage with all those round wheel things could just run him over.

[Bibio]

i agree about "polite" riders being asssswwipes but just think if it was a police bike.

your obviously complaining as you likely had to "wake up" this morning due to someone braking hard in front of you. to me this sounds like you were going too fast as was the person in front of you... or am i wrong...

[kaivalagi]

Originally Posted by Sir Trev

WHAT ABOUT THE DOZY TWOT THAT FLASHED/WAVED THE CAR OUT WITHOUT CHECKING TO SEE IF IT WAS SAFE TO DO SO????? Didn't even mention this. Pathetic.

Funny you should mention that....my only accident on a bike so far was where someone flashed another motorist to come out from a side road whilst I was filtering / overtaking them in queued traffic, neither party did any form of check as they expected the other to at a guess and I, as a new rider at the time, anchored on to avoid a collision too hard and lost control (non-ABS bike)...

[ophic]

Originally Posted by shiftin_gear98

Ophic - please tell me you are not one of them.

polite? no, no-one has ever accused me of that, and they irritate the *bleep* out of me too.

but...

if you're gonna point the finger, point it in the right place. Root cause.

[shiftin_gear98]

Lance, True it could have been a real police bike. And yes I'm not the most awake at 6.20.
I did see it about to happen though, I think I spotted him before the cagers.
I knew it was him, I just hadn't planned to slow down.


And I never ride too fast - I own an SV.

[ophic]

Originally Posted by Sir Trev

WHAT ABOUT THE DOZY TWOT THAT FLASHED/WAVED THE CAR OUT WITHOUT CHECKING TO SEE IF IT WAS SAFE TO DO SO?????

Pretty sure the Highway Code deals with this reasonably explicitly. I'm actually appalled that in some cases the "flasher" has been held partly to blame. The law has become woolly and this makes things even less certain on the road.

Make your own observations.

[maviczap]

Trains again!!!

Went to drop my daughter off at the station, only to find her train had been cancelled. No explanation, no replacement bus.

As it's half term there were loads of people with their kids wanting to use the train.

I had to take my daughter to Uni

No wonder people don't use public transport