Do you ever notice?

Twisterboy

Coming from driving a car for almost 8 years I have started using the bike and yesterday I managed 12 mile round trip on the bike to my folks using cycle paths and roads and on three seprate occassions I was waiting to cross over a road to join a cycle path and drivers were simply not indiacting to show where they were going!!!

I've got to admit I don't do it all the time when I drive in my own car but at major junctions I would do and most certainly would to let a fellow biker know my intentions to allow them to cross the road or wait.

Anyone else noticed this?

Cheers

David

missmarple

Do you ever notice a majority of drivers are like this, and do you ever notice you double-posted?

Twisterboy

tis my computer running slow, must have copy and pasted what I would have wanted to say, and hit the back button and it must have still logged it as a post, mods if you can please either delete and lock this thread.

Cheers

David

The Northern Monkey

worst ones are the people that edge out at junctions when they can clearly see you coming... forcing you so stop or have to swerve round them.
Some posh up-her-ar*s woman did it to me, and not being in the best of moods, i had a right go at her. silly cow.

dave_hill

Twisterboy wrote:

Coming from driving a car for almost 8 years I have started using the bike and yesterday I managed 12 mile round trip on the bike to my folks using cycle paths and roads and on three seprate occassions I was waiting to cross over a road to join a cycle path and drivers were simply not indiacting to show where they were going!!!

I've got to admit I don't do it all the time when I drive in my own car but at major junctions I would do and most certainly would to let a fellow biker know my intentions to allow them to cross the road or wait.

Anyone else noticed this?

Cheers

David

Ever ridden a motorbike? I passed my motorbike test 8 years before my car test and you quickly learn that people who have no experience of bikes in any shape or form are the worst lowlife scum on the face of the planet. Especially people who drive BMWs and Mercs.

And no, I don't care who I upset by posting that :evil: !

maximus69

yeah i`d second that, with less anger though

riding motorbikes makes you treat everybody the same, blind!!
you just have to look everywhere and make yourself seen.

you have to remember when your on a bike that you can be hard to see. when i`m driving my van i have massive blind spots either side of the windscreen. if i dont shift my head about the front pillars can block out whole cars let alone bikes.

people dont use their indicators anymore. how many times have you suddenly had to brake for a car that comes around a roundabout with no indicators on. human missiles!!

i could rant all day long about bad driving, but i wont!! :P

gcwebbyuk

As a now ex-biker - you realise VERY quickly how little car drivers notice you!

I even indicate for my mates sometimes when I am passenger in their car and they fail to indicate - they always ask what I am doing and I just point out their failings - pisses them off!

I had an accident on my motorbike (old one) whereby a car suddenly stopped in front of me in slow moving traffic - I went into the back of him, and after picking myself up off the floor, the guy jumped out and ran round to see if I was ok - strangely he was REALLY worried for me, was REALLY kind etc etc I said I was fine, and sorry for scuffing his bumper with my tyre - "oh don't worry mate that will T-Cut out, just glad you are ok" - he drove off, and as i watched him slow down again a bit up the road I noticed why I hit him - No 'kin brake lights working!!!

No wonder he was so nice to me!