Rob Davey Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 What is it with motorcyclists! They cut you up, they undertake, overtake they think they own the god damn road but guess what the sun shines out of their arse! However the worst thing, if you do something wrong in their eyes you get the wobbly head man shake of disapproval like you’ve just disappointed your dad – I’d rather get the finger! So wobbly head man appears behind me coming up to a road about, and then braking to a stop he sits in my blind spot so I have no idea where he is. So I push the loud peddle as I pull away to try and create a gap between the two of us and head for the motorway slip road. All of the traffic sticks to the left hand lane here and then spreads into the two lanes of the slip way as you enter it… but no not wobbly head man, he is trying to get his knee down (mostly by leaning off the bike as its still pretty much upright) by sweeping in from the right lane. So now I’ve pulled out in front of wobbly head in the overtaking lane, seeing him I’ve accelerated harder to avoid a wobbly moment but it’s too late. I hit the motorway and the sound of a middle aged man in leather trying to cling to a bike far to fast for him comes screaming past giving me the shake of disapproval. (I mentally reach for my wheel wrench and dream of clumping it round his head!) Then further down the m-way he slows down and I come past him. Moments later wobbly head man is back amongst the traffic weaving his way through and just as I need to pull off at my junction there he is – right on my bumper waiting to undertake. So the indicator is going he is still there behind me so I move across… wobbly, wobbly feckin’ wobbly man gives it the bigger shakes this time and - screeeeeech he comes past. I hate you, I bloody hate you! Take the train next time you scum bag!!!!! And breathe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrivingTheDream Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 (I mentally reach for my wheel wrench and dream of clumping it round his head!) Sounds like that old Sega game Road Rash I had a wobbler in front of me yesterday but his head was wobbling around like one of them Churchill nodding dogs when stationary. Some kind of twitch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kittyclaws Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 It's a shame, but there are more and more twats out there on bikes, when i first started riding bikes, it felt like you were part of a big family, everyone waved to each other etc. Not now tho,there are more & more riders who don't give a toss about other road users inc other bikes. you get tits who have just passed their test ( who started off driving cars) and think they can been seen the same as a car, for instance, if i was on a bike waiting to pull out on a roundabout, i would filter up to front(in middle), but not next to car waiting to pull out first, as he/she would be looking to right and not know i'm there, so, i would place myself by their rear bumber, and wait for them to pull out, the car behind them will see me as i will be just in front of them, i stopped riding 4 years ago, mainly due to getting fed up with the weather ( getting soaked,frozen etc). It took me 14 years to decide this lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supragal Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 I do love bikes but sometimes the riders just don't help themselves. I hate any wobbly head people, like the ones in slow cars that do it when you undertake because they are doing 10mph in the outside lane. DRIVE PROPERLY THEN AND I WOULDN'T HAVE TO POO HEAD! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kittyclaws Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 I do love bikes but sometimes the riders just don't help themselves. I hate any wobbly head people, like the ones in slow cars that do it when you undertake because they are doing 10mph in the outside lane. DRIVE PROPERLY THEN AND I WOULDN'T HAVE TO POO HEAD! yes,,, they get everywhere, come down to west wittering area, if you overtake a oap who is plodding down the road(exp 40 in a 60 zone), they give you the full beam treatment( at night) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Davey Posted June 9, 2006 Author Share Posted June 9, 2006 what about the people who drive the little oap buggy things on the road as if they are cars! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ark Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 I had an idiot biker pull a u-turn in front of me today - 60 mph approaching a NASTY juntion A30 to A303 near Basingstoke - loads of bad accidents there. Anyway he just pulls his maneuver and doesn't pull away...had to drop the anchors not to flatten him...2 tonnes of Supra/driver/luggage vs biker...I wasn't the one who was going to feel it in the morning I can t POO HEAD! Rosie, you're such a potty-mouth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kittyclaws Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 what about the people who drive the little oap buggy things on the road as if they are cars! Oh now you have started it. that is one of my biggest hates, esp if they are in middle of the road, yet to see one on a M road, have seen them on A, B and Duels. worst one i saw was on the Shripney duel coming up to Halfords, it was pissing it down and had been for some time, some little old lady had driven her buggy in the road(there is a cycle lane too) how she had made it up to the used car place is beyond me. anyone on here who knows that road well, will know you get a huge puddle by the used car lot, well she tried to drive through it, and yes you guessed it, shorted out in the middle. there were about 5 people trying to get to her, as she sat there getting sprayed by cars. The puddle was that big, they should have got hold of the RNLI to get her out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 Most bikers are far better road users than 99% of car-only drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n00b Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 yeah... good rant ....!!! now this is what fridays is for ... boo to the universe! as for the wobbly head thing i agree... there is two very diffrent breads of bikers on the motorways good and dumb . n00b Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 I can top this. Driving through the countryside near home I have a bike on my tail. Not a big one but could probably leave me standing in the twisties. I turn left into a lane and bike man has obviously decided I'm impeding his progress and is gaining. He is still a fair bit back so I boot it and I leave him behind. I assume he doesn't know the road or his bike is actually shite. Anyway, I'm a fair old way ahead and need to turn right. I indicate right well in advance and slow for the turn. So what does bike dick do? Overtakes me just as I'm about to turn (a second later and he'd have been in hospital) while giving me the finger. What a prat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeordieSteve Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 RedM - People like that shouldn't be on bikes. You have to watch the road, yourself and everyone else 100% of the time and be very aware of your surroundings. I've had many a car driver almost whipe me out because they weren't looking or have decided that they're bigger so have right of way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 Reminds me of that annoying advert "NOW YOU SEE HIM!" It's blatently the tosspot bikers fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 Most bikers are far better road users than 99% of car-only drivers.I disagree. It's only the riders who have driven cars that are any good. The rest reckon they own the flamin road - they're worse than Beemer w^nkers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Davey Posted June 9, 2006 Author Share Posted June 9, 2006 I think the 16 year olds on scooters are the best... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 Originally Posted by Jake Most bikers are far better road users than 99% of car-only drivers.I disagree. It's only the riders who have driven cars that are any good. The rest reckon they own the flamin road - they're worse than Beemer w^nkers!You'll be one of those car-only drivers then. I repect your right to be incorrect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewen Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 I know a couple of born-again bikers... passed their test years ago, now middle aged and can afford a nice big bike as well as the cars...blatting around dressed up like a cross between a bumble bee and the bike cop out of Village People. One is very aware of, and has respect for other road users, the others a wombat who moans incesantly of cars not moving over and not seeing him when he overtakes a line of cars etc etc, oblivious to the fact that its sometimes hard to see bikers as it is let alone when they are going extremely fast and pop-out of no-where....and thats how I see bikers, a 50/50 split between safe and suicidal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 owning a bike doesn't automatically make you a good road user... it's more a case of only the better ones survive to tell the tail! A case of dawinian natural selection on the roads. Sometimes I think people on bikes a) think the laws of the highway code don't apply to them because they have 2 wheels not 4, and thus are 'free' to do what they like b) think that owning a fast bike means you can overtake everywhere, not realising just how often if other road users didn't take avoiding action, they would be brown bread quicker than they can put their sticky leathers on The other day I was just cruising along, going straight over at a small roundabout I saw a group of 'hardcore' bikers approaching from the left hand entrance. The leader of the pack came on the roudabout behind me and blew my ears out as he blasted past. I sped up a little and the road was bendy up ahead. He was leaning like he was about to grind the pegs out! A few bends later and he slows for the next roundabout and finally straightens up, looks in the mirror to find me literally right behind him. He had a wobbly head moment, did about 10 double takes in the mirror and kept shaking his head, think he wasn't expecting that. I think he wanted to say something to me as we approached the roundabout side by side in seperate lanes to go different ways. I just turned off as if nothing happed hehe must admit, the bike had the fattest back tyre I've ever seen! At least this bloke wasn't a pillock though, guess he will live to ride another day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiversteve Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 I think the 16 year olds on scooters are the best... TARGETS??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spyda Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 I could rant all day about bikes! I do like the advert that was on the tv warning car drivers to be careful of motorbike riders, "Now you see me, now you don't. NOW you see me." What does the motor cyclist expect if they're weaving all over the road like that! In my opinion they deserve to get knocked off it if they're riding like that. That'll do for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeordieSteve Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 It's actually a good idea to weave on the road... it makes you more visible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnA Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 In the last few weeks I've been forced back on the Blackbird with the roads congested so badly. While on a bike things look differently. Seen some moronic suicide bikers (filtering at 100 cars doing 50 for example) as well as moronic car drivers (blasting the horn on me angrily because I didn't wait in the 200yard queue before the roundabout. WTF...) Hit a concealed diesel spill as well, scary on a tight bend. I've seen bikers around me wobble their heads quite a few times --- I'm afraid most of the times they were not right. They should have read the situation beforehand, just like I had. Most are too impatient and take silly risks for no good reason. (maybe I'm getting old and conservative, but I've never broken a bone and don't intend to start now) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ark Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 It's actually a good idea to weave on the road... it makes you more visible Come off it! How can you be more visible when you pop in and out of a cars blind spot? God knows how many bikers I've (not) seen blind-spotting me on the motorway, then popping into view for a few seconds before drifting or undertaking again. OK, I know that human vision is better tuned for picking up movement than static shapes, but they've got to remain visible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 think there is a big difference between weaving a little to ensure the best chance of being seen and weaving all over the place in a desperate bid to get past everything on the road at all costs, doing life threatening overtakes at every possible moment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 Most bikers are far better road users than 99% of car-only drivers. yea that! What a crap thread. Car drivers moaning bout bikes I've just fallen off my chair!! What about cars swapping lanes without indicating looking, cutting corners and being on the wrong side of the road, doing u turns, never using mirrors or checking blind spots before they manouver! Pulling straight out in front of bikes jesus the list is endless............... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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