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Post by bargemast on Nov 13, 2017 17:56:11 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2017 18:13:07 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2017 18:32:58 GMT
I'm in no way defending the car driver, but for me, as a lapsed motorcyclist filtering is too high risk, I got wiped out by a non indicating last minute right turn Muppet when I was 18, I was filtering through stationery traffic at slow speed when all of a sudden I had the offside of a Ford Fiesta to use as an impromptu and very effective brake. I was OK, the bike was a bit secondhand though  Add the Muppet factor to the aggressive arsehole factor and it's a recipe for disaster. The lady motorcyclist has my sympathy, but it's a position I wouldn't be putting myself in. |
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Post by bargemast on Nov 13, 2017 19:43:49 GMT
I'm in no way defending the car driver, but for me, as a lapsed motorcyclist filtering is too high risk, I got wiped out by a non indicating last minute right turn Muppet when I was 18, I was filtering through stationery traffic at slow speed when all of a sudden I had the offside of a Ford Fiesta to use as an impromptu and very effective brake. I was OK, the bike was a bit secondhand though Add the Muppet factor to the aggressive arsehole factor and it's a recipe for disaster. The lady motorcyclist has my sympathy, but it's a position I wouldn't be putting myself in. I've had many scary moments myself in the about 40 years of biking, and that's while I respected (almost always) the rules of the roads. The reason I gave it up without being forced to by dying or a serious accident was, in my last week of biking I had 3 VERY near accidents caused by car drivers of which 1 didn't look in the miror and changed lanes while I was slowly overtaking him, and the 2 others were both because young and inexperienced car drivers that didn't know that you weren't allowed to overtake other cars in blind bends in the road and thereby going over the white uninterrupted line, and so arriving completely unexpected on my side of the road, that I had to leave to avoid a possibly deadly crash, and I luckely didn't encounter trees or any other obstacles, and didn't damage myself because of my protective bike gear that I always wore, even in summer, as my skin wouldn't resist road contact. But never in all these years have I been pushed like this poor girl, this old guy is mad, and shouldn't be driving anymore if he can't control himself, if he would have been a Texan, the girl would have been shot dead at the spot. Peter Enregistrer |
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