Panic Button?

[Yarri]

Today was one of these times what do not happen so often anymore, but do happen from time to time...

Two cars were traveling in front of me in 40 zone, there was a cyclist in the lane, first car overtook him, then the other car prepared to overtake him, then halfway the overtake bitch slammed brakes as there was incoming traffic coming from other way. Well, thats when i hit the panic button, most braking goes on the front brakes, i can't even remmeber pushing rear brake any harder then usual but i did realize that my backwheel is sliding right now, managed to keep control of it somehow... The bitch drove off like nothing happened, even the fucking cyclist stopped...

Well, i can't say it was a close one or whatever as i knew that i could stop intime, only were doing around 35 in 40 with reasonable distance between me and car infront.

Two points i want to make,

First, adrenaline can control your body

Second, if you a woman and you drive a car please sell the car and catch a bus next time you go anywhere
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Few minutes of life of the biker could be more interesting then the whole lifes of many people

[Kwaks]

does adrenaline cloud your judgement in that it makes you blame other drivers for your shortcomings?


You obviously, at least for a moment, felt you did not leave enough stopping distance, your fault. In addition with your better view of the road could possible have seen the situation arising via oncoming traffic.

You knew she was gonna pull out, you should have hung back.

No point in blaming her
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[Yarri]

Im not gonna judge anyones oppinion but shes a crap driver, because things like that never happen to me when i drive a car and im fairly new to that, i always plan ahead and she probably was doing her makeup at the time...

Its not like its written on her number plate 'watch out, i might do something stupid'
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Theory Car Passed: 22/07/2009 48/74 Car Test Passed: 22/10/2009 2 minor
Few minutes of life of the biker could be more interesting then the whole lifes of many people

[Kwaks]

She commenced an overtake, the situation changed and she deemed the overtake to be dubiuos (ie an oncoming car came into her view). She did the sensible thing and braked and dropped in behind the cyclist ( quicker than trying to accelerate past and a hell of a lot safer for the cyclist to boot).

You were too close behind. You braked too hard. You locked your back wheel. In your own words you panicked.

Seems pretty clear to me who is in the wrong, and trying to drag stereotypes into it won't strengthen your case.

And that is without me even going into the stereotype of noob drivers who think they know it all
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[MarJay]

[Villers]

[Gawain]

Two things: If you run into the back of someone thats your fault. Period. Secondly, even if you were 100% in the right and it was entirely her fault, if you could have done anything to avoid a collision then you should have. If you rely on people driving like they should then you wont last long.

[Yarri]

Why there is no F1 women drivers? Why there is no MotoGP women riders?

I think that if you want to be good at something you must have a passion for it, otherwise if you just using a car/bike as transport to go from A to B you'll never be good at it.

There is higher average of men who are very good with bike/car so men win.

Im just being sexit right now against most women drivers, sue me
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Theory Car Passed: 22/07/2009 48/74 Car Test Passed: 22/10/2009 2 minor
Few minutes of life of the biker could be more interesting then the whole lifes of many people

[Kwaks]

Why are you not driving in F1 or riding in moto gp?

Why did you nearly have an accident of your own making?

There are plenty of excellent women riders/drivers, there are also plenty of young males just waiting to become statistics.
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[mooserx]

You nearly hit her, you didn't leave enough of a gap between yourself and the vehicle in front.

Its not the car drivers fault if there is oncoming traffic, she was prepared so should you have been.

Hang on....

Do you see a pattern emerging??????

Don't blame other drivers for your cock ups, just learn from it .
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[MaybeGuy]

poor obs
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[KevTM]

Time for that 1 litre bike, Yarri? With observation, planning & bike control skills like that you wont last long, mate.

Seems to me you just shat a brick when the rear started sliding (in a straight line ) and the adrenaline is still running from that as you know you messed up and realised just how easy it is to do something stupid on a bike.

No point blaming anyone else or being a sexist twat


And just for funsies:

"I think that if you want to be good at something you must have a passion for it, otherwise if you just using a car/bike as transport to go from A to B you'll never be good at it."

Didn't you say you only use your GSXR for 10-15 minutes journeys to the shops and your mates?

[Kwaks]

lol forgot this was the guy with a whole 5 months experience on a 600 gixer



Must be a true riding God what with his 15 mile ride outs that leave him tired, his trips to the shops, his incessant desire to post pics of his (fugly) unique blue & white gixer and his "BMW Driver"attitude on the roads

I think he may have switched a couple of positions in this story, it would make more sence that way.

The woman was overtaking a motorcyclist, she braked as a car came into view, the motorcyclist shat a brick. A following cyclist who was about to overtake the motorcyclist himself, stopped his Raleigh Burner, adjusted his newspaper delivery bag and shouted over "get off the roads before you kill yourself"
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Fallen Angel "Nae sniffing my seat now!!!!! "
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

Second thread in as many days where the author can't see where they are at fault.

/me makes a mental note not to go on a rideout with Yarri or Proview.
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[wizzzard]

I have to agree with the general consensus that it was entirely your fault for following so closely and misjudging when to make your move. Your on a fast bike there is absolutely no need to ride close enough to have to lock up, you can ride further back and breeze past at will.

The only way anyones riding improves is admitting to yourself that you arent a riding god and that you have to continually work at your skills.

I have had my share of close calls and in every instance i have been partially if not wholey responsible, i am after all in control of the bike.

Finally i have seen far more shoddy driving from men than from women.
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[mistergixer]

I think everyone before me has pretty much covered it, however you appear to be struggling to comprehend it, perhaps this may put it into simpler terms for you:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/estock_dev/fspid9/49/45/41/pubs-signs-signage-494541-l.jpg

Good luck.


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[johnsmith222]

The way I look at it, just because you crash and it was someone elses fault does not make it ok.

I made a thread on another bike forum where I was angry at myself for making a bad judgement to change lanes on a dual carriageway before a side street with a car waiting at it.

The car decided to pull out regardless of me being there and I almost hit it full on at 70mph.

Yes, the car should have given way to me, but as a motorcyclist my safety is my responsibility, and the way I see it is everyone makes mistakes and we need to watch for them and avoid them.

I am not going to wake up in hospital (If I do wake up at all) missing an arm or a leg and think to myself "It's all OK because it wasn't my fault".

I can think of times where I have made a mistake on the bike and a car driver allowing for my mistakes has stopped me getting fucked up and I'm pretty sure it's happened to most of us at some point in the car or on the bike. I think it's only fair not to judge other people so harshly if they do something wrong.

The whole women bad driver stereotype doesn't really stick. There are loads of women drivers that have great driving skills etc.

The only time I really notice bad driving from women is the school run mums. But then maybe I only notice them because there's a primary school on my commute and the majority of people dropping their kids off are women. There's equally bad driving throughout the commute done by men. I guess it's the whole late for work thing.

Anyway, keep safe and try and give yourself more of a safety bubble by watching more for other peoples mistakes and judging them for it. It's all too easy to be angry at something that happened but you avoided 5 minutes ago and letting your emotions get the better of you just ends up getting you killed further up the road.

[Welshd1k]

ROFL dude its ALL your falt be more observant? stop day dreaming and sitting there thinking what a biking god you are with and how cool you are infrotn of you mates and concentrate on riding?
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[Skudd]

Just carry an organ doner card. You will be able to donate very soon.
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[Flip]

The trouble with accidents or nearly having them is that better obs and planning may have avoided that situation altogether.

Instead of kicking off about cagers, women drivers or whatever ask yourself what you did wrong because that's what will keep you alive next time.

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[Bru]

Talking of crap women drivers, has anyone seen the Top Gear episode where a 'crap' woman driver did the Nurburgring in a Ford Transit, overtaking a few dawdling bikes along the way?

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