Reversing round a corner

[Blue_SV650S]

No, not me on my bike silly!!

I was out and about yesterday on the bike and going down some pretty tight and twisty lanes! happy days

The hedgerows were high and a single track road. Right, so you need to expect the possibility of meeting something oncoming and ride accordingly.

On roads like this I tend to 'beep' on my way into some less tight/faster turns to give anything oncoming a heads up there is someone coming.

This corner in particular fulfilled the beep criteria ... so I was expecting something to perhaps be oncoming ... what I WASN'T expecting was a big phat police car reversing (remember single track - so taking up ALL the road)!!

There was no incident ahead, so WTF was he thinking?!!?
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[EUMP]

Maybe he got lost finding scooby the police dog on their mystery hunt of the old barn!
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[Finglonga]

[eddyh]

[yen_powell]

I once rode down a steep spiral single track ramp into an underground carpark where I used to work. Met a car coming up and we both stopped.

He lowered his window and asked me to back my 1200cc bike up the ramp and let him through!
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[metalangel]

[EUMP]

Yeah, i've been around cornwall on my bike and those little country lanes are for beeping! all people i see do it and so did i, alot of farm vehicles and 4x4s coming round the those corners and lets not do the land rover vs motorbike.. so beep! most can hear you unless there listening to loud music but its the country side! (well kind of)
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[Blue_SV650S]

Also on these sorts of corners/lanes you are actually physically trying to see signs of someone coming the other way, therefore a beep will be even more detectable.

Didn't stop this policeman from continuing to reverse mind you!!! ... even when I was in visual, he still kept reversing WTF!?!?!
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[Timmeh]

[bikedemon99]

[Finglonga]

[bikedemon99]

Oh my fucking god, what are you like, ofcourse we know that, so we sneak around bends incase theres a horse, back to your barn and come back when youve sobered up

[Im-a-Ridah]

[yen_powell]

[Nipedley]

He has a good point about horses. There's one bend I take a couple times a week that's a very narrow blind bend, and it happens to be just up the road from a farm which horse riders use. Going round that bend you have just as much chance of meeting a horse as you do a car, so I tend to creep around it.

Most car drivers seem to not care and fly into it at about 30mph anyway, having to slam on the brakes if anything comes. If I'd been a car then there would have been trouble a few times.

Beeping is a good idea but I tend not to there because I don't fancy trying to get past a mad horse..

[Finglonga]

[nowhere.elysium]

I'll ordinarily only beep if it's a blind bend, especially so if it's a tight blind bend...

Anything else is just excessive.
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[Skudd]

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[stinkwheel]

I fail to see the problem in the OP.

In that a police car travelling backwards is likely to be going a lot more slowly than a local car going forwards.

On a really narrow single track, the only direction of travel that makes any difference is "Towards me" or "away from me", forwards and reverse are irrelevant.
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[Blue_SV650S]