Nearly had an 'off' this morning

[MikeyC]

Riding the bike to work, filtering along, this woman in a black beemer X5, suddenly drifts from her lane, up to about an inch away from my left hand side... i sh*t myself, looked at her, she's only texting away on the phone, had no idea I was even there!! Gave a few blips of the throttle and shot off, looked in my side mirror, she was still completely oblivious to the fact i was even there

[Mr Pants!]

I think a very very hard slap on the window would be in order to wake her up. Then a helmet muffled stream of abuse! Educational abuse of course.....
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[Visitor Q]

I nearly got smeared by a big royal mail 18 wheeler thing. Its on a two lane one way system. And i waited for him to sort out his lane then pulled out into the lane to the right of him, i was behaving and everything. Then suddenly my lane became about a foot wide, and he was still meandering. I thought right fuck this, *down gear, dump clutch and throttle hard* just as he clsed up my lane, then he went back into his.

Whats that they say about postal workers being nutter
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[byke95]

It seems to be happening mor and more to me lately! I was going through a housing estate (so 30mph) when a car pulled out of a adjoining road. If I hadn't of been able to emergency brake in time the first the stupid sod would have known about it would have been my head on his dashboard.

Still, it scared the crap out of him as well, hopefully he'll pay more attention in the future.

Mike, you should have booted her car, then stopped, if she kicked up a fuss just say that you saw on her phone - doubt she'd want to take things further!

[Mr Pants!]

pppphhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (that is that noise mechanics make when checking a fault on your car, in case you wondered.)

A mate of mine did that to a car, then suddenly had a letter hit his door mat with a summons to appear in court for criminal damage! The owners of the car suddenly had a door that was hugely damaged, more so than what my mate had done.

A loud bang on the glass, does no damage, increases her heart rate and hopefully makes her think.
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[byke95]

[Visitor Q]

[Major_Grooves]

[Scratchy]

If her car was 'accidently' damaged by her driving into you and you pulled over, she is legally obliged to stop as well. It then just becomes a 'traffic collision' for insurance companies to sort out.
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[Claud 14.7 to 1]

Ooooo soudsclose... The stupid cow!
It i ware a policeman i would have 0 tollerance for those people. At least you're ok, and your lovely bikes in one piece.

TBO lately ive had loads of those instanaces lately.

Car pulled out on me, on the way to the ace rideout, partly my fault, but still hers.

On the way back from that meet, i was on dual carrigeway, and some pratt changes from center to left lane pretty much as soon as i had joined from. the slip road. He didnt look, im pretty sure about that. I beeped. It was on the way to McDonalds...

On south mimms roundabout, guy was coming on from the petrol station, just kept on moving out, nearly hit me. i was in the left lane.

I had to dodge the first lady, the second guy i had to move over to the left side of my lane, and open the throttle to blast away.

The 3rd guy at S. Mimms was very close, i guess i dodged a bit, but that could easily have been an off.

I would recomed to you, to practice counter-steering. This is really effective for dodging really quickely. I used it for the first lady .Saved my bike, and a few injuries...

That and maybey a few emergency stops to get used to your new bike and it's brakes.

[dainesefreak]

There's an interesting article in this months Bike mag about left hand bends, think it was left handers anyway. They filmed a left hand corner and something like 60% of the cars, trucks, etc that came round it were half of the way into the opposite lane.

In fact whilst they were putting the article together one of their staff members had to ride his bike off the road and into a field to avoid a car coming around a corner in his lane.

They presented the evidence to the local constabulary who are now monitoring the same corner. This has also been presented to one of the forces accident investigators who is himself a biker. It may well have implications for accidents where a rider has seemingly left the road and crashed. This type of accident has been put down to rider error in the past, but now it seems like a good percentage could be down to the rider having to alter line/take avoiding action mid corner and loosing control. I think that's more or less the gist of the article but I don't have it with me at the moment, perhaps someone can fill in more details?

It's all too common an occurrence on the country roads I ride on a regular basis. Being leant over for a corner and nearly having my head taken off, or having to pick the bike back up because some dick thinks they can take the racing line or has completely over cooked it.

[MikeyC]

claud - sounds like someones after you

[headlamp]

Typical ! Just proves the point about BMW's, and mobile phones.

If it had been worse and I had had to go and pick up the pieces like last time, I would have pressed the police to do her for reckless or dangerous driving - three months in Holloway would take the shine off her life!
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[Visitor Q]

Police wont do jack.
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[Claud 14.7 to 1]

[Scratchy]

[Visitor Q]

[Scratchy]

Good career choice
Just get used to people saying that you don't do anything when you actually work really hard and do your most to help people. Very annoying and even upsetting at times.

You're right. The result of many investigations will come to nothing and many offenders go unpunished. That doesn't mean the police 'do nothing'. You'll see, you wait
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[headlamp]

Thankfully this is a hypothetical situation as Mike was not knocked off!

Maybe a member of the police force would give the definitive answer as I cannot believe that the police would just shrug their shoulders and say 'Oh well, bad luck' or something when you have a case of someone driving either recklessly or 'without due care and attention'. Coupled with the fact that she was on her phone which is covered by a separate law.

Three months in Holloway I recognise is unlikely (but mobile phone use whilst driving does get my blood boiling), however a hefty fine and 6 points as well as Mike's unisnured losses would affect her Insurance Premium.
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Using a mobile phone while driving a car should be made a capital offence!

[Scratchy]

If there was no damage or injury as a result of the 'offenders' driving, then there is obviously little or no chance of the incident being investigated. If you immediatley reported the driver to the police saying that her driving was dangerous and/or erratic then it is likely that the control room will put out 'observations' on the radio for the vehicle to be stop-checked if seen. There will also be a marker flagged-up by PNC if she is checked in the future as well.

Make sure you get the registration number and direction of travel as well as vehicle type and colour
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[dainesefreak]

Ere Scratchy is it still illegal to gun them down? Just an idea I had in an earlier thread that's all.

[Scratchy]

[dainesefreak]

Just get a few beers down him at lunchtime I'm sure he can be persuaded.

Oh and the idea was something along the lines of Magnum force but not on Harleys. In fact it was using Brownings, I thought of "Browning force" then reconsidered, thought it might attract the wrong kind of members.

[Visitor Q]