Car drivers

[misery89]

Just a quick question, are all cage drivers idiots? I ask because the amount of times I have somebody right up my arse or flicking fags out the window or purposely turning on screen wash. They never indicate and love to never give way. Bikers on the other hand always nod and even had a lady on a ninja stop to check I was OK when I was pulled up by the side of the road.

Makes me wish I had a bigger bike so I could take off some wing mirrors and ride off into the sunset.

Views, opinions?
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Nobbers on bikes and in cars.

Personally I've found most car drivers to be alright/inept. Very few are downright hostile.
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[yen_powell]

More bikes get on my nerves in traffic than cars and there are less of them. Biking does attract a lot of twats to be fair.
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[J4mes]

99% of people don't realise, it's not that they're targeting you.

Not worth bawling over, you'll soon learn to ignore it!

And forget smashing mirrors off, if you get caught at the next set of lights/junction whatever then you are far more vulnerable!

Chill out.

[MarJay]

I find that car drivers appear very inept when I ride like a dick. If I ride sensibly with plenty of anticipation and defensive riding I rarely see moronity on the scale you're talking about.

Sometimes the common factor is you and not everyone else.
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[raesewell]

Dont forget that many of us drive cars as well as ride bikes, I like to think that when I'm in the car I treat bikes with the respect they deserve but some twats dont deserve respect (Cars and bikes)
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[misery89]

[27cows]

You have to work on the basis that every car driver is a gobshite liable to do something stupid with no warning. Now and then you're pleasantly surprised. But a large percentage of drivers think they have some kind of right of way over bikes on the basis that their vehicle is bigger.

I find that the larger the bike I'm on, the less liberties they take. So life can be quite fraught when commuting on my little 100. But I try to give the buggers a bit back, when the opportunity arises
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[misery89]

[J4mes]

[Sable]

When I rode a bicycle I thought car drivers & motorcyclists were cocks.
Then I drove a car and though cyclists & motorcyclists were cocks.
Then I rode a motorbike and finally realised, humans are cocks. The mode of transport they choose does not effect this.

[almostthere]

Biking might attract it's fair share of twats but at least they can't text, make calls, put make up on or read a book/newspaper whilst enroute unlike the fucking morons in cars I've seen do just that.
Driving the van to work recently saw some cock in a mondeo with a book open on his steering wheel reading at about 60mph on the motorway nearly spat my beer out I was that shocked
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[misery89]

[covent.gardens]

There are some useless morons out there and they don't care what vehicle you're driving. I actually get more problems when driving my (large) work van than I do when on the bike. The benefits of the nimble motorcycle vs being in a large, lumbering vehicle are often understated.

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[barrkel]

People who are slower than you are idiots, people who are faster than you are maniacs, right?

It's been a very long time since I've been upset by someone in a car. You get certain character types and you deal with them. If someone is coming up fast behind you, especially at ~50 in a 30 zone, it just makes more sense to pull in and let them past. If someone is hovering in a junction in a 30 zone, 10% of the time they're going to pull out as if they didn't see you. You simply plan such that you can handle it either way. Cars will run red lights at the tail end of the sequence maybe 20% of the time; so you look and make sure they've stopped when your light goes green. If you're approaching a bunch of cars on the motorway in the overtaking lane, one of them is likely to pull out even as you approach; so you slow down, move to the lane to the right, ride in the right of the lane, whatever it takes to handle what can reasonably be expected to occur. Etc.
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[Ariel Badger]

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Don't worry, it's one of the well known problems with biking is that the brain tends to look for the dangers it knows - riding a bike we can easily be blanked out even when people look straight at us.

"He came out of nowhere" is more true than you might give credence for from what people 'see' (not what is there).

Especially in winter times when a bike can easily fizzle in to the background mush of bad weather, low sun, poor light and headlight dazzle.

Lets say they were going 30mph faster than you - they should have been 67 meters behind you. So you should have been able to see them ok if checking every 5 seconds as you claim.

[Mario_Kempes]

Smart phones have made things much worse IMO.

Text messages have been around for over decade now but it never seemed as big a problem until recent years.

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

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