Don't just love old people :)

[un0riginal]

So I was innocently heading in to work this morning. Me on my 125 and a proper bike was a few cars behind. Easy left coming up with nice clear view. Cars were slowing down so I drifted around the outside of them and continued on.

Few miles further up the road, proper bike catches up so I move to the inside giving him plenty of room to get around. Still maintained 60 (being the top speed my bike will do ) Passenger waves as they cruise past but then the rider starts shaking his head and the passenger starts pointing to their helmet repeatedly (I am going for insinuated nut-job here). I initially assumed I had done something wrong in moving over so they could get past easily. As I was watching them go up the road he started overtaking a row of cars coming to another left bend with lower visibility and had to cut in with a car coming the other way and the front car had to slow down to let them get past.

Managed to catch up to them at some lights, so pulled up and asked what I had done wrong... "You went over the white line when you were overtaking. Very dangerous and stupid"

So I overtake when I can clearly see the road ahead is clear with no oncoming traffic, you overtake when you cannot see cars coming the other way and nearly cause an accident .. and I'm the dangerous, stupid driver!

Thanks. Good chatting with you.

/rant over

[Conzar]

Got a video?
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I wish. Not figured out a cheap enough set-up yet that will allow me to record all the time.

Any suggestions?

[daemonoid]

It's rare that a solid white lined area has lower visibility than a broken lined area, but let's assume that's true (until you post the streetview). But, let's assume it is one of those times - it's still daft... Drawing attention to yourself whilst on a 125 is an easy way to end up spending 30mins at the side of the road whilst all your details are gone over...
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[Rogerborg]

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[chris-red]

I had one of these once,

I can't remember what did now it was ages ago but I remember what the guy said...

"DO YOU HAVE A DEATH WISH?"
"No."
"WHY DID YOU *Insert what I did* THEN?"
"Because I could do it without dying."
*Silence*


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[pinkyfloyd]

[iooi]

[Rogerborg]

[hellkat]

[_Iain_]

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It was a fairly stupid place to overtake to be honest. The solid white lines are to stop people overtaking there as there's a right hand filter approaching.

You should never overtake when there's a possibility that a car could turn right. No matter how you try to justify this, you can never be certain that none of the cars you're overtaking will suddenly pull into the filter lane without looking in their mirrors.

Carry on riding like that and Darwain theory will prevail. Where he overtook was legal, where you did wasn't,
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[hellkat]

So that's a moped, not A Proper Bike
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[WD Forte]

Look its obvious
If I'm ridin me old cx down a road singing
"stayin alive staying alive....."
any person on a newer faster or bigger engined bike
has to be a better, wiser, rider than me
And probably person too,
especially if they're wearing a sam browne or hi viz

I know my place.

You got off lightly though.
The rider could been on a KTM and violated you.
There's a lot of that goes on y'know
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[Alpha-9]

Shoulda told them to get fucked
I had some douche on a scooter with no l plates chase me down a road after throwing his arms in front of my bike to get me to stop (I didnt and ragged by him like the fucks with this guy)

He was like didnt you SEE THAT RED BMW? Was like probably not. (there was no honks, no problems and no agro drivers yelling at me but I was filtering)

Said "whoopdydo" or some shit to him and he rages, goes through red lights, onto the pavement over the crossing and turns around on the pavement and turns off the side road, drivers honking and shouting at him like WTF ARE YOU DOING

tldr: so called bikers are high horse moralististic bellwads sometimes
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[WD Forte]

Ahh !
I love the smell of pompous hypocrisy in the morning

I like to catch up a 125 rider I can impart my vast nollige on.
(preferably 4'11" ish and a bit weedy looking or a wee lassie with glasses, no rough types)
then I get right up behind em revving the arse off me CX to put the shits up em
then follow closely until they invariably make a mistake.
Sometimes I'll just invent one if I want get straight to lecture/finger wagging bit

I've developed quite a repertoire by now
"Now look ere young feller me lad/lass
you're not goin to get any older riding like that"
"when I were a lad, it were all fields round here"
"Electric start? flashing Indicators? you dont know yer born!"
"Heine gerick? alpinestars?
All we 'ad were donkey jackets and gauntlets in them days y'know
and thats if we were lucky!"
" most times it were flat cap, gaberdine mac and plimsolls"
"We were that poor......................."
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[Rogerborg]

[Polarbear]

Old people, hmm, prefer them to arrogant twats who think they are Gods gift to motorcycling.......


Just saying
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[defblade]

There's a thread that didn't end as well as this going on PistonHeads at the moment. Same applies here:

Never, ever, overtake on a ghost island.
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