Bike killers

[madmic]

My brother rode in the 90's and swears Volvo drivers were 'bike killers'

I'm of the opinion that its BMW drivers, or is it just me? And not just bikes, those asshole feel they own the road...
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I gave up drugs to feed my biking habit...

[Northern Monkey]

I thought it was salt that killed bikes in winter
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Fisty: after polishing the tank with the glistenng beads of sweat from my full hot scrotum, I filled the headrace bearings with 10cc of my manmilk

[wr6133]

[P.addy]

Shit riders are bike killers.

[arry]

[Rogerborg]

My CAREFUL NOWs are very small cars (Micra, C1, i10), Audis, white vans, minicabs and police vehicles.
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[Serendipity]

Yeah Vulva's used to have that reputation, but the rise of in-car electronics has given everyone else the chance to be a myopic nob-jockey.

I'd mirror the Borg with my "ones to watch out for". Minicab Prius and Galaxy's at any hour of the day. Then it depends when I go to work. If I'm on the road around 6am it's white vans. When I'm going in after school run time it's females in 4 wheel drives.

Then, once in London, it's pedestrians. It's one of those feckers that's gonna get me in the end.
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[chickenstrip]

Mini Metros, Escort vans and Welsh hedges for me.
Volvos used to be the enemy of the 2 wheeled world, but I think most of them got posted through letterboxes at MAG rallies.
Audis and BMWs seem to fly the flag these days. Taxis and mini cabs still have the U-turn weapon well primed too.
Sheep are also high on the list.
Been had by white van man too. Those huge great mirrors seem to block their view.

[madmic]

[stinkwheel]

Those big, boxy volvo estates were the worst in their day.

Three reasons:

1) They were invariably full of more screaming kids than they had seats so the driver was highly distracted.

2) They had a HUGE long bonnet and would invariably stop with the front end of the car sticking four feet out ito the road. (either due to lack of perceprion as to how long their car is or lack of ability to see if anything was coming).

3) Volvo marketed their cars as indestructable tanks in which you couldn't possibly be injured in a crash. As such, the people who bought into that felt no responsability to avoid collisions.

I used to have an Ogri t-shirt where he was dressed in a suit of spiky armour on an armour plated bike fitted with a snowplough blade and carrying a morning star. The caption was "Just when you thought it was safe to drive your volvo.".
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[Rogerborg]

[M.C]

Always seems to be vans for me. Had one reverse into me, had a van do a u-turn on me, and clipped a van in the last spill (although the last one was 100% my fault).

Bus drivers seem to hate bikers, had a few deliberately drive at me

[Sable]

Anything with Addison Lee stickerd in the back windows.

[Cdb1991]

audi drivers, and range rover drivers, but then and again u can say its down to the individuals but there the ones i see who pull half way onto roundabouts to check if its clear lol

[MarJay]

It used to be Volvos. Nowadays the previous old/decrepit/myopic Volvo drivers now seem to all drive Peugeots.

The nutter executive company car types all seem to drive Audis. If something bad happens on the road in front of me, it's usually a van, an Audi or a Peugeot. You get the occasional beemer doing something silly, but it's usually a 118d or 318d, so obviously a company car whose company baulked at the Audi price.

So in order of danger it goes as follows:

Peugeot > ----------------------- > van > Audi >-----------> BMW ----> everyone else.
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Remember kids, bikes aren't like lego. You can't easily take a part from one bike and then fit it to another.

[Evil Hans]

[stinkwheel]

[DieselASFC]

Audi drivers are bad, but I am always wary if I see a VW Golf. They seem to get ragged about by fearless young lads a lot. Had a few near misses with them.

[Polarbear]

[Rogerborg]

It seems to be a feature of modern cars. Both my Zafira and Meriva absolutely require significant lateral head movement to see round the elephant-leg pillars. Crash protection makes crashes more likely, good result.
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[MarJay]

[Polarbear]

[LustyLew]

In central London It's Buses/Coaches -> Hackney Cab Drivers -> Mini cab cab mate? drivers -> Cyclists. Everything else is usually moving too slowly to be a real risk.
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[UrbanRacer]

[Rogerborg]