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Nutsy has off/shitty day,... Nutsy not dead,..... day not as bad as Nutsy thought it would be ____________________ I am the sum total of my own existence, what went before makes me who I am now! |
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In a similar situation with belligerent white-van-man.... I've just stopped... in lane-pos, no attempt to swerve or make space, just stopped.
Actual act of pulling over, is to a large degree an invitation for oncoming to NOT slow-down, or pull over any themselves... "Well, your only a bike, and you were pulling over anyway....."
If you were in a car, what else could you do?
If they still keep coming, slam down kick-start and get ready to jump! B-U-T.... without the implicit invitation to proceed as, and with obvious obstruction in the middle of the road.... they TEND to slow down, even stop... if just to yell at you!
WVM: "Oi! Why-douwn you move over!"
ME: "Where? You think I should ride through the hedge, just cos you is in hurry?"
WVM: "Well... err... Back up then!"
ME: "Sorry, motorbike... no reverse gear"
WVM: "Well, cantcha PUSH!"
Me: "Oh... Oh-Kay"... throw leg over... and do what I always say not to.... PADDLE... hard work paddling a bike a long way backwards.... especially as you have to keep looking over your shoulder to see where your going..... takes a long while to back up like that......
PRETTY SOON!
WVM: "I cant hang 'round all day! I'll back up! You come past when I make room!"
Me: Mods.... waits.. lets them back up, lets them back up some more... lets them get thier near side in the weeds, BEFORE moving forwards..... and making exagerated halt and duck by thier door mirror.....
Action Cam... you may have got it all on film.... you'd STILL have a sore foot and an argument with the insurance company.....
BIT of belligerence.... you COULD have some 'fun'..... & worst case... they hit a stationary motorcycle in the middle of the road... THAT is a traffic collision NO argument, "Nah never touched him orificer! He just swerved off the road! Looked like he was going too fast!".. and OH Kay, its hassle with insurers, BUT its not an ambulance ride and a week off work, to have an argument you are starting on the wrong... sore... foot with the ins-co over who pays the meat waggon!
So yeah.... you may have had the right-of-way, and you may not have done anything tooo 'wrong'..... but there was other stuff you could have done, and stuff that likely would have resulted in a better outcome for you. So there are lessons to be learned from it.... ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
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Glad to hear you are ok
Dreading my first off post
Can I pre book my first few readers to be sympathetic |
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Where's the paint diagram?
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NutsyUk wrote: | trevor saxe-coburg-gotha wrote: |
The danger of believing that is you won't be able to avoid such a hazard if/when you encounter it again. Almost all incidents of this kind can be avoided with better observation, positioning and control/restraint etc.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I could've come out any better off than you did. In fact, chances are I'd be even worse. But I still maintain a more useful mindset should focus on what *you* can do differently next time, rather than blaming it all on a third party. If you go too far down that route, there's the risk that if/when it happens again, you'll be totally in the right again, but pushing up daises. |
Certainly a good point... Really thinking about it i honestly cant think of anything else i could have done... I braked... slowed down to about 5-10mph still went into the verge edge of the road as i could, and the guy still clipped me and carried on driving away at 40mph... |
How narrow was the road, or was WVM not keeping to the left?
Most narrow country lanes should allow a bike and van to pass each other surely?
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 232 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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