Nearly punted a biddy,

[Simple]

I left posting this till now justincase the plod came round as I left the 'scene'

I'm filtering past stationary traffic by the Ricoh Arena in coventry, towards red lights, as I'm 5 cars from the front lights go amber,

as I'm 3 cars from front they go green,

as I get to the front I'm accelerating because traffic is moving off,

As I got to the front I see a biddy(60ish), directly in my way, tottering across the road infront of me.... shes in the middle of 5 lanes of traffic! the lights would have been amber when she left the kerb, and green by the 2nd lane, why did she do it?

the traffic which had started to move off has stopped or is rolling slowly having seen biddy.


So I slam the rear brake on (which won't do much anyway) and gradually apply the front hoping to dodge still oblivious biddy.

I get right upto her, she has by this point seen me, has stopped turned ( cartoon stylie) to face me, dropped her bag and started to scream,

I dodge to the left of her, stop a little way on, look back and shes still stood there, the traffic is still where it was,

I sorted my gears out and rode off home... I look in my mirrors and some one in a golf has hooned it off the lights after me, I think cack! unmarked plod car I pull over into left lane (dual carriage way) and he goes straight past,

that put the wind up me more than the biddy.

I'm still slightly concerned that I wasn't bothered or alarmed by the sight of a stupid oblivious woman in the road, or that I could have punted her across an Island, Death by GPZ... would have made such a nasty mess of my yellow jacket
I must have missed her by milimeters. Perhaps now she will think more carefully about waiting for the next red light instead of risking urnning across,

or just mayb right now she is writing to her local PM about the menace of motorcycles on our roads.
*and breath*
plod havent been around my house after me... so When I go out tomorrow I'll probably see one of those boards saying 'incident here any witnessess'


Simple
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[Itchy]

forget about it , worrying won't change a thing and writting to MPs is no longer effective as MPs are too busy with their noses in the trough, be wary if you find your self in the same situation in 50 or so years time as theres NO way I'm going to be frail and old , do what those Chinese martial artists do they are 80ish and are as fit as 18YOs (not british 18 YOs obviously) failing that I'll cyborg myself up and you'll find yourself with a motorcycle heat seeking missile chasing you.
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[Simple]

50 or so years, no danger of that, I'm not staying in this cuntry besides motorcyclefanglemachines will be banned by then I suspect too
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[Itchy]

yeah but you might emigrate where I emigrate to,
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[Simple]

Doubt it

they don;t let your type in
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[Adam_P]

And yet, you were filtering, coming up to a set of traffic lights with the vision either side of you and of the upcoming pedestrian crossing obscurred and were unable to slow down without giving the woman a heart attack and had to dodge round her?

Methinks you were travelling too bloody quickly, personally.
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[Simple]

[Adam_P]

So, you know your brakes aren't that great and yet were still riding at 35mph filtering through traffic?

You realise that if this had all been on your hazerd perception theory test you'd have failed and been rebooking your next appointment about now?

I agree that the old lady probably shouldn't have been crossing the road as the lights had changed, but you are aware that once a pedestrian has stepped more than two steps into a road they have right of way... don't you? (Or at least, I think that used to be the case, but it may have changed) So she was probably well within her rights to be on the crossing.

I'm surprised you were filtering at that point at that speed in the first place, especially if you were worried about cars swapping lanes for a roundabout...
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[jay_666]

i thought 35mph is a bit quick for filtering?
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[akaDAVE]

Yup, clearly the old woman's fault there.
They walk around at 1/2 a mile an hour, gawping at the ground and expecting the world to watch out for them.
These old people should take responsibility for thier own safety instead of flirting with danger at any given opportunity.
She was probably after a new set of hips on the NHS and jumped out in front of the bike at the last minute. Well avoided
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[TOM M]

What the hell were you doing??????

































Ya should of hit her
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[Jack_Cheese]

I think that's just unlucky, But if the cars at the front were stationary where the biddy was, and you were 5 cars back, how come you were doing 35mph? Surely you saw the cars weren't moving.

Jack
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[Finglonga]

one word .... "Observation" If it was your test you would have failed! Filtering too fast and not looking for obstacles. Learn from it as next time you may clip the pedestrian and be the one sliding down the road.
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[Adam_P]

[feef]

don't know how any of you can say she was filtering too fast, or was poorly unobservant, since you weren't there, and are basing your comments on your interpretation of her written interpretation of her actions.

give the girl a chance.. so often I hear of people having a near miss on here, which may, or may not, have been their fault, and yet there's always umpteen posts telling them they were riding too fast/recklessly/without looking. unless you KNOW what happened, how about some benefit of the doubt rather than condemnation?

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[steveh]

Should of happy slapped her on the way past

Well done for dodging, and well done for pulling over, i would of just fooked off

silly bint.

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[Adam_P]

[colin1]

we dont know if you could have stopped without dodging her

but if you think its possible that you could of, you could practice some proper emergency stops in a car park, rather than the sedate ones we have to do to pass our test
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[ram_doom]

Hindsight and all that... well done on averting the accident, the old git didnt attempt to save herself in any way. Now you know what to look out for in future
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[numark1]

[Simple]

In my defence I didnt whole heartedly put effort into stopping as I knew that I wouldn't have been able to,

Since that prick of a boy racer forced me to take evasive action at bassets pole and I ended up on the floor I'm now hesitent to grab the front brake, which is understandable,

Instead I planned to dodge her, which worked.

Get off your soap box Adam P.

The traffic was stationary because they are slow to move off, the lights can be green for a while at the island and no one moves because they've fallen asleep. the lights take the piss.

and no 35mph filtering in a 50mph 5 lane carriage way with barriers so there are no pedestrians is not too fast,

35mph is the speed I last saw on my clocks before I got ot the front, so realistically it wa salot less,

I did not anywhere say my brakes are spongy, I said they are NOT spongy. They are merely unresponsive.
I'm comparing the GPZ to a 125 sports bike here which has somewhat sharper braking.
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