Some riding tips for you all

..... · Quote Me Happy Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Karma :

more tips...
Having passed my Direct Access six months ago, I thought I would pass on some tips to the more inexperienced bikers out there.
Only the other day this prat opened his car door just as I was cutting up the inside of some traffic. I thought "lucky bastid - he could have easily lost his car door".

Another time a car decided to slow down and indicate right without any regard for the fact that I was only 2 inches off his tail. Luckily for him I managed to overtake him before he could turn.

Coming round a blind bend the other day, at a steady 130, another car-driving idiot pulled out of a T junction just round the bend. Again, luckily for him I managed to miss him. Useless prat!

My R1 is pretty stable but I was riding along a recently gritted road at a steady 80 when I unexpectedly ran into a pile of grit collected on a corner. What's all that about? They should sweep the bloody stuff up. Fortunately the field gate was open and no real damage was done.

Just this week a bump in the road caused my front wheel to leave the floor for about 100 yards just as I was passing this group of girls and, has it happens, an un-marked Police car. They followed me onto a dual carriageway and reckoned I had under-taken a line of 12 cars which were in the outside lane. I said that I reckoned they were all turning right, but they reckoned there wasn't a junction for them to turn right into. On top of which, they nicked me because they reckoned I was over a double white line when I passed them. Are they biased against bikes, or what?

Final tip. I have found that a really loud exhaust lets people know you are there and is really usefull when filtering through slow moving traffic at high speed.

In summary - be careful because there are some real prats out there

... shamelessly stolen from another forum

Dark · World Chat Champion Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Karma :

Hilarious! Razz

are these quotes Confused

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fast_tzr · World Chat Champion Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Karma :

Lol quality Laughing

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TheDonUK · World Chat Champion Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Karma :

Nice one

loply · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Karma :

Woops. Didn't read the full post.

Didn't I meet you at a bike meet once? I think Ive heard this all before Rolling Eyes

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RI_HA · Spanner Monkey Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Karma :

Well they have been stolen from a bike mag letters page.

Im sure of it! I knew I had read them somewhere else.

Ill try and dig that out.

RI_HA · Spanner Monkey Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Karma :

yeah I knew it

Fastbikes, May's issue. page 26. Razz

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garth · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Karma :

mind you, he's on an R1, must be a 98 one, otherwise he's have been knocked off by now.

Razz

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kawakid · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Karma :

I nearly didn't realise it was a joke. I was half way through
typing a fool for doing 130mph round a blind corner.
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