A lot of Mongs out today...

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

Managed to get out for a quick blast on the bike today covering about 100 miles and saw plenty of bikes out and about as is usual for a sunny Sunday.

What surprised me is the amount of quite dodgy riding I saw today.

Four times I had to move to the very left of my lane to avoid hitting a bike overtaking and coming towards me. One time I was coming around a fairly blind right hander and had one of those 'sixth sense' moments so moved over to the left and sure enough a bike came around right on the line I had been on a few seconds earlier.

All of these 'near misses' just happened to on the A29 linking two very popular bike meets - Box Hill and Bury Hill.

Now I know no-one's perfect and we all make mistakes but those overtakes were particularly crap. It's not like it's hard to spot a bright green bike coming towards you is it?

Maybe they assumed I'd move but I get the feeling they hadn't seen me. Oh yeah, all of them were riding in groups as well - maybe the testosterone was flowing a bit too much.

Sorry for the ramble but it did make me wonder why some people put their own safety in the hands of someone else - relying on someone else to move to avoid an accident. Seems a bit daft.

Wafer_Thin_Ham · Super Spammer Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Karma :

Because they are dicks?

It's been the first sunny weekend for however long so all the wank riders were out as well as the decent ones. Thumbs Up

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colin1 · Captain Safety Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Karma :

there is another thread which gives a bit of an insight into some peoples attitudes

https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=120018&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

apparently things like allowing for the possibilty that there might be something around the corner, or leaving a safe gap between you and the vehicle and front, are things for the city not the countryside

apparently anything goes in the countryside and people ride at a speed where there they leave no margin for error
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Ariel Badger · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Karma :

Pack mentality.
A group of three is all I ever ride in if I can help it.
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colin1 · Captain Safety Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Karma :

im not spoiling for a fight

just saying how things look to me

this quote was taken from the thread you think is unrelated

phk6 · Nearly there... Joined: 24 Apr 2006 Karma :

wish i was out today, i havent riden a bike since last monday.

but hey the ducati is coming tomoro Very Happy

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<shrugs..>

The trick is to do your recreational riding away from popular biking haunts...

And to treat the areas around them as 'Bandit country'.
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"Big bike small dick" Mr. Green

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"Small bike, no dick."

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Ariel Badger · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Karma :

This old dear is quite agile is she not? The poor old thing should take care as there are deer and motorcycles on the roads.
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Diggs · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Karma :

You have to watch those deer... I lived in Suffolk as a kid, and remember a friend's father collecting one on the bonnet of his SAAB 96 one night. It gave him quite a turn by all accounts, this amplified by the local plod confisticating the beast, stuffing it into the back of the local MkII jam sandwich and disappearing into the night... Rumour has it the Lodge dined well that weekend and the Head Waterbuffalo had new fancy-dress to play with...

We would ride like Bats out of Hell along the lanes on our silver-black phantom bikes (read Raleigh Runabout, Mobylette and CD175), and the bugger's eyes would follow you from behind every hedge. Occasionally one would break cover from the woods and you'd catch a glimpse of a tanned, muscular beast leaping only yards in front, then with a skittish flick of hoof it'd be gone again, to await the next spotty 14 year old on a crap bike in the dark...
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Ariel Badger · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Karma :

It were bloody elephants (or terrorists) when I lived in Zimbabwe those buggers (the jumbos) couldn't half sneak up on you considering their size.
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Diggs · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Karma :

I went for a stroll in Elephant Hills once, and I swear something was following me. I kept on turning round and... nothing! Just a faint flapping and a betrunked giggle...
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BlastThemAway · Renault 5 Driver Joined: 29 May 2007 Karma :

must be the area i'm in, but had a couple of groups pass me going the other way.

kept behind traffic nicely and wernt being a muppet at all.

just a nice friendly nod.

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Ariel Badger · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Karma :

Diggs · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Karma :

How could you possibly own up to spending time as a youth in 'Wankie'?

It was one of those 'overland in the back of a bumpy truck' holidays - 6 weeks in the company of pissed Aussies, randy scandanavians and whinging Brits...

'Elephant Hills' is a large hotel at Vic Falls, and the bush around was described as 'Elephant Hills' too, for us tourists. The land-mines were a bit of a nuisance if I recall...

Bulawayo was a swinging town from what I remember, but the most memorable night was spent on the Mozambique side. We got to the crossing after it had shut, and had to camp on the village tip as it was safer than the bush... beer at 10p per bottle listening to truckers humping whores whilst we dodged packs of wild dogs in our attempts to take a dump without losing a limb... Happy days!

Sod all about bikes though, for which I apologise...
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