Idiot car drivers...

[Snorty]

Rolling forward towards a roundabout, looking right, no gap to take, so I stop. Look in my mirrors, and this car is getting bigger and bigger in my mirrors until *BANG* bloody drives into me the retard.

Can't have been going that fast as even the momentum of a 10mph car would have knocked me off, brake or no brake, I'd wager. Turn round and he's just giving the the apology gesture. Luckily tyre sticks out further than rear fairings and plate! No damage.

This is what you've got to contend with these days!
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Current: Yamaha FZ1 '07 | GSXR 750 SRAD

Past: CB125TDC | TZR125 | GPZ500 | CBR600F3 | ZX9-R | GSXR1000 K4

[waffles]

That happened to me on the first ride on my xr afte rebuilding the engine. Woman in a Ford Ka punted me off but the bars twisted round and jabbed me right in the chest. I got an ECG done of my heart at the hospital which was pretty cool if a little embarrassing.

It seems that many people approach a roundabout without actually looking at it.
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Past rides Yamaha XT125X, Triumph TT600, Honda XR250
Current rides Suzuki GSXR 600, Honda MSX125

[Snorty]

It's a really busy roundabout, not the kind you can just look as you come along, there's so much going on you have to stop and take all the information in. Terrible roundabout, I feel sorry for cagers who have it on their commute.
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Current: Yamaha FZ1 '07 | GSXR 750 SRAD

Past: CB125TDC | TZR125 | GPZ500 | CBR600F3 | ZX9-R | GSXR1000 K4

[fox]

Sounds like the driver was paying more attention to looking for a gap to get on the roundabout than what was going on in front of him.
Same thing happened to my instructor on my test. He was following behind the examiner as it was a new route. Come up to a junction. Both me and the examiner went when there was a gap. My instructor waited but the car behind him had other ideas. All I saw in my mirror as I disappeared up the road was my instructor with his legs in the air.
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Sold: 2003 satin black Yamaha R6
Current rides: 2006 blue Triumph Sprint ST 1050, 2003 Yamaha WR450F

[clancy]

This happened to a woman I worked with a few years ago, it was a van behind didn't stop and hit her. Oddly, where it was a van it slightly rolled up onto the rear wheel and lodged it in place, so she got punted but was stuck upright

I always hate slowing for roundabout, especially when you can see old people in the car behind you. I saw one trying to reverse out of a 5 way junction yesterday, that was funny
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KLX 300r

[Rogerborg]

Somewhere in my pile-o-bits, I have a brake light modulator intended to be fitted to a secondary brake light in order to make it start flashing like mad after a few seconds of being held on.

I should reeeeally fit that...
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[Kierran]

My new brake light does that. Pulses 3 times then holds steady with every press of the brake
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Current Bike - GSXR 750 K5
Current Car - BMW 318i

[Vracktal]

Ouch. Check that the shunt hasn't put your rear wheel out of alignment and messed with the chain tension.
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2007 BMW R1200R: On road
2009 BMW G650X Challenge: On road
1975 Norton Commando 850: Off road, awaiting recommissioning

[esullivan]

[Walloper]

[Sload]

Something in the air recently. This week alone I have used my horn more then in all the preceding years of ownership combined.

Capped off with nearly running over a complete mong today who walked straight out in front of me whilst lighting a cig. Proceeded to give me double Vs whilst pulling a retarded expression. Would have been pissed if not for laughing at the twit (Was a proper chav woman).
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[Lord Percy]

On the talk of pulsing brake lights... I often tap my brake a few times to do the whole 'flashing' thing for greater visibility when needed, particularly, for example, when a stretch of motorway suddenly slows to 40mph and there are loads of fast cars behind me. Aw yeah, fulla wisdom me

[clancy]

[Vincent]

It's wierd this gets mentioned, I was only thinking today about how young lone female drivers seem to have taken over from mini-cab drivers as the countries largest bike assassins group
Not the young mums driving the half mile to pick up little "Victoria" in the massive Four x Four that blocks everyones vision - (the same Four x Four that has the child seat on the off side to encourage dis-embarkation into the middle of the road, or parking facing the wrong way...... all so mum doesn't have to walk around to the other side).......no, not that one, this is another "group", possibly growing in numbers over the last few years and out for the kill. The car is normally a non-descript "Euro Budget" effort - clean but cheap. The drivers are eyes straight forward....all the time, the head never turning, or eyes blinking.......hands gripping the wheel for grim death and a posture that would put a gymnasts back out.

Look out
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