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Davenaylor
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PostPosted: 20:03 - 08 Mar 2014    Post subject: Cool story bro Reply with quote
I went for a ride today to wear in my new rear tyre on the sprint st1050. Not going silly but not hanging about.

Going down the b6108 in North Yorkshire. Long right hander with tall bushes on the side of the road. I'm looking through the bushes see what's coming and I see a solid looking thing. I eased off and as I came round the bend I was greated by a big farmers trailer parked on the bend in the middle of my lane. It has split animal feed all over the road and it's wheel had fallen off. I had the bike lent over and if I stayed there I was going down, the pellets were like marbles!
I managed to sit the bike up and aim straight for the back of the trailer. I stopped about 1 millimetre from the back of it after the bike slipped about under me.

My god did i poo! I rang 102 and told the police it was dangerous and they sent someone out.

So, cool story bro, quite chuffed I survived and thank fook for ABS.
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PostPosted: 20:07 - 08 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
This is why I hate rural roads. I had a similar thing happen with a hedge cutting tractor, but managed to stop with a fairly safe gap
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PostPosted: 20:08 - 08 Mar 2014    Post subject: Re: Cool story bro Reply with quote
Davenaylor wrote:
I went round a corner far too fast and didn't ensure that I could stop within my sight line.

I shat myself when I realised what a twat I was.


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PostPosted: 20:09 - 08 Mar 2014    Post subject: Re: Cool story bro Reply with quote
Nobby the chihuahua wrote:
Davenaylor wrote:
I went round a corner far too fast and didn't ensure that I could stop within my sight line.

I shat myself when I realised what a twat I was.


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But I did stop
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PostPosted: 20:10 - 08 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bloody farmers....
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Davenaylor
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PostPosted: 20:14 - 08 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
I made a snap decision to pick the bike up and brake hard. How is that luck? I was under the speed limit and using the break in the bushes to see further around the bend. I had already seen the danger before I arrived at it plain sight.
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PostPosted: 20:21 - 08 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
If you saw something solid, why didn't you begin to stop, rather than just easing off as you described?
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PostPosted: 20:22 - 08 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Agree with the OP.

Rural roads are almost impossible to plan ahead to the same extent as other roads. They can be so full of randomness, even experience doesn't guarantee safety.

In the same situation, I'd probably have ended up in a hedge spending the evening e-baying for cheap plastics and a new jacket.....
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PostPosted: 20:23 - 08 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Jonathan A wrote:
If you saw something solid, why didn't you begin to stop, rather than just easing off as you described?

I stopped about 4 seconds after seeing. Had I not seen, I would have binned it.
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PostPosted: 20:40 - 08 Mar 2014    Post subject: Re: Cool story bro Reply with quote
Davenaylor wrote:
So, cool story bro, quite chuffed I survived and thank fook for ABS.

Glad you escaped unscathed. Tractors, landrovers, farm equipment parked any old how - rural roads demand respect!
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PostPosted: 20:56 - 08 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Good job. Thumbs Up

How long were you stuck on-site flagging down traffic before Dibble turned up?
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PostPosted: 21:04 - 08 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rogerborg wrote:
Good job. Thumbs Up

How long were you stuck on-site flagging down traffic before Dibble turned up?


I'm ashamed to say I wasn't. I would have been squished in the location I was in so I called it in instead. I should have done though so flame away. Confused
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PostPosted: 21:11 - 08 Mar 2014    Post subject: Re: Cool story bro Reply with quote
Nobby the chihuahua wrote:
Davenaylor wrote:
I went round a corner far too fast and didn't ensure that I could stop within my sight line.

I shat myself when I realised what a twat I was.


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Who are you, the self appointed forum safety womble?
You weren't there, so you know fcuk all, other than what the OP stated!
OP stopped, you're wrong, watch you don't fall off your high horse while you're on it! Rolling Eyes

Where do you learn this bollox?
If we all took that attitude no one would leave their own, fcukin' driveway, FFS! Middle Finger
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PostPosted: 21:21 - 08 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Davenaylor wrote:
Rogerborg wrote:
Good job. Thumbs Up
How long were you stuck on-site flagging down traffic before Dibble turned up?

I'm ashamed to say I wasn't. I would have been squished in the location I was in so I called it in instead. I should have done though so flame away. Confused

Nah, we're good. Most people wouldn't. I have, and I haven't. We're a right bunch of twunts, people.
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PostPosted: 21:37 - 08 Mar 2014    Post subject: Re: Cool story bro Reply with quote
The Highway Code says "Stopping Distances. Drive at a speed that will allow you to stop well within the distance you can see to be clear."

I'm not sure a 1mm gap counts as "well within". I'm not saying I take every single corner perfectly myself but if I hit some stationary object that's hiding around a corner, that's my fault.
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PostPosted: 21:43 - 08 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Don't forget I skipped across a load of animal pellets. Without them on the road I wouldn't have had a problem.
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PostPosted: 22:59 - 08 Mar 2014    Post subject: Re: Cool story bro Reply with quote
covent.gardens wrote:
The Highway Code says "Stopping Distances. Drive at a speed that will allow you to stop well within the distance you can see to be clear."

Having been on a ride out with IAMers, apparently once you're an Advanced Rider you get some sort of Superman X-Ray Vision that lets you see round bends, over hill crests and so on.
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PostPosted: 23:11 - 08 Mar 2014    Post subject: Re: Cool story bro Reply with quote
covent.gardens wrote:
The Highway Code says "Stopping Distances. Drive at a speed that will allow you to stop well within the distance you can see to be clear."

I'm not sure a 1mm gap counts as "well within". I'm not saying I take every single corner perfectly myself but if I hit some stationary object that's hiding around a corner, that's my fault.


Something tells me you don't do a lot of riding in the lanes, certainly not in the South West at any rate. If I rode down the lanes here as dictated by the highway code I might just as well sell the bike and walk everywhere, it'd be quicker!!!

When the OP says: ' I eased off and as I came round the bend I was greeted by a big farmers trailer parked on the bend in the middle of my lane. It has split animal feed all over the road and it's wheel had fallen off', is he actually blaming someone else - it reads to me like a statement of fact. Now had he said 'some fuc*ing wan*er farmer left his load in the lane and pis*ed off for a cup of tea' then, just maybe, you could read it as laying the fault squarely at someone else's feet. But he didn't Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 23:14 - 08 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Davenaylor wrote:
Don't forget I skipped across a load of animal pellets. Without them on the road I wouldn't have had a problem.


That would be the luck that Nobby was on about.
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