God Damn Farmers

[Yeti]

I was on my way home from my girlfriends house tonight on my NSR, taking it easy, it was wet. Went to go round a corner doing about 35 going steady! in the middle of the road was a large pile of shit of some description. Anyway lost the bike ended up in a hedge! bike hit a wooden post and took out the headlight two indcaters and a large chunk of my nose fairing! I now have a large bruise on my shin and two very swollen bruised fingers for my troubles! im just happy that there wasnt more damage done to the bike and me for that matter! anyway god damn those farmers!

Take it easy out there everyone its so easy to come off at the moment
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[Shaun]

You can claim off the farmer, unfortunateley this is quite difficult, I'm sure keith will post more about this since I know he has had a run in ith a farmer!

[Dan 4RR]

[Frost]

I've had this a fair few times, really pisses me off
But thats the price you pay for living int he country and having nice roads to loon about on i suppose.

Normally i ride where the car's left hand side wheels go when there is shit ont he roads. I hate riding in the gutter, but its better that than bouncing down the road on your arse

[Annabella]

Damn!

Unlucky my dear... Nothing anyone could have done to avoid it, I sympathise entirely and will back your loathing of farmers
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[Yeti]

[Visitor Q]

my mate came off on a corner on... grain.

Went there a day later AFTER they had sweeped it, and it was still everywere.

Fucking bumpkins.
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Yes I came off on a load of crap on the road left by a farmer.

Basically told that I can try taking him to court but that I could well loose and get hit for his costs. The law changed to make it easier to claim, about 3 months after he had me off the bike.

https://www.alfa-pages.co.uk/bentbim.htm

All the best

Keith
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[dodsi]

Loads of farmers around here cutting hedges and leaving big piss off thorns everywhere!

Driving muddy tractors on the road and dropping shit everywhere! (what would it take to give them a quick pressure wash?)

look after yourself as no fucker else will!

[K!K @]

Sorry to hear about your accident man.
Hope you get well soon.
cant say ive had a lot of problems with farmers except them riding there damn tractors on busy "fast" roads. But im sure its still annoying.
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[Yeti]

I have to say keith the road wasnt quite that bad! that looks like a death trap! hard to ride along it with out falling off by the looks of it! It is nice to know that im not the only one though!
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[Josh|RD125LC]

Damn Keith that road is f*ckin nasty. Crap all over the place. Did you come off straight away? I hate farmers. I live right next to Cornwall and its not nice
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[JonB]

[Yeti]

Yep and its usually the one where the framer is driving about in his brand new land rover. They can afford to buy them but cant afford a clean up on the farm every now and again!
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[JonB]

We all know they would rather be milking a cow than cleaning up the roads, it always seems to occur to me that the "Mud on Road" signs tend to be drawn out by their 5 year old daughter aswell.
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[dodsi]

"Mud on the road" i want to stop and put a sign under it saying "well stop making shitty signs and spend the time cleaning the fucker up"

[Yeti]

[dodsi]

Problem is by the time you have de-cyphered the sanscript on the signs you are on your arse when you realise "aah yeah mud on road"

[Retro-Man]

https://www.norfolk.gov.uk/transport/roads/mudontheroad/farmerguidance/default.htm


the problem is nobody can be bothered to report them, if every motorist bike or car reported every event then the authorities would land heavy on offenders if only to stop the fucking phone ringing constantly.
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[Josh|RD125LC]

I have had a few close shaves with sand and cement near construction sites and house refurbishments. Fell off twice because of sand and cement in a back lane near me. Also nearly fell off on mud near a construction site where dump trucks had been. They don't give a sh*t about us bikers
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[Jrod]

It's the same with alot of things "If it doesn't affect me who gives a f*ck."
People with this attitude really piss me off.

[stinkwheel]

Mind you, it isn't easy for them. Speaking as someone who works on farms a lot, I don't know how the guy is supposed to drive his tractor out of a field at this time of year, especially when it is so wet, without getting mud on the road.

You also have to bear in mind that a herd of cows being kept indoors produces a hell of a lot of shit. It has to go somewhere and that somewhere is spread on fields. One of our big dairy farms employs a tractorman full time to spread slurry. This means he has to go in and out of fields maybe 50 times a day. Similarly, he has a herd of 200 dairy cattle which have to cross the road four times a day, every day to be milked.

There ARE some who take the complete piss and have their road looking like a dirt track but I see a certain amount of mud and shit on the road in a rural area as inevitable and pretty much unavoidable with the best will in the world. Most farmers take a pride in the appearance of their farm and the area around it and will do as much as practical to keep it tidy, they can't be expected to clean up every tiny bit of mud that drops off their tractor though.

You need to learn to anticipate the road conditions and ride accordingly.

There are a lot of people who do not understand the amount of work it takes to run a modern farm and make a living at it...As to the signs, well a lot of my clients can't read or write.

As I say, some farmers take the piss and should be taken to task about it, but most try their best. It is like people who phone the council to complain about the smell of a farmer spreading muck but still expect to be able to have milk on their cornflakes. Until the day that someone breeds a cow with no arsehole, you can't have one without the other.

Just my oppinion.
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[Yeti]

I have been out this morning to have a look at the damage and have a some pics
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