Stupid, or what...

[ribbit]

Sorry if this is in the wrong place, feel free to move it if it is

You know, there are some riders who give the rest of us a bad name by doing bl...y stupid things. I went down to Llanelli today, and was just going over the mountain by Crai reservoir, doing about 60, when a bike at the front of a bunch coming the other way overtook a car as I was approaching it - result was me diving for the verge, nearly sh*tt*ng myself. So, not quite a name and shame, but if you are the rider who did that, you are a fnunkin KNOB, and I award you tw@ of the week. Proof, if proof were needed:











Anybody recognise this test pilot hero?

[Deleted]

I hope you shared your thoughts with him.

[m40man]

If I see oncoming bikes I don't object if there's room for us to pass. Different matter if I haven't clocked them though, & wasn't sufficiently 'in' to allow a safe pass.

You wouldn't have liked a stretch of the A338 yesterday afternoon - a car did the same to me, to be fair with just about enough time to avoid a direct pass & to start his pull-in after the overtake. But the two cars following him didn't even see me - I hope, or else they didn't care - because they followed him. We were *that* close it was far too close. You don't have to be on a bike to be selfish.

[billywhizz]

impressive pictures... were you waiting with camera at the ready?

agree that seems a stupid overtake, and so late down the straight to !

[ribbit]

Jul 4, 2011 9:02:42 GMT billywhizz said:

impressive pictures... were you waiting with camera at the ready?

agree that seems a stupid overtake, and so late down the straight to !

lol, no - I had one of those HD helmet mounted cams and just lifted some stills off the video. Those five frames actually cover about half a second of time - I reckon we would have had a closing speed of over 100mph if he hadn't made it through. There wasn't a lot of room - my bike is 4ft wide

[ribbit]

Jul 4, 2011 6:51:34 GMT bev said:

I hope you shared your thoughts with him.

Had it not been so quick, and the fact I was trying to get as far left as possible whilst staying on the road, I certainly would have

[ribbit]

Jul 4, 2011 7:17:20 GMT m40man said:

But the two cars following him didn't even see me - I hope, or else they didn't care - because they followed him. We were *that* close it was far too close. You don't have to be on a bike to be selfish.

Did it come out in the wash?

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Jul 4, 2011 9:13:16 GMT ribbit said:

Jul 4, 2011 6:51:34 GMT bev said:

I hope you shared your thoughts with him.

Had it not been so quick, and the fact I was trying to get as far left as possible whilst staying on the road, I certainly would have

Sign language works well too.

[thehermitage99]

Hey up Ribbit...

impressive pictures.... I have thought about getting some kind of onboard video system... what kind did you use?

Bryan

[bigbuck]

Hi Ribbit, read this post yesterday and I agree with yo , there arre some real knobheads about. On my ttravels out and about today I saw what I thought was this bike as it is quite an unusual colour scheme in a council carpark in Caranaby near Bridlington, felt like leaving a sarcastic note under the seat but cant be too sure that it was the right one.
He needs a talking to the stupid twit and your right He or she do give us a very bad name.

Buck

[ribbit]

Jul 4, 2011 16:31:00 GMT thehermitage99 said:

Hey up Ribbit...

impressive pictures.... I have thought about getting some kind of onboard video system... what kind did you use?

Bryan

I was using this very camera:

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Tried it bike mounted but too much vibration, so it now lives on the side of my lid with the special shaped velcro mount that comes supplied with the cam. It's not a GoPro, but then again it didn't cost anywhere near as much as a GoPro.

[Deleted]

Had the same last week.

Great day out, no hassles with cage drivers, then heading home, came round a bend and got the same view as you did.

Now I was in slow mode as I was nearing the end of the day out, and had plenty of time to take avoiding action. Another 20-30mph and it would have been well dodgy.

Always disappointing when it's another biker acting like a knob.

[DahDit]

Jul 4, 2011 21:41:02 GMT @gordy said:

Always disappointing when it's another biker acting like a knob.

Another pillion put off biking for life?

[Deleted]

He may well have made a genuine mistake, I'm sure we've all done it.

[Deleted]

Jul 4, 2011 21:43:43 GMT DahDit said:

Jul 4, 2011 21:41:02 GMT @gordy said:

Always disappointing when it's another biker acting like a knob.

Another pillion put off biking for life?

I have to claim bragging rights for getting a scared pillion back on bikes.

Mags Canadian niece and her now husband had had a scare when he was trying to take evasive action and she took fright and caused him to nearly lose control. To be fair she's a radiographer and has seen bike accident consequences 100's of times.

We were heading up the west coast, she, her mum and Mags in a car, her hubby and me on bikes. Mags had her bike gear with her. We had stopped in Loch Carron, the sun was blazing down. The young girl was drooling over the scenery and really wanted to see it from a bike, so on went Mags gear and she hopped on with me.
We rode from there to Gairloch where she told hubby she'd go on a bike with him again if he traded his sports bike for one like her old uncles. Maybe it was the intercom we had on and me giving her a guided talk on the mountain names in my best Connery accent, but I was dead chuffed she wanted to have another go at the back seat.
She's now a mum of two, so it may be a while

[DahDit]

Jul 5, 2011 9:28:43 GMT @gordy said:

She's now a mum of two, so it may be a while

I don't think I'd ever want to join you on the back of a bike if that's what comes of it.






Seriously, good show.

[teejayexc]

Jul 5, 2011 9:28:43 GMT @gordy said:

Maybe it was the intercom we had on and me giving her a guided talk on the mountain names in my best Connery accent, but I was dead chuffed she wanted to have another go at the back seat.

The namesss, Gordon, Gordon Bickerton...

doesn't have quite the same ring to it somehow

[teejayexc]

Ribbit, was your route anywhere near this one?

Posted on another forum;

Last Sunday I rode down to Abergavenny to visit Dave, my FiL in hospital where he's laid up after his recent spill courtesy of an inattentive car driver. I took the route from Newtown which involves using the section of road from Newtown to Llandrindod Wells, a piece of road I generally avoid during the weekends as it's used by a number of people as a bit of a racetrack. I wish now I'd gone a different way as it was much worse than I ever recall it being before.
I'm sorry to say that a large proportion of the people on two wheels on that stretch of road on Sunday were a crowd of gormless inconsiderate w@nkers who could do with having their bikes confiscated and crushed in front of them, their licenses burned, and then restricted to nothing any bigger than a moped for the rest of their days.
A good example was represented by the bunch of 6 or 7 brainless sh!ts who came past me several times. They were doing 4 or 5 miles and then stopping at a layby (presumably for a willy comparison) before hammering off to the next layby. I'm not exaggerating when I say that every overtake I saw by every member of of this group of effing idiots was so dangerous and ill considered as to make me involuntarily avert my eyes from what I thought was going to be a really unpleasant accident. Brows of hills, blind bends, double whites, in the face of close and rapidly approaching oncoming vehicles, hanging off the back of cars with no possible escape route if they needed to change their minds about an overtake they'd just started. They must have frightened the living daylights out of any number of other road users.


I don't suppose that any of them (or any of the rest of the large number of riders behaving in similar fashion that day) are reading this but just in case you are, you are a bunch of brain dead 2hats with no obvious thought for anyone else but yourselves. If you wish to remove yourselves from the gene pool by smearing yourselves along a piece of tarmac then please do so. You'd be doing us all a big favour. But please go and do it where it won't involve injuring, killing or traumatising any innocent passer by whether on foot, two or four wheels and preferably get one of your mates to come and hose the road down and sweep away the remaing rubbish afterwards so that the emergency services don't have to waste their time carting your remains off to hospital or the morgue.

Must be the time of year for numpties

[ribbit]

Jul 5, 2011 15:48:09 GMT teejayexc said:

Ribbit, was your route anywhere near this one?

Posted on another forum;

Last Sunday I rode down to Abergavenny to visit Dave, my FiL in hospital where he's laid up after his recent spill courtesy of an inattentive car driver. I took the route from Newtown which involves using the section of road from Newtown to Llandrindod Wells, a piece of road I generally avoid during the weekends as it's used by a number of people as a bit of a racetrack. I wish now I'd gone a different way as it was much worse than I ever recall it being before.
I'm sorry to say that a large proportion of the people on two wheels on that stretch of road on Sunday were a crowd of gormless inconsiderate w@nkers who could do with having their bikes confiscated and crushed in front of them, their licenses burned, and then restricted to nothing any bigger than a moped for the rest of their days.
A good example was represented by the bunch of 6 or 7 brainless sh!ts who came past me several times. They were doing 4 or 5 miles and then stopping at a layby (presumably for a willy comparison) before hammering off to the next layby. I'm not exaggerating when I say that every overtake I saw by every member of of this group of effing idiots was so dangerous and ill considered as to make me involuntarily avert my eyes from what I thought was going to be a really unpleasant accident. Brows of hills, blind bends, double whites, in the face of close and rapidly approaching oncoming vehicles, hanging off the back of cars with no possible escape route if they needed to change their minds about an overtake they'd just started. They must have frightened the living daylights out of any number of other road users.


I don't suppose that any of them (or any of the rest of the large number of riders behaving in similar fashion that day) are reading this but just in case you are, you are a bunch of brain dead 2hats with no obvious thought for anyone else but yourselves. If you wish to remove yourselves from the gene pool by smearing yourselves along a piece of tarmac then please do so. You'd be doing us all a big favour. But please go and do it where it won't involve injuring, killing or traumatising any innocent passer by whether on foot, two or four wheels and preferably get one of your mates to come and hose the road down and sweep away the remaing rubbish afterwards so that the emergency services don't have to waste their time carting your remains off to hospital or the morgue.

Must be the time of year for numpties

My route was a bit further south, but a couple of weekends before, I was on that stretch of the A483 from Newtown to Crossgates, and I understand exactly what he means. It's such a cracking stretch of road that it's a big attraction, but the problem is that it attracts the knobs as well as the sensible bikers who want to enjoy the road, but legally. I've been witness to some shocking displays of ill judgement (or downright lunacy) along there. It's not worth saying anything, because they'd probably just sneer and say 'You're just jealous cos you can't keep up' or some other inane comment. Five words spring to mind.



No, not that five words......... 'Save it for the track'.