Originally Posted by Uber Dave
I totally agree with what you said, but I am not holding traffic
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I totally agree with what you said, but I am not holding traffic
Just to keep things in balance... I followed a moped this morning with his left indicator on for about a mile. He had no mirrors so couldn't see me but was keeping left, when the traffic picked up I went to overtake at the same time he meandered into the middle of the road.
I thought that was perfectly legal if not compulsory on a moped, in fact I keep my old Yam V50 specifically for meandering
I dont think so really, just increasingly crowded with everyone under more pressure to do so much in a day and do it so much quicker in all aspects of life. I think we all suffer from that.
I suspect getting back on a bike after a while just makes you more aware of it.
What I find really amazing is that we dont see more crashes and accidents due to people using mobile phones and I cant understand why the Police dont seem that bothered.
I dont think there is a time when any of us go out on our bikes when we dont see a driver texting or chatting away on a phone? It would be easy pickings for the Police.
No.
The problem is there are too many vehicles, too much road signage/traffic calming measures and badly designed roads.
Say on a journey you pass 100 cars. You see 2 examples of bad driving.
When you finish you will inevitably moan about only 2% of the traffic you encountered (probably generalising about them being cars/lorries/women or from an ethnic background) and ignore the fact that 98% of the people you passed did absolutely nothing wrong.
You will also ignore your own mistakes "well, it was only a one off"
I don't think driving is worse I just think there are more selfish, holier than thou, a.holes around.
Same with anything and a very good point. If you go on any forums to research a car/laptop/camera, in fact any product at all the internet is full of negative things. When was the last time any of us rang up a company, say your mobile company or insurer to say thanks, but we are on the phone in a flash to slam them.
Just thinking if you want to complain about bad driving standards of people forget about it when you can send off a form to have a provision license that means all you need is insurance and a qualified person beside you to drive around and there's few road accidents makes me laugh. There's a lot of people that don't understand how a vehicle can be a death trap at speeds the human body can't cope with theirs no reason why a person should drive as the person behind him thinks he should we all like to think that we are right and we was told by someone who is not there how to act and what we should or shouldn't do without the fact that we are all different in needs from time to time and should know that everyone needs respect to function in there own conference
Like most areas during these times of austerity the courier business is very competitive and everyone is squeezed on margins. There are thousands of delivery drivers of vans (and bikes) out there who are paid in part or in full on a commission basis per drop/delivery. Feeling tired after spending a busy day negotiating congested roads and trying to squeeze that one extra delivery in? All the ingredients for an accident just waiting to happen.
Followed a car today for about 10 miles that had windscreen wipers set on intermittent. It was completely dry out
How bad a driver would you have to be not to notice the wipers being on???
I find it difficult to leave on my indicators on my 1949 AJS.... my arm gets sooo tired
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