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05-10-18, 01:40 PM
Just beginning to get some confidence back when...
Ashton by pass ( A 370 ) into Bristol, drifting down the outside lane and closing on 2 cars on the inside lane. The front one of these suddenly tries a u-turn, can't get into the outbound carriageway and ends uip broadside and stationary across one and a half lanes. Frightened me sick.
Sh*t, sounds like they are out to get you lately!!
take care out there
sounds like a typical day in the life of a biker, i do hope you gave them a demonstration of your grasp of expletives lol
Originally Posted by Trev_P
I learnt lotsa new words when I took up biking, and hand signals.
Sounds frightening. Why couldn’t they wait for a roundabout? Sounds like you left youself good space. I’m paranoid about drivers when on the bike, always feel invisible to them and cover the lights, horn and front break when passing/passing junctions. Just don’t want them to pull out into me.
I went though a safety man stage a year or so ago and wore a high viz helmet, jacket and gloves, made no difference whatsoever, it just gave me something to point at angrily when people tried to kill me.
Now I just have high viz cameras front and back on the bikes and that seems quite effective which shows that 99% of the time it's not that they don't see you, it's that they don't give a toss.
most car drivers only drive the bonnet, nothing else on the road exists, as for feeling invisible to them - thats because you are. it's one reason i like to have exhausts that can be heard coz if they cant see you they can hear you (well most of the time)
Didn't we all
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