Trev
17-08-13, 07:48 PM
3) MOST ACCIDENTS ARE CAUSED BY CAR DRIVERS
While most car drivers are dozy, slow-witted, ignorant and myopic, they at least tend to follow predictable patterns of behaviour. Called ‘The Highway Code’. In fact most car drivers follow it unwaveringly, so plotting a route round them on your nimble bike is a doddle. Only problem is when they stop behaving in an orderly fashion and go rogue. It makes them hard to predict.
But most bike accidents don’t involve cars. They involve other bikes. Police accident statistics show by far the most dangerous thing you can do on a bike is ride in a group (although, to be fair, seeing as most bikes travel in a group, that’s what they would show). Accidents involving cars also come behind solo accidents, in which no other vehicle is involved.
It's us goddammit and the sooner we admit it, the safer we'll be.
Read more: http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-top-10s/the-top-10-motorcycling-myths/23232.html#ixzz2cFjvNIjA
Just read the above on the Visordown forum and after having the pleasure of getting caught up earlier today in a 'demonstration' ride group of bikings finest it doesn't surprise me at all. I was 'making progress' on a notoriously accident prone stretch of road between Salisbury and Ringwood this morning, a mixture of national limit, 40's and 30's and got mixed up in a group of about a dozen riders (some two up) out on a jolly.
Only one or two paid any heed to speed limit through villages or double whites and far too many overtook based on the rider ahead of them going for it rather than the actual circumstances or their own powers of observation. Road positioning was awful for most and over about a 8 mile stretch several cars (and a lorry on one occasion) had to adjust their position/speed to accommodate my two wheeled brothers (and sisters?). Cringeworthy but interesting to watch, I must be getting old 'cos would probably have admired these 'dudes' when I was 17
While most car drivers are dozy, slow-witted, ignorant and myopic, they at least tend to follow predictable patterns of behaviour. Called ‘The Highway Code’. In fact most car drivers follow it unwaveringly, so plotting a route round them on your nimble bike is a doddle. Only problem is when they stop behaving in an orderly fashion and go rogue. It makes them hard to predict.
But most bike accidents don’t involve cars. They involve other bikes. Police accident statistics show by far the most dangerous thing you can do on a bike is ride in a group (although, to be fair, seeing as most bikes travel in a group, that’s what they would show). Accidents involving cars also come behind solo accidents, in which no other vehicle is involved.
It's us goddammit and the sooner we admit it, the safer we'll be.
Read more: http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-top-10s/the-top-10-motorcycling-myths/23232.html#ixzz2cFjvNIjA
Just read the above on the Visordown forum and after having the pleasure of getting caught up earlier today in a 'demonstration' ride group of bikings finest it doesn't surprise me at all. I was 'making progress' on a notoriously accident prone stretch of road between Salisbury and Ringwood this morning, a mixture of national limit, 40's and 30's and got mixed up in a group of about a dozen riders (some two up) out on a jolly.
Only one or two paid any heed to speed limit through villages or double whites and far too many overtook based on the rider ahead of them going for it rather than the actual circumstances or their own powers of observation. Road positioning was awful for most and over about a 8 mile stretch several cars (and a lorry on one occasion) had to adjust their position/speed to accommodate my two wheeled brothers (and sisters?). Cringeworthy but interesting to watch, I must be getting old 'cos would probably have admired these 'dudes' when I was 17