Maniac Biker

[Blademanx]

By grassing him up you would doing him and other motorists a favour. Ive seen bikers who respect lane discipline. To the untrained eye they look like they are scared to overtake. But thats not the case. With Cyclists I tend to stay well back. When they come weaving through in traffic I always move out of the way so they dont clip my car or wing mirror.

The last thing you want to see is a bike go through a windshield killing another driver!

 

[LimitedSlip]

I haven't seen this particular biker's riding myself, but...

Not everyone that travels very quickly is bound to die or come a cropper, or hurt anyone else. It is not the absolute certainty often painted. Would Valentino Rossi be an accident waiting to happen if he rode at these speeds... unlikely.

I appreciate that fast riding like this angers many people and of course it's highly illegal. Doesn't mean some aren't capable of it.

It's a sensitive area, and I don't know the answer in this case having not seen the riding, but I'm not very enthusiastic about this burgeoning British thing of "tell,tell...!"

 

[CE230]

I haven't seen this particular biker's riding myself, but...

Not everyone that travels very quickly is bound to die or come a cropper, or hurt anyone else. It is not the absolute certainty often painted. Would Valentino Rossi be an accident waiting to happen if he rode at these speeds... unlikely.

I appreciate that fast riding like this angers many people and of course it's highly illegal. Doesn't mean some aren't capable of it.

It's a sensitive area, and I don't know the answer in this case having not seen the riding, but I'm not very enthusiastic about this burgeoning British thing of "tell,tell...!"

Rossi and others may well be capable of high speed riding but if caught out by the sudden swerve of a towed caravan with the driver falling asleep, at those speeds he and possibly others will die.

I have ridden bikes that are capable of very high speeds and have ridden at illegal speeds (Long ago) but it's not something that I would care do to in current traffic conditions.

I don't like the idea of "tell, tell" either but if it saves a life I would.

 

[219]

Bringing this thread back from the mists of time - the biker in question would appear to have got his come uppance today .

I never did report him to the police - it was a busy night at the RPU and it still didn't seem right 'grassing him up' .

Anyway , this morning I was held up in a lengthy traffic jam ; I knew there were roadworks and lane closures on the M8 near the airport , but this was worse than usual . Weather conditions were pretty bad , with very heavy rain and a lot of surface water on the roads . I phoned in to say I would be late and was informed there had been an RTC but it was just about clear and delays shouldn't be much longer .

By the time I got down to the roadworks , traffic was beginning to flow , but there in lane 3 , which was coned off for the roadworks , was this bike standing on its side stand . I recognised the number straight away and knew it was the same one I had seen being ridden inappropriately so many times : it looked OK from behind , but as I drew alongside I could see the front fairing was all smashed up and the headlamp was gone .

Don't know what happened or if anyone was hurt , but there we are .

Saw a further RTC on my way in with a car being winched out of an embankment just at the start of the M74 - so it was a morning for crashes .

 

[DJC013]

Hello, have to agree with your last post, recently reported in my local paper was a biker caught doing 109 mph in a 60 mph zone, and then doing 90 mph in a 30 mph zone !

I ride a bike as well, just think that riding like that gives all bikers a Bad Rep !!

 

[Ted]

Welcome to the school of hard knocks.
I hope he is not too badly hurt - just enough to learn the necessary lessons, and, if he should return to motorcycling, to treat all road users with the respect and courtesy that he too deserves.

Unfortunately though it will almost certainly be the car drivers fault - should have seen him as he was weaving through the traffic, don't they know that a bike takes longer to stop in the rain? Bloody car drivers - useless all of them.
Still, another tale of derring-do to bore his mates at the pub as he makes his recovery.