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That looks at a glance like plod.
Remarkably selective vision, car drivers.
Now, if it was a prerequisite to a car test was a bike licence...
I rode a white R80RT for a while, having previously owned a smoke red R100RT.
Car drivers (and I am one of those too) need to think about not killing people (other car drivers, cyclists, motorcyclist and pedestrians) in order to get to the next traffic light a few seconds quicker too.
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There's no "wrong side of the road" unless there's a traffic sign or white paint enforcing something. I'm perfectly capable of safely overtaking a car on a left hand bend on a rural road where the car driver has no view of what's coming the other way. Because my head is higher, I can see over the hedges. My positioning to the right means I can see my course is clear and safe.
The trouble is, not all motorcyclists are trained to do this safely and to know when not to even try.
Bikes are progressing vehicles- they are designed to get ahead of the traffic.
Clearly there are safe and unsafe ways of doing this but most car drivers don't understand what is safe or unsafe on a bike.
I actually think it is about ego- people don't like being 'beaten' by a bike.
I've had people yell at me for filtering, despite it being perfectly legal and the safest place to be.
I've had dicks in white vans turn their wheel to block the space between two cars purely to stop me from coming through- it is just arrogance and selfishness.
It seems to be more of a problem up north- people down south seem more chilled about it.
If we were all in cars then they'd get nowhere so imho they should stop being dickheads and just let us through.
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My one conclusive finding after many years of research is thus:
There are fuck heads on the roads.
Some of them drive motor vehicles, some of them ride bikes (either motorised or mechanical) and some do more than one.
I always think, that if you wouldn't react towards someone in a certain way whilst sharing a pavement, you shouldn't do it on the road.
Fat chance though, because fuck heads.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youThis wasn't meant to be a bike vs car thread.
Yeah, there are probably proportionally the same number of shit motorcyclists as car drivers but many more cars on the road.
I sometimes see bikes overtaking a car, on the right, that is indicating it'll go right - which is obviously shit motorcyclist.
I've seen cars intentionally narrow the gaps in traffic to stop bikes filtering. Sod that - I'd rather the more vulnerable user was *way* ahead of me, where I can't hurt them. Dick car driver.
I've noticed a general trend over the last 8 years or so that road users seem to be less patient and take more risk. I don't know why.
This isn't a driver vs rider argument, it is a normal person vs dickhead argument.
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No it isn't. It's a thread about stickers!
I still think "think bikiest" sounds righter.
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