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While cruising down a certain road yesterday (dual lanes) at about 90k somebody in a four wheel drive decided 'he didn’t see me”.
I was in the left lane, he crossed the two parallel lanes to turn right, came to the centre divide didn’t stop, across the right lane straight into the left lane (my lane) .. You following?
I was full lock on the brakes and ended up going on off the road onto the dirt to go around him. This is the closest call I have ever had , my mirror just missed his car (or did he just miss my mirror) and just b4 pulling on to the dirt I thought that was the end of me.. I think the only thing that saved me was that he stayed to the right of the left lane giving me a little more room to play with. After locking the rear wheel trying to stop and figuring, there’s no way I’m going to stop I let off the brakes and headed for the dirt/grass on the Side of the road, then I started thinking if I bin the bike its going straight into a tree, maybe I’m going with it. Some how I managed t get back on the road.
As you would have expected I went mental! All he kept doing was pointing to his eyes and saying the famous words "I didn’t see you" .. like that’s an excuse .. I think the words "I didn’t LOOK" fit better.
What pisses me off is that these shows portray us as a threat to peoples lives. Ok the stuff we do with our bikes maybe dangerous, sometimes even stupid, but we don’t put motorist at risk? Surly only ourselves? 200 serious injured last year on motorcycles according to TT, are you saying all bikers do wheelies now? and just how many involved cars? Why didn’t TT show this .. oh o.. oh that’s right coz its the true and the true is not worth reporting.. Sorry I forgot.
Maybe PE should have changed the website to show stats of just how many people are killed by OTHER PEOPLE!! and just how many bikes have killed other motorist.
WE are not a threat to anyone but ourselves.
When we ride , we understand the risks involved and if we want to put our own safety at risk then, that should be our choice. What is wrong is when others put our safety at risk.. and this happens far to OFTER! Take the crappy drivers off the roads, the ones that drink drive, talk on their phones and "don’t see others".
If I had been killed yesterday would that be put in the news as:
1) My fault – I belong to PSB, therefore must have been doing something stupid
2) My fault – Because the driver didn’t see me?
Anyway just like to say to the driver, you’re a just another wanker who has a penis extension of a 4WD. To myself, OMG I survived, I really don’t know how I got out of that one. To ‘Today tonight’, when are we going to see a real story on the drivers that cause problems on the roads? To everyone on the forum.. thanks for letting me bitch
Nick
I was in the left lane, he crossed the two parallel lanes to turn right, came to the centre divide didn’t stop, across the right lane straight into the left lane (my lane) .. You following?
I was full lock on the brakes and ended up going on off the road onto the dirt to go around him. This is the closest call I have ever had , my mirror just missed his car (or did he just miss my mirror) and just b4 pulling on to the dirt I thought that was the end of me.. I think the only thing that saved me was that he stayed to the right of the left lane giving me a little more room to play with. After locking the rear wheel trying to stop and figuring, there’s no way I’m going to stop I let off the brakes and headed for the dirt/grass on the Side of the road, then I started thinking if I bin the bike its going straight into a tree, maybe I’m going with it. Some how I managed t get back on the road.
As you would have expected I went mental! All he kept doing was pointing to his eyes and saying the famous words "I didn’t see you" .. like that’s an excuse .. I think the words "I didn’t LOOK" fit better.
What pisses me off is that these shows portray us as a threat to peoples lives. Ok the stuff we do with our bikes maybe dangerous, sometimes even stupid, but we don’t put motorist at risk? Surly only ourselves? 200 serious injured last year on motorcycles according to TT, are you saying all bikers do wheelies now? and just how many involved cars? Why didn’t TT show this .. oh o.. oh that’s right coz its the true and the true is not worth reporting.. Sorry I forgot.
Maybe PE should have changed the website to show stats of just how many people are killed by OTHER PEOPLE!! and just how many bikes have killed other motorist.
WE are not a threat to anyone but ourselves.
When we ride , we understand the risks involved and if we want to put our own safety at risk then, that should be our choice. What is wrong is when others put our safety at risk.. and this happens far to OFTER! Take the crappy drivers off the roads, the ones that drink drive, talk on their phones and "don’t see others".
If I had been killed yesterday would that be put in the news as:
1) My fault – I belong to PSB, therefore must have been doing something stupid
2) My fault – Because the driver didn’t see me?
Anyway just like to say to the driver, you’re a just another wanker who has a penis extension of a 4WD. To myself, OMG I survived, I really don’t know how I got out of that one. To ‘Today tonight’, when are we going to see a real story on the drivers that cause problems on the roads? To everyone on the forum.. thanks for letting me bitch
Nick
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