Horse hit by motorbike

[Pachydermus]

Biker 1 said:

Of what??? Horses on public roads are a menace.

only to incompetent riders/drivers.

[omgus]

Biker 1 said:

desolate said:

Astonishing ignorance

Of what??? Horses on public roads are a menace.

You've come on here for an argument.

Stop doing a Donald and got start a specific argument thread in GG and i will happily come and call you all sort of names before comparing you to either a creationist or a nazi and then saying things about your parents simply as we have differing view on horses.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

omgus said:

You've come on here for an argument.

Stop doing a Donald and got start a specific argument thread in GG

GG has got to be the right place for equine related stuff.

[omgus]

I hadn't even noticed that.

[Willy Nilly]

SaraJ said:

It's ok, i feel 100% the same about motorbikes and push bikes, so the feeling is mutual.

Love from your resident horse owner & rider

(Just to add... I also feel that horses should not be on main roads in rush hour. I wouldn't ride my horses on a main road full stop, but that's just me)

When someone delivers your hay and you moan that it's too dusty, not dusty enough, too green, too brown or the string is the wrong colour, when you turn your back they do this

When you ring someone about the fence not working and they find it over grown, earthing out on everything you tied it too, the battery flat and the energiser lost in the weeds, they do this

When the people delivering your hay get you moaning about paying 3 quid for a bale that's delivered in small quantities, then hand balled across what amounts to an assault course and put into a dark shed with 200 trip hazards and you don't help because you are a girl, they do this

When people that keep livestock for a living and see you paddock festooned with that useless white electrical tape that never has any electricity flowing through it, infested with ragwort and littered with bath tubs and faded empty IBC's, they do this

When I drive up the farm track and there is a horse being walked toward me when they have a more suitable track running parallel to it and I can use that either because there is a horse being walked on that as well, I do this

When I am up to my arm pit in horse st to clean a drain out that you have let block up and offer no help, I do this

When I meet a 13 year old girl on the road, who is not yet old enough to ride a 50cc scooter and she is telling me to stop because she cannot control her horse, I do this

Horsey people are the laughing stock of the countryside, you are without doubt some of the most selfish, inconsiderate and down right rude people I meet, not all of you, but as a species, you are mostly an utter pain in the arse.

[C70R]

Biker 1 said:

SaraJ said:

It's ok, i feel 100% the same about motorbikes and push bikes, so the feeling is mutual.

Love from your resident horse owner & rider

(Just to add... I also feel that horses should not be on main roads in rush hour. I wouldn't ride my horses on a main road full stop, but that's just me)

I never heard of a dog eating a motorcycle....

Bikes certainly don't hold up traffic, do not need mucking out, do not ruin fields, DO serve a purpose other than a whim. & as for horse boxes/lorries driven at 5mph on busy roads.... I could go on, but won't, as there's not much point with such divergent views.
At least I keep my bike in its domain: roads, & you keep your horse in its: off-road

How tiresomely immature. Do pipe down, or take it to a thread where the OP isn't looking for help.

[Who_Goes_Blue]

Willy Nilly said:

Stuff

You forgot how they leave their horse's st all over the road as well

[omgus]

Willy Nilly said:

When someone delivers your hay and you moan that it's too dusty, not dusty enough, too green, too brown or the string is the wrong colour, when you turn your back they do this

When you ring someone about the fence not working and they find it over grown, earthing out on everything you tied it too, the battery flat and the energiser lost in the weeds, they do this

When the people delivering your hay get you moaning about paying 3 quid for a bale that's delivered in small quantities, then hand balled across what amounts to an assault course and put into a dark shed with 200 trip hazards and you don't help because you are a girl, they do this

When people that keep livestock for a living and see you paddock festooned with that useless white electrical tape that never has any electricity flowing through it, infested with ragwort and littered with bath tubs and faded empty IBC's, they do this

When I drive up the farm track and there is a horse being walked toward me when they have a more suitable track running parallel to it and I can use that either because there is a horse being walked on that as well, I do this

When I am up to my arm pit in horse st to clean a drain out that you have let block up and offer no help, I do this

When I meet a 13 year old girl on the road, who is not yet old enough to ride a 50cc scooter and she is telling me to stop because she cannot control her horse, I do this

Horsey people are the laughing stock of the countryside, you are without doubt some of the most selfish, inconsiderate and down right rude people I meet, not all of you, but as a species, you are mostly an utter pain in the arse.

Most of the Horsey people i know would agree with you about the kind of st owners you describe there. But if you are having all these issues, your either a mug or they are trying to fking annoy you. To have found all these happening with every horse owner ever is astounding.

• The lot i know would never moan at a good hay man. they are worth their weight in gold.
• They look after their own fences, in fact a few of them own the land the fences protect. And why would you need an electric fence for horses, that is not normal behaviour.
• Again - st owners, horsey lasses i know normally move to tack rooms themselves.
• Seriously, the biggest issue the fields used by my friends have is normally drainage, not Ragwort, no ragwort in the field, it ruins pets and polo ponies just the same so no Ragwort is left ever. The white tape is a simple way to block off part of a field, i've only ever seen it used to keep nags away from new growth, and subsequently keep nags away from laminitus (sp).
• I think they're just fking with you now on both points, either that or you really pissed them off sometime, or sensationalised this list (actually i thought it was a little poetically licensed at "littered with bathtubs").
• To be fair to this last point, all the best riders i know personally have come off one of the damn things at some point, normally because they couldn't control their horse about 5 seconds before they hit the ground, and 50cc scooters don't have brains and highly evolved hair-trigger flight mechanisms.

But agreed about st riders being out of their comfort zone being a bad thing, but i feel the same about weekends bikers on supersports machines, most nervous drivers near me and cyclists (mainly on fat bikes now) who have st road craft.

[Biker 1]

omgus said:

You've come on here for an argument.

Stop doing a Donald and got start a specific argument thread in GG and i will happily come and call you all sort of names before comparing you to either a creationist or a nazi and then saying things about your parents simply as we have differing view on horses.

Wow... I think if you refer back to a previous post I mentioned, horses (unfortunately) have a right to use roads as bikes/cars/etc do, so each to his own. I have no right to use a bridleway with a dirt bike, which seems unfair. I certainly didn't come here for an argument, & I don't recall calling anybody 'names'. I have to agree with the post by Willy Nilly though, particularly the last paragraph
So apart from salami/dog food, the only good uses for horses I can think of is Police riot/crowd control & helping people with disabilities.

[egor110]

Pachydermus said:

Biker 1 said:

Of what??? Horses on public roads are a menace.

only to incompetent riders/drivers.

You can add cyclists and runners to that list , they also have to give wide berth to horses.

It seems that essentially everything spooks horses, cars, motorbikes, bikes, runners everything .

[Hol]

Considering the amount of times a week, that I have to brake or swerve to avoid a Biker intent on emulating top gun with a late swoop from oncoming traffic into my lane, or perhaps coveting the 10ft max of braking space I have in front of me and the previous car, etc, etc....


...then yeah - they DO hold people up.


Individually, a second or two's delay each time, unless I miss a green traffic light, or clear road of traffic at a T-junction directly due to the bikers delay.
But [i[collectively[/i] I reckon its a LOT more seconds a year, than the 1 or 2 horses I encounter in 12K miles.


But, I keep schtum, get over it straight away and don't fairy up about it on a forum.

[McGraw]

Willy Nilly said:

When someone delivers your hay and you moan that it's too dusty, not dusty enough, too green, too brown or the string is the wrong colour, when you turn your back they do this

When you ring someone about the fence not working and they find it over grown, earthing out on everything you tied it too, the battery flat and the energiser lost in the weeds, they do this

When the people delivering your hay get you moaning about paying 3 quid for a bale that's delivered in small quantities, then hand balled across what amounts to an assault course and put into a dark shed with 200 trip hazards and you don't help because you are a girl, they do this

When people that keep livestock for a living and see you paddock festooned with that useless white electrical tape that never has any electricity flowing through it, infested with ragwort and littered with bath tubs and faded empty IBC's, they do this

When I drive up the farm track and there is a horse being walked toward me when they have a more suitable track running parallel to it and I can use that either because there is a horse being walked on that as well, I do this

When I am up to my arm pit in horse st to clean a drain out that you have let block up and offer no help, I do this

When I meet a 13 year old girl on the road, who is not yet old enough to ride a 50cc scooter and she is telling me to stop because she cannot control her horse, I do this

Horsey people are the laughing stock of the countryside, you are without doubt some of the most selfish, inconsiderate and down right rude people I meet, not all of you, but as a species, you are mostly an utter pain in the arse.

Don't most people hate their customers?