Mind your head!
Discussion
For years I've ridden briskly and taught people to do the same safely too. I can't ride any more for varous reasons so took the car out for a hoon this morning instead.
I decided to do my old biking route, Bristol, Usk, Abergavenny for breakfast, Skenfrith, Monmouth, Wye Valley, home.
One thing I was mindful of before setting out was the propensity of a number of bikers to take (and exit) sharp right handers with their wheels just about on the white line.
You don't need to be smart to realise that puts the larger proportion of the bike and rider on the off side of the road and straight into oncoming traffic.
Good bloody job I drive ready to yield my visibility position in the car for a safety position then isn't it. I could have chalked up half a dozen of the dozy t
ts this monring. If I had been one of the many tractors or farm trucks (or indeed military trucks) out and about and filling their side of the road there would have been casualties.
If your mates ride like this, cuff them and send them on a course before they mess up my shiny paintwork
The rest of you, great to see lots of bikes out in the sunshine, I miss it...
I decided to do my old biking route, Bristol, Usk, Abergavenny for breakfast, Skenfrith, Monmouth, Wye Valley, home.
One thing I was mindful of before setting out was the propensity of a number of bikers to take (and exit) sharp right handers with their wheels just about on the white line.
You don't need to be smart to realise that puts the larger proportion of the bike and rider on the off side of the road and straight into oncoming traffic.
Good bloody job I drive ready to yield my visibility position in the car for a safety position then isn't it. I could have chalked up half a dozen of the dozy t
ts this monring. If I had been one of the many tractors or farm trucks (or indeed military trucks) out and about and filling their side of the road there would have been casualties.If your mates ride like this, cuff them and send them on a course before they mess up my shiny paintwork
The rest of you, great to see lots of bikes out in the sunshine, I miss it...
Edited by Six Fiend on Sunday 27th July 10:57
Chilli said:
Advanced training teaches you exactly this way of riding. Not one of my mates hasn't done advaced training...and it shows.
Also confused by your statement as I never taught anyone to ride with their head over the line in the wrong place in 15 years and the BiB didn't teach me to do it either
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