I pulled out on bike!

[trackerjack]

I always make room for bikes and often get the little wave of thanks when I let them pass etc.
However.

6.30 this morning coming out of my road onto a 30 limit (old A3) looked right and noted a motorcycle with a small light and behind him a car they were a long way from my junction so out I came, but the bike was actually doing near 80mph so had to brake hard, he swerved round me and carried on at a ridiculous high speed and no doubt is telling his work mates about how stupid car drivers pull out in front of bikes, no wonder there are many bike deaths.

[EDLT]

trackerjack said:

I always make room for bikes and often get the little wave of thanks when I let them pass etc.
However.

6.30 this morning coming out of my road onto a 30 limit (old A3) looked right and noted a motorcycle with a small light and behind him a car they were a long way from my junction so out I came, but the bike was actually doing near 80mph so had to brake hard, he swerved round me and carried on at a ridiculous high speed and no doubt is telling his work mates about how stupid car drivers pull out in front of bikes, no wonder there are many bike deaths.

Careful, implying bikers can do wrong never ends well.

[Bill]

So it's ok you pulled out on him because you misjudged his speed?

[Uhura fighter]

Go Go Power Rangers.......

[Greg_D]

trackerjack said:

I always make room for bikes and often get the little wave of thanks when I let them pass etc.
However.

6.30 this morning coming out of my road onto a 30 limit (old A3) looked right and noted a motorcycle with a small light and behind him a car they were a long way from my junction so out I came, but the bike was actually doing near 80mph so had to brake hard, he swerved round me and carried on at a ridiculous high speed and no doubt is telling his work mates about how stupid car drivers pull out in front of bikes, no wonder there are many bike deaths.

if bikes didn't insist on pushing home their USP at every opportunity (ie speed and being able to thread in and out of traffic at will) then there would be, imo, 90% less deaths.

If they just followed the car in front then they would hardly ever crash, ergo it's their own bloody fault.

[thetapeworm]

Look... look again.... look again.... look again... then look some more... or something like that.

[fido]

Bill said:

So it's ok you pulled out on him because you misjudged his speed?

I don't think he's saying it's okay, but doing 80 in a 30 is asking for trouble ..

[PHmember]

thetapeworm said:

Look... look again.... look again.... look again... then look some more... or something like that.

Wasn't that a line in 'The King's Speech'?

[Bill]

fido said:

I don't think he's saying it's okay, but doing 80 in a 30 is asking for trouble ..

If it was 80...

[RJDM3]

The biker was driving like a tt end of story. The signs that are everywhere should read "think car" not "think bike"

[Webber3]

I wonder where you'd stand legally if the biker had hit you. Doing 80 in a 30 zone is madness.

[mikezs]

It was probably more like 100mph, and attempting to pass a road without getting hit by a car is just stupid.

[Prof Prolapse]

mikezs said:

It was probably more like 100mph, and attempting to pass a road without getting hit by a car is just stupid.

I see your point. Profiling is easier and more fun than engaging your brain!

I think he was doing at least 170mph actually and was on his way to sexually abuse a nun.

[HellDiver]

Ah, nice to see the leather clad middle-age crisis people all coming out of the woodwork to say the biker was justified in doing a gazillion mph on one wheel and that cars should be banned.

[antspants]

anonymous said:

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Either that or he's a Golf driver bored with slower non-motorised targets.

[Flanders.]

Webber3 said:

I wonder where you'd stand legally if the biker had hit you. Doing 80 in a 30 zone is madness.

Its almost impossible for someone to Judge the speed of which something goes past them.

[TrixR6]

mikezs said:

It was probably more like 100mph, and attempting to pass a road without getting hit by a car is just stupid.

You had a speed gun on you then?

[FraserLFA]

Flanders. said:

Its almost impossible for someone to Judge the speed of which something goes past them.

Someone on here can do it based on sound...

[anonymous-user]

Webber3 said:

I wonder where you'd stand legally if the biker had hit you. Doing 80 in a 30 zone is madness.

I would imagine after he had been villified in his local community and press for hitting a biker, the accident investigation team would deduce that the biker wasn't doing anywhere near 30 MPH, but no apology would be forthcoming to the OP from anyone

I wonder how this thread would have gone if it had been

'I pulled out on a guy in an Audi today, I saw him coming but never assumed he would be doing appx double the speed limit and he took the front end off of my TVR'

Instead the OP will be chastised for being a good driver who did check and observe a bike, but wrongly assumed the biker wouldn't take the piss and do huge speed past a junction

[eybic]

Certainly insurance wise if you had hit him it would have been your fault as you pulled out. I agree they do seem to put themselves in situations which increase the likelyhood of them being hit.