scooter road rage pillock

[virgil]

went out riding for first non learner 'blast' Saturday and was last of the 4 of us...tagging along with an instructor taking out two students, when we came to a set of lights. three went through, but the lights had changed to amber and felt they would have def been red when I got to them so instinctivly stopped. Quick stop, but no e-stop and knew the car behind was a good distance so no danger to me.

Next thing I know is a 50ish year old bloke on an L-plated scooter comes skidding up and past me on the left, ending up just past the lights line, turnes to me and shouts "what the f*ck did you do that for you dcik?". I retort with "well it's a red light and you have to stop at them", to which he says "it was f*cking orange", to which I say "well, what does orange mean, you ccok?".

Now, I had time to stop...he was behind me, came no where near hitting me and he'd certainly have gone through a very red light.

Not sure if he was p!!sed with me cause he thought I nearly made him crash, or just made him look stupid because he wanted to run the 'amber/red' light and I showed him up?

I really don't see how some morons make it through life!!

Apart from that...great day!

[F.M]

sounds like a fool..he`ll probably be raspery jam before the year is out doing that...
On the road even small mistakes can be fatal will the heavy traffic on the roads these days..so keep up a healthy, sensible atitude when your riding..

[Steve_T]

Sounds to me like he'd made a totally flawed assumption you'd go the lights and left insufficient braking distance and/or had not been paying attention. All his fault and fortunate he didn't involve you.

Steve.

[virgil]

Cheers guys, makes me feel a bit better - felt like I was in the right, but sometimes you just never know!

[anonymous-user]

One thing ggoing through amber in a car, totally different on a bike... unless you do not value your life!!!!

[Steve_T]

garhun said:

One thing ggoing through amber in a car, totally different on a bike... unless you do not value your life!!!!

The other thing to watch out for, particularly in London it seems, is the number of muppets who shoot through Red lights. On a bike you are often at the front of the queue, an extra check for said muppets before you launch is well worth it.

Steve.

[virgil]

Steve_T said:

garhun said:

One thing ggoing through amber in a car, totally different on a bike... unless you do not value your life!!!!

The other thing to watch out for, particularly in London it seems, is the number of muppets who shoot through Red lights. On a bike you are often at the front of the queue, an extra check for said muppets before you launch is well worth it.

Steve.

Very true - I find this already with the TVR - because I can 'be over there' before most cars are even pulling away, you have to watch out for being 'too' quick. The amount of times I could have been half way down the road pulling away from a genuine green light only to have my progress blocked by some straggler/red light numpty is amazing!

[anonymous-user]

Steve_T said:

garhun said:

One thing ggoing through amber in a car, totally different on a bike... unless you do not value your life!!!!

The other thing to watch out for, particularly in London it seems, is the number of muppets who shoot through Red lights. On a bike you are often at the front of the queue, an extra check for said muppets before you launch is well worth it.

Steve.

[Nickccc]

No harm adopting the check at green lights, just cos it,s green doesn't mean someone won't come through.

[timmartin]

You wait untill you've been riding a bit longer, you kind of develop a 6th sense, a built in numpty detector.

Some days they all come out of the woodwork

[Ace-T]

Friend of mine at front of queue, bike pulls up beside him, lights turn green, bike pulls away. Biker gets taken out by complete ccokend jumping the red from the left (roundabout with lights). Biker rolls over car and my mate parks his car so that biker doesn't get squished by other cars. Calls all and sundry etc. Biker has broken shoulder I think.

Mate wasn't terribly keen me taking up biking just after that. However I assume all cars will pull out so I am planning my escape route before they have thought about crossing my path.

Keep sunny side up folks

Ace-T

[racefan_uk]

garhun said:

One thing ggoing through amber in a car, totally different on a bike... unless you do not value your life!!!!

Actually, they're both the same stupid thing to do.

It's because people don't obey traffic signs and lights and don't indicate and follow the highway code that there are so many accidents.

[anonymous-user]

racefan_uk said:

garhun said:

One thing ggoing through amber in a car, totally different on a bike... unless you do not value your life!!!!

Actually, they're both the same stupid thing to do.

It's because people don't obey traffic signs and lights and don't indicate and follow the highway code that there are so many accidents.

I agree - my point was the car driver will prob survive whereas the biker won't!!