Biker Down

[996 sps]

51 Year old biker died this morning on the A420 near Oxford, car driver has been charged with causing death by reckless driving as far as I know.

Be careful chaps!

[RemaL]

RIP BIKER DUDE

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Edited by RemaL on Tuesday 29th January 20:09

[G Man]

Yep this is a couple of miles up the road, I had to detour this morning.
The Buckland junction has loads of cars pulling onto the 420 without looking ... its already a 50 zone in the middle of nowhere

Sad

Gman

[doc3]

Biker was killed on the A1 near Peterborough yesterday, i had to cover it for work. Always makes me wonder why we do it. A feeling that doesn't really go away until the next time i get out on the bike.

RIP.

[Chilli]

Sad news indeed.
I understand another guy was killed on the A12 last week.
Not good news

[Dibble]

I should know better. I used to be TrafPol (still BiB), and went to more than enough fatals involving motorcyclists.

You're always going to come off worst in a car vs bike bump. As my Sergeant at the time used to say, "You can be a biker that's 100% in the right, but you're still 100% dead".

Sobering thoughts, but I still ride anyway. A colleague died last night (not someone I know, but from the same Division as me). Youngish healthy guy, just died in the night.

Carpe diem.

[slim_boy_fat]

Dibble said:

Sobering thoughts, but I still ride anyway. A colleague died last night (not someone I know, but from the same Division as me). Youngish healthy guy, just died in the night.

Carpe diem.

Your right no one knows the hour!!!

[Fire99]

Does make you think..

And definitely leave your pride at home when on a bike.

Deepest Sympathy to all affected by the accident.

[Dibble]

Fire99 said:

Does make you think..

And definitely leave your pride at home when on a bike.

Deepest Sympathy to all affected by the accident.

Sorry for the thread hijack.

It's got to be just about the worst bit of the job, the knock on the door in the middle of the night, then "Are you Mrs XYZ? I'm PC Dibble from the Road Policing Unit. I need to come in and speak to you please..."

[anonymous-user]

RIP to those that never made it through the day

Let's all remember how vulnerable we are and make sure we ride as safely as we can whilst still enjoying the last true bastion of freedom on the roads

[v-twins]

garyhun said:

RIP to those that never made it through the day

Let's all remember how vulnerable we are and make sure we ride as safely as we can whilst still enjoying the last true bastion of freedom on the roads

Loveley sentiment..

RIP.

Keep safe boys and girls.

[Chilli]

v-twins said:

garyhun said:

RIP to those that never made it through the day

Let's all remember how vulnerable we are and make sure we ride as safely as we can whilst still enjoying the last true bastion of freedom on the roads

Loveley sentiment..

RIP.

Keep safe boys and girls.

Absolutely.

[blade7]

Call me a softee, wimp or whatever but winter or even wet roads aren't for me now. I didn't take my car test until I was 22 and 5 years of all year riding was enough.

[97rsr]

RIP, . Going to take it easy in the morning, rode a bit too aggressively tonight, you know in that London traffic, thinking about it now only saved a few min's- gonna calm down out of respect.

[Chilli]

blade7 said:

Call me a softee, wimp or whatever but winter or even wet roads aren't for me now. I didn't take my car test until I was 22 and 5 years of all year riding was enough.

Know wht, I was always banging on about I'll ride through whatever weather....but these days I cn't be arsed. Ridig in sh!te is't enjoyable...it's hard work!!

I'm with you B7....prob for the very first time!!!

[blade7]

Chilli said:

blade7 said:

Call me a softee, wimp or whatever but winter or even wet roads aren't for me now. I didn't take my car test until I was 22 and 5 years of all year riding was enough.

Know wht, I was always banging on about I'll ride through whatever weather....but these days I cn't be arsed. Ridig in sh!te is't enjoyable...it's hard work!!

I'm with you B7....prob for the very first time!!!

Went out yesterday, first time for months. Sky looked clear, temp felt ok, but when I got out there I knew the roads weren't ready. Still hoisted a few though , and don't make a habit of agreeing with me chap, I have a rep to maintain.

[rsv gone!]

IKWYM about the surface. It looks slippery, you just can't believe you'll get any heat in the tyres and confidence goes to pot.

And the winds this morning! They were gusting the car so I wouldn't have fancied swapping places with the couple of bikers I saw!

[aeropilot]

Saw a biker down on the A40 yesterday morning driving to work....looked nasty, and another one this morning in almost the same spot, although this giying was sitting up at the side of the road so hopefully wasn't too bad....

On top of this passed what I pressume to have been a bike fatality on way home from work 2 weeks ago......

Really not sure I would want to commute on a bike.......even though I have toyed with the idea on numerous occasions.....