How do you cope with slow, dawdling, indecisive drivers?
Discussion
Mr Snap said:
Have you ever considered writing in sentences?
I think you mean paragraphs! Either way you've got a point...Out of interest, why, as a biker are you on a website dedicated to cars? I guess there maybe sections dedicated to them but I've certainly never seen anything related on the front page.
kayzee said:
I think you mean paragraphs! Either way you've got a point...
Out of interest, why, as a biker are you on a website dedicated to cars? I guess there maybe sections dedicated to them but I've certainly never seen anything related on the front page.
Honestly, I mean sentences. Sometimes he starts saying something then he wanders off into a completely different subject without even using commas to separate it out only to return to whatever it was he was saying before then going off on another totally pointless ranty digression about something else that turns out to be totally unrelated to whatever it was he was failing to explain clearly in the first place. If you get what I mean? Out of interest, why, as a biker are you on a website dedicated to cars? I guess there maybe sections dedicated to them but I've certainly never seen anything related on the front page.
Biker Banter: There are quite a few of us and some have even been known to drive cars (incredible, I know) ~ http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/forum.asp?h=0&a...
I'm here because, if you go onto a bike forum, they tend to talk about nothing but bikes and SMIDSY's. On here you get a greater diversity of subjects.
So Mr Snap From your various mindless bleatings we know the following about you.
1. You are not car driver,and have never held a car licence. Clearly you do not have to drive for a
living.
2. You ride a bike, but only do a microscopic 9000 miles a year.
3. You believe that people who want to travel at the legal limit are going `fast'
4. You believe the roads are for taking `slow relaxing drives' regardless of the effect this has on
other road users.
5. You seem to see no problem with slow dawdling indecisive road users, holding up large queues
of other road users (which can include emergency vehicles) who wish to travel at (at least) the
legal limit.
6. You say, you do not `hang about' What on Earth does that mean. 35mph in an NSL?
7. Are you seriously implying, that `you' cannot see what a vehicle, (circa)100 metres away) s doing
on the road in front of you. If that is the case, and either your eyesight, or predictive skills
are so poor, should you be operating any kind of vehicle (even a mobility scooter)on the public
highway?
I would be the the first to admit that my punctuation is poor, but I suspect nowhere near as poor as your attitude to using public roads, driving skill, and roads experience, but then I am not a writer, and drive for a living (and unlike you, average between 37000 and 42000 miles year)
So in summary, it seems you are a non car driving, bike rider, who only does very few miles a year (thank heavens!) and who has an ignorant, selfish attitude, to those who must cover large distances every day in the course of their business.
And for the record, I am not getting at all `het up, but must admit, I do get some frivolous enjoyment bantering with mental pygmies, such as yourself
1. You are not car driver,and have never held a car licence. Clearly you do not have to drive for a
living.
2. You ride a bike, but only do a microscopic 9000 miles a year.
3. You believe that people who want to travel at the legal limit are going `fast'
4. You believe the roads are for taking `slow relaxing drives' regardless of the effect this has on
other road users.
5. You seem to see no problem with slow dawdling indecisive road users, holding up large queues
of other road users (which can include emergency vehicles) who wish to travel at (at least) the
legal limit.
6. You say, you do not `hang about' What on Earth does that mean. 35mph in an NSL?
7. Are you seriously implying, that `you' cannot see what a vehicle, (circa)100 metres away) s doing
on the road in front of you. If that is the case, and either your eyesight, or predictive skills
are so poor, should you be operating any kind of vehicle (even a mobility scooter)on the public
highway?
I would be the the first to admit that my punctuation is poor, but I suspect nowhere near as poor as your attitude to using public roads, driving skill, and roads experience, but then I am not a writer, and drive for a living (and unlike you, average between 37000 and 42000 miles year)
So in summary, it seems you are a non car driving, bike rider, who only does very few miles a year (thank heavens!) and who has an ignorant, selfish attitude, to those who must cover large distances every day in the course of their business.
And for the record, I am not getting at all `het up, but must admit, I do get some frivolous enjoyment bantering with mental pygmies, such as yourself
Hertsbiker - There is a lot to be said for using a bike, in the sort of traffic that exists on UK roads now. But the people who `do' bikes `properly' are those who have pretty well grown up with them. if as some have said, motorists should get out of their cars, and onto bikes, the roads would possibly be littered with smashed bikes and their riders in a short space of time. Riding a bike `properly' relies on built up experience, skill, predictive thinking, and competence, (even more so than for driving a car!) and if a rider does not have those attributes in reasonable quantities, they probably wont last long?
Even some `born again' bikers can get themselves into trouble, if for no other reason, than the massive increase in performance of bikes now, from the bikes they `used' to ride.
I don't know if I have ever come across a slow, dawdling indecisive biker? (I have come up behind slow bikes, but even those were still doing the best they could to ride at the posted limit, their slow speed was really governed by the limitation of the bike, rather than the rider) but as posts here suggest, slow indecisive dawdling bikers, do exist!)
Unlike slow, indecisive' dawdling drivers, I use my my rear view mirrors, to register what is behind me, and would be concerned to find, that I was holding up, and causing delay, and disruption to a large queue of other road users, but `if' I did find myself in this position, I would either speed up, or get out of the way.
If I am in slow traffic, I actively pull over to make room for bikers to get through, which is usually acknowledged with a boot off the peg. I must admit when it is cold, wet, and icy I don't envy them, and they certainly don't need some idiot, who can`t use their rear view mirrors, stopping them from getting through the traffic, as fast as at least `they' can.
Even some `born again' bikers can get themselves into trouble, if for no other reason, than the massive increase in performance of bikes now, from the bikes they `used' to ride.
I don't know if I have ever come across a slow, dawdling indecisive biker? (I have come up behind slow bikes, but even those were still doing the best they could to ride at the posted limit, their slow speed was really governed by the limitation of the bike, rather than the rider) but as posts here suggest, slow indecisive dawdling bikers, do exist!)
Unlike slow, indecisive' dawdling drivers, I use my my rear view mirrors, to register what is behind me, and would be concerned to find, that I was holding up, and causing delay, and disruption to a large queue of other road users, but `if' I did find myself in this position, I would either speed up, or get out of the way.
If I am in slow traffic, I actively pull over to make room for bikers to get through, which is usually acknowledged with a boot off the peg. I must admit when it is cold, wet, and icy I don't envy them, and they certainly don't need some idiot, who can`t use their rear view mirrors, stopping them from getting through the traffic, as fast as at least `they' can.
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