Near thing

[julianb]

I saw an absolute classic this morning.

Guy pulls out of a junction in front of me, plenty of time, not a problem, but he hasn't seen me. He gets halfway across the road and clocks me, then panics.

He lunges for the other side of the road to get out of my way, but the silly sod hasn't cleared the mist and condensation from his passenger side windows, and can't see the car coming towards us, and which is now almost directly in front of him. How he didn't manage to T-bone it I just don't know. You couldn't have got gnats cock between his bumper and the rear wing of the other car.

Of course, he got my best 'headmasterly' shaking of the head...

Edited by julianb on Friday 8th September 09:15

[s2ooz]

We are going to see a lot of thse again - its the time of the year, low angle of sunlight. go extra cautious around left side junctions folks.

[julianb]

Yep, I'm on 'high alert' at present!

S'funny, but you just know they're going to do it.

Oh and to the chap on the Fazer last night, and again this morning heading towards Oxford on the A420 (if you're reading this), just because I didn't want to race last night doesn't mean that you should sit on my rear wheel this morning, trying to make some sort of point...

Seems to be the only problem with my Orange & Black 600RR, every cock want to take it on. Sorry boys NFI.

Parked up alongside a beautiful Gixer thou yesterday. I really fancy one of those or the 750!!! Trouble is, those Honda boys really know how to screw a bike together. I don't know if I could switch allegiance so easily!

J.

[chilli]

s2ooz said:

We are going to see a lot of thse again - its the time of the year, low angle of sunlight. go extra cautious around left side junctions folks.

Point noted...Hadn't thought of this.

Cheers.

[eliminator]

Low sun - Arai Tour X - big peak - I can see! Now there's a first! No more holding my left hand up as a sunshade through the winter.

[apn]

Had a very similar thing a long time time ago, came round a corner to find a car pulling right out of a junction, she saw me and stopped in the middle, nowhere for me to go, trashed my MG. She was an old woman, the people in the houses of the road she was pulling out of were of a similar age, who alll came out and blamed me! One of them called the cops.
He arrived, said to me it's not your fault, then proceeded to tell her if she didn't admit responsibility, he would book her......for pulling right out of a no right turn!!!!

[King Herald]

s2ooz said:

We are going to see a lot of thse again - its the time of the year, low angle of sunlight. go extra cautious around left side junctions folks.

I've seen people driving with a small face sized 'portholes' scraped into the thick frost on their windscreen, but rear and side windows still totally obscured!!

It beggers belief that these clowns actually think it is acceptable and safe to drive like that. What sort of road seanse do they have?

[Pigeon]

I've had the same thing due not to poor visibility but to sheer numptiness. Car pulled out onto a roundabout in front of me, wouldn't have been a problem if the car had followed a normal acceleration profile. But the dappy cow suddenly sees me coming, slams the brakes on ( knows why she thought that was a good idea) and stops right in front of me blocking the roundabout. I wasn't on a bike, I was in a Morris Minor. Good job I know how to make the brakes work on a Morris Minor or she'd have collected me right in the driver's door. Then she looks at me all gone-out, shrugs and drives off. One of those occasions when you wish a police car had been around to see it.

[DennisTheMenace]

WEll the day a fell off the road in the vectra , earlier that day it nearly got t boned by a range rover , that had a load of boxes stacked on the passengers seat meaning he couldnt see feck all to his left hand side . its getting flippin dangerous out there chaps , even if your on 4 wheels , too many spackers on the roads