Silver_Surfer:
Slow vehicles should keep to the left. The road was a mile wide.
Looked like there were Chevrons painted on the left handside of that single lane to me, I’m led to beleave that road markings when wet are very slippery. That lad was bullied by the Jag Driver because the Jag Driver knew he was in the wrong, he came straight out of the car and just started until Scooter Boy gave up . ■■■■■■
Jag driver’s a complete arrogant tosspiece! Just say the moped lad could’ve been over to the near side a little more (which I’m not really btw, as he’d just exited a roundabout from the right hand lane, but I guess maybe he could’ve been). The point is, he WASN’T! Just because maybe the [zb] Jag driver thought he should’ve been, doesn’t mean he can do the manoeuvre anyway! He’s more or less saying if a young lad runs out into the road after a football and he has time to stop, he’ll just run him over and stop afterwards to give him a piece of his mind and explain how good at driving he is. Young lad should’ve paused his camera and smacked the ■■■■!
Roger Breaker:
Just say the moped lad could’ve been over to the near side a little more (which I’m not really btw, as he’d just exited a roundabout from the right hand lane, but I guess maybe he could’ve been).
Maybe he could’ve been, but I don’t really think all that “beast of draught and burden” legislation I posted above, which is probably what the jag bloke was referring to (having said he was a driving instructor and ex-examiner which I don’t necesarrily disbelieve) has any relevance to motorcycling in the 21st century. I agree with Triumph that he had taken the correct defensive line out of the traffic island and I don’t see any fault with the riding whatsoever. You can’t expect a motorcycle to just ride in the gutter where there’s all sorts of debris which could throw him off. Motorcycles have to ride defensively and not make sudden manouvres because that is the nature of the beast. I have it on good authority that coming off a motorbike is particularly painful, so if that would have been me, I doubt that I would have had the constraint that this rider had. I wouldn’t think it would have been unreasonable to kick the living ■■■■ out of the arrogant ■■■■■■ on this occasion. If it would have been me, after the second time, I would have followed him home.
DoYouMeanMe?:
I read an article a few weeks back where someone had taken video footage of an incident to the police and they reckoned that it was not classed as evidence. Strangely enough, some guy filmed himself speeding on a bike, like a tool, put it on youtube and although no-one complained, the police managed to use that film as evidence to ban him.
Video’s are not evidence as they can be edited to be something their not apparently yet post a vid of you doing something stupid and suddenly its evidence. No idea how this works
ajt:
Don’t know how anyone can say the scooter driver took a perfect line. You have to be blind not to see he’s too far over to the right on the slip road.
Jags fault for the collision yes but the scooter didn’t make life easy.
No-one is saying he couldn’t have been further over to the left, but he is riding defensively, not doing anything sudden to reduce the probability of an accident. The jag driver was either being impatient or has a thing about bikers.
ajt:
Don’t know how anyone can say the scooter driver took a perfect line. You have to be blind not to see he’s too far over to the right on the slip road.
Jags fault for the collision yes but the scooter didn’t make life easy.
wow… how good was the camera…
there may be a cause for us all to get one…
how many times would you be in the free and clear, if everyone can see what has happened?
totally clears any room for an argument… could save driver jobs/ careers…
luckytruck:
wow… how good was the camera…
there may be a cause for us all to get one…
how many times would you be in the free and clear, if everyone can see what has happened?
totally clears any room for an argument… could save driver jobs/ careers…
You’d knock it of the top of the helmet every time you got out of the cab
The bloke in the jag 100% at fault, the rider was indicating he was wearing a high viz and displaying “L” plates he could have been a little further to the left on such a low performance machine but apart from that he did nothing wrong.
This is typical of the type of macho man “I would rather cut my grannies throat” than have someone in front, especially someone on “L” plates type of driving.
He very nearly knocked the poor kid off and what if another car had been following then what? and to cap it all he cut in front of him and braked sharply!!! and asked for his insurance details!!!
The lad mis-handled the situation also, he should have calmly placed his bike on the stand removed his helmet, held said helmet by the chin strap and belted the prick on the side of his head.
Think about all the ■■■■■■■ driving you see from your cab, ■■■■ your leg over a bike and it immediately trebles.
ajt:
Don’t know how anyone can say the scooter driver took a perfect line. You have to be blind not to see he’s too far over to the right on the slip road.
Jags fault for the collision yes but the scooter didn’t make life easy.
No-one is saying he couldn’t have been further over to the left, but he is riding defensively, not doing anything sudden to reduce the probability of an accident. The jag driver was either being impatient or has a thing about bikers.
He would have had a thing about bikers if he’d tried that stunt with me, the sound of them would make him jump for the rest of his life.
Silver_Surfer:
Slow vehicles should keep to the left. The road was a mile wide.
Hiya …i think the scooter may have stayed more to the left…BUT did you see the potholes when
the jerk walked back to see the skidmarks…just a min wet road L plates pot holes i’ll hang back
and wait a moment before i get to the Traffic jam…i’ll bet you the jag was trying to
do a flip flop to beat the traffic jam any how. jag man was a bully in my book.
I would’nt bother with the police, i’d send the vidio to his insurance, see what they think of his driving.
John