Bike/Car Drags - why do you bother?

3 per offence. Einstein lost his licence very early in his career.

Cheers,
Steve

 

whats up................got beaten at the lights by a
125.????...........................

 

And therein lies the source of the problem. You are only looking out for
what you EXPECT to see - how many accidents are caused by things people
expected? None. Accidents are caused by the UNexpected - people didn't
anticipate it, and got caught out. If you want to be a lot safer on the
roads, start expecting the unexpected, and you might be just that little
better able to handle it when it happens.

How about you try something next time you go out for a drive? Instead of
just checking your mirrors (assuming you know where they are) to see how
close the guy behind you is, why not try looking a bit further back and
seeing where some of the other vehicles are as well? And when you look
again, see where they are now. And when you note that a vehicle that a
moment ago was a lot further back than it is now, get ready to be
overtaken - and guess what? This time, when that vehicle magically appears
from "nowhere" it won't be a surprise, because you will have seen it coming
for once!

Open your eyes. You might be surprised at just how much you can see when you
look for it.

Damien
GPX250 (stolen) -> CBR600

 

it's a matter of filtering. if you started worrying non stop about the
unexpected, the expected would catch you out one day. Rather than cut a
hole in the roof, mount a telescope, and scan the sky for aliens coming
to get me, it works better just to forget about that level of
unexpected...

if you want to be expected, you have to do semi-normal things.

Charlie

 

There's knowing then there's thinking.
I know
You only think.
Think about that one Dene.

 

I'd heard it was a postie bike...

Damien
GPX250 (stolen) -> CBR600

 

When you expect something to happen, you can take action to avoid it,
thereby preventing an accident. If you expect it, but still hit something,
I'd say it is more an act of deliberate stupidity than an accident!

Damien
GPX250 (stolen) -> CBR600

 

If we were at all interested in accuracy, do you really think we'd still be
discussing it in a newsgroup?!

Damien (besides, you can stir people up a lot more easily when you get it
wrong!)
GPX250 (stolen) -> CBR600

 

thanks sir. great road safety lesson. i like the added condescension!

 

you know then? you must be terribly depressed.

 

reg-john wrote:

About what in particular?

 

Not a problem - all part of the service!

Damien
GPX250 (stolen) -> CBR600

 

I thought you knew?

Damien
GPX250 (stolen) -> CBR600

 

I do
the other poster thought he did.

 

Maybe not accidents but they seem to be the irritated riders that are
flipping the bird at the drivers who just missed them.

Whats a SMIDSY

One idiot on a bike can achieve it with 20 times as many cars as an idiot in
a car can.

Believe or not maybe they didn't, how often would you hit anything you did
see?

Well if the bike was the one doing the unexpected is the cars fault for
indicating and performaing a lane change, maybe it's abit of both, but don't
try and pin it exclusively on cars.

Anyone stupid enough to get hit by a train on a bike deserves what he gets,
better chances playing with a B-Double.

 

And of course you can achieve 100% concentration 100% of the time to achieve
this so have never been surprised. And it you were it would be your fault.

--
Pat
Brisbane, Australia
http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~mangey/
Who needs lockers when you got secondaries.

VH4000-> CL3500/4300-> GH2600-> S2A2300/3000->
GJ1600/2000->RR3500/3900 ->GQ4200

 

What's up when you tried to pick up the kids, 2 pushbikes and a trailer of
pavers your mighty 125 failed you?

 

At least it wasn't likely to be stolen.

 

happens too often on the dirtbike... 'don't stare at the tree, don't
stare at the tree... *thud*'

Charlie

 

--
Pat
Brisbane, Australia
http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~mangey/
Who needs lockers when you got secondaries.

VH4000-> CL3500/4300-> GH2600-> S2A2300/3000->
GJ1600/2000->RR3500/3900 ->GQ4200

May explain some people driving technique, but doesn't mean you would be
safe from them if they were on a bike instead of in a car.