Car cop's lethal death toll -- The Welsh Traffic Talban speaks..

In heavy traffic I will always make room for bikers to get through and I
nearly always get a thx. Your probably right that the well behaved biker
doesn't get noticed and this is only made worse by a car drivers blinkered
view.

MrBitsy

 

aka The Typing Gash.

 

How do you know it wasn't?

MrBitsy

 

Balance of probability.

 

I'm sorry, but at this point I have to interject with a long overdue, "What
the ****** drugs are you on?"

Ok, I'm not as road experienced as many here, but I'm out on my bike between
5 and 7 days a week. Have been every day for 5 years now. That's >2,000
journeys, around 20k miles a year. In all that time I have only *ever* come
across perhaps three or four riders with their full beam on "all the time".
In each of those cases, it was a "Power Ranger" with tinted lights, iridium
visor and bugger-all ability as a rider.

I strongly suspect that what you are taking as full beam is in fact your
failure to realise that a bike headlamp is positioned about 18 inches higher
than a car, and so a bike light dipped can look like full beam on a car.

Just my 2p worth, but I'm certain you're seeing something that isn't
there[1]

[1] Unlike some car drivers who *don't* see what is there...

 

Binary Era () gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying :

Neither. She was perfectly safe, because she was driving a safe vehicle
within the speed limit.

It's not *all* bikers, but there's DEFINITELY some using beam in the
daytime.

Clue for Blaney - if there's a bloody supernova filtering between lanes to
your LEFT, at a steady speed, there's a better-than-evens chance it's full
beam...

Or an import from a LHD country with an unconverted light badly adjusted
(to cover another possible getout)

 

Pete Smith wrote

Not one of ours then.

 

You appear to have snipped the bit where I state that isn't my personal
view!

MrBitsy.

 

The probability of me being correct is a lot higher as I was actually
there!

I can tell the difference because I can recognise things like height of
headlamp relative to position of car driver, aceleration of bike, bumps
in the road, distance of bike from car etc.

It does happen, you know and I know it.

MrBitsy

MrBitsy.

 

MrBitsy wrote

There? How many occasions was this?

I have to take my hat off to your observational skills then, they seem
to be so much better than everybody else's.

but not quite as often as you have convinced yourself it does.

 

If you could point me to the bit in your post I replied to that states that,
it would be a help.

This:

"Thats because your a biker, and in most people minds your a speed
infatuated menace that can't be trusted."

implies third party opinions, but this:

"This impression is perpetuated by so many bikers, for example, using full
beam all the time."

implies that *you* believe that "so many bikers" use full beam "all the
time" is a fact.


which I'm afraid is patently bollocks.

 

Nice reversal, using my example of how you are wrong to try and show you
know you're right.

You're not though.

 

Andrewr At Work says...

I broke my toe earlier this year getting into the bath.

 

It's the fridges you have to look out for. They hide unseen in the
road round blind bends - bastards, they are.

 

Them fridges often have several drinks inside them, I've seen it!

 

Paging Weggie...

 

Maybe all these bikes allegedly using main beam are just giving you a
long flash which you are misinterpreting?

 

Depresion says...

I had my biggest and most painful crash ever on a bike with only 12bhp,
a Kawasaki KE100 trail bike.

 

You're lucky it wasn't the early 803cc version.

Much heavier.


Ian

 

Not as often as you claim, is my point.