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

I'm certainly not greatly bothered about it. I'd rather enjoy the life
I have and run some risks.

 

steve auvache says...

Heh, I stopped buying it before the UKRM scam..so it's been quite a long
time.

Yup, one of the regulars in my pub was talking about the alleged Aprilia
fall-down. That was incorrect.

I haven't read it for years. In fact, I find it hard to buy any of the
bike mags atm because they are so full of crap it is unbelievable.

Although for some reason wheover runs the MCN site sent me some spam
t'other day. A fiver off getting into BSB on Monday. Not bad for
someone who hasn't bought the paper for about 4 years, eh?

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You owned a GT250 (guess) around 20 years ago.

I don't think you can remember that much and, to be honest, the GT250's
characteristics and those of a modern bike are very, very different;
after all the GT250 design is now > 30 years old.

 

SP wrote

I can remember reading, probably more cars than bikers but certainly
that type of magazine, back to a time when wheels were a novel form of
transport. The magaines fall into two styles and they haven't changed
one little bit, not the teeniest weeniest, not since I were a spotty
yoof.

One type, the MCN type, looks respectable but other than 4 or 5 readers
letters and the race reporting, is basically adverts and the other is
the street fighter type full of mine with the nox on full boost does
mach0.2. Sad innit?

Bonus. Are you going?

 

wrote

Bikes must be rare in your area then. The nearest thing I do to a
commute these days is down to my community service and that is 7 mile
journey from one side of the town to the other. I would expect to see
at least that number of bikes and a couple of scoots.

When I used to bang up and down to London there would have been many
tens of bikes to be seen in any one day.

As good a figure as any. Mind you it is horses for courses. A few
brave souls do, do it but a commute up the A roads into Central London
is no place for a 'wing or a Hyabusa any time of the year. Otoh it is a
half decent all weather ride on a faired 600.

Half our problem I would say. Varying degrees of personal experience to
call upon as anecdotal evidence on which we base our ill informed
opinions and **** all in the way of useful statistics to support the
notion that the other bloke is a know nothing twat. I dunno what we do
about it though.

 

....

You put 'more than a third' in quotes, but it doesn't actually appear
in my post.

But, to confirm the accuracy of my numbers:

An increase in speed of 33%, takes a speed from 1 up to 1.33.

This would take the square of the square of the speed from 1 up to
3.13

3.13 is more than triple 1.

Okay?




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Alternatively, it goes from being , say, hit and a one-in-three chance
of killed to hit and a three-in-three chance of killed.


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Maybe it's just cos the paramedics in Merseyside like giving you the
kiss of life ;-)

 

Oh, deer.

 

D'oh!

 

Which point would that be?


MrBitsy

 

Driving is a risk - it can never be 100% safe.

However, in the scenario you talk about, I would do exactly as you
described if I felt the driver at the junction had not given clear signs he
had seen me.

If the driver had stopped, and was looking in my direction then I would
proceed. If the drivers did not look in my direction, seemed to have their
attention inside the vehicle, then the only sensible action is to slow
down, anticipating this driver moving out. A blast of your horn and/or a
long headlight flash to warn of your presence.

The headlight flash of course is only for those riders who are not
travelling with their full beam on already. By their own stupidity, they
are frustrating other drivers and have removed the possibility of a warning
device.

MrBitsy.

 

Pretty much nothing is 100% safe. I caught a snippet on the radio over the
weeked saying that, last year, there were 3,500 injuries caused by plant pots!

The scenario I described was, obviously, far from serious; it was merely
intended to illustrate the impracticality of the idea that you should _always_
be able to stop before reaching any hazard.

In general terms I do agree that I would slow down if I thought a driver hadn't
seen me and was about to move into my path, but you couldn't do it for every
single junction or hazard.

Irrespective of the advice given in the Highway Code I would _never_ use a
headlight flash to warn the driver of my presence in those circumstances, as it
is far too easily misunderstood.

Nobody should interpret it as an indication to pull out, but many will. It has
been noted on here before that the graveyards are full of people who were in
the right.

You've really got a thing about this, haven't you?

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A headlight flash is guaranteed to get someone driving out in front of
you. I know that's not what the highway code says, but that's the
accepted meaning on the road.

 

andrewr says...

I read somewhere [1] that 12 people were injured one year by teacosies.
Just how do you injure yourself with a teacosy?

[1] New Scientist IIRC

 

IBMTWACIOF (I Broke My Toe With A Common Item Of Furniture). Very
1999, mind you...

 

choke hazard.

 

darsy says...

Honest Doctor, I was just making a pot of tea in the nude when I
slipped...