FOAK - filtering with oncoming traffic

**** me a real biker !

Such a rare thing on these internetty type things populated by
internetty type peoples.

Take heed you compooterati, sometimes it painfully hurts to be in the
right because it don't mean diddly squat if the other guy's wrong but
has slightly more mass/inertia than you do.

 

This is called MURDER, often confused with manslaughter and occasionally
reduced to driving without due care and attention.

You seek to inform your peer's that your Blackbird was "heavy, slow handling
and low-powered machine" ?

Is that a Honda Blackbird you talk of?

If so you fail abysmally, not even an MCN tester could describe such a bike
in that manner, not even when its replacement is tested



Chas.

 

Bear wrote

I think of it more like the defensive player in a game of merkin
football, where you are out of the game if you are not on your feet at
the end of the play.

 

Oh **** off ****.

Does "not being hit" not include being seen so as not to be hit. Or is
your world populated by people who see you but still want to hit you?

Hmmm, maybe it is !

Perhaps the physics of your space & time continuum means that some
fuckers gonna skid off the road and crash into your bike parked in the
garage.

 

Tried it again and Nope. Sorry, still reads that soemone's trying to
tell me that a Blackbird is a "heavy, slow handling and low-powered
machine".

I could handle it if it was Roberts, Haslam, Sheene, Dunlop, Spencer,
Mamola etc but it isn't is it !

Some punter is telling me that a Honda Blackbird is "boring".

 

Chas wrote

Stupid boy. It doesn't matter whether they see you or not. The trick
is to not be where they are going when they get there.

It would seem to me that you know very little about riding in general
and not just what is glibly called defensive riding.

You can wear all the Day-Glo vests and have all the lights in the world
flashing on the top of your head but if you think for a moment that
everybody has seen you then you will get hurt. Probably sooner rather
than later.

If you always ride with the presumption that they haven't seem you then
you will always be right when you need to be.

A personal thing but over the years I reckon it has worked better that I
am right than I am seen.

Mostly no but in part yes.

Not in my universe no. If I lived at number 9 this could happen as he
is on a corner but not here no. There is a possibility that they could
do it, if they went up the bank on the other side of the road but I am
not sure the angle would be right for them to be able to skid and avoid
the railings at the same time. I think they might just end up rolling
as they came down the bank and not making it all the way to my bike.

 

Chas wrote

Experts on the traffic capabilities of motorcycles to man of course.

 

[FX: Pats Bear on head] One day son, you'll understand.

 

Bear wrote

Without a doubt it is going through one of it's better periods as a
spectator sport. The things they have done with salary caps and the
draft system have meant very balanced teams in the case of overall
skills. Stopping the Man U/Arsenal/open chequebook syndrome has done
their game good.

 

Forgive me, although I'm fluent in several differant dialects of bullshit,
yours escapes me.

Are you trying to say that your bike is immune to any form of damage caused
by a third party, or are you just aiming to top this months irrelevant
posting list?

 

Chas wrote

Thick are you then?

Nope, what gave you that idea?

Not a chance, Rope has that one cold.

 

I'm sorry chap, but you don't get off so lightly.

Please explain to me, being a none compooterati I need this explaining in
easy to understand language, how I can possibly have misconstrued this
particular tangent you have (for some reason) created off of the original
subject.

Is some fukwit trying to create the impression that a Honda Blackbird is a
"slow handling and low-powered machine"?

If he isn't then my apologies, perhaps 'The Blackbird' and Gertrude are one
and the same machine.

Perhaps Christopher Des Clayes, the infamous 'Bear', Sir.Tony, et al are all
the same too?

Please explain, 'cos I'm confused !

 

Erm, well maybe you did !

So this post won't be followed untill way past most folks waking time then
will it?

Nah ! This ain't about bikes or even the people that ride them, it's about
the compooterati and how they can upstage each over.

 

There is a known illness associated with needing to have the last word !

 

Chas wrote

That or, as you mentioned to Bear, you are confused.

I think the later.

Neither biker nor compooterati eh? My what a sad life you must lead.
Keep looking though I am sure you will eventually find someone to
upstage.

 

My anology has always been the sheep and the sheepdog.

Cages are sheep,
with the right attitude you can move them to your will,
however, once is a while one will get away or turn and try and bite/kick
back
a good sheepdog will anticipate and avoid trouble

Dave

 

The Blackbird is bored.

Compared with some other bikes out there.

 

CDC Used to ride a Blackbird.

What Gertrude is is in his .sig.

Further hints are €5/each, payable in advance.

Johannes - Furrin, and still understood what CDC was saying

 

I did wonder about that, but its never happened.

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That's rather good, you know.