I think I've got MIIS

Motorcyclist Incompetence Intolerance Syndrome that is.

SWMBO is often amused when we are pottering along in the car and I
should abuse at motorcyclists who are riding slowly on sports bikes and
getting in my way. Especially those that have bikes that I would love to
be able to afford, but are riding so slowly that I could overtake them
if they weren't all over the road.

Or those that I do overtake because they are so close behind a tractor
they can't see to overtake. That sort of thing.

I was coming back up the A435 from Ciren last night in the diesel Skoda
and I was overtaken on the solid whites by a 9R. Nothing unusual in
that, but after he went past he didn't actually seem to be moving away
from me at the rate that his body posture suggested that he might.

Intrigued, I thought I'd follow.

Soon became clear that he was going for it on the straights, but was
actually rather slow around the bends. This was despite hanging off
rather a lot.

And so we went. Him pulling away on the straights and me catching him up
on the twisties, all the time yelling abuse. Finally he put some
distance between us when there were a couple of long straights and I
then got stuck behind a Beemer of some sort.

Does anyone else find themselves yelling at motorcyclists that aren't
doing it right of is it just me?

 

Not just motorcyclists...


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....and horses, what the **** are they doing on the road.

 

'Hog says...

I don't have a problem with horses, they were around before bikes came
into existence.

 

No, it's not just you. It's why I don't go on BOTAFOT runs ;-)

I actually overtook a GSXR750 in my diesel Focus estate, yesterday.
Same thing as you fast down the straights then wobble round the corners.
I was ashamed, truly.

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Yep.

It happened yesterday.

There was five of us, 'bimbling' quite happily through the M1 traffic
heading south, when we came upon two tossers on sports bikes. Not only
were they sat right in the centre of the middle lane, they were also
just behind the bumper of the car in lane 1, leaving bugger all
over/undertaking space.
I think they got the message when two Pans forced their way past them
on either side.

Then we got back to 'playing with the traffic'. )

I just luuuuuuurve my bike!

 

It ain't just you. Coming back today from Excel, on the Trophy, with The
Doctor on the back, so I wasn't exactly the nimblest bike through the
traffic, and some twonk on an 04 registered Hornet was just acting like
a mobile chicane.

But we sat on Tower Bridge while they opened it, which isn't something
you see every day. Odd, having the road surface rise perpendicular in
front of you. And that sort of made up for it.

 

I bet you were daydreaming about zooming over the top, weren't you?

I've sat there wondering if I'd make it...

 

So was cowshit, but I don't want that all over the road, either.

 

AOL. I don't want people to shout at me either!

It is sooo frustrating. It's not so bad when they are out on something
touringy (or a Harley, naturally) but when it's a sports bike and they
are obviously trying that it pisses me off.

 

"The Baron Knights made me do it"

 

Hello to you too.

I've been reading, but just haven't seen much that I've wanted to
reply to.

 

Salad Dodger says...

I fucking hate intolerance.

 

Bear says...

" "

 

Wot 'e sed.

 

I haven't been counting, but there's been quite a few sprotsbikes shown the
way home by things like the Drifter. Why so slow? Blinded by the Doppler
Ugly Rays, I guess...

 

There is the outside chance he may have been a recent test pass (new low
end mondeoesque bike). If people don't want to filter or ride like a
loon then so be it; yes it is a touch irritating if they manage to block
your filtering but it's no big deal.

However, those with performance machines and all the gear, especially on
bikes I can't afford, who wobble on corners and full throttle 3rd gear on
a race pipe down the straights are worthy of a tut.

 

Oh yes, absolutely, that's what I reckoned.

Not so much blocking the filtering as not reading the road. I'd be
looking half a dozen cars ahead and positioning myself where the gaps
would open up, and be several cars ahead, and then he'd get it wrong,
get blocked, cut in front of something, causing it to hit the anchors
hard, pop in front of me, read the road wrongly.....

.....zoom off to where the gap was going to close, while I took the
alternative route...

etc etc.

Once, twice and again (as the sambur belled).

 

You are absolutely right )

And I was trying to remember the film where the London bus does just
that. The Shootist?

No chance......