Throwing rocks at motorcyclists

While zooming around this evening I passed a group of around 15 chav
children who were at the side of a dual carriageway (only a 30mph
limit) and had the misfortune to have been selected as the target of a
rock thrown out of the crowd.

It hit me on the side of my helmet. I don't believe that it did any
damage other than scraping the side, it only just made contact, so
hopefully I won't have to buy a new one.

How fucking dare they! When I was younger I don't think I would have
rated throwing rocks at motorcyclists as high on the entertainment
list. These days it must pass as the same kind of entertainment as
dropping concrete slabs on to cars from motorway bridges.

I was shocked that it happened, but didn't pull up. Even when dressed
in full body armour with crash helmet, I didn't fancy my chances
against a pack of teenagers.

I hadn't travelled in the area before, so I don't believe anyone is
holding a grudge against me there. Is this kind of behaviour common,
or was this just an isolated case?

Little bastards.

 

Bikers get stoned all the time.

 

Should be OK

Mow the wankers down next time.
In all seriousness, assuming upi have decent kit, you'd probably pretty
well protected. It certainly gives you an edge

I would suspect rather isolated, unless you live in a *real* shit hole.

Ho yuss.

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Nick fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

Similar thing happened to me a few years ago whilst passing a local
pikey site. North Wales plods response was ... "Poor little mites,
they've not got anything else to do up there.... " .... erm yes
officer.

The latest game they're playing (as of last weekend) is to play chicken
with the traffic in the dark, very nearly collected one on the front of
the car on Saturday evening.



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Nick () wrote:
: While zooming around this evening I passed a group of around 15 chav
: children who were at the side of a dual carriageway (only a 30mph
: limit) and had the misfortune to have been selected as the target of a
: rock thrown out of the crowd.

It's not just motorcyclists;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/4315061.stm

Blair.
'97 CBR600

 

I'm glad you're OK. They're 'little bastards' insofar as they're members
of the same species as the 'big bastards' that invade sovereign nations,
depose lawful presidents, and murder fellow humans. Not that it's new: as
a sprog in Jockland, I threw what I _thought_ was a lump of moss (honest,
officer !) at a car, but there was a stone inside it. I got the fright of
my life when the car pulled over.

I believe that your only options are either to ride on and not respond, or
else to equip your bike with a '007-style' registration number cover, and
carry a Desert Eagle semi-automatic pistol in your tankbag.

Your call.

 

I'm not a fan of violence, really. However, I'm not a fan of having
rocks thrown at me either.

It was quite a good area, perhaps it was just a bad street.

--Nick.

 

genuine_froggie wrote:

God no. Saiga 12, YKIMS

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Snowballs hurt too. :/

Lucky it didn't scratch up your visor, or hit you on the throat.

Or throwing bricks at lorrys.

They tend to aim for the unprotected bits, at least that's the way it
happened when I got beaten up when wearing half my bike gear. That was
only 4 people, not 15... :/

I had it once, but only in a car... my old Audi GT. I'd just, that day,
got the wind screen replaced at the cost of nearly £200 and some little
scrote decided to throw a hand full of stoned at it when I was going at
about 30mph. I stopped, put it in reverse, backed up the road, then sat
out side the house leaning on the horn, until dad came out and gave the
little love a clip round the ear.

Indeed, but there's not a lot you can do about this sort of thing.

I nearly collected what looked like a 5 year old with an Audi GT at
about 50mph. Not the most fun moment ever. The kid ran out from a wooded
area with a bucket and spade, didn't even look before it ran. It was
only after I'd somehow managed to avoid the kid on autopilot that the
higher brain kicked in and I realized just how close someone came to
getting very dead.

 

I had the same thing happen to me years ago, when I exited the
Rotherhithe tunnel, going northbound. I heard this crunch, tinkle and
noticed my wing mirror hanging off.

TBH, I wasn't phased at all and thought, "**** it" and carried on. Mind
you, it was a Courier Systems dispatch bike.

IIRC, Milton Keynes had a few cases of suicidal shopping trollies in
the past. Those ones that were fed up of working in MK and decided to
end it all, by chucking themselves off footbridges.

Quite.

You could report it, but I don't think that Plod will do much.

 

Well, you know how it is. They were hired by the sig police.

 

A teenage girl from round here died recently doing this. Her parents
thought she was staying with a friend overnight but they where actually
out in Wimbledon playing chicken in exactly the manner you describe.

Lots of poorly-spelled, memorial graffiti sprouted up soon afterwards,
together with a floral tribute next to a curry-house near a patch of
scrubland near where she lived. Enough said, I think.

 

My .sig therapy is going quite well. I've not got it down to pefect
yet, but it's on its way.

 

That reminds me of a conversation I had with a Wanadoo Engineer a
couple of days ago, when trying to sort out a ****-up they had made
with my ADSL line. "Welcome to Life.com". Cheeky fucker. Who says that
customer service is getting better in France?

 

Stone treatment's working, then? Excellent.

 

<fx: stunned>

Nineteen replies to this thread so far and not one from Pip.

 

Yay! I've broken one of those as well! )

 

Whinging Courier says...

Not difficult, they use BMWs. They come half broken from the factory.

 

My only regret is that you never got to ride one when you had the
chance.[1] I had three of them in total and the last one was bordering
on dangerous. I've seen bikes go into their workshop in a state that
would make your hair curl.

[1] A Courier Systems despatch bike.

 

Whilst you were beating the crap out of one bloke, his other mates would
leave him to you and nick your bike.

I'd possibly consider reporting it to the Plod, but I don't think I
personally would leave my bike to go and have 'words' with a group of yobs.

Considering certain groups like that have no qualms about dropping great big
rocks on trains/buses/trucks I can't see them being the slightest bit
'repentent' about chucking stones at bikes.