Bikers, advice please.

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Originally Posted by Le Hoff

tbh I see more twats driving like cocks in cars than i do bikers. Most bikers tend to have more skill than most car drivers anyway. The only thing with bikers are the show offs, which there are a few - as there are in cars, but the problem is it's a lot more dramatic when something goes wrong on a bike than in a car. It's more noticeable too I guess because bikes are less common on the road.

Indeed. More often than not I see the cocks on bikes on a sunday heading to or from church along the A272. In part that has more than a bit to owe to the bikers café on the road down between Cowfold and Henfield though

I adopt the policy that everyone on the road is an idiot, its safer that way! Having a bike behind me just makes me even more twitchy..

edit: On my way back home Sunday lunchtime I had an idiot in a BMW nearly hit me, but sods law says it would go in his favour. There is a mini roundabout in Ansty on the A272. Coming from Cowfold you can see clearly down to the left, but only about a car or two's length down to your right. On approach I slowed right down to almost stationary. Nothing coming from the left, and nothing visible to the right, so I started to move. Zoom straight past me comes a BMW who didn't slowdown for the roundabout. Sure he had right of way and he could have seen that, but he shouldn't have come up to the roundabout without slowing down. *shudder* Almost as bad as the Sainsburys lorry driver that decided to drink from his water bottle whilst heading up the road that I came across not 5 minutes later. His lorry was halfway across the road before he lowered his head to its normal position from "tipped back getting the last few drops" and realised what he'd done.