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~YuckFou~

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OK, bikers its our turn :)
Tales of adrenalin please, I'll go first.

160 on a sweeping right hander, dual carriage way to preston, about 11pm. Woman pulls out of central reservation into my lane(outside). Shes stops , thank god. But now I have to back out of bend, so now I'm heading for a field. Get the bike leaned over again but now heading for car on inside lane having missed front bumper of 1st car by about 3 inches. I missed the drivers door of the second car by about a foot, came out doing 140ish. SLOW ride home for several fags and change of underwear :).
Before the non bikers call me a twat, I know. If you had a bike you would understand.
OK someone elses turn.


~YuckFou~
 
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old.frankie

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ohh

25 mph round a roundabout on my moped and some git pulls out in front of me ?

that any good ?

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old.MeddlE

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Following my mate (or trying to) who races bikes, into an apparently sweeping lef-hander that all of a sudden tightened, front tire washed out, heading for tree/ditch, managed to get round but fuck knows how. Pulled a muscle in my back doing it though!

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old.TUG

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stu had his car up on two wheels? Does that mean he's a reckless boy racer twatnugget driver or something?

Gotcha ;)
 
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old.frankie

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cool

just hope ExOR dont come in and say stuff like "bikes are shit, you are all gay"

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old.TUG

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I could talk about my mountain bike habits, but I don't think I could compete with you guys on balls out speed ;)
 
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old.MeddlE

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Would just like to say, before anyone tries to start a moped vs superbike flamewar, that in the biking world we are all equal. If you are on two wheels you are a member, none of this nova vs mgf shit in here. So frankie, the moped story counts.

So to prove a point, I'll add one from my learner days, when I was a little bit reckless. ;)

Picture the scene, lime green kmx125, tuned sport pipe, de-restricted, pissed all over so-called sport 125's, 'L' plates ;) , coming round a bend doing roughly 60-65 to find a car stopped in my way, waiting to go round a van parked conveniently on the apex, swerved onto opposite side of the road to miss 1st car, straight into path of oncoming metro, jammed on anchors, bike into sideway slide, saw a side road, let off brake and opened throttle, metz. enduros gripped like buggery and I shot down the side road all the time wondering how the fuck did I do that?

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stu

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I've had my car up on 2 wheels before... does that count?
 
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*Exor*

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I dont think I've ever used the phrase "you are gay" on this MB, infact no, I havent.

"You are gay" is the call of the owned, its the phrase used by people who have lost an arguement, and know it. It's their last chance to inflict some damage on the person that has just made them look inadequate.

Seeing as I never lose arguements, I have never needed to say it. Its a phrase I would expect frankie or TUG to use on a regular basis.
 
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*Exor*

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For the record though, I do hate bikes :)

They're too noisy, and I don't like the way bikers weave in and out of traffic, it makes me nervous as a car driver.

Also, I bet they are not much fun in the winter, and if you were to fall off at a high speed......

Not to mention, the kind of women I like to appeal to are not the sort that want to get onto the back of bikes, they are the sort that want a nice comfortable, cosy, stylish car to be carried around in ;)
 
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old.TUG

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:D @ exor

If you had won an argument against me I wouldn't continously rip the piss outta ya. But u prob know I'm joking anyway cuz I saw you on irc once and you wern't so bad.
 
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stu

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"stu had his car up on two wheels? Does that mean he's a reckless boy racer twatnugget driver or something?
Gotcha"

Yes. It was in a ditch on the Yorkshire moors at the time, 45degree angle, drivers side wheels spinning freely in the air. Yes, I used to drive a pretty shite car (although I never put an "Oakley" sticker on it), and drove like a complete nobhead. 3 writeoffs in the space of 2 weeks, and I grew up a lot. Hence my derision of Max Power SRi/XR2 driving wankers.
 
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stu

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Incidentally, Paul raised an interesting issue there. Is it just me, or are most bikers cunts? They bleat on and on about how car drivers don't take any notice of them, and how they drive dangerously, and yet the Highway Code seems to be applied selectively to them. They pass huge queues of traffic by driving up the middle of two lanes of cars, often when moving. They jump ahead at any opportunity, and squeeze through gaps because they're too fucking impatient to wait as a car would have to. And yet when they get wiped out, it's always the car driver's fault. "You should allow the same amount of space for a bike that you do for a car" they whinge.

Well if you want to be treated like a car, fucking drive like one you cockends.
 
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old.YaYa

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by *Exor*:
For the record though, I do hate bikes :)
why, have they upset you in some way?

They're too noisy, and I don't like the way bikers weave in and out of traffic, it makes me nervous as a car driver.
Take a liitle time to learn to ride a bike on the road, it will make you a much more aware and better driver

Also, I bet they are not much fun in the winter, and if you were to fall off at a high speed.......
shite in winter, thats why most people have a bike as a second vehicle (for warm days and excitement), and if you do fall off at high speed then your fecked, it's a risk we take and most people who ride except that something may well happen to then one day, but then the old "you could get knocked down by a bus" debate must comeinto it

Not to mention, the kind of women I like to appeal to are not the sort that want to get onto the back of bikes, they are the sort that want a nice comfortable, cosy, stylish car to be carried around in ;)<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

the kind that don't like excitement??, also checkout any kind of crowd or pitlane atany of the superbike races, i think you might find lots of women that you will be very attracted to, or do you really only like the old, miserable types???
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stu

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You'll also find them at the Grand Prix, and BTCC, not to mention Wimbledon, most Premiership Football matches, etc etc. They're either paid to be there (the now famous Hawaiian Tropic and Marlboro girls, for example) or groupies. Nice to look at, generally thick.
 
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~YuckFou~

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*Exor* you hate bikes? well imagine that lol. My fiancee is a very attractive, petite, well educated and well spoken community care supervisor (and 9 years younger than me :)), she has been on the back of a bike with me twice. Bikes are dangerous so I don't like taking her with me if on a bike. So I'll drive instead using my nice shiny car. However bikes are dangerous because cars hit them, FACT. Bikers very rarely come off on their own, a car pulls out or turns without looking/indicating. Anyone who doubts this can ask a local copper or ambulance driver, or check D.O.T. statistics.
The whole point of bikes when in town is to weave in and out of traffic, in fact when on a bike there is no concept of traffic, we just go. You will never see a biker get done for doing 35 miles an hour in a 30 zone. Even when taking your test you are instructed to "make progress", if you toddle along at 30 you will fail your test.If you do 45 in a 50 you will fail your test. If you hear a bike coming, good. It means that you are aware of its presence, and as a result less likely to hit it. For the record the noisy bikes have after market pipes and are not strictly legal. The police do turn a blind eye though because they understand that it helps keep bikes safe(there are exceptions with REALLY noisy loons).
I passed my bike test about 6 years ago and it has made me a MUCH better driver. As for the wet weather, no problem really. We have very good wet weather gear. If anything I'm too hot in the winter, but its a small price to pay for the sheer acceleration that is available on a bike. I'm not sure about the performance of your car, I think 0-60 is about 8/9 secs? My car is 6 secs which is pretty quick I guess. My last bike did 0-60 in 2.5 secs and back down to 0 in another 2.5 secs. You will see that there is NO car, and I mean NO car that will match this. Not that I race them I just want that kind of power to enjoy on my own on peacefull roads. As for coming off at high speed, well yes it hurts (so I'm told :)). So would having a crash in a car though. In certain circumstances you may be better off on a bike because you will be thrown clear of the accident and roll. Its hitting stuff that hurts :))

MeddlE is right frankie. If you are on two wheels you are part of the community. You may noticed as 2 bikes pass each other they will (mostly) nod to each other. I guess its a kind of "ain't this good" thing :) We know stuff that people who have never been on 2 wheels don't, oh do we ever. lol
TUG you can keep moutain bikes they are dangerous lol. Well the stuff I've sen on telly is anyway. I love to watch the winter Xgames mountain bike downhill races, nutters :)

Anyway back to the original subject.
IOM TT practice week, going along quite quick 60/70 around a tight right handed mountain bend, with a sheer drop on the left. Half way around I see a coach in the opposite lane, no problem, then 4 germans on blades overtake the coach! Well left with nowhere to go I pray and hope for a gap to open between 2 of the bikes, they shit too and seperate just enough for me to get through.
Short pit stop for a couple of fags and another underwear change :)


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bodhi

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Is it just me or do speed limits seem to apply to everyone except bikers?

Most drivers I know ride like complete and utter knobheads, thinking they will live forever because they havent had a head on collision with a brick wall.
Yet.


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old.TUG

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you don't have to be on a bike for one to shit you up :) I was walkin home at about 11:30 last night and one came flying past me, right loud bastard it was and I fuckin jumped :) Then some gay 1.1 fiesta came 'flying' past me too trying to chase this beast of a bike (dunno wot it was, darkness + beer = no brain activity) but the fiesta was just gh3y

I fink bikes are kewl, I think I'll get a license one day ;)
 
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~YuckFou~

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Stu, I ride a bike, you think I'm a cunt?

Guys there is a car thread, if you don't like bikes don't come here, simple isn't it?


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*Exor*

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>My last bike did 0-60 in 2.5 secs and back down to 0 in another 2.5 secs. You will see that there is NO car, and I mean NO car that will match this<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Utter toss. Theres some Bugatti Super cars that will do 0-60 in 2.2 seconds.

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I said:
They're too noisy, and I don't like the way bikers weave in and out of traffic, it makes me nervous as a car driver.

YaYa said:
"Take a liitle time to learn to ride a bike on the road, it will make you a much more aware and better driver"<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Er, whats that got to do with me not liking the way they weave in and out of traffic? Its got fuck all to do with what I know, its got everything to do with the way bikers behave on the road though.

Most bikers think the fact that they ride a bike gives them the right to drive at extremely excessive speeds. They all get off scot free if caught, yet the car drivers all get the book thrown at them.

Here's an idea, all you bikers that go on about going 170mph, and then moan about drivers not being aware of them, try to stick the speed limits like the rest of us do, you might get a more caring response form us!

Ever thought the reason some cars pull out in front of you and cause an accident might be because they dont have enough time to react when they see you coming towards them at about 150mph? If it was a car coming towards them at 50mph I bet the car would have time to stop.

If you drive around at twice the speed limit, what fucking right do you twats have to moan at us car drivers?????? Stick to the fucking rules of the road and you might get hurt less.
 
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stu

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"Stu, I ride a bike, you think I'm a cunt?"

Do you ride it like a cunt? From what you've said in your post, it seems you do. Cars hit bikes, FACT. Correct. And yet you don't seem to associate the fact that bikes are encouraged to break the law, speed, weave in and out of traffic, etc, with the fact that cars hit them. Paul hits the nail right on the head: if you want to not get hit by a car, don't act like a complete nobrot on the road. If I jumped in a car and drove down a dual carriageway at 90mph, up the middle of two lanes of traffic, I wouldnt be surprised if I caused an accident: can you not see the logic in this?

"in fact when on a bike there is no concept of traffic, we just go"
OK, if you think that is a perfectly acceptable way to behave, next time I approach a junction and there is a bike coming, I'll just pull out. There is no concept of traffic, I'll just go. And watch you get smeared across the tarmac.

Incidentally, bikers seem to have a close parallel with boy racers. They are a minority, they drive/ride like complete fucking tossers, as if there's nothing else on the road, haring around at ludicrous speeds, making dangerous manoeuvres, and then blame it on all and sundry instead of themselves when they have an accident.

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stu

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PS:

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>My last bike did 0-60 in 2.5 secs and back down to 0 in another 2.5 secs. You will see that there is NO car, and I mean NO car that will match this<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
There are lots of cars that have the potential to do this. However, they are not road cars. Why? Not because cars don't have the power, or ability. It's because anything capable of such ridiculous speed isn't allowed on the road, as to achieve it it has to compromise basic safety regulations, and to do so would be unsafe.
 
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~YuckFou~

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OK, stu *Exor*
Guys I'm a normal, quiet kind of guy, live a normal respectable life, probably much like yourselves. However you are starting to rub me up the wrong way, you don't want that guys. Please if you have nothing constructive to add to the original post leave us alone.
I think this is a reasonable request, all I want is not to be slagged off. I'm not slagging you guys off, nor will I.
There are other threads that I'm sure are more interesting to you why not add to them instead of degenerating this one?

Thanks


~YuckFou~
 
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old.frankie

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Oh ffs, just go back to the car thread will ya, you cant do anything other than flame, you dont even have a bike so you dont know, just go away, and play some place else.

I dont overtake 50 cars at a time, i dont do all that caus it shits me up&gt; story

Overtaking a row of traffic thats basically standing still, not very many oncomming cars, doing a resonable 25 or less mph, and the this phycho boy racer kinda person in a shitty fiesta or somming decides to to swerve like a drunken maniac all over the road, was comming straight for me, was mad, anyway, the twat went by and i was still going along but a bit slower caus of this prick, and then some twat in a land rover opened his door just before i was to overtake him as he was standing still, he just opened it without looking at all, i had to stop quick or he wouldnt have ant ribs left let alone a door. What a bunch of freaks there are on the road, and i havnt seen any mad motorbikers out there on the road ever, they always are a lot safer than the cars are cept maybe the 16 yr old scooter brigade buring it about town.

Was thinking of getting a honda 125 thingy
looks like a harley davidson style but kinda smaller, and apparently they sound pretty beefy as well, costs 2 grand brand new, think its a shadow or soming, not sure, have to go and look in my book.

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old.frankie

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heres a nice one

im into these kinda looks, not the superbike looks&gt;&gt;

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~YuckFou~

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Frankie,
If you are thinking of getting a bike get a fairly cheap one. The reason is you will soon get bored with it after you have a full licence.
I'm a sports bike guy really although I like the custom look. They both have their pros and cons. Customs are comfy but don't handle all that well. Sports bikes handle well but tend not to be comfy. Its horses for course, they will both give you a buzz.

So one of the guys from work decides he wants to go out for a blast with me on my bike. I lend him the gear and off we go. He tells me not to hold back, I did of course but only on the bendy bits, bike handled like crap with a pillion. We get to some red lights on the quiet dual carriage way near where I work. I decide to show him what it will do, but the extra weight really screwed things up. HUGE wheelie on green, both his legs come up off the pegs and fly past my ears :). I'd told him to hold my waist because the handles aren't much good, just as well. Just before number plate kisses tarmac get it back down and continue on. He thought I meant to do it, did't have the heart to tell him that I shit too lol

Next....


~YuckFou~
 
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stu

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"However you are starting to rub me up the wrong way, you don't want that guys"
I don't believe in the Incredible Hulk. Try again.

Your stories of "hairy moments" just accentuate what we were saying. You act like a tosser on public roads, with little/no regard for anyone else. And yet you still blame it on cars when there is an accident. Typical biker.
 
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*Exor*

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Er, you make a thread about bikes, I post my opinion, and if you re-read it, you will see it isn't really abusive. All I wanted was a bikers perspective on what us car drivers think of you.

All you do is tell me to go away, which just proves that me and stu are right about what we say, you don't have an answer.

Pathetic.
 
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