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20-02-2008, 07:45am
I often look at the little bikes with the big yellow L plate on the back racing up between the traffic & almost getting knocked.
I think to myself "you f**kwit".
I go up the middle as well, but only when the traffic is stopped, not when both lanes are doing the speed limit or above.
Today on the way to work I saw a guy who was on a reasonable size BMW, so I can only assume he has a full licence.
This idiot was slipping up the middle, darting in & out of the traffic (without using an indicator), & just riding dangerously in general.
All while the traffic was travelling 20klm ABOVE the posted speed limit for that street & through a roadworks area.
My gripe is;
We complain about the L Platers doing things with no experience, & yet WE - the supposedly fully licenced & fully competent - riders who the L Platers copy & learn from, are doing shit like that.
No wonder the following generations of riders are getting worse & more are dying in accidents.
I'm generally not backwards in comming forward, If I see someone on the road talking on the ph I'll usually knock on the window at the lights & tell them to get off. If someone has faulty brake lights I'll do the same thing.
If I had stopped near this guy today I would have told him what I thought of his riding.
It's up to US to make the road a safer place for US.
Trying to make sure the L Platers learn the right & wrong things to do & where & when is the right place to do them is also up to us.
We are the ones on the road who they see & copy.
OK. Chest deflated & soap box flattened.......
I think to myself "you f**kwit".
I go up the middle as well, but only when the traffic is stopped, not when both lanes are doing the speed limit or above.
Today on the way to work I saw a guy who was on a reasonable size BMW, so I can only assume he has a full licence.
This idiot was slipping up the middle, darting in & out of the traffic (without using an indicator), & just riding dangerously in general.
All while the traffic was travelling 20klm ABOVE the posted speed limit for that street & through a roadworks area.
My gripe is;
We complain about the L Platers doing things with no experience, & yet WE - the supposedly fully licenced & fully competent - riders who the L Platers copy & learn from, are doing shit like that.
No wonder the following generations of riders are getting worse & more are dying in accidents.
I'm generally not backwards in comming forward, If I see someone on the road talking on the ph I'll usually knock on the window at the lights & tell them to get off. If someone has faulty brake lights I'll do the same thing.
If I had stopped near this guy today I would have told him what I thought of his riding.
It's up to US to make the road a safer place for US.
Trying to make sure the L Platers learn the right & wrong things to do & where & when is the right place to do them is also up to us.
We are the ones on the road who they see & copy.
OK. Chest deflated & soap box flattened.......