Trend Setters???????????

[WebTone]

I'm getting more than a little concerned. Maybe it's an age thing.

This is a relatively small group of friends/fellow bikers and all I seem to have been seeing since January are peeps that have dropped their bikes, on bends or whatever. Near misses, snapped chains, SMIDSYA's with the old cars, filtering incidents and others.

Spot the trend? Its always a lucky biker or the car drivers fault. Is it? Really? Or might it be that with better anticipation/planning the car drivers stupid actions could almost have been foreseen by the biker?

We aren't doing the black armbands for anyone we know yet. THANK FLIP FOR THAT!

What is going on guys and girls? 30 years biking here.

I want many of you to go 45+ years of biking. Take a reality check. Take it easy. Relax. Enjoy your biking and for Flips Sake, don't push beyond what you are capable of.

Bike not up to scratch? Short of cash? Then don't ride it until you get it sorted. Ask on here. There are loads of peeps ready and willing to help you as many have done before.

Not sure about your riding technique? Don't push it and attempt something you think you should be doing because all your mates are. Ask in here first. Maybe someone will take you out and explain the whys and wherefores of what you are attempting to do. Still vague? Get some professional training. £100 or so, (I know that's a lot - but what price to put on you?), money well spent.

I'm not the worlds best rider. I lack confidence (4 kids and wife change your views and what you did at 19 you now think twice about). I have competition experience so was prob faster that many of you would like to be. I'm still here and enjoying my biking.


PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE all stop and think. Bikes are generally quicker than they were. Roads are busier. Road infrastructure (Feck - that's a big word for me) hasn't had the money spent on it in the last 50 years so the roads now are rubbish. Modern biker attitudes with filtering put you more at risk. Internet and TV make us all think, "I could do that".


STOP AND THINK!



Be safe you lot. I enjoy visiting this site from time to time. I enjoy the banter from you all. Even those who wind me. Just make damn sure you can all post this sort of drivel to the younger element on whatever virtual forum exists when you get to my age and beyond.



Old man mode over.


Now who is Corrine bailey-Ray? I've only just worked out that the Power Rangers are not park wardens that can arrest you.:laughboun

LOL.

[Doninha Princesa]

Well said, I'll admit that
as a younger member of the board, and having just got my bike on the rd, i did have a while of being stupid, and i scared myself silly a few times, and if i had have had an accident i would have readily owned up to it being my fault, just because sometimes it isnt all the car driver, sometimes we simple humans do make mistakes, but i think the summer is comming and the sun is making us all a little crazy.
I'm gonna have a mature moment here (pre-warnin coz they dont come along often!) and say come on guys, yes we can all ride fast, and it is exciting and fun to race, but lets try to keep that for track days etc, lets have a great summer that in a few months when its cold and wet, we can look back and say, remember when we took that stroll up to ** and did this for the day, coz lets face it, we dont wanna be looking back sayin remember when he/she had that accident or god forbid, remember when we lost so-and-so in that accident. I know im being stupid at the moment coz i have no indicators, but im taking steps to let other road users know when and where im turning, i dont care how stupid i look, its my safely thats more important! I got some tips on cornering recently and its made me more confident but i know its still a point that needs work so im still cautious, best to stay cautious than to end up hurt.

Please be safe this summer guys, we may bitch and banter, but we'd miss any one of us if we wasnt here! thats been proved already in many ways.



" I've only just worked out that the Power Rangers are not park wardens that can arrest you." - They aren't?? Well thats me lost then...........

[WebTone]

Hah! See. Even I know about Power Rangers so I can't be that daft.

Seriously, well put young lady.

I know what |I was trying to say. Just not sure it would be taken the way I meant.

Pleased you are thinking. When you have that 45 years plus of safe riding Put the odd flower on me grave. :laugh2

[Doninha Princesa]

Hah! See. Even I know about Power Rangers so I can't be that daft.

Seriously, well put young lady.

I know what |I was trying to say. Just not sure it would be taken the way I meant.

Pleased you are thinking. When you have that 45 years plus of safe riding Put the odd flower on me grave. :laugh2

Ah well its me thats daft then, i have an idea wot they mean by it, but no-ones ever told me! lol
It may be taken wrong by some and some may get defensive so guys, take a second and recognise the sentimentsd, its only coz we luvs ya all!

When ive had 45 yrs of safe riding, I'll be 66 so i wont be on the bike still, well not the vfr at least! haha

I'll bring you anything you want, roses, tulips (my fav flowers) bike magazines! anything. xx


yes im very tired and soppy and emotional tonight, forgive me for letting the hard arse biker chick mask slip a little, will be back on after a good nights sleep.

[WebTone]

If I was YFS I would be out right now finding tulips. Alas...

[Doninha Princesa]

If I was YFS I would be out right now finding tulips. Alas...


YFS????

ahh bless, thats sweet, i have to buy myself flowers, no one else bothers! :(

[WebTone]

YFS = Young, free, single

[Doninha Princesa]

Lol, ok, im not good with things like that, like SMIDSYA's, i have no idea wot that meant. lol, *edit* just remembered the other half can get on here so cant say any of that stuff. :(

[WebTone]

Now I'm really confused. 2 years?

Not in open forum.

SMIDSYA = sorry m8 I didn't see ya

[Doninha Princesa]

Now I'm really confused. 2 years?

Not in open forum.

SMIDSYA = sorry m8 I didn't see ya

Doesnt matter, im just tired and emotional and i normally have someone on msn to let it all out but no ones on tonight. Just ignore me. lol I'll get over it at some point.

:offtopic: Sorry, Ive totally hi-jacked ur thread, ignore all this emo stuff and focus on the main message today guys n girls


BE SAFE!!!



SMIDSYA, fair enough, can see me learning a whole new language on here!

[DJMCJERICO]

Well said you two, lets not have a repeat of last year where there seemed to be a domino effect!

[WebTone]

Well said you two, lets not have a repeat of last year where there seemed to be a domino effect!

And you have an awful lot to answer for.


My girls keep pestering me for a snake/lizard and I stupidly clicked you link. Grr!

[DJMCJERICO]

I could sort you with someone/something suitable if you decide to let them have thier way, but don't buy from a shop ;)

[DoodleBug]

Webtone, i totally agree, just wish i could practise as you preach!

Enjoy the ride, be safe http://deephousepage.com/smilies/daz.gif Dont be a muppet, GO FOR IT!

[harriebird]

while i agree with everything everyone has said above, i also think that not one of us gets on a bike without seriously considering it might be the last thing we do......we all take that risk every day (if we ride every day which lots of us do)

i'm feeling a bit strange about it all at the moment, there have been a lot of bumps and smashes recently, but sometimes it goes like that. i'm about to start a job where my daily mileage will be 80 miles, most of it on one of the most dangerous roads in the world imho, and with everything that's happened i'm really thinking abuot whether it's the most sensible thing to be doing....

but having said that, i loved riding home in the traffic last night, i was worried i might fall asleep on tired days, but i was concentrating hard and got home in one piece. i have had my licence a long time my some standards but have only come back to bikes in the last year, and it's one of the best things i've done in a long long long time. i've met so many people who will be good friends for life and i know i wouldnt have got that doing anything else.....

[DoodleBug]

Harrie parts of the A12 are in the top 5 black spots for the nation, take care!

[harriebird]

Harrie parts of the A12 are in the top 5 black spots for the nation, take care!

yes thats exactly what i meant....i heard something that john peel said about never ever going on the a12 home from london he was too scared!!!

[stu600cc]

lots of traffic on the A12. Be safe people

[Juvenilerider]

Webtone.. here here!

A friend of mines uncle said to me, that its better to be late down here than early up there and that stuck with me.

[harriebird]

i heard someone say, i'd like to live more days to ride some more different bikes :grin2 that really stuck with me :rolleyes:

[monkreadusuk]

I agree with everything said here. I see myself as a very cautious rider, this may mean i'm to cautious, therefore making me unsafe, but then again, I see it as just being careful. If I don't feel confident at taking a corner at 60mph, I'll slow down for it, I'd rather come out the other end thinking, hmm next time maybe a little faster if the conditions are right. Rather than thinking, oh ****, that was too fast, and having to buy a new bike, or worse! I ride bikes for fun, not speed or to show off. If I wanted to ride like a racer, I'll do it on a track.

What I think i'm trying to say here is, don't let other people dictate how you ride, ride with what your comfortable doing. The other point is, always second guess the car in front, you never know what they will do next :)

[Juvenilerider]

You reckon a bikeschool would do a group discount if enough people were interested in IAM training?

[rembrandt]

You reckon a bikeschool would do a group discount if enough people were interested in IAM training?

may be start this in a different thread and look into it

[SDM]

You reckon a bikeschool would do a group discount if enough people were interested in IAM training?

Pro Bike Training will give a discount on Advanced Training for groups, so I've heard