Right
Ranty time!
Prologue. I ride with my headlights on ALL the time, day, night, spring summer autumn winter, always have , always will, ok?
1. Had three serious impacts with other vehicles in 27 years of riding. None of them my fault, due to other peoples stupidity.
All happened when I was a DR wearing hi-viz with the company logo etc.
2. Nearly got written off by some twat coming round a corner on the wrong side of the road about 20 years ago. Hi-viz would have been pointless
seeing as how it was a blind bend. It was my Dad.
3. Saw a crash 3 weeks ago not 50 yards from my house when one guy turned right across the path of an oncoming vehicle in broad daylight.
Neither car was wearing Hi-viz. Could this be a contributing factor?
4. Ever seen a Ford Capri trying to get on a bus? A big orange and white double decker bus? No? Cant get more Hi-viz than that.
5. Imagine the manufacturers of hi-viz stuff in France rubbing their hands with glee as they double the price of everything!!
6. Last mishap I had involved some silly bint reversing into me in her Toyota Avensis. Poor lass was mortified because;
a. Her husband was a biker.
b. She admitted she didnt even look, because she didnt ' think' anyone was behind her.
7. Russell.
Russell got knocked of his bike a number of years ago on the A6 in Stockport by a woman pulling out of a side street.
Madam would not admit liability even though it was clearly her fault.
Why?
Because he was on a motorbike and she was in a car and motorbikes are supposed to give way to cars.
The judge was not amused and shreded her licence on the spot
8. Was once asked when I was a courier by some silly sod who had just got out of a big flash car at the company I was collecting from
how long it would take me to get to Birmingham from Manchester. When I said it didnt take long on the M6, matey boy said;
Oh, I didnt know motorbikes were allowed on the motorway!
Very observant
Bottom line is, you could be riding around inside the planet Venus, but the morons will still get you, simply because they just dont look!!
Sorry about the big rant, but it gets on my tits that we are to blame for other peoples shit driving,
and I will consider hi-viz clothing, maybe, the moment that all drivers are forced to put their FUCKING HEADLIGHTS ON at night
instead driving around with 2 glow worms in dirty jam jars to illuminate their way.
Even when its pissing down.........
Double standards or what?
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