06-09-12, 03:45 PM
(06-09-12, 01:55 PM)MadDogMcQ link Wrote: QUOTE GRAHAMM "So if you were travelling too fast to be able to stop if something happens in front of you, it's your fault? Erm..."
I don't know about IAM or any other advanced riding methods, but according to the School of Grown Up Men with Common Sense, yes, you need to maintain a distance and a speed which enables you to come to a safe halt in the event of something happening in front of you. Erm, what's difficult to understand about that?? Seems fairly elementary to me :rolleyes
So if you're in a 40 limit, you're approaching a junction or exit where vehicles are pulling out from, there are solid double white lines and a blind dip which might conceal an on-coming vehicle, do you a) maintain speed (or back off, depending on the exact distance to the hazard) or b) accelerate and attempt a dangerous and illegal overtake?
Quote:And if you honestly believe that a Riding Test Examiner might not fail you for pulling out in front of oncoming traffic, causing them to change the speed and direction (not to mention cause a scene with their angry gesticulations), then you passed your test in the 1970's or are living on a totally seperate planet to the rest of us .
I have done my best to describe the situation, but the fact of the matter remains that *you* weren't there, you didn't see what happened and I cannot include every single detail (did I mention both of them were wearing Iridium Visors that may have been illegal too?)
Again I re-iterate that, in future, I will be certain to *LEARN* from this situation and take account of it in future and I also hope that others may benefit from my experience of what happened so that the same thing doesn't happen to them.