51 replies to this topic

[pauly_boi]

I know alot of members on here probably subject themself to texting whilst driving, if you are one of them members then please watch this! Its made me open my eyes and i know i certainly will never even think about picking up my phone whilst driving

[mini_mad69]

I've seen loads of these videos, on pass plus, and when i was in school.
My phone doesn't come out of my pocket when im driving.

[pauly_boi]

i took pass plus and was never shown this i think everyone should be made to watch it as i dont think some people take how serious it is driving a car, in a few seconds you can take so many lives!

[Ipod]

As a motorbike rider I have NEVER done it and think that those who do..(dont car what car you drive)...are thick as *melon*....
And everytime i get cut up or nearly killed i gladly help them with the dent in thier doors/wings or broken wing mirrors, that they didnt have before.......

Now keep texting..and see how expensive it can be, even if you dont get caught or crash

"Rant over"

[Ouster]

Slightly exaggerated video, but I guess it does make you think.

[Darkscamp]

Sorry have to admit that watching that didnt affect me in the slightest. Although when you've seen someones brains dripping out there nose, after the impact with the oak tree turned it to mush at Mallory Park, things dont tend to affect you.

Yes i strongly disagree with texting whilst driving but unlike most people, i'm able to admit to doing it in the past.



Oh and Ipod, i'll quite happily shunt you into someones front garden with my van if you start vandalising it, like i did with the chav that decided to sit in my nearside blindspot (vans have quite a big one of those), and then went mental because i turned left infront of him. Next time someone cuts you up, just think about whether they can actually see you as you ride on there wing (as most bikers tend to do these days), you never know, it might be your fault in the first place!

[paul6266]

it certantly makes you think doesnt it.....

[JSMC]

Me and my mates were on our way back from Newcastle after a night out, we were on the A1 and a lad infront of the car I was in was texting, my mate driving another car had over took him and had noticed he was texting. Because he wasn't concentrating he drifted off the fast lane and into the barrier seperating us from the traffic going the other way, he bounced off that then spun right across all the other lanes and clipped a BMW then hit the other barrier and came back into the middle of the motorway, clipped another car and slowly rolled backwards to a stop in the fast lane where he was in the first place. We drove around him and carried on, my mate who saw him texting seen it all in his rear view and rang the police to report it and informed them that the person responsible was texting, we give him the lads reg. The way I see it is if someone on a motorbike was where either of the two cars he clipped were then because of the speed, they would more than likely have been killed by him.

[Ipod]

Sorry have to admit that watching that didnt affect me in the slightest. Although when you've seen someones brains dripping out there nose, after the impact with the oak tree turned it to mush at Mallory Park, things dont tend to affect you.

Yes i strongly disagree with texting whilst driving but unlike most people, i'm able to admit to doing it in the past.



Oh and Ipod, i'll quite happily shunt you into someones front garden with my van if you start vandalising it, like i did with the chav that decided to sit in my nearside blindspot (vans have quite a big one of those), and then went mental because i turned left infront of him. Next time someone cuts you up, just think about whether they can actually see you as you ride on there wing (as most bikers tend to do these days), you never know, it might be your fault in the first place!

Noted, but after 15+ years of riding, I can be sure im seen/heard and read roads and peaples body language..ie head turns to look in mirrors......

As with vans....and other big motors, they always have the right of way (used to drive lorries) so well aware of blindspots and take turns wider.

So if i ever get "shunted into a fence" due to a drivers error, not mine....then say good bye to the drivers face and will happily do the time or get an asbo for thier troubles.

Also biased i know, but i think before folks get a driving licence they should have to sit a CBT....just to be aware of bikers.

As a van driver i take it you take the upmost of care anyway due to blindspots etc.

Sorry it took so long to reply to this as im doing 150mph on my bike texting, and this van wont get out of my way....happy motoring

EDIT

As like car drivers and bike riders, there are good curtious peeps in both

A chav is a chav....cant change them idiots

Edited by Ipod, 27 March 2010 - 12:50 AM.

[minimad01]

my grandad nearly died due to someone on the phone he was coming of a slip road onto a motorway on his 09 plate hrc fireblade an he glanced in his mirror to check the motorway nothing was coming so he started to accelarate upto motorway speed an the person infront had jammed his brakes on because he was on the phone an somthing happened anyway completly wrote the bike of it was a cat b just thankfull that it was so near a hospitle i havent taken my test yet but i can asure you that i will not be taking my phone out of my pocket wen i am driving

[Ipod]

my grandad nearly died due to someone on the phone he was coming of a slip road onto a motorway on his 09 plate hrc fireblade an he glanced in his mirror to check the motorway nothing was coming so he started to accelarate upto motorway speed an the person infront had jammed his brakes on because he was on the phone an somthing happened anyway completly wrote the bike of it was a cat b just thankfull that it was so near a hospitle i havent taken my test yet but i can asure you that i will not be taking my phone out of my pocket wen i am driving

Sorry to read about ya grandad...glad he's ok.

Just a thought to my post....as you have yet to get your licence...how would you feel about if the Goverment made you do a half hour CBT lesson before bieng alowed to drive a car ?

[minimad01]

Sorry have to admit that watching that didnt affect me in the slightest. Although when you've seen someones brains dripping out there nose, after the impact with the oak tree turned it to mush at Mallory Park, things dont tend to affect you.

Yes i strongly disagree with texting whilst driving but unlike most people, i'm able to admit to doing it in the past.



Oh and Ipod, i'll quite happily shunt you into someones front garden with my van if you start vandalising it, like i did with the chav that decided to sit in my nearside blindspot (vans have quite a big one of those), and then went mental because i turned left infront of him. Next time someone cuts you up, just think about whether they can actually see you as you ride on there wing (as most bikers tend to do these days), you never know, it might be your fault in the first place!

Noted, but after 15+ years of riding, I can be sure im seen/heard and read roads and peaples body language..ie head turns to look in mirrors......

As with vans....and other big motors, they always have the right of way (used to drive lorries) so well aware of blindspots and take turns wider.

So if i ever get "shunted into a fence" due to a drivers error, not mine....then say good bye to the drivers face and will happily do the time or get an asbo for thier troubles.

Also biased i know, but i think before folks get a driving licence they should have to sit a CBT....just to be aware of bikers.

As a van driver i take it you take the upmost of care anyway due to blindspots etc.

Sorry it took so long to reply to this as im doing 150mph on my bike texting, and this van wont get out of my way....happy motoring

EDIT

As like car drivers and bike riders, there are good curtious peeps in both

A chav is a chav....cant change them idiots

when i was doing my cbt last year i had a high vis jacket on + my headlights an my instructor behind me also in a high vis an i still had 3 people pull out of side roads coursing me to brake or swerve just wish drivers would be more aware of whats going on around them

[Deathrow]

Moved to General Chat.

[Burnard]

I dont see how a CBT is enough to make people aware of bikers, but i do agree with what your saying. People dont expect motorbikes to be there.

I have just passed my test, and i did my CBT in the summer, i can honestly say that doing the CBT didnt make me anymore aware than i was before. But then again i had been on the back of bikes before that.

You cannot put things like that down to anything but experiance.

As for useing phones while driving, i think its stupid, even with hands free, because your still not concentrating on driving as much as you should be. I personally always have my phone on silent while driving, or give it to my passenger. Not that you could have a phone conversation in my mini while driving anyway.

[minimad01]

my grandad nearly died due to someone on the phone he was coming of a slip road onto a motorway on his 09 plate hrc fireblade an he glanced in his mirror to check the motorway nothing was coming so he started to accelarate upto motorway speed an the person infront had jammed his brakes on because he was on the phone an somthing happened anyway completly wrote the bike of it was a cat b just thankfull that it was so near a hospitle i havent taken my test yet but i can asure you that i will not be taking my phone out of my pocket wen i am driving

Sorry to read about ya grandad...glad he's ok.

Just a thought to my post....as you have yet to get your licence...how would you feel about if the Goverment made you do a half hour CBT lesson before bieng alowed to drive a car ?

i done my cbt last april so iv been riding a geared 50cc bike for the last year nearly an i do get so frustrated with some car drives its unreal the amount of times iv had to swerv/brake for car drives not saying im the best rider in the world but for example
there was a slow moving tractor an trailer going along a long piece of straight road i was behind it indacted to overtake it an then from nower about 3 cars back this middle aged man in a type r civic coming flying up towords me coursing me to have to pull in again managed to get his reg plate na report him but dont know if anything happened about it