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steve999

steve999

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went to hawes early doors with a mate on a bussa one on a gsxr600 and the woman on her r6, had a great trip there but on the way back on the hawes to settle road about 8 miles from hawes we were going at a medium pace when a yellow 748 flew past me (no probs) then went to overtake our lass on a blind bend on the wrong side of the road and realised too late that a car was coming head on and with total disregard to pauline cut staight back infront of her very nearly taking her front tyre with him then sped off, she had to brake very had which is a bad thing to do. this unnerved her and ruined the rest of her ride home. BE WARNED I KNOW YOUR BIKE AND I KNOW YOUR LEATHERS, ALWAYS LOOK OVER YOUR SHOULDER.
 
Jeeeez , sounds like Pauline had a close one there :( Just goes to show its not just gsx-r,s et al that are ridden by muppets :mad:
 
I had the same experience the week before last on that bit of road with two red cbr's.I personaly hate that road because there are clearly some people who know the road well and who i would suggest try to draw some less experienced and easily tempted riders into a do or die situation.where is the unmarked impreza when they are about.it can only be a matter of time before there is a head on between bikes up there.They are not proper bikers in the traditional sense and should have thier bikes shoved firmly where the sun dont shine.:eek:
 
steve999 said:
went to hawes early doors with a mate on a bussa one on a gsxr600 and the woman on her r6, had a great trip there but on the way back on the hawes to settle road about 8 miles from hawes we were going at a medium pace when a yellow 748 flew past me (no probs) then went to overtake our lass on a blind bend on the wrong side of the road and realised too late that a car was coming head on and with total disregard to pauline cut staight back infront of her very nearly taking her front tyre with him then sped off, she had to brake very had which is a bad thing to do. this unnerved her and ruined the rest of her ride home. BE WARNED I KNOW YOUR BIKE AND I KNOW YOUR LEATHERS, ALWAYS LOOK OVER YOUR SHOULDER.
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I have come across someone who is very quick on a yellow 748 on the Sedbergh to Devil's road, no knowing for sure it could be the same rider (male or female?). Not being there it is difficult to comment fully but have we not all made a similar error at some time or another? It is always regrettable when we (or others) make misjudgements but his actions were probably not without regard to Pauline, (he will have known she was there) more like with regard to self preservation and avoiding the oncoming car. I hope she is not too upset by it, at least the accident didn't happen and for that we can be relieved. Don't let it get her down, she did nothing wrong and make her keep on trucking! :D Are you going to do just a bit of Sunday's ride with us? Go on, you know you want to!
 
Hmmmm, do you have a description, I think I MAY know who it is, although only from seeing him around :( I don't know the guy.
 
Yes it's really annoying when people carve you up a bit, but I think that I agree with Rockjock here. Personally, I don't go in for death defying overtakes, I always obey double whites and never try an overtake unless I have a clear view of the road ahead. But, we all make mistakes.

Coming back from Donington a year or so ago there's a piece of road near Melton Mowbray that is completely straight but swoops down a hill and up the other side. There's a solid white that starts threequarters of the way up because the brow is completely blind.

Anyway, there was a slow moving truck labouring up the hill on the other side of this dip with two cars behind it then a couple of bikes. Then there was a 30 yard gap between the bikes and a BMW M3, then another car and then me. I wasn't going for it, I was just moving up the line of traffic. My plan was a lazy roll-on, roll off overtake to get past the car in front and the beemer, pull into the 30 yard gap behind the two other bikes. Plenty of time and a clear view, so I started the overtake. M3 bloke saw me starting this manoeuvre and floored it, so that as I pulled alongside the beemer he'd closed the gap that I was going for right up. So now, I'm on the wrong side of the road with the beemer blocking me out, I'm over the solid white coming up to a blind brow except now it's not quite so blind because I can see the top of an artic trailer. I've either got to stand the bike on it's nose and tuck in behind the beemer - or give it an extra squirt, nudge myself into the gap where the two bikes were and brake hard to stop myself piling into the car they were following. Faced with the choice of being smeared all over the front of a Scania, that's what I did.

The two bikes weren't riding buddies, they were complete strangers and I gave the outside one of the pair a real scare as I nipped in alongside him. I could see the startled look as he jinked his bike left thinking "where the fffffff.. did he come from".

But that's it, what are you gonna do? Become roadkill or scare someone sh...less? Whose fault was it? The beemer for being arsey, or mine for just taking it for granted that the beemer would behave predictably?
 
yes i understand what a few of you are saying and yes pauline is over it but i am not, i saw this happen in front of me and in my judgement he was bang out of order for taking the manouve there was plenty of room infront of me to pull in (at least 25 foot)and as i said i will know him next time we meet
 
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