SMIDSY by an RAF pilot

[Drew]

Quite interesting, but less than helpful I think.

Cunts don't take enough time to look. Change all intersections to stop sign instead of give way, and the same shit would still happen. Only time I've been cleaned out was by a bitch failing to stop.

[george formby]

Quite interesting, but less than helpful I think.

Cunts don't take enough time to look. Change all intersections to stop sign instead of give way, and the same shit would still happen. Only time I've been cleaned out was by a bitch failing to stop.

Sad but true. We have a stop sign at the end of our street & I do not recall anybody turning left stopping in the four years I have lived here.

$150 fine to save a few seconds.

[p.dath]

Sad but true. We have a stop sign at the end of our street & I do not recall anybody turning left stopping in the four years I have lived here.

$150 fine to save a few seconds.

If there haven't been any incidents it sounds like that sign should be changed.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Great link, thanks for posting. I even shared it on farcebook

[Drew]

Great link, thanks for posting. I even shared it on farcebook

By way of hint, as to real identity?

[chasio]

You can't 'educate' car drivers. Good luck with that. It's a doomed approach...

True. Just last night I noticed a farkoff great billboard opposite the end of the Nelson St offramp exhorting drivers to look twice for bikes. I felt all warm and fuzzy (someone cares!) for the two seconds before I realized it would make bugger all difference.

[Berries]

Sad but true. We have a stop sign at the end of our street & I do not recall anybody turning left stopping in the four years I have lived here.

$150 fine to save a few seconds.

You've got to question why it is there then. Poor visibility to the left or just to placate someone who moans a lot?

(And it's 20 points as well. DAMHIK)

[HenryDorsetCase]

By way of hint, as to real identity?

YOu got me, I'm an RAF pilot.

Spiffing, what!

[Ocean1]

YOu got me, I'm an RAF pilot.

Spiffing, what!

Ah, do you know a dude called Bigglesworth?

[swbarnett]

It's because of drivers' visual limitations that it is essential for riders to make themselves as conspicuous as possible . . .

It is not possible for us to be conspicuous enough to be seen by everybody. Stop expecting everyone else to look out for you and look out for yourself.

I don't care who sees me - I see them.

[george formby]

You've got to question why it is there then. Poor visibility to the left or just to placate someone who moans a lot?

(And it's 20 points as well. DAMHIK)

Aah, the ambiguity of the interweb.
The stop junction is on the crown of a relatively steep hill, it's effectively a cross roads. To you right you can look down one side of the hill which has a "slow vehicle bay", the speed limit coming up from the right is 70kmh. For some mysterious reason the majority of road users seem to assume that it is a "passing lane". I guess their are a lot of dyslexic road users. Closing speed of vehicles from the right is typically well above the limit. Vehicles turning left pull into the bay, still doing 70 kmh but the bay finishes before the junction so they have to enter traffic as they hit the brakes to turn. From the left you have a single lane which now has chevrons, it used to be a passing lane so you would have vehicles still overtaking at well over 100kh entering a 70 kmh area with a cross roads at the peak of a blind hill crest. Totally blind if your turning right Scary shit.
Admittedly visibility to your right is fine but you still have to access the speed of approaching vehicles & what their intentions are. The sign is appropriate.

[SuperMac]

YOu got me, I'm an RAF pilot.

I say! Have you been introduced to pilot officers Armstrong and Miller?

[vifferman]

Been repeated ad nauseum. Doesn't bear repeating because most forum members deny that they fall victim to this and would never not see a motorcycle.

Nup. That is, not I, Sir.
I still remember vividly being on my FarhtSturm, coming up to an intersection, looking to the right, starting to go, then flashed a quick glance to the right to see a black scroter (with headlight on) that I missed completely a second before. In that moment, it struck me how easy it was for other traffic to not see us.

This morning, travelling down Onewa Road, I changed to the right lane, and watched amused as the guy in front and to the left of me on a Ninja stuck his indicator on, and changed lanes into what would have been my path if I hadn't been watching him. I couldn't see him in his trendily diamond-shaped mirrors, so presumably, he couldn't see me, so his mirror check sans headcheck was useless. I dunno if I gave him a fright when I stuck my head out to the left and looked at him ("Here I am!"), but if I'd been a truck or car he could have been an unhappy chappy. Bikes have blind spots too, especially if the mirrors are more about style than function...

I find I'm using my three (3) horns less than I used to was (resorting instead to being a bit more cruisy), but on occasion they're usefull to say, "Wake up, Dozy!!"
(Apart from that time a cop in front of me changed lanes without looking, and I followed him for a few km having an internal debate as to whether or not I should've tootled him, before deciding it would've more'n likely been a futile waste of time).