it ain't just the cages from the front or sides watch your ass!

[T.W.R]

Had this pic for a while it sort of points out the obvious but many a time unlucky bikers have been caught like this and come off much worse!

Whoever this was they were bloody lucky!

[gamgee]

stupid big american cars, that happened to ewen mcgreggor on the long way round as well

[zadok]

A few years ago I was stopped at a stop sign, when a car hit me from the rear and shunted me into the intersection. Fortunately there wasn't a car coming through at the time. The guy was most apologetic and paid for my broken tail light. I was lucky that was all that was broken.

[Gixxer 4 ever]

You got it. You need to know as much about what is behind you as you do about the front. Remember you can stop faster than a cage and it will simply run you over. I saw a car hit the back of a truck. No big deal but I was going to pass the car and drop in behind the truck coming up to an intersection. Why didn't I pass the car? No idea. decided to wait. It was very wet. When your number is up I think it is up.

[T.W.R]

stupid big american cars, that happened to ewen mcgreggor on the long way round as well

yep saw that, bloody hairy assed boy in a Honda, McGregor was damn lucky, would have been interesting to see from the description they gave after it happened, Bowmans comment at the pub later was the best though " i wanted to kill him, then saw how young it was, there ain't no fight in that" HAHA!

[T.W.R]

stupid big american cars, that happened to ewen mcgreggor on the long way round as well

yep saw that, bloody hairy assed boy in a Honda, McGregor was damn lucky, would have been interesting to see from the description they gave after it happened, Bowmans comment at the pub later was the best though " i wanted to kill him, then saw how young it was, there ain't no fight in that" HAHA!

[Jabez]

Had a similar minor shunt (no damage) from a car a while back..... his excuse was that his aircon came on......

[Rhino]

You got it. You need to know as much about what is behind you as you do about the front. Remember you can stop faster than a cage and it will simply run you over.

Whenever I have to stop, the first thing I do is look in the mirrors and see how close the vehicle behind is (before even touching the brakes.) If I consider that they are too close, given the road conditions etc, I immediately start plotting my escape routes (such as lane splitting beside the vehicle in front and let him take the impact.)

[ducatilover]

A few years ago I was stopped at a stop sign, when a car hit me from the rear and shunted me into the intersection. Fortunately there wasn't a car coming through at the time. The guy was most apologetic and paid for my broken tail light. I was lucky that was all that was broken.

same happened to me a while ago, it was a female who didnt see me [ahem, or the red light for that] i got off pretty lightly, cos i took off when i saw her barreling up behind me and she still didnt, ahem, see me

[Zapf]

not funny at all... happed to DM not too long ago.

[Ixion]

No, not funny.

I have lost count of the number of times that my silly habit of stopping on amber and red lights has resulted in a dildo in a cage attempting to sodomise my exhaust. I regularly have to jump forward into the intersection or between the traffic lanes to give the tossers time to stop. Absurd thing is *I* stopped- *you* had my stopping time and distance *plus* the distnce between us. So why can't you stop. The crowning insult however is when the throwback actully has the nerve to sit and HONK - because I I don't run the amber light ! GRRRRR.

[Coyote]

A few years ago I was stopped at a stop sign, when a car hit me from the rear and shunted me into the intersection. Fortunately there wasn't a car coming through at the time. The guy was most apologetic and paid for my broken tail light. I was lucky that was all that was broken.

You were lucky that he was apologetic. Cagers seem to deny responsibility for their actions more often than not

[ducatilover]

You were lucky that he was apologetic. Cagers seem to deny responsibility for their actions more often than not

too true

[Motu]

If my bike had an ass,I would hope someone would run into the arse of my bike to remove it....

[vtec]

You were lucky that he was apologetic. Cagers seem to deny responsibility for their actions more often than not

Yeah I think this is usually the reason that they just keep going after knocking you off or forcing you off the road. I'm a cage driver too, but there are too many tards on the road. I'd name ethnicity and sex but there's too much PC shite going round at the moment. So I can't tell you who to watch out for.