Luck and biker instincts

**Headbanger** · 19th April 2009, 23:12

You drive a mini?

**CookMySock** · 19th April 2009, 23:14

Good save, mate. Thats a bad fright. Poor thing, her.

I submit that its easy to think we can read minds and predict the future, where the reality is that is impossible, so whatever it was that alarmed you is finely tuned.

Steve

**Mikkel** · 19th April 2009, 23:15

Originally Posted by Headbanger

You drive a mini?

Well, I guess hairdressing can be a hobby too

(that is of course provided it's one of the new minis...)

**madbikeboy** · 20th April 2009, 03:03

Originally Posted by Headbanger

You drive a mini?

Okay, the Mini is the best kept secret. You can drive using almost the same lines and braking points as a bike, it's small, you can fit it anywhere, (I work in town), it doesn't use gas or tires - I've owned all sorts of shit over the years, from fast Audi's to Alfas, Holdens to MR2's. The Mini's are good fun, this is the second one I've owned.

**MsKABC** · 20th April 2009, 08:18

Originally Posted by madbikeboy

You can drive using almost the same lines and braking points as a bike, it's small, you can fit it anywhere, (I work in town), it doesn't use gas or tires

And when it runs out of gas, you can just pop it in your pocket and walk to the next gas station

Hey, good save with the jogger.

Being a biker certainly does fine tune road instincts, of that I'm convinced.

**awayatc** · 20th April 2009, 08:28

Originally Posted by MsKABC

And when it runs out of gas, you can just pop it in your pocket and walk to the next gas station

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It has seat belts....so you can wear it like a backpack....

Good save!

**madbikeboy** · 20th April 2009, 10:36

Originally Posted by MsKABC

And when it runs out of gas, you can just pop it in your pocket and walk to the next gas station

Hey, good save with the jogger.

Being a biker certainly does fine tune road instincts, of that I'm convinced.

You actually need a pair of them, you stand with one foot on either roof, and use them as rollerskates...

Yep, I reckon bikers, with some exceptions, make the best drivers...

**MsKABC** · 20th April 2009, 11:12

Originally Posted by madbikeboy

You actually need a pair of them, you stand with one foot on either roof, and use them as rollerskates...

Yep, I reckon bikers, with some exceptions, make the best drivers...

This is probably wildly inappropriate, given the subject matter of almost running pedestrians over, but what the hell...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GR1tUzd-ro

Actually, it reminds me of the time when I was at school that the rugby boys picked up the deputy principal's mini and put it in the seventh form common room just before school assembly one day. A request was then made at assembly for the owner of a light blue mini to please remove it from the common room. He actually took the joke really well!

Damn it, now you've made me want to go and buy a mini....

**vifferman** · 20th April 2009, 11:31

Good work, MBB!
I doubt that it was biker instincts so much as the observational skills and general awareness you have to develop if you want to stay alive on a bike.
You probably intuitively decided (without being conscious of it) that her movements signalled that she wasn't aware of you and had decided to go straight across the road without pausing. This triggered an "Uh-oh - something's not right here!" kind of reflex. Good work acting on it - it's easy to go the other way and think your way out of it.

**Dave-** · 20th April 2009, 11:36

good shit mate ,I know what you're talking about, you get that creepy feeling, you've checked out plenty of lycra clad jogging women in the passed but this one feels different? this one doesnt move blood like the others do...

personally I've had a number of times where I've done something out of character while riding that has lead to me not dying.

coming home from a BBQ a bit out of town (would've been 9 or 10 oclock) I was heading down a straight road, lights on, 2 big trucks and a car were coming towards me in the other lane, as soon as I saw the car I thought "he's gonna pull out and pass the trucks without seeing me" so I moved to the left side of my lane in preperation for it, he pulls out, I flash my lights and toot my horn, I ride off the road onto the grit at 70-80kph (oh yeah I slowed down too) car goes screaming by like a pod racer (boy racer) and I carry on, how I didnt get clipped by the car, how I didn't hit a cyclist, a road sign, a marker, or a patch of looser gravel, a bottle or something is beyond me...devine intervention?...doubt it

going around corners I'll opt for a different line without thinking, as I'm in the corner I'll see a dead possum (or some other hazard) right where I would've been if I'd taken the corner how I usually do (in my defense I'd have been able to dodge it but it'd be hairy...or furry? lol)

police too

and i talked to my mum about it (as you do after a near death experience, which ironicly led to my mum nearly having a near death experience bought on by worry) and she said I've always had strange instinct, seeing things before they happen, I figure it to be luck, I've never won a competition or lotto so surviving is a welcome trade off.

there's been 7 times where it hasn't kicked in, so it's not full proof and sure as fuck doesn't make me invincible.

**Burtha** · 20th April 2009, 14:22

Mini's are the bees knees - I have one too - and good instincts matie!
I think she owes you dinner for sure.
Congrats on intuitive driving skills.

**madbikeboy** · 20th April 2009, 14:51

Originally Posted by Dave-

personally I've had a number of times where I've done something out of character while riding that has lead to me not dying.

there's been 7 times where it hasn't kicked in, so it's not full proof and sure as fuck doesn't make me invincible.

I'm a big believer in gut feel, and to be honest, I always listen to my gut and I react based on that alone. It's saved me more times than I can count.

**saltydog** · 20th April 2009, 16:03

Originally Posted by madbikeboy

I'm a big believer in gut feel, and to be honest, I always listen to my gut and I react based on that alone. It's saved me more times than I can count.

Woman are always going on about 'female intuition' (espicially when accusing you of having an affair or 'leaving the stove on')
This must be a case of male intuition.....I just knew it.
Well done MMB....sphincter clenching stuff indeed!

**vifferman** · 20th April 2009, 16:18

Originally Posted by madbikeboy

I reckon bikers, with some exceptions, make the best drivers...

Speaking of which....
My wife mostly buses to work, and because of this, she rarely drives (except on weekends).
Usually, I drive when we're in the car together, and have had 'lots of fun' with me noticing potential hazards, assessing and dismissing them, only to seconds later have the vifferbabe notice, react, and freak me out because her reaction led me to believe there was some new unnoticed hazard.

However, my back is currently 'ted, so I've been demoted to co-pilot, and she's had to re-acquaint herself with spotting hazards from the driver's seat. She got caught out a couple of times on the weekend (thankfully, without consequence) with cars disappearing into the blind spot, not noticing hazards, not planning ahead for lane changes and then not being able to change lanes.

Bus passengers make the worst drivers?