Motors Eeeeeeep!! - Oh, that wasn't so bad...

I'm a volvo driver, and i know i'm not invincible as i've seen the sort of damage that happens to 440 at 30-40mph smashes. (yes i drive a 440)

Typical stereotype would be volvo drivers are always pulling caravans, but the truth is we've got the torque to pull them well above the speed limits,

 

There is nothing that teaches you how to drive defensively as a motorbike, it called a survival instinct for a reason. Nothing focuses the mind more than the risk of being killed for cocking up.

I honestly believe that most car drivers would be better drivers if they spent some time on a motorbike, it doesn't need to be a beast, just a bike where you are routinely ignored, cut up and generally threatened constantly by the tin cans around you driven by idiots trying to figure out how to manually tune the radio at 80mph.

Bikers are actually more aware of road conditions than most, they can feel it directly.

I bought my wife a Fiat 500 last year cos it was cheap, it is her that thinks it is a fashion statement - honest!

 

Make sure you adjust the rear-view mirror so you have to slightly move your head to look through it. They'll notice head movements more than they will eye movements.

 

It has a boxer engine so its loud and it came with that exhaust. I dont wear a baseball cap.

I have a golf and i reckon thats true!

 

Baby seat as well?

 

Ye ye, that's what they all say

 

Fingers is spot on about bikers, it really is survival instinct. Biking gloves have steel/carbon/kevlar etc. knuckle guards not to protect your hqands but to put your fist through that side windows of dickheads who deliberately put you in danger for no reason. Seen it happen, supported the biker wholeheartedly. Even gave him my name and address to be a witness if it went to court.

People really would be safer drivers (at the very least in regards to bikers) if they had to do some time on a bike. Hell, even time on a push bike would help. It seems amazing to me that once some people get behind the wheel they forget everything Darth Vader told them when they were a kid. (yeah ok you need to be fairly old to get that one lol)

Now can i get the same method to work with making my manager do some time on the shopfloor the lazy ****tard.

 

Just passed my test which was suprising as I drove terribly. Generally I'm fairly good but if I make one mistake I tend to drive worse than I usually do for a few minutes afterwards. (Got 13 minors and I even hit the kerb turning into the test centre at the end of the test. )

 

Congrats, but Jesus, 13?! IIRC it's one more and that's a fail! Way to think about mistakes, is that they've happened and there's nothing that can be done to rectify it. You just need to move on. A tip my instructor gave me, is if you know you made one, don't show it, or at least not that much.

 

13 was a bit much but driving through Wycombe in the rain was a bit of a nightmare for me.