David's story. Road safety campaign

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Thu Sep 18, 14 1:18 pm

Back of the net, big fella

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Thu Sep 18, 14 1:28 pm

I am still waiting to be accused of picking on Andy again.

Cannonball · Post by **Cannonball** » Fri Oct 03, 14 1:20 pm

Well today has been the funeral of a young lad age 24 that lives/lived just a bit up my road, he lost his life on a fast bike a week or so ago, dont know the circumstances etc but did involve hitting a car at speed, anyway he and obv his family knew the kids passion for the bike and speed and our road has been jammed packed with bikes for the funeral procession at one point they were all revivg holding on the limiter etc, sounded the bollax they then left in a massive convoy, i have just heard them all restart maybe a mile away at the church the last hoorah for the kid all again revvin Bananarama! out of them, god knows what the old schoolers vicar etc think of it, but brilliant the mum and dad must be on the biggest low of there lives but must have wanted his funeral to be loud n crazy, rip bugzy,

Mossy68 · Post by **Mossy68** » Fri Oct 03, 14 3:24 pm

Sad news Dunc. But unfortunately all to common these days. I'm glad his family understood his passion for bikes and don't blame it for his death.
Must of been nice for his family to see all his mates giving him the send off he would have wanted.

Cannonball · Post by **Cannonball** » Fri Oct 03, 14 4:00 pm

Mossy68 wrote:Sad news Dunc. But unfortunately all to common these days. I'm glad his family understood his passion for bikes and don't blame it for his death.
Must of been nice for his family to see all his mates giving him the send off he would have wanted.

Yes some would not want to see or hear of a bike again, they are having the wakr at the pub down the road now i had a drive by in the navara and 3 bikes peeled out from there behind me in black suits with crash hats on, we had a good race up my street,

they caught me on the straight ,,,,, its a wonder the law have not shown there faces as spme serious speed has been going on its like the TT around us, they used bottom as the pace bike,

latil · Post by **latil** » Fri Oct 03, 14 4:07 pm

It's all very sad,but it's always been the same.Big bikes ,young lads racing or just speeding.
Seems the two up my way the other week were racing,hence they both hit the range rover at the same time side by side. Speeds in the 80-100mph range have been mentioned. That road has a 40 limit for many good reasons,not least side turnings and free range deer.

mopar_mark · Post by **mopar_mark** » Fri Oct 03, 14 5:12 pm

Cannonball wrote:
Mossy68 wrote:Sad news Dunc. But unfortunately all to common these days. I'm glad his family understood his passion for bikes and don't blame it for his death.
Must of been nice for his family to see all his mates giving him the send off he would have wanted.
Yes some would not want to see or hear of a bike again, they are having the wakr at the pub down the road now i had a drive by in the navara and 3 bikes peeled out from there behind me in black suits with crash hats on, we had a good race up my street, they caught me on the straight ,,,,, its a wonder the law have not shown there faces as spme serious speed has been going on its like the TT around us, they used bottom as the pace bike,

Dunc,

I think it great that the parents allowed, wanted a send off for their son by his friends, mates & their bikes.
I am sure their son would of been tearing it up like his mates, if he was attending one of his friends funeral.

I know I & my mates were no different when we were younger & the same again in our late 30's when we became 'born again bikers'

Everyone knows the risks, it's hard not to crack the throttle when one of the pack breaks away...

Dave999 · Post by **Dave999** » Fri Oct 03, 14 5:52 pm

not going to comment on much here

but i have a mate who also said when he gets on his bike he feels like he is invisble

and more so in the dusk and winter when he can become aligned with a car many 100s meters behind thus tricking the drivers who are looking to pull out into thinking he is 1 of the cars headlamps

so he bolted a light to his handlebars
facing him
red cos it facing backwards but any would do i guess

angled toward his chest so it doesn't glare on his visor

now when he is out in poor vaiability he appears as an illuminated ghost floating above his headlamp

near misses and people pulling out on him greatly reduced

i assume drivers crashing into things after has past have greatly increased

removes it for the MOT mind.

won't stop him wrapping himself round a bollard or tree while testing out his new slipper clutch ?????!
but possibly avoids being wrapped around the side/front of an Audi or bus

just a thought

beam of light through the dark gives very little distance information
naturally scattered light picking out the familar shape of a human relays context perspective and therfore distance-away much better.

if everyone wore a flourecent jacket the bloke in the duffle coat stands out

this is his duffle coat

Dave

Dave999 · Post by **Dave999** » Fri Oct 03, 14 5:54 pm

not going to comment on much here

but i have a mate who also said when he gets on his bike he feels like he is invisble

and more so in the dusk and winter when he can become aligned with a car many 100s meters behind thus tricking the drivers who are looking to pull out into thinking he is 1 of the cars headlamps

so he bolted a light to his handlebars
facing him
red cos it facing backwards but any would do i guess

angled toward his chest so it doesn't glare on his visor

now when he is out in poor vaiability he appears as an illuminated ghost floating above his headlamp

near misses and people pulling out on him greatly reduced

i assume drivers crashing into things after has past have greatly increased

removes it for the MOT mind.

won't stop him wrapping himself round a bollard or tree while testing out his new slipper clutch ?????!
but possibly avoids being wrapped around the side/front of an Audi or bus

just a thought

beam of light through the dark gives very little distance information
naturally scattered light picking out the familar shape of a human relays context perspective and therfore distance-away much better.

if everyone wears a flourecent jacket the bloke in the duffle coat stands out

this is his duffle coat

Dave

db · Post by db » Fri Oct 03, 14 7:18 pm

Interesting idea that Dave. I'd like to see that for myself.
I don't generally rely on invisibility, I assume they're actually TRYING to hit me

I'm very lucky, I've only been to a couple of biker mates funerals. It's quite something to be part of a big procession of bikes, lads stopping traffic for the convoy to pass through, the noise, the whole town stopping to watch. That's definitely how I'd like to be remembered.