Ride Your Own Ride.

I followed a guy to Thunder in the Glens a couple of years ago.He came up behind me in Keith and over took straight away. I followed him for 60 miles and we had a laugh the road was full of bikes and it was a nice day. Towards the end he obviously decided to leave me and got stupider and faster till I dropped back.
There are so many guys thats bike conversations all to quickly get to "so I was doing about 120 round this..."

 

I remember going for a ride on my first bike, the awesome SV 650s. I was out with two experienced guys on 1000cc Ninjas. Then along comes a guy in the rattiest leathers I’ve ever seen plus a bike just as ratty.

I thought ‘oh shit I’m gonna look a right tool next to this dude’! Couldn’t be more wrong. He was hopelessly out of his league even with my riding which was ok but slow compared to the two ninja mounted geezers. He eventually fell off on a slow corner into Modbury near Plymouth, hitting the Armco and hurting his nads! I couldn’t believe it cos I followed him into the corner and it was so slow I couldn’t at first see the reason why it happened.

Anyway turns out the lead Ninja guy owned a recovery business so picked him up job done. Unfortunately once he was away they really opened up the Ninjas. At the next junction I just said see ya later , I’m not comfortable keeping up, or even trying. I’m 45 now and feel no need to try and match people if I can’t. It’s as simple as that.


As an aside I ain’t seen these blokes for a while but heard the ninjas are just track bikes now after a particularly close call on the open road.

 

I've found the guys that go on about how they went from A to B in X time or go on about having no chicken strips and how fast their bike is are usually full of Sh*t and nowhere near as fast as they think they are..my eyes instantly glaze over when I here p*sh like this

 

unbelievable........

 

Here's a recent example of Tw@t on a bike with Mrs Tw@t egging him on (it was one of five 20-odd bike groups on our club's Easter egg runs). Strong words have been had and strong measures taken. My camera, btw. Keep an eye in my mirror. I was on brand new tyres so admittedly was being doubly cautious on the wet bends, but feck me, what a dick. The type of ar$ehole who ruins everyone's day.

 

sure it was his knee sliders

 

What did you expect Rich - he's got a top box!

 

I lost count on how many times he passed you; why did he keep dropping off and then coming on again? Doesn't make any sense!
Wessa

 

It's a bit of a mystery mate. Showing off? Trying to impress his missus with his 'advanced' riding skill. And this was only a 50 mile ride on Easter Sunday. I was really annoyed at the end cos I was following the lead who is police trained AIM and I enjoy going to school on his lines on those country roads. As I say, admittedly I was being ultra cautious cos I was still scrubbing in brand new tyres with just 60-odd miles on them by that time. Thing is, the bloke is really nice and unassuming when you get him off the bike. The brain's tw@t switch seems to flick on with some blokes when they get on a bike.

 

We had a group ride last weekend, and I had a van pull out into the middle of the group. When it was safe I overtook him but I also had to go in front of the bike the van was tailgating in order to complete the overtake. When we stopped I apologised for passing him, but he understood.

When we group ride generally the lead is on comms with a 'sweeper' at the back so we don't get too strung out. For me it's not about speed so much as a good day out with friends old and new!

 

He most probably knew that Rich had a helmet camera and was going to record the ride.

Also I know of a few who record their ride with said cameras and something happens to them from the moment they put their bike into gear,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,they take their brain out.

 

It was more than a talking to on this last chance occasion.

QUOTE="Privateer, post: 180623, member: 5970"]The trouble is you don't know who is going to turn into a pillock until you're out on the ride. Hopefully everyone gets home safe so you can point out the error of their ways. Seem to remember one of our rides being spoiled by an inexperienced rider who thought he was quicker than he was. Not you Rich!![/QUOTE]

Yup, he was a dick on almost very ride we went on. He kind of adopted me, and I spent a lot of time trying to school him. Nothing anyone said ever got through to him. He was very reckless on a number of club rides too. Anyway, problem solved, he's moved North.

 

You mean he’s some one else’s problem now
Why I don’t ride in big groups normally there’s always at least one person like that.

 

Fair'nuff. Problem 'exported'.

 

Does he hide at the back just so he can overtake EVERYONE.

 

I mainly ride on my own or with my brother but I do ride with the Prostate Patrol as well. This is a group of IAM riders all of a certain age and in need of regular fag / loo breaks. They don't look fast and they are very safe (ex police riders and so on) but they actually make very brisk progress. At our regular stops we discuss the ride, swap the lead and complain about the state of the nation and our arthritis.
The main controlling factor on my riding apart from my wife is the fact that I no longer bounce, broken ribs really hurt and I am on blood thinners so I can bleed a lot.
I used to ride with a MAG group and there were a couple of prize twats on Harleys who spoiled every ride - so I stopped riding with them.

 

Great thread. I ride with more experienced riders than myself. I rode in my teens/20’s mainly off road, then got back into it last year when I was 49. They’ve all been riding for about 30 years but I have to say, they’re aware of my limits, mostly. I did go on a group ride with a couple of guys I didn’t know and I nearly crashed. I won’t do it again and thankfully have the chance to learn from it. If they do end up shooting off ahead I just let them go, I’ll catch them up a few minutes later, alive and uninjured.

 

I have been on big group rides where there are lots of different levels of ability and you do get this happening quite a lot especially on the rides where you drop a man off at any junction as 'faster' riders like to blitz through the pack to get back to the front and get tagged again. Now that is fine providing the riders coming through show the others respect and don't spoil their ride, clearly the guy in your video doesn't understand that.
These days I ride with a group of guys that have very similar ability, where we ride together so often we know what each other are likely to do which makes for a much safer ride.
I am not against riding in large groups but I do change the way I ride to suit as I don't want to end up involved in someone else's accident, at the end of the day I got nothing to prove!
Mind you if you think that's bad you want to go on a track day when you get the buffoons that think it is actually a race & they are Marquez

 

Hope we don't need to go round corners at speeds in excess of 60 let alone 100 plus on the Scotland trip. Enjoying my motorcycling is important, staying alive is critical

 

JD was calling you and won the call......
Wessa