I was on /talk about this yesterday
I personally have no sympathy for motorbikes as all I ever see are bikers cutting up the inside and revving too loudly and speeding down residential streets, I do try and look for goo motorcyclists, but I would say the proportion of shit to good must be at least 10:1.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 14 May 2009, 16:58, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Aye
There are a lot of annoying little shits on motorbikes being cocky, but I did hear once that motorcyclists are trained to overtake slow moving cars at traffic lights and things, although I don't know how true that is.

I'm still not sure about learning to ride myself as it scares me a bit to be honest, I'm quite a slight little lady and so I think it might be too aggressive for me. Plus cars do fuck motorcyclists up when they hit them. Although I've been a car driver for 7 years now so that would hopefully make me a more considerate rider.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 14 May 2009, 17:02, Reply)

The other thing that was said
is that a lot of cars don't pay enough attention to motorbikes. Which is probably also true. But then again, if you aren't passing a car on teh inside then you aren't going to get squished when it pulls in unexpectedly.

I guess you just need to be super uber aware of the road, and, as my cousins boyfriend said to me, if you ride a bike, you will crash and you will break something, so if you can accept that, then go ahead, if not, don't ride a bike.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 14 May 2009, 17:06, Reply)