Bikers.
I'm prejudiced against bikers. Every time I see someone on a multi-coloured gimp suit atop a sports bike, I instantly assume they are a cunt and I do my best to avoid them. Its a shame really, as looking at it logically I would assume that there are many decent, responsible bikers out there. However, I have never, ever met one - my outlook has been shat upon by too many twats.
My little village main street is not the place for a moto-GP style burn up.
Toulouse ring road at rush hour is not the place to practice your Ghostrider impersonation.
The chap who knocked my wing-mirror askew with the top of his helmet on the apex of a bend - another few inches over round that corner and your neck would have been broken. Then mine would have probably been broken too as 20-odd of your mates screamed up in the same manner.
Filtering past lanes of stopped traffic on a clogged motorway is not the place to hoik a wheelie at about 50mph.

Whenever I see bikers not being twats, is usually as they are bumbling along in traffic or stopped at lights. I just cant help myself though and instantly assume they will do something idiotic as soon as the road clears.


I harbor similar feelings for teenagers on mopeds too.
(dave likes cheese, Sat 3 Apr 2010, 18:01, 4 replies)

Annoyingly, you have a point.
As a motorcyclist, I'd tend to agree. I've grown up on a road in the peak district where power rangers on plastic crotch rockets do a good impression of high speed lemmings. Likewise riders of twist n go hairdryers-if you are too thick to cope with gears, walk.
Which is a great shame, as bikes (especially old ones) are highly enjoyable without being a twat. You can meet some brilliant people, and the sense of achievement when a 2 year project splutters into life, or a 1968 bike has just taken you hundreds of miles is huge. Besides, as a 20 year old male I can't afford the £1200+ for car insurance.
( Greenbat, Sat 3 Apr 2010, 19:39, closed)

hoik
lol
(wheelspanner is cleaning the dead flies off his helmit on, Sat 3 Apr 2010, 19:48, closed)

Ah!
A fellow Toulouse man. I share your pain re bikers on the Toulouse péripherique. Rotters the lot of them.
(Omnizor Spooning bits of road for breakfast., Sat 3 Apr 2010, 23:52, closed)

Despite being a motorcyclist
you have a point.....I look at it a bit differently though.
Consider that if these twats were in cars when they inevitably fuck up they would more than likely kill a few other people, and often they are survivors, at least on a bike the can kill themselves much more easily with much less risk of physical harm to others.
For myself, lane splitting is one of the reasons riding a bike is so much more effective as transport, however if you kill yourself by being a dick about it, the advantage is lost.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Sun 4 Apr 2010, 2:41, closed)