dracken1
10-05-2007, 10:21 PM
some may know this little stretch of road i refer to.
between cemmaes road and mallwydd, 6 miles long.
one part of it is straight for a mile, straight that is except for a very large dip near the north end. but to warn people the council have double white lined it well in advance of the dip.
wednesday morning i'm travelling the road with a trike on a trailer behind me, i'm behind a large 8 wheeled wagon and there are 6 cars behind me.
i hear bikes coming up behind before i see them, we are doing 50 the bikes, 7 of them are doing at least twice that as they start to overtake us, we are already on the double whites, now in all fairness to the wagon driver in front who is a lot higher up than us and as such can see down into the dip further , he indicates and pulls out, at the same time waving his arm up and down out of the window frantically. because he can see the artics in the dip, but it doesn't slow the bikers one bit they overtake him to as he is pulling back in, the artics coming up out of the dip are on thier brakes already, thinking no doubt that the wagon coming towards them is driven by a mad man. the bikes narrowly miss the artic in front. i believe if the wagon driver had not done what he did something very nasty would been spread over the road.
as i said, from the south end of the road it looks flat, but the double lines are there and can be clearly seen. at least 8 people witnessed that episode, and that is a few more people who are not going to have much good to say about motorcyclists.
yes other people will try to kill us. but we are also our worse enemies on times :( :(
between cemmaes road and mallwydd, 6 miles long.
one part of it is straight for a mile, straight that is except for a very large dip near the north end. but to warn people the council have double white lined it well in advance of the dip.
wednesday morning i'm travelling the road with a trike on a trailer behind me, i'm behind a large 8 wheeled wagon and there are 6 cars behind me.
i hear bikes coming up behind before i see them, we are doing 50 the bikes, 7 of them are doing at least twice that as they start to overtake us, we are already on the double whites, now in all fairness to the wagon driver in front who is a lot higher up than us and as such can see down into the dip further , he indicates and pulls out, at the same time waving his arm up and down out of the window frantically. because he can see the artics in the dip, but it doesn't slow the bikers one bit they overtake him to as he is pulling back in, the artics coming up out of the dip are on thier brakes already, thinking no doubt that the wagon coming towards them is driven by a mad man. the bikes narrowly miss the artic in front. i believe if the wagon driver had not done what he did something very nasty would been spread over the road.
as i said, from the south end of the road it looks flat, but the double lines are there and can be clearly seen. at least 8 people witnessed that episode, and that is a few more people who are not going to have much good to say about motorcyclists.
yes other people will try to kill us. but we are also our worse enemies on times :( :(