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[Wheaters]

Thanks, unfortunately being a moron isn’t a criminal offence.

[Allanfox]

no, but it should be!!!

I had a very similar thing once in Nottingham (Canal St roundabout) many years ago on my 650 Trumpet but I hit the car amidships, over the handle bars and through the drivers window and wound up half hanging out of the window, my girlfriend went under the car and was had her legs run over, I was still beating the guy round the head when the police arrived (remember him well, PC 262 Farmer) on his Beeemer police bike, took one look told me to get into the ambulance and the guy was convicted for dangerous driving ( or undue care and attention), the beating was never mentioned again! We all survived with a few bruises and cuts and bent fork stanchions. I sued him for causing an accident and won (bike fixed and new leathers all round), so all's well that ends well and I as a young biker learnt a very important lesson that applies to this day to treat all car drivers as morons at all times, better safe than sorry guys!

[Wheaters]

I as a young biker learnt a very important lesson that applies to this day to treat all car drivers as morons at all times, better safe than sorry guys!

Agreed. I learned many years ago to watch the front wheels of any vehicle because they give probably the best indication of the driver's intentions. Flashing indicators can be incorrectly applied, or left on by mistake, or the bulbs can fail. Or, on certain cars they don't seem to work at all..... we all know which ones those are....

However, a vehicle will generally go where the front wheels are pointing. A vehicle waiting to pull out of a side turning will have to rotate its wheels - watching for movement of a wheel against the bodywork is more easily picked up by the human eye than the movement of the vehicle itself. I think that's what saved me from a serious collision yesterday.

[Allanfox]

Wise words!

[TomCraig]

My 1960 Bighead has the bigend it came with from Redditch,I have been riding this bike for 30 yrs usually in the company of larger modern bikes, I never "lug" my engine. The bottom end will probably outlast me!