Motorcycles on the motorway.

[soulpatch]

Really a question for Hertsbiker and any others...

Going back on the bikes in march (Yam Fazer600) after being knocked off my FZR600 2 years ago.

Just to ask the question - How safe do you feel on the motorway these days? Has it got worse in the last 2 years? Feels like it in a car....!

[Niggle]

Just ride defensively, always keeping an eye on an escape route for when one of them does something stupid.

I've also found that riding like a nutter helps on occasions, I guess it's like that Dutch bloke who advocated removing the lane markings, it makes them think.

[hertsbiker]

feels safer on the bike when going fast. Going with the traffic seems more dangerous. Don't know why though.

[tallchris99]

All the rear end shunts on the M25 scare me badly. I loathe using that awful road.

Otherwise I feel safest when I am the fastest vehicle on the road.

The other problem is having the time to sit and mull on the likelehood of speare wheels dropping out of rusting wheel cages, tyres exploding off of lorry rims and evil little gits chucking stuff off of the bridges...

Thankfully I have never had an accident on a motorway but it has been very close on several occasions...

[woof]

ditto to the speed thing - I'd rather move around cars then follow them.

It's moving thru stationary traffic that is probably the most likely chance of being knocked off (?) I use full beam most of the time, and espiecially in slow/stationary traffic.

[soulpatch]

Well the only accidents I used to have on a bike were under the speed limit, not on a motorway and involving a car driver using that same retarded line "sorry mate, didnt see you".

Suck on that government statistics.

They had better hope that if they knock me off this time they kill me. If I am able to walk afterwards they wont.....

[hertsbiker]

There was this old saying in the war, by the submarine crews;-

You're a submariner, everyone else is a target.


Or something like that. Think this applies to bikes - you're either a biker, or you're not.

[Whoozit]

woof said: ditto to the speed thing - I use full beam most of the time, and espiecially in slow/stationary traffic.

Not if you're behind me, you don't. Unless you like being sworn at when we reach the next red light.

[T5Cosmo]

Best to treat cars like vans and HGVs on the motorway , if you can see the drivers eyes then he has no excuse for not seeing you.

I always go with dipped beam on , so far no accidents and only a couple of near misses on roundabouts. These have totally different rules where it is survival of the fastest.

[Ali_D]

woof said:I use full beam most of the time, and espiecially in slow/stationary traffic.

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I know this is apparently the correct thing to do but you must realise that the brightness of these lights means no-one in front of you can correctly judge the distance that you are away from them and they can't see much behind you either - doesn't seem that clever to me.