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twizzian

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  1. The paint brush!

     

    I never go anywhere without my helmet, but this time I did as the shop was only a few hundred meters from the house.

    Out of my estate & on to the main road, a white pick up truck was at least 500 meters behind so I continued out ,I indicated and moved to the middle of the road to turn right into the shop, a blast of the trucks horn sent me wobbling around the road. He was on me like it just materialised from nowhere missing me by litery inches trying to over take my right side when a double decker bus could have easily passed on my left.

    The truck ended up skidding along the verge on the other side, and very slowly carried on for a hundred yards obviously looking in his mirror at me. Perhaps the driver was shocked too.

     

    Had I not anticipated his speed?, maybe not.

    I am usually very cautious and careful here when on the bike.

    My wife had told me to never stop in the middle of the road just wait on the left for your chance to cross or turn because of the drivers playing with mobile, or just generally not paying attention.( I'm not talking about junctions or right hand turns to another road by the way). Now I'm confused

     

    Maybe I wouldn't be writing this If I had of been hit the other day.

     

    This was my closest near miss ever. I just wanted a ฿30 paintbrush.

    So close to home with no helmet.

     

     

  2. 30 minutes ago, Dmaxdan said:

    A friend of mine recently knocked a motorcyclist off their bike. This was the all to common classic undertakeing manoeuvre at speed of a vehicle turning left off the highway. Luckily the guy wasn't seriously hurt. But what was interesting was that the police told him that a motorcyclist has every right to undertake a car turning left even if the vehicle is halfway through the manoeuvre! 

     

    Mind boggling..........

     

    Maybe the Motorcyclist produced the brown envelope first!

  3. 13 hours ago, tomacht8 said:

    Ok the bets are now opened.
    Somtamnication on Romanians.
    Rc2702 on Moldovan and Yemeni
    tomacht8 on North African like Moroccan, Algerian or Tunisian (even with france passport).
    S'il vous plaît placer leurs jetons.

    "Full story coming soon. "
    I'm curious if there is a follow up from the media.

     

    Phew! that puts the majority English, Americans, Australians in the clear. :tongue:

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