Wrong Side Of The Road

I keep getting remarks about my style of riding i.e "You are always on the wrong side of the road" To let everyone know I was trained by Kent Police to become a surveillance motorcyclist on the Drug Squad and when I transferred to the City of London Police I obtained Advanced status for cars and bikes. The Police Roadcraft system of riding in my opinion is the highest qualification you can get for riding fast and safely on public roads. I have never been on a bike on a racetrack so would not comment on other riders. We pay for all of the road and should use it when safe to do so. Crossing a solid white line is taboo except for certain circumstances as per the highway code. It is all about reading the road, good observation and planning so please no more comments about my riding.

 

If you are riding on the Wrong Side of the Road you are riding too fast

 

I thought you were just senile ?

 

There is no WRONG side of the road apart from a solid white line preventing you from crossing it.

 

Tell that to the guy who crashed who took the wrong side of the road and did not see a car coming the other way just recently

 

Personally I think it is a highly dangerous thing to do and no amount of training can change the fact that if hit by an oncoming vehicle you are going to be in a world of hurt and an equivalent amount of trouble. I have seen experienced riders offsiding and I have also seen someone hit an oncoming car when drifting over the center line on a left hand bend.

To me "look at me I'm a Police Roadcraft taught rider" style of riding is just more willy waving!

 

I am not aware of exactly what gets taught to the police riders but I can say that as of 2 weeks ago when I did bikesafe they were still advocating using the whole road where safe to do so.

The key phrase of course being "where safe to do so"and never in a situation where if there was something coming the other way you could not get back to the other side of the road safely.

 

Off siding can safely be used to extend a view but should not be used to gain a view, personally I see nothing wrong with staying in position 8 following an overtake to extend my view but moving out into that position to gain a view - no thanks.

 

Sorry TC you talk a load of bollocks and I wonder what your qualifications you have. Only this weekend I have been out with some riders who are absolutely dangerous and do not know about reading the road and ignore every rule in the highway code. Lets go out for a ride together and learn from each other.

 

Riding on the wrong, hence the word Wrong is dangerous, with all the driveways that turn out in your path, let alone cyclists now days, and walkers, lets face it how many people look both ways to turn Left, for me you are just uping the odds to much in favour of an accident waiting to happen. Lets face most of us ride to enjoy the bends not to ride in a straight line through the bends

 

Sorry Mad Proff but I presume from your comments that you are a Pizza delivery rider and very boring

 

Maybe Sideways, but I rather go out enjoy myself, enjoy the company, ride at my pace, let others ride at their pace, ride safe, and get home safe with the others who have ridden with me. not try and ride too fast in a straight line all the time through bends

 

I am not going to comment anymore on this but if anyone comments on my riding trust me I will be commenting on theirs. So lets agree to disagree. I don't agree with people riding up the arse of car drivers, going on the wrong side of keep left bollards, crossing solid white lines without a genuine reason and giving us bikers a bad name. On Sunday I was witness to a member of the public reporting one of the group to the Police for stupid riding and no one has reported me for using all the road.

 

Perhaps you should upgrade mad proff from a 50cc to a 125cc

 

thought you were not gonna comment anymore?