Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > I got threatened by a Nobhead biker last night!

[AK]

was minding my own business returning home from a meal out with the girls.
Got to a local roundabout (less than a mile from home) pulled across (like a huge x roads really, but with grass in the middle) and to my horror I suddenly saw sparks fly, as a bike shot past the rear of the car ON ITS SIDE!

Now, at no point did I see said bike approaching in this 30 mph limit.

I kept the car moving & pulled over on the exit road I was going to take, and ran to the aid of the biker, who was just picking himself up.

Blimey - he launched into me by telling me it was all my fault for pulling out on him was quite nasty.
Meanwhile, the car that was on my tail at the junction had also stopped - 10 feet onto the roundabout - as the bike had shot between our cars

Blokey from the car behind has got out & is on his phone....

After about 2 mins, 2 police cars pull up. While they were on the their way, blokey from the car & I try to help the biker up with his blade - prob rideable, but rather scuffed.

Bikerman in his late 30's then stops being agressive - and tries to leg it!!!

Turns out - he had no insurance, tax, was banned from driving last year for 10 years - and none of the lights on the bike were working!

Double luck for me - as not only did he narrowly miss my car, but the 'blokey' in the car behind me was a CID just going about his business.
So - have a reliable 1st hand witness, that I was not contributory in any way! he even confirmed that at no point in the last 2 miles that he had been following me, that I had been driving at the speed limits and no more (bloody lucky, as I am usually hurtling down one of the previous roads)

The police had been doing their 'bits' and now think that the biker was well in excess of double the speed limit
(quite possible, as it used to be a 50 up until 15 years ago)

Just had plod into work taking my statement......

Hope not to hear anymore- but a scarey end to a good evening - drinking coke & then coffee I will add.

**edited title as requested**

[Edited on 21-10-2005 by CK and AK]