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Originally posted by Paul James
Reckon you should include the horse riders with the car drivers Everton, I never fail to get annoyed when coming round a corner to be faced with a pile of steaming horse <b>[Censored]</b> !!! They are quick enough to shake their fists at us bike riders for making too much noise and frightening their horses.
Roads are too busy these days for horses, the government banned handguns for no valid reason, let's ban horses next. |
We had exactly the same problem on the Essex rideout this weekend. I was in the lead and came round a left-hand bend in a 30 zone (doing 30 would you believe) and I spotted the horse and rider about 300 yards in the distance.
She spotted me at the same time, and I backed off the throttle, but straight away she was furiously waving her hand motioning for me to slow down. WTF? As soon as she spots me she's going ape - how did she know what speed I was doing? I was already slowing down, but she obviously knew better and decided I was riding too fast.
Normally I don't have a problem with horses or their owners - I slow down for them as bikers and horse-riders tend to have a mutual respect for each other - but this woman, who was not wearing a helmet nor reflective clothing, automatically decided I was in the wrong.
I just bimbled past shaking my head and let her get on with it. I found at as we stopped that she gave all the others who came past a load of grief too, even though they were pootling through the village as well.
Looks like it's not just one stupid biker who spoils it for the rest - the same applies for horse riders too!
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