Generally, I think it is safe for me to assume that each household has a motorcycle. Here, everyone rides a bike. Grandma, grandpa, daddy, mommy, dudes and dudettes and KIDS... yes... if you can't ride a bike here, you ain't from this planet. Here, bikers are Kings of the roads.
They're King coz they ride as and how they please... with or without a helmet. The only time they put a helmet on is when the hit the highways... and they have ummm.... two highways? Ok... so we understand each other better... here the definition of a highway is two lanes heading in the same direction. They're LESS of a menace when they're on the highways as we have two lanes to choose from. The highways are not a good choice to travel as it is normally longer and has steep hill climbs. Therefore the shorter routes would be the trunk roads where it is one lane each direction. This is where the problem is.
To drive on the trunk roads you need serious driving skills if you attempt to go over 60kph. If you drive below 60kph... I dunno about you but I would fall asleep or maybe I should get off my car and start pushing. So, to avoid both scenarios I drive at about 80kph and sometimes I hit 110kph on the trunk roads. When you do these speeds there's a lot of evasive action or distance judgement that come in play... which motorists here do not have. Bikers here ride right smack in the center of the trunk roads and they don't give a rat's ass whether you're behind them or whether you drive a car or a truck or anything on wheels or without wheels... they just ride away... at probably 20kph... struggling to keep their bike steady due to the slow speed.... no helmet... one kid in the basket standing... the other sandwiched between mommy and daddy... suffocating from DD boobs... they just ride away without a care in the world. Motorists here do not use brakes... if there is a motorcyclist in front of them they will swerve into your lane... regardless of your oncoming speed. They would rather put YOUR life in danger and THEIR life in danger than to hit the brakes and slow down.... and their judgement in distance does not exist... they just drive away and endanger everyone... so it is evasive action all the way.
Yes... bikes are Kings... till they get knocked down.... then they blame everyone else but themselves just like this idiot I saw... he's at a junction... a HUGE lorry is coming... DOWNHILL... so obviously brakes don't help very much unless the lorry driver wants to skid all over the place... the driver honks away announcing his arrival... this IDIOT motorcyclist with half an ostrich's brain just decides to get on that lane... and he does it at his whim and fancy... he does not speed up... nor does he go to the side of the lane to make way for the lorry... and NO HELMET... the lorry had to eat into the oncoming lane to avoid killing the bastard! Really... scums of the earth... such a nuisance to society... and they will never learn... even if it takes the lives of the ones they loved the most.
Sad.
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