Hero to Cyclists

[KnackeredBike]

I think to be fair to the bloke he has spun a tale to plod to get them off his back. Whenever you are stopped by plod you inevitably explain your driving in a way that puts you in a positive light. If he had confessed to dangerous driving then potentially he could go to jail and honestly that seems harsh for one moment of idiocy.

Outside of his control, people have decided his heroically bad riding warrants a free wheelchair, fool and their money etc.

On his side he is a teacher and presumably of previous good character so people are more likely to indulge him. If it had been some millionaire property tycoon perhaps he would have a rougher ride.

In the end, he ballsed up and has personally paid for it with a life changing injury. I don't begrudge him a bit of good luck thereafter.

 

[Jackmaster]

I think to be fair to the bloke he has spun a tale to plod to get them off his back. Whenever you are stopped by plod you inevitably explain your driving in a way that puts you in a positive light. If he had confessed to dangerous driving then potentially he could go to jail and honestly that seems harsh for one moment of idiocy.

Outside of his control, people have decided his heroically bad riding warrants a free wheelchair, fool and their money etc.

On his side he is a teacher and presumably of previous good character so people are more likely to indulge him. If it had been some millionaire property tycoon perhaps he would have a rougher ride.

In the end, he ballsed up and has personally paid for it with a life changing injury. I don't begrudge him a bit of good luck thereafter.

What a truly bizarre interpretation of the FACTS - as have been presented?!!!

I must of missed the bit where it said anyone else was actually injured in this - were they?

The poor sod is now in a wheelchair. I'm certain he would have been breathalyzed otherwise he wouldn't be grinning and this story spun as if he's a hero.

Maybe he genuinely is and I am being harsh. The wording and implication just doesn't back up this narrative. The mention of a first blind corner negates this. I struggle with people's comprehension of this but maybe I am too slow or fast!!?

 

[Jackmaster]

I feel sorry for the guy, but the bottom line is he lost control of his motorbike. If it wasn't mechanical failure then it shouldn't have happened.

Here here. He screamed into one blind corner, assumed the next was clear, wasn't fell off.

No thought of who he might hit riding like that. 100% natural preservation that he didn't have a head on with a cyclist's arse.

 

[jefmcg]

[QUOTE 4905997, member: 43827"]Absolute speculation based on knowing next to nothing about the facts of this particular situation.[/QUOTE]
Why are you only cross with the people who question this sequence of events? Surely the people who accept the hero narrative are also speculating with next to no knowledge of the facts.

 

[Drago]

Occam's Razor is rarely wrong.

 

[Saluki]

I have lost control of a motorbike and didn't have a choice as to where it went. I was not too shoddy a rider either.
I suspect a case of TFF and that the cyclists were incidental. Shame he had ended up in the way he has though.

 

[Alan O]

Occam's Razor is rarely wrong.

It's actually quite often wrong.

 

[jarlrmai]

My main issue is the subtle (or perhaps not so subtle) implication/subtext in some of the headlines that if it hadn't been for having to avoid those pesky, annoying, squishy cyclists this man (a teacher) would not be paralysed.

 

[jefmcg]

[QUOTE 4906018, member: 43827"]I also subscribe to the the theory that people are innocent until proved guilty.[/QUOTE]
I am not saying he is guilty of anything, I am just trying to raise the bar a few inches to qualify as a hero. Not careening through a dozen cyclists on your out-of-control motorbike seems a very low bar.

 

[Pale Rider]

"Men are usually over 1.6 metres tall" "That's quite often wrong". Yes there are a lot of men under 1.6 metres, but the statement is still true.

Let, first service.

 

[Jody]

Deuce

 

[steveindenmark]

As a motorcyclist this sounds like a bit of bad judgement and luck.

 

[400bhp]

If you are black and white then losing control means you have no control. But it's possible to be partially in control, or in control knowing you will be out of control a split second later.

I've had it on my bike, going into a 90 degree right gander at the bottom of a steep hill. I hit the corner and knew instantly that my front wheel was losing traction. I had a choice, to try and steer round the corner or try to lessen the angle add much as possible but going into hedges. I chose the latter as I didn't want to fall into the road. I ended up with cuts and bruises. Nothing broken (me or bike). It knocked my confidence on downhills for about 18 months afterwards.
Was it the best decision? I'll never know.

 

[Drago]

I never said "Occam's razor is wrong" - I quite explicitly said (several times) that "It's actually quite often wrong" (emphasis added).

Not in the case of our "hero motorcyclist" it isn't.

I think we just have to agree to differ.

 

[Alan O]

Not in the case of our "hero motorcyclist" it isn't.

I think we just have to agree to differ.

Oh, I'm not disagreeing with you about this specific case.