Is your driving s*** because of cycling?

[rugby bloke]

Don't really get this argument that if you don't drive very much you get out of practice. I was off the road for 4 years due to uncontrolled epilepsy. On the day I got my licence back my wife drove into town and then made me drive home in the rush hour in a car I had never driven. I thought it was going to be difficult but it came back straight away, its all muscle memory. The rest is confidence, appropriate speed and observation.

 

[growingvegetables]

... its all muscle memory. The rest is confidence, appropriate speed and observation.

Nope.

 

[rugby bloke]

Nope.

Blimey, in which case, it must have been luck !

 

[Tin Pot]

How do you know this?! Do you have access to my phone calls,e-mails,medical records etc No you don't,so please stop assuming that you know things,when you clearly don't! As for my driving standards,i'd say they are very good. As i've said before,i drive like i'm taking my test and that's every time,not just when i feel like it. It damn well annoys me that some bleat on about my supposed what they'll assume to be poor driving standards,yet don't give a toss about all the self-gratification artists out there who don't indicate (that's the new national pastime by the way. Driving but not bothering to indicate),park more than half way on the pavement,then set off,disregarding pedestrians as if they shouldn't actually be on the bloody pavement(as happened to me yesterday),do 40 mph in 20 mph areas,drive with their f..k..g phones to their ear etc etc!
As i've said before,i'm seeing an eye specialist in October. He will decide about my future driving,not me or anyone on here!




I'm still ranting!


Yes motorists. Don't bother to indicate,you lazy gets, as i'll just guess where you're maneuvering to and feel free to mount the bloody pavement and expect me to dive out the way as i don't pay fecking "road tax",so i shouldn't be outside my house never mind on a damn pavement! Infact take the bloody lot! Just drive on the pavement,as you're oh so superior in your big self-gratification artist Audi or Chelsea tractor...tosser!!!

Top rant.

You've gone up in my estimation.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I think you should retake your test every 5 years.

I'm not sure 5 is appropriate, maybe it needs to be a scale, that you have to retake at 20, then 10, then 5 after that, so if you pass at 20 you retake at 45, 55, 60 then every 5 years after that.

Although I sometimes feel that if I was made to drive one handed, with a blindfold over one eye from the backseat I'd still be a better driver than some people on the road.

 

[Drago]

Because of my cycling I'm a highly skilled driver. I take particular pride in my parking abilities.

I said I'd "pop in" to see Accy.