Road Safety, Motorcyclists and IDIOT car drivers.

Just emailed this off to the Qld Road Saftey section of the Transport Dept....

"Dear Sir/Madam,

I'm a returning motorcycle rider aged 52. I come back to riding in March this year after an 18 year period raising my daughter on my own.

As such I was very much aware of the dangers with the massive increase in road traffic, so I took my time to get my 'riding-legs', insured I did some emergency braking practice in wet and dry conditions, and put in the effort to keep a high focus on the vehicle movements around me while on the road.

But, all my efforts are almost in vain it would seem. Riders have a joke they like to share amongst themselves.. "Remember everyone else on the road is out to kill you!"

Sadly, this is very true in Queensland. In the 8 months that I have been riding again I have had over half a dozen instances of car/truck drivers doing things that endangered my life, causing me to take evasive manouvres in order to survive.

A few have been young Red P Platers not giving way at roundabouts, two were Police doing the same thing, two have been people braking very hard so as not to miss their highway turnoff, one was a person at a cross junction pulling into the furtherest lane on me and the rest have been idiots changing lanes on me with no indicators.

My bike is brightly painted with lots and lots of chrome, the exhaust has been opened up to a safer sound level and the headlight is constantly on.. so there is no excuse about not seeing me.

This is NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!!

Please, Please, Please place Motorcycle Aware advertising on Television and in the Print Media in order to educate car drivers about Motorcycles sharing the roads with them in the hope that these IDIOTS might actually learn to drive safely. And so that I may LIVE beyond the next 8 months."

Probably some wheezer desk jockey will read the email and have a good giggle before deleting it.