johnsher wrote:
Sixy_the_red wrote:
Thats only because I know how much it p*ssed me off when I was broken down (as a female on my own) on my bike at the side of the road for about half an hour, waiting for my other half to come get me, and all these twats in cars just drove by slowly and stared at me rather than stopping to see if I was ok.
so how do you tell, from a moving vehicle, that a bike is broken down and not just stopped for some other reason? Obviously if you're in a car you pop the bonnet, but a bike?
I can imagine you'd also get p*ssed off if you were just having a rest or waiting for someone and every second person was asking if you were ok, at least I would.
You can usually tell from the look on the riders face!!
I used to ride a 175 cc Honda, and I once stopped on the M6 for a BMW tourer just short of Forton Services. Turns out they had run out of petrol!
We lifted my bike onto the crash barrier, and pulled the petrol lead of the carb., and trickled enough into their tank to get them to Forton.
I also once stopped for a bunch of "Hells Angels" near the Low Wood Hotel, A591. One had a puncture. I took the rider bake to my house, where we patched his tube, pumped it up, then rode the three miles back to his bike, while his mates jeered him for being seen on the back of a CD 175!!
However, I had a motorcycle escort all the way into Ambleside, of 8 bikes, and when I peeled off to stop at my destination, they all hooted and waved, much to the amusement of the tourists at Waterhead, who seemed to think I was in danger of being worked over by a gang of bikers!
I always stop if it is convenient, for bikes OR cars, if necessary placing my vehicle to shield us from the cars behind, unless I have my kids in the car, in which case I try to park up out of the way and walk back.
My tool kit and sare water and fuel have had more use from other road users than they have for my own vehicle - but then I check mine out more than some users!
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) - and also the chap who got a parking ticket which the police had moved to the side in the clean up operation - he was being loaded into the ambulance at the time. Then there's that case of the chap fined for clearing the way for an ambulance at the lights.... 
- and you reinforce the baser selfish, cowardly and isolate human nature - hence the toatally shocking account of the abandoned old lady lying in a London road - a story which makes you ashamed of the levels of selfish callousness to which society has plunged. That being said - if I were to see such a sight - commons sense and human decency dictate a 999 call - but I would make sure that my call to the emergency services was plainly visible to any would be attacker as a precaution - and set about giving first aid in the meantime.
