Quote Originally Posted by jape View Post
Good report mate, no pics though!
With the 'accident', it seems driving all over the world is getting worse, not just in China! I have had a few incidents in recent weeks in rural Australia. Yesterday I was in patchy daytime fog, with lights on and luckily (carefully) only doing 85kph. I came over a hill brow and found a car reversing towards me in the middle of the road and veering as so many do when they reverse so I couldn't safely decide whether to go left or right! Fortunately the brakes worked and I stopped just short of a prang. The car driver just looked ahead and ignored me as I asked what the F*** he thought he was doing! I am getting too old to fight everyone so I just yelled at him some more and continued on. A few km later he overtook me, passing so close I wobbled in the wind. Then twenty minutes later in town an idiot just pulled out from parked in front of me but on the other side of the road, crossing over the middle of the road a few feet as he did it, causing me to swerve and curse. He actually stopped and wound down his window and said he was going to report me for swearing in public. I swore some more at him but decided not to spit in his face or punch him ... I am still awaiting a visit from the cops! I am so glad I don't live in the USA, I would shoot someone I think. No CCTV or witnesses on rural roads ...
Glad you liked and appreciated my report. Pics will be uploaded later this coming week. Riding motorcycles can and does feel like a second class road user at times, especially in China. Here there's several discriminatory practices, from bans from using expressways or having that as an option, and motorcyclists being banned in many cities, and then having other drivers drive aggressively pushing their way through when overtaking on the motorcyclists lane forcing riders to take evasive action.