This could be a traditional rant from a biker about how people using mobile phones are a danger to themselves and everyone else on the road. And it is.<\/p>\n
I know from personal experience that when I’m in the car and I’ve used a mobile I think it’s fine… no problem I’ve got control… but here’s the rub… you’re not… take it from someone who sees you swerving over the road, only ever so slightly – but think about it – you only need to drift 1\/2 foot and you’ve knocked me off my bike. Yes I know filtering can be dangerous and I know us bikers can do if far to fast – and I have a problem with that too – but we’re all on the roads together – and just as I look out for cyclists shooting out of stupid holes where they shouldn’t be – drivers should be looking for bikers filtering in traffic – this is London for God sake!<\/p>\n
In a recent government report is was noted that 38% of accidents where caused by people not paying attention, or using their mobile phone, but only 4% where directly caused by speed… more on this soon… but in the mean time WILL YOU PLEASE GET OFF YOUR BLOODY MOBILE PHONE BEFORE I RIP YOUR WING MIRROR OFF!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This could be a traditional rant from a biker about how people using mobile phones are a danger to themselves and everyone else on the road. And it is. I know from personal experience that when I’m in the car and I’ve used a mobile I think it’s fine… no problem I’ve got control… but … Continue reading “Mobile phones”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}