Driving home from work I saw a motorcyclist fall off their bike and was trapped for a second, outside Homebase on Chesterfield Road. I stopped and checked she was ok but couldn't help her lift her bike due to being pregnant, so I waved frantically at motorists passing by to get some help to pick it up and make it safe.
Plenty of people slowed to look but no one helped - what happened to Sheffield folk being friendly and helpful, a pregnant woman and a fallen biker trying to get help should have warranted some attention to get help.
Finally, two chaps stopped, lifted the bike, put it safe and helped reassure the biker.
Well done, you two are the Sheffielders I recognise, thankyou.
The biker was not hurt and I drove her to where she needed to be, offered details of a friend who can help fix her bike and told her about the Forum where she can meet some real, genuine people in Sheffield.
She may log on later so any bikers who can assist in fixing her bike, add your post please.

What a wonderful person you are! :clap: I'd have done the same, as a speeding motorist could have easily driven over her. It's a disgrace to imagine that some well abled people sat in their cars and watched you try and help her.

I fell off my Motorbike a couple of years ago in Southampton.

Was going very slow at the time, everyone just carried on as if nothing had happened.

Not just Sheffield folk.

I think people are afraid of helping others in a scare-monger society.

We3ll done you for helping someone who will have needed it :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

hi both myself and partner are bikers and im sure between myself and my mates we can help her
if you have a contact please pm me and i will forward my tel no or if she is on here pm me

Thanks!
I rang the biker ladys answer machine and passed on your message so she can let me know or reply on forum if she finds us.
Always thought bikers stuck together anyway, although one totally blanked us while waving frantically today.
Good on you.

Originally posted by Zebra
Always thought bikers stuck together anyway, although one totally blanked us while waving frantically today.
Good on you.

That's the problem with 'boys with toys' :mad:
They're not real bikers, and you wouldn't catch them dead out in the rain :mad:

Originally posted by venger
I think people are afraid of helping others in a scare-monger society.

You see a bike on the floor and someone waving for help.
You stop the car and get out to offer assistance. You then get a baseball bat round the back of the skull and off they drive with your car, wallet and mobile phone.

Or you stop the car and get out to offer assistance, lifting the bike off the floor. You then get sued by the rider for causing further damage to the machine or injury to them.

And so on.

That's the problem with 'boys with toys'
They're not real bikers, and you wouldn't catch them dead out in the rain


*snigger*
My closest friends and several members of family are bikers, and proper ones by the sound of it, die hards!
I'm more of a pillion rider but everyone whose bikes I've been on would have stopped to help someone who needed it.
All's well that ends well today.

Probably Jack. And I'm the worlds worst for anticipating people up to no good, but I'm still a sucker for pitching in to help if somebody looks like the need it.

I came off my bike a couple of months ago and a girl who was learning to drive stoped i was ok but it is nice to know people would stop and help and knowing this i would stop and help someone too

Originally posted by jackthedog
You see a bike on the floor and someone waving for help.
You stop the car and get out to offer assistance. You then get a baseball bat round the back of the skull and off they drive with your car, wallet and mobile phone.

Or you stop the car and get out to offer assistance, lifting the bike off the floor. You then get sued by the rider for causing further damage to the machine or injury to them.

And so on.
Really, I didn't see those stories in "the star", when did they happen?

:suspect:

Originally posted by venger

I think people are afraid of helping others in a scare-monger society.

Originally posted by jackthedog
You see a bike on the floor and someone waving for help.
You stop the car and get out to offer assistance. You then get a baseball bat round the back of the skull and off they drive with your car, wallet and mobile phone.

Or you stop the car and get out to offer assistance, lifting the bike off the floor. You then get sued by the rider for causing further damage to the machine or injury to them.

And so on.

Exactly my point.

Pleased someone spotted it, thanks Foo_Fighter

that deserves a special big flesh special bellybounce! boing, well done that man!

Originally posted by caprice
What a wonderful person you are! :clap: I'd have done the same, as a speeding motorist could have easily driven over her. It's a disgrace to imagine that some well abled people sat in their cars and watched you try and help her.
I fully agree on this.

Originally posted by Strix
That's the problem with 'boys with toys' :mad:
They're not real bikers, and you wouldn't catch them dead out in the rain :mad:
:o So we're presuming it was man on the other bike huh?

Maybe it was a girl on a man's toy?:hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

Originally posted by venger
Exactly my point.

Pleased someone spotted it, thanks Foo_Fighter

The point of my post was to prove the point of your post.

I should've quoted you myself really.

Originally posted by jackthedog
The point of my post was to prove the point of your post.

I should've quoted you myself really.

Sorry chaps, but my point was that these are "urban legends"...

...whilst I understand that these concerns may be why people don't stop, and therefore (in a way) agree with venger...

...these concerns aren't actually based in fact, but rather serve to ease ones conscience about not bothering to stop at the scene of an accident.

Person A: "Busy-busy, I can't stop"

Person B: "But why, don't you feel guilty?"

Person A: "No! If I'd stopped somebody might have mugged or sued me"

:mad: TWADDLE! :mad:

I'm glad I stopped and I would not have wanted to be in her position if I hadn't. How long until someone else would have stopped?
Anyway, point being, the lady biker is fine, and called to tell me she sorted her bike out, so thanks to those who offered help.

How did she manage to fall off her bike?

Originally posted by Zebra
I'm glad I stopped and I would not have wanted to be in her position if I hadn't. How long until someone else would have stopped?
Anyway, point being, the lady biker is fine, and called to tell me she sorted her bike out, so thanks to those who offered help. Glad she and the bike are ok and thankyou for stopping there far too many people who just drive past nowadays.:thumbsup: :) Hope she doesn't give up biking because of it. ;) :)

Well done Zebra for taking the time to help out. :clap:
Shame on those who either could not be arsed or were too afraid in case they may be mugged :roll::shakes:

Personally I've had bikers pull over and ask if everything was OK, when all I was doing was having a roadside ciggarette:thumbsup: ("boys with toys":roll: at that as well!)
I've also stopped for a rider that had run out of fuel, taken them pillion to a petrol station, then run them back again (all out of my way).
Also a friend of mine had a fellow biker stop in his van and run himself and his damaged bike home following an accident:thumbsup:

I bet the likes would not happen with any other group of road users :nono:

Originally posted by Strix
That's the problem with 'boys with toys' :mad:
They're not real bikers, and you wouldn't catch them dead out in the rain :mad:

What do you class as a "real biker" then Strix?
Do you ride yourself?

Originally posted by gatecrasher3
How did she manage to fall off her bike?
Why does it matter?
I can't comment much other than to say it wasn't stupidity and a friend had a similar incident nearby but with much more dire consequences.

Originally posted by Zebra
Why does it matter?
I can't comment much other than to say it wasn't stupidity and a friend had a similar incident nearby but with much more dire consequences.

I wouldn't say it does matter. It was just a general reasonable question presuamably you are aware of the concept of questions being asked on a forum?

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
:o So we're presuming it was man on the other bike huh?

Maybe it was a girl on a man's toy?:hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

'Boy's toys', I said, if you noticed the inverted commas :rolleyes:

That's just a label for the bike, not who was riding it :D

Originally posted by claycraft
What do you class as a "real biker" then Strix?
Do you ride yourself?

:confused: Somebody with your friendly and helpful attitude, not the selfish gits who don't consider/acknowledge other road users (particularly other bikers)

No, I'm not a biker, but many friends are.
I think I'm too sensible to pander to something that lights my eyes up so much :( I think I like bikes too much :suspect:

Originally posted by gatecrasher3
I wouldn't say it does matter. It was just a general reasonable question presuamably you are aware of the concept of questions being asked on a forum?
Your sarcasm really increases the quality of posts on here. (Mine too :D)
I was merely defending the lady in anticipation of derogatory comments. Some people feel that women don't belong on a bike and I was dreading hearing comments like 'she probably couldn't handle it'
Since I actually saw the actual falling of the bike on her and not how she got to the point of the road it isn't for me to comment.
I'm just glad it wasn't worse, I have a weak stomach for blood. :)

I am not looking to increase the quality of posts on here just merely asking a question. I personally see no reason why a woman couldn't ride a motorbike with the same skill as a man.

Originally posted by gatecrasher3
I personally see no reason why a woman couldn't ride a motorbike with the same skill as a man.


Yep.


Both male & female are capable of riding just as poorly.

My brother (a trained & qualified motorcycle instructor) mangled his arm by hitting a hump backed bridge, that was on a corner and was walled (till he hit it)!!:hihi:

Originally posted by gatecrasher3
I am not looking to increase the quality of posts on here just merely asking a question. I personally see no reason why a woman couldn't ride a motorbike with the same skill as a man.
Well, that's great, we're both reading from the same hymn sheet then. :)