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reckless riding

Just for my pennies worth on the matter. I live in a village where we have race horse stables and I am well aware of the hazards. Yes the biker was riding too fast for the circumstances but having said that I do think horse riders often don't help themselves and are quick to point the finger at motorist and bikers alike for not slowing down or giving ample room.

The amount of times I have approached horse riders on the road that have taken no precautions to ensure that they can be easily seen. On one occasion close to my home I was confronted with a rider at dusk who was wearing dark clothing and a black hat, on a dark brown horse and I know who would have got the book thrown at them if I had rammed the horse from the rear in my car !

"these guys have skill, real skill"

indeed... no arguement there, but they're the Rossi's,Dunlop's and pastrana's of the equine world not your average 13 year old girl on a ridding school hack.

At least if you get bored you've something to eat.

Funny really

as i was brought up on a small farm/smallholding and we had a horse which we used to ride out on, but i was always ridding around on a Honda with this thought at the back of my mind. If horses are as intelligent as people say, why do they let you ride them?.Zebra's are less obliging i'm told.

Please don't feel I'm anti-horse Vulc,

I barely mentioned it on the basis that I could see little evidence of any risk in the video, I've spent a good many years in handling horses although not a lot of riding to be honest. Perhaps I should qualify my statements in that width of road, noise of machiney/vehicle, behaviour of animal and rider and other factors are as important as speed of passing, frequently I have slowed to a crawl/stopped/switched off engine etc, depending on what I see before me, if not going silly speed it's quite possible to see a horse tense up or a rider getting a bit nervous/wobbly. Some horse are virtually immune to disturbance, some will go up the hedge if they see a crisp packet the other side of the road, depends who's on the saddle then!

Yep everybody has the right to be out on the road, but all need to behave in appropriate manner.

oh and my main point in my last post (which I didn't really state) was it seems very unlikely he passed at anything like stated speed, very suspect video in my opinion 

smoto your not talking about

Adventure bike riders are you