Motorcyclist attitude in Malaysia

I've seen good ones and I've seen bad ones. People likes to hear good news first right? (I'll just assume so. No questions asked!). Here's something good about them.

Motorcyclists are helpful. I've seen plenty of cases where they stopped by to help those who are involved in severe road accidents. They either help the victims or help to flag other vehicles to take caution. It's because of their small vehicle, they don't actually block the road much - minus those busy body onlookers.. They only make the traffic congestion worse. 

Some are real nice. They help strangers for things like changing the tire or even guiding a broken down motor to the nearest workshop. Hmm.. Maybe a drawing could explains how it helps with the broken down motor...

Err, it's an ugly drawing..

Hmm... maybe not. I'm bad at drawing. Ignore the drawing if you can't understand. But basically that's what I meant. Motorcyclist A with broken down motorcycle leans his/her leg onto motorcycle B's pedal so that the wheels for motorcycle A could roll and move hence towards the workshop.

I'd probably left some of the good ones, you let me know. So I can add them to the good list. Instead of being skeptical and thinks that they're just mean.

Here's the bad attitudes that I encounter and I'm pretty much irked by these.

1. NO SENSE OF URGENCY!
Motorist who thinks they're driving a car on the car lane and they're SLOW. They rides right at the center of the car lane makes it difficult for bigger vehicles behind them to overtake. It's get even more annoying when they're doing that at the fast lane. They somehow don't know that you're right behind them and took their own sweet time. *insert fake smiles here*

2. CAN'T WAIT FOR TRAFFIC.
Everyone is stuck in jam. Everyone has somewhere to rush to at the peak hours. Motorcyclist are fine because they're so small that they could slip in between cars that are stuck hence, just keep moving. But they think the lane in between cars are theirs. That cars cannot pass that "lane" they use. They'll either honk or flash light at the incoming car. Worse, they'll not stop, but try to evade that car regardless of which direction they use which could possibly ends up in some kind of accident. I don't know. Here's the another drawing for your imagination of what I meant by "their lane".

Still an ugly drawing..

 Fine.

3. OVERTAKE..WHATEVER
This is worse of all. Either the car is on stationery or moving, these motorcyclist would just overtake from right to left lane just like that. Or from left to right. Whichever. They don't care if you're moving fast or not. They'll just assume they can make it.

Stop drawing already! It's like a turtle instead of motorist!

I'll stop drawing. Drawing maybe isn't my thing.

4. MOTOR PARKED AT PARKING MEANT FOR CARS
Enough said. It's annoying. Some parked in between the bays between cars. While some, really assume that they're car, parked smack in the center of the bay. I've heard that motorcycle that parked at car bays will not get ticket while the other way round it will. Is that for real?

I feel so devastated with my drawing I shall not complain anymore.


My whole point is. We're all road users. I understand that there are no sufficient motorcyclist lane. That line in between two lanes on road isn't meant for motorcyclist aren't they? We all gotta take some safety precaution and be considerate to other road users too.

Hiatus from blog while I was not at work. Back to work, back to blog. Wow.