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    Almost a victim of SMMIAJFDAIDKHTUTBILTFGLOMD - not a SMIDSY

    Firstly just so I can get the rest of this out without it.

    F*** YOUR F***ING ASS YOU F***NG F***!

    Heading home tonight I was waiting to turn right at the Sockburn roundabout. A FASTWAYS COURIER VAN coming to the entrance to the roundabout to my right (i.e. would have right of way if coming straight through) had its left indicator on and there was no traffic in the right lane.

    Sweet I thought, I saw the gap and went to take it. Turns out, the Van's left indicator was on because he wanted to go straight through the roundabout.

    Hence my term SMMIAJFDAIGKHTUTBILTFGLOMD. Sorry Mate My Indicators Are Just For Decoration And I Don't Know How To Use Them But I Like The Flashing Green Light On My Dash.

    I managed to avoid the accident but I have never had such a close call. I know that I'm the dick for assuming someone's indicators are an indication of what they may be doing. And if it had gone wrong, it wouldn't have made a difference whether I acted correctly or not, I'd still be an ex-biker. I'll chalk it up to experience and make sure I don't make the same mistake.
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    How many time have you seen peeps (including bikers) just driving along with their indicators going, or not even using them?

    Add this to your list of "keep alive rulz". NEVER pull out in front of any vehicle from a give way or stop sign, even if it has its indicator on.
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    Way Hey - Sounds like fun - Not

    Dont worry, Nappisan will get those satins out
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    Might get the stains out of my satins even

    But yeah, I take full responsibility for pulling out when I did, fact is that I shouldn't have made the assumption I did. And as I said, being right wouldn't have made a difference if it had ended badly
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    Brute force and ignorance always prevails.
    Failure comes from too little brute force, or
    too little ignorance.

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    So many people do this, such a basic thing. Assume everyone else on the road is a total fuckwit and ride accordingly and you will be fine.
    For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him. Keep an open mind, just dont let your brains fall out.

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    The cagers are all out to get you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by paturoa View Post
    Add this to your list of "keep alive rulz". NEVER pull out in front of any vehicle from a give way or stop sign, even if it has its indicator on.
    There are a number of roundabouts around where you have to pull out in front of a vehicle that's signalling it's intention to turn, otherwise you'd be stuck for ever. The royal oak roundabout in auckland is a good example.

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    The Sockburn roundabout is a bastard anyway with too many people just not indicating at all.

    But courier vans are a class of menace all on their own...the drivers are usually looking at their paperwork to work out where they're supposed to be going and very seldom at the road...

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    Had the same but sort of opposite this morning.

    There's a 3-entry (N, W, S) roundabout in Tawa where the main "straight" is actually a bit more than 180 degrees heading North from the South entrance (so technically, people should all indicate right as they enter, then indicate left as they exit) so you get used to cars looking like they are turning a bit, when they're not.

    So this van coming through looks like it's going "straight" and I pull out to go (me entering from North exit and wanting to go out the West entrance) - and it turns out he's coming around but hadn't bothered indicating at all. I slam on the brakes and he gives this "sorry" wave to me.

    He then went past the entrance he'd come in on, basically doing a 450 degree turn. He didn't bother - left - indicating his exit, so clearly was just a lazy sod.

    (It's a bugger of a roundabout. So few people indicate left as they exit, that you have to just watch where they are going, before deciding to pull out or wait. But due to the curve, it takes a while to really see.)
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    Good on you OP for admitting it was a bit silly. You were lucky! Personally I prefer the lesson that doesn't hurt too...

    Intersections that suck. The one by my house. You can't see because people park right up to the edge of it, and its a two lane road and naff if I'm getting hit by a bus!

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    Quote Originally Posted by darkwolf View Post
    Heading home tonight I was waiting to turn right at the Sockburn roundabout.

    Hence my term SMMIAJFDAIGKHTUTBILTFGLOMD. Sorry Mate My Indicators Are Just For Decoration And I Don't Know How To Use Them But I Like The Flashing Green Light On My Dash.
    Also known as the 'Sockburn Syndrome'...
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    your on a black bike right?
    And in the mornings, you come down springs road right?


    If you are

    I have followed you around that roundabout a few times

    I will reserve my observations till the day i pick you up off the road.

    slow down
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    Quote Originally Posted by Subike View Post
    your on a black bike right?
    And in the mornings, you come down springs road right?


    If you are

    I have followed you around that roundabout a few times

    I will reserve my observations till the day i pick you up off the road.

    slow down
    It's incredibly hard to respond to a post like that without coming off as a jackass or to ignore the post without showing that I've at least given your thoughts some consideration.

    In this instance, I am reminded that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. If I am correct, I believe we've almost met before on a one way bridge in Rakaia. If so, I hope you have also taken some of your own advice.

    However, I sincerely hope that neither of us has the need to pick the other off any road. In the event that I'm wrong, sweet as, ride on.
    You only need two tools in life:
    Duct tape if it moves and it shouldn't.
    WD-40 if it doesn't move and it should.


    Brute force and ignorance always prevails.
    Failure comes from too little brute force, or
    too little ignorance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by darkwolf View Post
    It's incredibly hard to respond to a post like that without coming off as a jackass or to ignore the post without showing that I've at least given your thoughts some consideration.

    In this instance, I am reminded that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. If I am correct, I believe we've almost met before on a one way bridge in Rakaia. If so, I hope you have also taken some of your own advice.

    However, I sincerely hope that neither of us has the need to pick the other off any road. In the event that I'm wrong, sweet as, ride on.
    yeah I remember that,
    Which makes you not the bike im thinking of in my first post
    different location of learners label
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    Quote Originally Posted by Subike View Post
    yeah I remember that,
    Which makes you not the bike im thinking of in my first post
    different location of learners label
    No worries. Will have to laugh about it over a beer someday.
    You only need two tools in life:
    Duct tape if it moves and it shouldn't.
    WD-40 if it doesn't move and it should.


    Brute force and ignorance always prevails.
    Failure comes from too little brute force, or
    too little ignorance.

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