View Full Version : Just what we don't need these days...
nudemetalz
17th June 2010, 09:18
Was following a dude on a black late model GSX750F going in and out of the traffic down the Gorge. When he saw he couldn't get through the gap, he revved the nuts of his bike and beep the hell out of his horn until they pulled over a little for him to get through. Then the car driver either got the finger or a mouthful of abuse.
Hey, take a chill-pill Dude !!!!!!! :angry:
We don't need this sort of negativity in this day and ages.
I enjoy riding to work and like to keep it that way. Car drivers most of the time do their best to let you through anyway. I give them a friendly wave, not the finger if they don't get out the way.
Police Officer Nudey, OUT.
breakaway
17th June 2010, 09:54
Car drivers most of the time do their best to let you through anyway..
They do? Usually car drivers are the ones with the attitude. I've lost count of the amount of times some middle aged asshole with family in car in his late model holden had to overtake me unsafely at 130+ after I passed him in a passing lane. And I especially love when they speed up in passing lanes.
onearmedbandit
17th June 2010, 09:57
Maybe it was that dude from '24' and he had to save the president.
nudemetalz
17th June 2010, 10:04
Maybe it was that dude from '24' and he had to save the president.
hahahaha !!!
Ah well maybe I should have posted this in Rant and Rave cause that's what I'm doing.
CookMySock
17th June 2010, 10:19
I've lost count of the amount of times some middle aged asshole with family in car in his late model holden had to overtake me unsafely at 130+ after I passed him in a passing lane. And I especially love when they speed up in passing lanes.Cmon maaaaan they just wanna race ya! Gixxer thou vs Holden V8 - bring it mutha! :lol:
Steve
imdying
17th June 2010, 10:26
And I especially love when they speed up in passing lanes.Overtaking on the inside on the back wheel probably does that for you... :whistle:
motor_mayhem
17th June 2010, 10:35
I found it scary reading that as the description could nearly match me apart from a few minor differences and one major difference.
late model black GSXF 750 - early (90s) model black GSXR 750
loud Horn - horn so feeble it's embarrassing so I Never use it
I find most car drivers are good at letting you through on the morning commute.
Big Dave
17th June 2010, 10:46
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Spearfish
17th June 2010, 10:48
I found it scary reading that as the description could nearly match me apart from a few minor differences and one major difference.
late model black GSXF 750 - early (90s) model black GSXR 750
loud Horn - horn so feeble it's embarrassing so I Never use it
I find most car drivers are good at letting you through on the morning commute.
They are until they cop a heap of abuse.
Commuting over the same track at the same time you get to remember the same cars, for the most part they are fine with filtering and either don't do anything silly or leave a little more room. Then over a two week stretch a motard was running the same track but beeping, swerving, taping roofs and mirrors. I kinda felt sorry for him because he had obviously lost it completely and it was going to stay lost...
Anyway it changed my trip for the worse for a few months after.
monkey99
17th June 2010, 11:03
Funny.. must be the morning for it?! I zapped some fella on a ZXR off the lights into the Welli motorway tunnel (Staying under 80km/h limit officer) and after exiting the other end he went flying past me at what looked like through 120km/h.
Its not the speed.. Traffic officers will get those types.. it was the weaving ducking & diving in front of me as he gassed it to the horizon. Surely its time for all Riders to remember in Winter that the road is slippery & cage drivers often act without indicating. Granted a ZXR is a low cost bike.. but a life ain't!
DarkLord
17th June 2010, 21:53
Today as I was coming home at about 6pm in the dark, a van coming the other way had his high beams on for ages and I could see his lights glaring in the distance and got closer and closer until he actually got close enough to me to decide that maybe he should turn them off now.
I flashed him my high beams to show my disapproval, so of course the prick turns his high beams on full before he was even past me, just to get "revenge" on me for me calling him a cunt for not dipping his lights soon enough.
Sure, we can be pricks too, but there are some real pricks out there in cars as well.
DarkLord
17th June 2010, 21:53
FFS.... double post. I only clicked reply once. Perhaps it's time to just go to bed.
MIXONE
17th June 2010, 21:59
It was great splitting down the gorge yesterday morning.A bike cop leading 4 bikes lane splitting all the way.Funny how cars gave him heaps of room...
CookMySock
17th June 2010, 22:08
Sure, we can be pricks too, but there are some real pricks out there in cars as well.It's just the human condition. Remind yourself they are having a shit day and you are having a great day - its about them and nothing about you. When it's your turn to have a shit day you get your little tantrum too, and it's nothing personal about anyone else.
Let it go. It's not about you.
Steve
HenryDorsetCase
17th June 2010, 22:10
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Well we're goin' to the roadhouse, gonna have a real good time
Blackshear
17th June 2010, 22:14
I find lanesplitting/filtering on the standstill motorways to be quite the pleasant experience.
Trucks, SUVS, sedans and the like usually ALWAYS pull to the side for me, up to 5 lengths in advance.
Occasionally you come across one fucksack who thinks it's funny to hog the white line, but even the nasty cage drivers adjacent to him pull over extra to let me through!
It's probably something to do with my exhaust tune, the slight advantage in driver awareness to my existence, that helps a bit more.
Got a truck driver to blare his horns for me today, did the air tug and he tootled, goddamnit truckies are so cool.
Anyone on KB able to source Stebels on the cheap?
DarkLord
17th June 2010, 22:55
It's just the human condition. Remind yourself they are having a shit day and you are having a great day - its about them and nothing about you. When it's your turn to have a shit day you get your little tantrum too, and it's nothing personal about anyone else.
Let it go. It's not about you.
Steve
I guess you're right.... I just wish people would keep their shithouse attitudes to themselves rather than desperately trying to make their problems everyone elses.
yachtie10
17th June 2010, 23:29
Got a truck driver to blare his horns for me today, did the air tug and he tootled, goddamnit truckies are so cool.
Anyone on KB able to source Stebels on the cheap?
One nearly got me yesterday
heading the backroads to mangawhai for some fishing and a stock truck and trailer comes barrelling around the corner with more of the truck on my side of the road than his. nearly had to go offroading to avoid him
you can try http://www.fastbikegear.co.nz/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=13&zenid=d7hando6bf3ks1ed54v5ek30t3
or PM wobblyas on here
dipshit
18th June 2010, 21:13
Then over a two week stretch a motard was running the same track but beeping, swerving, taping roofs and mirrors.
If some cock sucking wanker on a bike did that to me in a car... I would give him a seriously good nudge with the car.
Fuck there are some wankers on bikes.
onearmedbandit
18th June 2010, 23:38
If some cock sucking wanker on a bike did that to me in a car... I would give him a seriously good nudge with the car.
Fuck there are some wankers on bikes.
Unfortunately there are wankers everywhere. Bikes just seem to attract more than their fair share.
Bren
19th June 2010, 00:22
It wasnt me (-:
oldrider
19th June 2010, 21:36
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Hey BD, I have still got a spanner just like that one! :yes:
scumdog
19th June 2010, 21:43
Was following a dude on a black late model GSX750F going in and out of the traffic down the Gorge. When he saw he couldn't get through the gap, he revved the nuts of his bike and beep the hell out of his horn until they pulled over a little for him to get through. Then the car driver either got the finger or a mouthful of abuse.
Hey, take a chill-pill Dude !!!!!!! :angry:
We don't need this sort of negativity in this day and ages.
I enjoy riding to work and like to keep it that way. Car drivers most of the time do their best to let you through anyway. I give them a friendly wave, not the finger if they don't get out the way.
Police Officer Nudey, OUT.
Wasn't Dangerousbastard was it?
Oh,, it was a 'zuki, can't have been....
Swoop
21st June 2010, 08:39
Anyone on KB able to source Stebels on the cheap?
PM Warlock. He is doing another stebel shipment soon.
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php/124904-Who-wants-a-Stebel-Round-9
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