Hanne meets a copper... [Archive]

Edbear

22nd April 2011, 12:22

...and learns all about DANGER (http://kiwiridermagazine.blogspot.com/).

Reading that, I have to say that while he probably was being a bit pushy, he's right about the likelihood of being hit by a drunk driver without implying it would be your fault. Anyone could be hit while driving/riding perfectly safely and legally as you obviously were, so unless you picked up in his manner that he would hold you to blame, take it as a general statement however unwarranted it may be.

Some I guess, can't help being a bit "officious" and you may also be victim to the "pretty girl on a bike" reaction... :innocent:

sil3nt

22nd April 2011, 12:26

Haha good read. Those drunk drivers have it tough you know. So many moving obstacles and people driving head on to them on their side of the road.

Smifffy

22nd April 2011, 13:43

I think that often there are those of them with nothing better to do on the company dime. Luckily your one seems to have given the road safety message a lot of thought. :facepalm:

Good story, well told.

Luckylegs

22nd April 2011, 13:51

Anyone could be hit while driving/riding perfectly safely and legally as you obviously were...

with shopping bags "slung" over the mirrors ? :facepalm:

TOTO

22nd April 2011, 14:20

Brillinat Read Hanne. You baddass you lol :killingme

Big Dave

22nd April 2011, 14:55

with shopping bags "slung" over the mirrors ? :facepalm:

They don't make any difference - they just look dorky.

jellywrestler

22nd April 2011, 15:06

They don't make any difference - they just look dorky.
you may think so but they can do different things at speed and take your concentration away so very easily.

FJRider

22nd April 2011, 15:08

you may think so but they can do different things at speed and take your concentration away so very easily.

She was on an AX100 ... speed ... ???

oldrider

22nd April 2011, 16:58

...and learns all about DANGER (http://kiwiridermagazine.blogspot.com/).

Are you "sure" he was a cop? ... Might have been a vigilante group trying to make it safer for the drunk drivers out there! :confused:

jazfender

22nd April 2011, 18:59

Some I guess, can't help being a bit "officious" and you may also be victim to the "pretty girl on a bike" reaction... :innocent:

+1. The why-aren't-you-at-home-with-your-dolls confusion of the male chauvinist. :apumpin:

Big Dave

22nd April 2011, 19:04

We get Quasi to design some feminist leathers. With hair under the arms.

jazfender

22nd April 2011, 19:39

We get Quasi to design some feminist leathers. With hair under the arms.

Made from the hides of conservative fascists? That glass ceiling aint seen what's comin to it

Taz

22nd April 2011, 20:47

and take your concentration away so very easily.

Fuck if that's all it takes for you you'd better get a new hobby. Maybe knitting?

Toaster

22nd April 2011, 20:47

I thought the beauty of a full licence was that you could ride the roads at any time of the day or night.

Yes, night time is a period of lower visibility and less vision for bikers but there are many a drink driver caught during daylight hours also.

Taz

22nd April 2011, 20:52

\m/

22nd April 2011, 21:57

WTF? There isn't much traffic at 11:30, you're more likely to get hit by another vehicle at 3 in the afternoon!

SPman

23rd April 2011, 02:34

She was on an AX100 ... speed ... ??? 105 kph downhill on mine.....
Rather slower uphill....passed by a schoolbus......oh the ignominy........

marie_speeds

23rd April 2011, 06:38

She was on an AX100 ... speed ... ???

When will you boys learn it's not the size of the engine that matters it is how you use it that counts....:shutup:

oldrider

23rd April 2011, 07:58

105 kph downhill on mine.....
Rather slower uphill....passed by a schoolbus......oh the ignominy........

But was this done at 11:30pm? :shit: (obviously the danger hours for getting stuck in the grill of a drunk driver!) :Police:

Okey Dokey

23rd April 2011, 17:03

We get Quasi to design some feminist leathers. With hair under the arms.

Thanks for the laugh :)

Big Dave

23rd April 2011, 17:34

Cool - one of the other gags didn't make any sense Saturday morning sober though. PUI strikes gain.

schrodingers cat

23rd April 2011, 17:38

When will you boys learn it's not the size of the engine that matters it is how you use it that counts....:shutup:

You say that but deep down you know that a 1100 is probably going the demand a bit more attention than the 125 and just once, sometime, you'd like to try a 1400...

Hanne

25th April 2011, 11:21

You say that but deep down you know that a 1100 is probably going the demand a bit more attention than the 125 and just once, sometime, you'd like to try a 1400...

Good point. The 1100, being of greater mass, is definitely going to exert a much greater gravitational pull than the wee 125, thereby making it exponentially more attractive to any errant drunk drivers looking for a target...

(It;s like the moon vs Jupiter. No contest really)

Edbear

25th April 2011, 11:57

Good point. The 1100, being of greater mass, is definitely going to exert a much greater gravitational pull than the wee 125, thereby making it exponentially more attractive to any errant drunk drivers looking for a target...

(It;s like the moon vs Jupiter. No contest really)

Sorry to defy the laws of physics, love but that's what drunk drivers do. They are completely random in their targetting and they'll hit anything that gets in their way... or even if it's not in their way... or anywhere it happens to be at the time, or not...:blink:

jellywrestler

25th April 2011, 15:03

Fuck if that's all it takes for you you'd better get a new hobby. Maybe knitting?
No been riding bikes for over thirty years and a simple thing like a plastic bag on the handlebars that starts to split or wave around is exactly what can lead you to make a reaction that may be unsafe, simple as that