Roundabouts...

[slofox]

and the clowns who use them.

A lifetime of cautious entry into roundabouts paid off this morning when a young gentleman of foreign persuasion decided he didn't need to give way to a motorcycle in his way (me).

The red mist descended and I followed him up the road. Came to a red light - pulled up beside him and politely tapped on his window. Winds it down. Conversation something like this:

"What the fuck were you doing at that roundabout?"
"Huh?"
"You would have run right into me if I hadn't been able to stop!"
"Huh?"
"Did you look?"
"Huh?"
"Did you get your licence from a weetbix packet then didja?"
"Huh?"
"Oh fuck off then..."

Played dumb really well...

Eyes skinned team, eyes skinned.

[awa355]

His english was impecable, he never swore once. Got a Hi Viz vest here I never wear, can drop it off. :niceone:

A bad joke about Asians goes like this: “How do you blind an Asian? Put a steering wheel in front of him.” Here’s another: “What did the Asian get pulled over for? DWA (Driving While Asian).”

[R650R]

So you have a near miss then risk a roadrage charge/verbal assault??? Best to just let it go unless your willing to do the full monty on him...

Anyone see that one on aussie show the Force other night, that Syrian dude got locked up for banging his car door on that SUV. I really thought the cops should have told the SUV guy to FO as well, the CCTV showed he deliberately cut off the guy, which although the other guy was que jumping is still avoiable provocation and using your vehicle as a weapon.

[BigAl]

Well done SF to avoid said dick heads. :niceone:

[thepom]

If you dont tell the blind fuck how will he ever know...I chased a wanker who tried to knock me off all the way tothe police station...thought he could outrun a bike...told him and the cops I would break his neck if I got my hands on him !...he offered to shakr my hand ha ha..told him to eat shit.
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[ellipsis]

...I used to wait for a bunch of boys who would drive up from Horsham and Godalming, they would park up off the A3 and I would take them into a job we were on in Battersea, London...the roundabout I waited near had about as many vehicles using it at rush hours as probably as many cars exist in Chch or more...in the months I waited there, I never saw a vehicle touch another one and only very occasionally would one come to a complete stop...I reckon that it's just slack useless driving skills that seem to be encouraged here...starting with giving anyone who wants to drive, a crack at it, by giving them a licence...it's not only foreign drivers who are useless, either...

[roogazza]

If you dont tell the blind fuck how will he ever know...I chased a wanker who tried to knock me off all the way tothe police station...thought he could outrun a bike...told him and the cops I would break his neck if I got my hands on him !...he offered to shakr my hand ha ha..told him to eat shit.
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Ya gotta let the fucks know ,even if you have to back it up.
I lived Kapiti for 10 yrs and the amount of old fucks in their little Hatchbacks lacking knowledge of road rules was amazing.
Hey and I'm considered old now.
Sick of my new Falcon's weak horn,it sounds too friendly. Getting myself some of those old airhorns !

[Geeen]

Ya gotta let the fucks know ,even if you have to back it up.
I lived Kapiti for 10 yrs and the amount of old fucks in their little Hatchbacks lacking knowledge of road rules was amazing.
Hey and I'm considered old now.
Sick of my new Falcon's weak horn,it sounds too friendly. Getting myself some of those old airhorns !

I'm sure slo has a stiebel lying around somewhere...

[buggerit]

I'm sure slo has a stiebel lying around somewhere...

Are they a rebranded Winchester?:Playnice:

[Old Steve]

When I was riding my learner 250 I came off at a roundabout one day when the road was damp. The car entering at my 3 o'clock had it's left indicator on, and I assumed it was turning left going up the road I was coming down. I went towards entering the roundabout, then saw that they had their left indicator on because they were angling left into the roundabout in order to drive half way around it to exit on the other side.

I braked, but fell foul of the painted give way line and slowly went down. From now on I slow and watch anyone on or near a roundabout before I enter it. There's some numpties out there in cars.

[G4L4XY]

Round a bouts....Well shit. I just love that the fucking council or whoever the fuck makes the decisions decides to plant fucking plants and advertising or whatever crap at perfect "indicator level". So at only the last second you can actually see their indicator....Now that's only on the 1% ..ok fine 50% or whatever chance that people actually use these indicator things.
It's not just that though, it's people who are on the outside lane of a two lane round 'a' bout that think they can go round it and not exit at the first or second exit so the poor biker on the inside lane going straight gets cut off.

[slofox]

Ya gotta let the fucks know ,even if you have to back it up.
I lived Kapiti for 10 yrs and the amount of old fucks in their little Hatchbacks lacking knowledge of road rules was amazing.
Hey and I'm considered old now.
Sick of my new Falcon's weak horn,it sounds too friendly. Getting myself some of those old airhorns !


I'm sure slo has a stiebel lying around somewhere...


It's in the Subaru these days. Works there. I also have a Stebel on the bike. Not a Nautilus though. No room.

[slofox]

So you have a near miss then risk a roadrage charge/verbal assault???


I had a good look at him first :whistle: (up quite close actually).

Besides, I'm too old for road rage.

[roogazza]

It's in the Subaru these days. Works there. I also have a Stebel on the bike. Not a Nautilus though. No room.
Stebel ?? what is that,a loud one ?

[AllanB]

I hate double lane roundys .........

[EJK]

I hate double lane roundys .........

Gotta love the one near Hornby...

[FJRider]

I hate double lane roundys .........

honda riders .. :facepalm:

[slofox]

Stebel ?? what is that,a loud one ?

Yep.

I use this on the bike: http://www.stebel.it/stebel/products.asp?IDserie=3&uso=1&tipologia=auto

I use this in the wagon: http://www.stebel.it/stebel/products.asp?IDserie=14&uso=1&tipologia=moto

Make sure you listen to the sample sounds on the website.

You can buy them from here: http://www.onlineautoparts.com.au/?rf=kw&kw=stebel

Have fun.

[mossy1200]

Round a bouts....Well shit. I just love that the fucking council or whoever the fuck makes the decisions decides to plant fucking plants and advertising or whatever crap at perfect "indicator level". So at only the last second you can actually see their indicator....Now that's only on the 1% ..ok fine 50% or whatever chance that people actually use these indicator things.
It's not just that though, it's people who are on the outside lane of a two lane round 'a' bout that think they can go round it and not exit at the first or second exit so the poor biker on the inside lane going straight gets cut off.

Off topic a bit.

We stopped in Paekakariki for a coffee and the café didn't have a toilet so we wandered off in the direction that the signs indicated.
Couldn't see the toilets so went back to the café and asked for directions. Toilets were there but you couldn't see them due to the 3 huge election billboards installed in front of them.

[Big Dog]

Yep.

I use this on the bike: http://www.stebel.it/stebel/products.asp?IDserie=3&uso=1&tipologia=auto

I use this in the wagon: http://www.stebel.it/stebel/products.asp?IDserie=14&uso=1&tipologia=moto

Make sure you listen to the sample sounds on the website.

You can buy them from here: http://www.onlineautoparts.com.au/?rf=kw&kw=stebel

Have fun.

I made a co worker wet herself when I gave her a friendly toot in the underground car park with the nautilus I had in the busa.
Also frightened a texting driver right out of the lane about 1.2 seconds before he would have hit the otherwise unaware scooter rider.

Sounds like the horn on a train. Warrant folks get shitty when you don't warn them.


Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.

[FJRider]

Off topic a bit.

We stopped in Paekakariki for a coffee and the café didn't have a toilet so we wandered off in the direction that the signs indicated.
Couldn't see the toilets so went back to the café and asked for directions. Toilets were there but you couldn't see them due to the 3 huge election billboards installed in front of them.

So ... it was the Governments (or it's successors) fault ...:killingme

[Urano]

"Did you get your licence from a weetbix packet then didja?"


:laugh:




Make sure you listen to the sample sounds on the website.


have to find something like this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvanhCQ9jho :)

[Swoop]

Got a Hi Viz vest here I never wear, can drop it off.
Seriously? It will not make a bit of difference to the myopic driver's out there (of all nationalities).

[Old Steve]

Hi viz vest? It will not make a bit of difference to the myopic driver's out there.

Oh, I think cage drivers notice my yellow hi-viz vest. Mind you, riding on a white Honda ST100P (ex police bike) and wearing a white helmet, it might just not be the hi-viz vest that does it.

I can just about gauge when a cage driver in a side street is going to think, "SHIT! That's a Police Bike!" and hit the brakes. I watch them, thinking .... about now, and their bonnet drops as they hit the brakes.

[yevjenko]

Round a bouts....Well shit. I just love that the fucking council or whoever the fuck makes the decisions decides to plant fucking plants and advertising or whatever crap at perfect "indicator level". So at only the last second you can actually see their indicator....Now that's only on the 1% ..ok fine 50% or whatever chance that people actually use these indicator things.


That's deliberate. They want you to stop, but don't have the ability to change the rules about giving way. So plant big fuck off bushes so you can't see the vain hope you will stop

[varminter]

Roundabout's! For fuck sake don't get me started, I'll rave for hours They are the reason that we're not allowed to ride armed. More's the pity.

[Richard Mc F]

Roundabouts keep the edge of tyres clean, hit them as fast as possible and you won't get hit from behind...........pay attention:motu:

[anebv8]

Yep.

I use this on the bike: http://www.stebel.it/stebel/products.asp?IDserie=3&uso=1&tipologia=auto

I use this in the wagon: http://www.stebel.it/stebel/products.asp?IDserie=14&uso=1&tipologia=moto

Make sure you listen to the sample sounds on the website.

You can buy them from here: http://www.onlineautoparts.com.au/?rf=kw&kw=stebel

Have fun.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/interior/other/auction-754317861.htm

132db of pure unadulterated noise,got these on my Kwaka under the fairings,looking at some now for the Savage :headbang::cool:

[slofox]

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/interior/other/auction-754317861.htm

132db of pure unadulterated noise,got these on my Kwaka under the fairings,looking at some now for the Savage :headbang::cool:

I had the pair on the SV. Put them on the gixxer but one of them melted in the hot air from the radiator...not many places to put them on a gixxer. Now I use a single one.

[RJC]

Gotta love the one near Hornby...

the ones at the end of the new motorway?

They are quite close to our factory, I drive through them at least twice a day and the displays of complete incompetance is astonishing. At least once a week the ABS in my hilux gets a workout and I simply avoid them on the moto.

[ellipsis]

... the Sockburn roundabout in Chch is fairly intense at times...at about 4.30pm, just on rush hour I came over the bridge heading to the city...half of the cars in chch it seemed were lined up around its entries...I couldn't help but think as I entered it that, me and my sportster were the only living things on the roundabout, with streams of cars giving way to us...

...wrong...a third of the way round, with me wanting to exit at the second exit, a little toyota, out of all these walls of cars decides it can beat me and pulls out into my way...i had that compression of time things going on in my head and the usual resignation of, 'fuck, this is gunna hurt'...amongst the thoughts were things going on like pictures of me airborne, smashed bike, what a cunt etc...it wasn't my race skills from speedway or track or any other place that made what happened next transpire...I knew I could not carry on with my line or I would have been into the side of it...what made me lock up the back, throw my leg out and try tighten up the curve to go with her, I'll never know...some may say skill, bro...I'll go with luck...my bike smacked into a silly little girls school hack parallel to it and my footpeg retracted , went under her sill and all of a sudden I had a toyota carolla training wheel attached to my bike...I got away with an unnoticeable dent where my knee got smacked between her door and my tank and a bit of scuffing at the bottom of the fork leg...

...I couldn't believe it, dozens of cagers couldn't believe it and a young girl couldn't believe that some raging ginga had his helmet in her ear and was screaming obscenities at her...the bike was totally locked to the car and when she had stopped and all the vehicles were still watching the show, I think she realised what she had just done...all I could say to her in the calmest of tones was, 'you better go straight home and tell your mum what you just did'...I got a few hundred toots and after a bit of a check of the bike, I completed another lap of the roundabout and exited, like I was just leaving the Coliseum...I always wonder if she went home and told her mum...I also reckon she learned a lesson about giving way, I hope so...

[Big Dog]

... the Sockburn roundabout in Chch is fairly intense at times...at about 4.30pm, just on rush hour I came over the bridge heading to the city...half of the cars in chch it seemed were lined up around its entries...I couldn't help but think as I entered it that, me and my sportster were the only living things on the roundabout, with streams of cars giving way to us...

...wrong...a third of the way round, with me wanting to exit at the second exit, a little toyota, out of all these walls of cars decides it can beat me and pulls out into my way...i had that compression of time things going on in my head and the usual resignation of, 'fuck, this is gunna hurt'...amongst the thoughts were things going on like pictures of me airborne, smashed bike, what a cunt etc...it wasn't my race skills from speedway or track or any other place that made what happened next transpire...I knew I could not carry on with my line or I would have been into the side of it...what made me lock up the back, throw my leg out and try tighten up the curve to go with her, I'll never know...some may say skill, bro...I'll go with luck...my bike smacked into a silly little girls school hack parallel to it and my footpeg retracted , went under her sill and all of a sudden I had a toyota carolla training wheel attached to my bike...I got away with an unnoticeable dent where my knee got smacked between her door and my tank and a bit of scuffing at the bottom of the fork leg...

...I couldn't believe it, dozens of cagers couldn't believe it and a young girl couldn't believe that some raging ginga had his helmet in her ear and was screaming obscenities at her...the bike was totally locked to the car and when she had stopped and all the vehicles were still watching the show, I think she realised what she had just done...all I could say to her in the calmest of tones was, 'you better go straight home and tell your mum what you just did'...I got a few hundred toots and after a bit of a check of the bike, I completed another lap of the roundabout and exited, like I was just leaving the Coliseum...I always wonder if she went home and told her mum...I also reckon she learned a lesson about giving way, I hope so...

Isn't it amazing what can transpire when the chips are down?


Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.