MY PET HATE

[dawnrazor]

Just thought I'd share my personal pet hate when I'm riding around in town.

So lets say I'm traveling in one direction straight on a road, and pointing towards me is a car, jeep, van etc waiting in the middle of the road to turn right. So basically waiting to cross my path. I'm always real wary of this senario 'cus the scope for serious damage is huge, so I will alter my speed down until I'm certain they see me, figuring I have more options if I'm going a little slower and things go pear shaped.
Now say there is no traffic behind me, so once I pass it is clear for the car to turn. BUT they never wait until I pass almost everytime they begin to turn as I approach or as I'm parallel to them. I find this increedibly disconcerting, and in the event I have to stop suddenly at this point, I would be hit, and would have had very little chance of avoiding it. At times I've been in situations where it feels like the car has only missed the back of the bike by inches (probably not that close, but you know what I mean)

So there you go thats my pet hate, if there was something I could do to stop it happening I would, but short of standing on the pegs and screaming "STAY WHERE YOU ARE CUNTFACE", I'm out of ideas! (which has a surprisingly good success rate)

So pet hates people, how about them ------- lets hear 'em

[Karma]

So pet hates people, how about them ------- lets hear 'em


Lassie! That do-go bitch always running off... never did a days work in her life!

[Phurrball]

The right-turning-car-waiting-to-cross-my-path thing is right up there for me too...especially when it's a slusher and slowly creeping forward...

I make sure I'm seen - flash the high beam a good few times (The ol' 'Pass' button has its uses), or give a good wiggle on the bike. Good insurance methinks.

[onearmedbandit]

My pet hates when riding around town? Every cage driver, courier, taxi, bus, truck driver, pedestrians, children running onto the streets, potholes, tar snakes, grit on corners. If they would all fuck off out of town I'd have a great time!

No really the above doesn't bother me, they all have as much right to be on the road or doing what they do as I do. Just things to be aware of that's all.

[ManDownUnder]

Tailgating.

I reckong there's a market for something that would inject just enough oil or maybe oil into the exhaust pipe/gas stream so it gently drizzles a mist of gunk on their windscreen.

Not enough to do any damage, but enough to let them know you ain't happy, or fool them into thinking something's wrong so they back off.

Either way it's good...

[ManDownUnder]

2nd pet hate - taxi's, couriers and other "professional drivers" that ignore the road rules and do what they can get away with.

Holding up traffic? No problem!
Scaring the crap out of people - NO PROBLEM

They don't all do it, but there are enough to warrant my buying air horns for the bike...

[skelstar]

Yes, the moving car at intersections is one of mine. Strangely I have very little problem with tail-gaters, if at all they are usually VERY aggressive but very infrequent. I find aggressive, but conservative. riding is a safe way to be.

[ManDownUnder]

I find aggressive, but conservative. riding is a safe way to be.

Agressive but conservative you say... sounds like George W's "Pre-emptive defense policy" to me...

[skelstar]

Agressive but conservative you say... sounds like George W's "Pre-emptive defense policy" to me...
I thought that might throw someone.:)

[Devil]

I make sure I'm seen - flash the high beam a good few times (The ol' 'Pass' button has its uses),
I would be very very wary of doing that, you dont want to make them think you want them to go...

[vifferman]

Yeah, that starting to turn before I'm past thing pisses me off too. A couple of times I've slowed right down, but usually you don't know they're going to do it in time. It also pisses me off when cars on my right at an intersection (like the very bottom of Curran Street, when you're headed towards the harbour bridge) start to go. If I can see they're going to do that, I tootle them melodiously, and wave them back, with a vigorous waving them back waving movement.
The only thing that works, I've found, is to shut your eyes.

However (but!) the biggest pisser-offerer for me is people that don't give way or stop when they should, like redlight runners, and people who treat stop signs as "I'm gonna go, unless something's coming that might hit me, then I'll whack on the brakes". Most mornings, the final ~0.5km or so is up a street with multiple intersections, all but one of which I have right-of-way for. ALL of them have stop signs, and most of them time the people using them treat them as voluntary. A few times I've had three or four intersections in a row where I've struck cars intending to not give way to me, and I've had to almost come to a stop because I was unsure if it was safe to go. Once I had cars coming from both left and right, I slowed, and they decided I was letting them go, so after almost stopping, they started to go again! Once, I was so pissed off / bemused, I let go of the handlebars, clapped my hands to my head, waved them back, shook my head in bemusement, and rode off.

[Waylander]

Heh, ask Road Rash about that one fuckhead that did this to him when me and him were riding together somewhere north of here. I was a good 10 feet behind him and I had to hit the brakes hard to keep from hitting this idiot. Good skills on his part to avoid it.

Should have stopped and had a "talk" with the guy.

[Beemer]

I hate the ones heading your way and waiting to turn too - they give me the shits whether I'm on the bike or in the car. Likewise the ones who you think "they had plenty of time to turn before I got there" but they wait until you are almost there and turn right in front of you! And the tailgaters! And the ones who creep forwards at traffic lights and intersections! Saw a prime example this morning - the car two ahead of me at the lights in Levin started creeping forward until it was about a metre over the line - when the lights changed and it took off, I realised it was Darren Hughes, the MP for Otaki! It's amazing how poorly people in marked vehicles drive!

[Eurodave]

And the ones who creep forwards at traffic lights and intersections! Saw a prime example this morning - the car two ahead of me at the lights in Levin started creeping forward until it was about a metre over the line - when the lights changed and it took off,


These are the sorts of people that connect with red light runners at intersections! :slap: When Im on the bike I always pause a little & check both ways B4 turning right at a city intersection :yes: just in case a 'oh the light is orange,that means accelerate harder you can make it eh!', person trys to barrel through regardless

[Swoop]

Tailgating.

I reckong there's a market for something that would inject just enough oil or maybe oil into the exhaust pipe/gas stream so it gently drizzles a mist of gunk on their windscreen.

Not enough to do any damage, but enough to let them know you ain't happy, or fool them into thinking something's wrong so they back off.

Either way it's good...

There is. I used to have a switch rigged to the brake lights on my first cage. Someone getting a little too comfy with ya rear end - on goes the switch and hey-presto! getting smaller in the mirror real quick. This has the benefit that you are not actually having to brake, which makes the idiots even closer to your rear...
Hmm, I kinda miss that switch nowadays!

[Gremlin]

hmmm red light runners, and those that don't stop if it is safe to do so when it turns orange.

And people that travel 10k under the limit, because it has been changed... when you travel certain roads everyday, it really begins to get to you :bash:

And although technically illegal, although most do it, not travelling just under 10k over the limit... yes, I'm bad.... but 50 is very very slow... combine this with slow drivers, and you end up with 20k difference... frustrating... :yes:

ooh, hate is such a strong word... :lol: just... mildly annoyed forever :killingme

[jimbo600]

My pet hate is cunts in cars. All of em. I used to think that cage drivers were a bit iffy when I was riding my bike but since I have started to cycle to work I have learned that they are all shit. Well OK a few are OK (probably got bikes as well) but generally they are cunts.

[White trash]

Pommy cunts that move to NZ and drink all the good piss. Some of them nick good Kiwi girls too. Lucky for some, a few meet Aussie sheilas.

Still yet to meet one that can go 'round a corner with any semblence of speed too.........

[jimbo600]

Pommy cunts that move to NZ and drink all the good piss. Some of them nick good Kiwi girls too. Lucky for some, a few meet Aussie sheilas.

Still yet to meet one that can go 'round a corner with any semblence of speed too.........

You're gonna get yours son. Wait till Taupo Sunday. Anyway you're an Aussie aint ya bro'

[Bulldog]

Yeah I slow down on the 'turn early' pricks. I do it more so in my car for obvious reasons. Here are my hates....

1. While lane splitting on the motorway each morning I'd say %10 of all the cars who see you move over a little bit. GROW A DICK YOU CUNTS! I've punched a many a mirror already this year.
2. I've had two close calls in the last month both including asians doing U-turns from being parked on the left hand side of the road and pulling right out in front of me. Stopped about a foot away the first time and smashed my hand down on his boot leaving a nice big dent. Second one he just carried on.

[skidMark]

i make sure they see me give them a nod and look dead at them it's human instaint if you look at someone they natually will not try it on...even if your not looknig point the helmet at them

but for extra safety i always move to the left of my lane if they are trying to trun to their right coming at me ...then if they try it on they arnt as far giving you more time to react and also wher a road joins on alot of people..

.especially on tamaki drive as the come out of errr big windy road by bridge at orakei basin:S

because so many of them come into the lane but they take the corner too wide and come into your lane...

also put your lights on high beam all the time during the day...you wouldnt believe the difference it makes to people seeing you


just some of my tips..

Cheers: MA