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copperS100
1st October 2006, 00:54
Jus wundaing im a new rider (riding for like 4 months) and in those 4 months i've had all kinds of shit thrown at me e.g. apples, oranges, bananas, cans and otha really stupid shit!! jus wundaing if dats normal??
Dadpole
1st October 2006, 01:25
Either you live in a really bad area, or everyone hates you. Consider moving!
Otherwise, it is not a problem I have encountered often. Perhaps riding a bigger bike helps (more of a threat etc).
All you can do is keep an eye out for likely wankers and let them know you are eyeballing them.
If they are smaller than you, stop and beat the crap out of them.:spanking:
Colapop
1st October 2006, 07:11
No, it is not normal. If anyone ever throws anything at you, stop immediately, turn around, go back and kick their arse! If it is someone bigger than you, go directly to the cop shop and report it. What happened, where, when, who (description or name).
cowboyz
1st October 2006, 07:30
only once have I had something thrown at me and it was a boyracer throwing a can. Missed by a mile. I had a chat to him about how inappropriate his actions were and he decided to see things my way.
paturoa
1st October 2006, 07:58
never in 30 years of riding
- same person, or different people??
crashe
1st October 2006, 10:25
Jus wundaing im a new rider (riding for like 4 months) and in those 4 months i've had all kinds of shit thrown at me e.g. apples, oranges, bananas, cans and otha really stupid shit!! jus wundaing if dats normal??
Hi young fella, and welcome to KB
No it aint the normal at all...
You can report the shites to the police and let them know that these shites are going to be causing a accident to some poor beggar out there on the roads.
You got to meet two of us before you even joined KB.
Myself and Frosty.
Yep we rescued this young lad off the side of the road.... and Frosty put the bike into the back of his van and took it to Henderson bike shop to do a quick emergancy change over of oil etc.. these jolly two stroke bikes and running out of oil.
Both copperS100 and I both got a lesson on two strokes that day.:banana:
To make sure that copperS100 and the bike got home ok, I had him following me all the way up to westgate as he didnt know the Henderson area... from there copper lead the way.
Nice young fella, so hopefully soon he will join onto a few KB rides.:2thumbsup
PS: copperS100, have you put a screwdriver and another bottle of oil into the topbag yet?
Cheers for the nice PM and you are most welcome.:2thumbsup
terbang
1st October 2006, 10:29
Nothing really apart from the odd cigarette butt :mad: :mad: :mad: flicked out the window of the car I've been following.
stunz
1st October 2006, 10:31
Jus wundaing im a new rider (riding for like 4 months) and in those 4 months i've had all kinds of shit thrown at me e.g. apples, oranges, bananas, cans and otha really stupid shit!! jus wundaing if dats normal??
I only seem to cop cigarette butts on a regular basis. Beats me why people have to throw stuff out the window.
Big Dave
1st October 2006, 10:40
I only seem to cop cigarette butts on a regular basis. Beats me why people have to throw stuff out the window.
I've started riding a bit closer and miming flicking stuff at them as i go by.
DingDong
1st October 2006, 10:45
Not normal at all... you must be pissing people off or somit?
Take plate numbers a ring the cops... or beat them over the head with ya bike.(if you cant lift ya bike, go with the cops)
deeknow
1st October 2006, 10:54
does "throwing insults" count? :2thumbsup
davereid
1st October 2006, 11:01
Yeah, pretty unusual I'd say. I've has plenty of cig. butts, and generally pass stock trucks pretty promptly, but I've never had anything thrown at me.
Even small objects can knock you off your bike, so don't hesitate to get a rego and report it.
Many years ago, I kicked a possum. Had this mental idea of it flying through the air in a graceful curve. Actually knocked me off my bike, broke my foot and f*cked my rifle. (I was in the bush on my XT).
A two thousand dollar, painfull lesson about the energy required to accelerate a stationary object !
McJim
1st October 2006, 11:12
Women throw their underwear at me as I ride past but I suspect that's coz I'm a sexy man (delivered in Fat Bastard accent) is there a particular area through which you're riding that this happens? Perhaps we should organise a KB ride through that area..they fling a banana at you and 30 bikes come round the corner - brown trouser time for the wee bastards!
pritch
1st October 2006, 11:14
Usually I avoid Hamilton but last year I was following a car through town when a woman in the back "vomited" out the window at the strategic moment. It turned out to be milkshake and I assume was a simulated vomit performed for the amusement of the other occupants of the (rental?) car.
I was thinking angry thoughts there for a bit, but now I just avoid Hamilton even more than I did before.
terbang
1st October 2006, 11:20
I've started riding a bit closer and miming flicking stuff at them as i go by.
Watched a guy on Sydney's M5 that had been nearly knocked off his Gixxer by a trucky do an awesome mime. He overtook the truck, slowed down so that he was right in the guys face, turned around and with his left hand made the animated appearance of drawing and cocking a handgun, aiming it at the driver and firing. Obviously he was firing a .44 magnum or similar with appropriate recoil. My Mrs and I pissed ourselves as it was well done though it was certainly an intimidating gesture. It pissed the trucky off immensely and he honked his horn and waved his fist at the rapidly disappearing Gixxer.
Macktheknife
1st October 2006, 12:54
Jus wundaing im a new rider (riding for like 4 months) and in those 4 months i've had all kinds of shit thrown at me e.g. apples, oranges, bananas, cans and otha really stupid shit!! jus wundaing if dats normal??
That is not something I've ever experienced, been riding 25 years, how often does this happen? Is it always in the same area/same people? From cars or footpath?
Seriously, get the answers to this stuff and maybe the problem can be made to go away.
Good luck with your riding and welcome to KB.
oldrider
1st October 2006, 13:07
Yeah, pretty unusual I'd say. I've has plenty of cig. butts, and generally pass stock trucks pretty promptly, but I've never had anything thrown at me.
Even small objects can knock you off your bike, so don't hesitate to get a rego and report it.
Many years ago, I kicked a possum. Had this mental idea of it flying through the air in a graceful curve. Actually knocked me off my bike, broke my foot and f*cked my rifle. (I was in the bush on my XT).
A two thousand dollar, painfull lesson about the energy required to accelerate a stationary object !
Ha ha ha I did that once coming down Stokes valley at night way back in the fifties, kicked the possum with the same thoughts that you described.
Ended up missing the bridge and getting tossed bike and all into the stream!
I aint never ever tried kickin a possum since! Fantasy and reality don't line up when it comes to kickin possums. (lol) Cheers John.
Motoracer
1st October 2006, 13:40
Hahahahaha :lol: @ 1st post in this thread
T.W.R
1st October 2006, 13:46
Definately not the norm, though in years gone by I've have had things thrown at me and had one incident where a bloke tried to run out & stiff-arm me as I rode by, and a couple of instances of cars moving across on me as I passed them :lol: fools!
As for possums, a bloke I used to ride with had one fall out of tree on to him as he was rounding a bend on his way to Nelson late at night, just about peeled him off the bike. Panic stopped because he didn't have a clue what had hit him, checked the damage to the bike (broken screen & mirror) went back to the where he'd been hit to find the possum impaled on part of the broken screen & taking it's last breaths:crazy:
copperS100
1st October 2006, 18:37
I liv in Whenuapai and everything that has been thrown at me has been on da motoway going towards the city at about 5-6am so im jus thinking maybe its drunk arseholes goin to work half pissed n seein an innocent biker ride past decide to hav a little fun thinking thats it harmless wen really i could of died.
Whynot
2nd October 2006, 11:05
had an episode a few months ago ....
Riding along rockfield road in penrose, group of young (teenagers) locals (Maori/Islander) gathered in a group (3 or 4) on the side of the road.
As I ride past a tennis ball comes flying out from the group towards my front wheel and narrowly misses it.
I didn't really have time to react, but i'm certain it was aimed to try and make me fall off.
:mad:
Thought about turning round and giving them a talking to, but was a bit outnumbered and not to keen on them trashing my bike if it turned nasty
emaN
2nd October 2006, 11:12
....I had a chat to him about how inappropriate his actions were and he decided to see things my way.
:lol: :lol:
:2thumbsup
'nuff said
Quasievil
2nd October 2006, 11:14
Last year someone threw a puppy outta the window, how fucked up is that, could have chased them but more worried about the puppy, ended up sticking it in my jacket and taking it home then to the vet.
Some scum deserve to die !!!!
Fishy
2nd October 2006, 11:17
I've had rocks thrown at me by a couple of homies before which was dealt with accordingly.
I've had oranges thrown at my by homies.... there was about 40 of them so I didn't bother stopping.
I have had little homie kids throw stones at me several times.
I have had people throw other random shit at me including a couple of homies running down the road after me in GI swearing in Tongan/Samoan and throwing beer bottles at me for no reason at all.
Moral of the story... Homies suck!!
Pixie
2nd October 2006, 11:17
Ha ha ha I did that once coming down Stokes valley at night way back in the fifties, kicked the possum with the same thoughts that you described.
Ended up missing the bridge and getting tossed bike and all into the stream!
I aint never ever tried kickin a possum since! Fantasy and reality don't line up when it comes to kickin possums. (lol) Cheers John.
This is where teaching physics in school instead of macrame and bead weaving would be a good idea.
I've had some bullshit stories told to me in my time:
one guy said he used to hook up the pressure strips of traffic counters as he rode over them.
my response: "were you badly injured when you crashed?"
Another was a tosser who claimed he stuck his arm out of a car window as a bike rider rode past and knocked him off his bike.
I asked him how long his arm was in a cast.
Bullshitters have no idea
carver
2nd October 2006, 11:19
i got a firework thrown at me last year.
twas on me ol DT175, around midnight.
down the boy racer area.
didnt feel light a brawl though
Street Gerbil
2nd October 2006, 11:33
Hmmm... Nothing so far except godawful quantities of water this morning...
Note: Road water from Ellerslie Panmure Hwy tastes like sh*t.
Morcs
2nd October 2006, 11:35
Had a snow ball thrown at me, which wasnt great considering riding in snow/ice is bad enough. Hit me front on in the chest, could not work out where it came from...
terbang
2nd October 2006, 11:43
This is where teaching physics in school instead of macrame and bead weaving would be a good idea.
Bullshitters have no idea
Bullshitters maybe or perhaps Naive.
When I was 16 or 17 I naively swerved toward and put my foot out to kick a dog that was having a go at me. I figured that the dog would be no match for my steel capped work boots. Though I did physics at school, it wasn't on my mind at that instant. Must have been doing about 50-60 . To my horror It was a hell of an impact that partially wrenched me off the bike breaking bones (both me and dog) and I only stayed upright by good luck rather than management.
Ixion
2nd October 2006, 11:46
,,
Another was a tosser who claimed he stuck his arm out of a car window as a bike rider rode past and knocked him off his bike.
I asked him how long his arm was in a cast.
Bullshitters have no idea
You could maybe do that OK if the bike was going the same direction as thye car and not much faster. Push the rider sideways as he goes past, not going to be much load on your arm. But I don't want to test the hypothesis.
MrMelon
2nd October 2006, 12:36
No, it is not normal. If anyone ever throws anything at you, stop immediately, turn around, go back and kick their arse! If it is someone bigger than you, go directly to the cop shop and report it. What happened, where, when, who (description or name).
I did that to some teenage girls who threw a rock at me as I was riding through seatoun last year. Gave them a right bollocking, reduced that little bitch to tears.
Motu
2nd October 2006, 12:36
I got straight armed by a bloke once as I was going to work....riding through a road construction,hooning up on the dirt and jumping the clay barrier.He didn't knock me off,but I was more concerned with the Triumph cyl head I had in a bag slung over my shoulder....it was owned by a Grim Reaper.
There was a rumour about a guy who used to kick over 44 gal drums that they used as road markers,with a light on top.One day he hit one full of water,shattered leg and hip.
35tickets
3rd October 2006, 08:24
Jus wundaing im a new rider (riding for like 4 months) and in those 4 months i've had all kinds of shit thrown at me e.g. apples, oranges, bananas, cans and otha really stupid shit!! jus wundaing if dats normal??
Riding back from auckland earlier this year and was following a school mini-bus. It had the schools name all over it and all its details etc (Whangarei Boys High). Just north of Wellsford all the little shits in the van started chucking their McDonalds garbage at us, probably because they thought our headlight was a little too bright (Duh 2 up on a ZZR11 get out of the fucking way!)
Well understandably that fucked me right off so ripped past them giving them the big finger and next day got onto the school and complained. Dickheads.
Fucking little toe rags.:spanking:
Finn
3rd October 2006, 08:27
I did that to some teenage girls who threw a rock at me as I was riding through seatoun last year. Gave them a right bollocking, reduced that little bitch to tears.
That was a bit excessive for a stone chip don't you think?
Str8 Jacket
3rd October 2006, 08:32
That was a bit excessive for a stone chip don't you think?
The bitches deserved it. They were hiding and waiting for the guy's to come riding past. They aimed the rocks at the guy's heads from what I remember I also think that they were laughing about it too? I would have done much worse to them if it were me....
XP@
3rd October 2006, 08:52
A friend forgot to zip up his backpack after buying an oil filter.
I ducked and the filter flew passed where my head was moments before. Have no clue what damage a filter would have done to my face at 100+mph, but me guessing I may not have become much prettier ;-)
On the subject of possums... they make one helluva bump when hit at 1??kph, took one out on sat night, thought my front end had exploded!
Disco Dan
3rd October 2006, 09:03
dam cigarette butts!
but i must admit, while driving through swanson one time in the mini i had a guy behind me on a bike, just finished my ciggie and instead of dropping it just out the window i outstreatched my arm and flicked it so that it wouldnt hit the bike... ...plan did not quite work and hit him right on the visor! he gave me the finger and i dropped it down a gear and gapped it!
:Pokey:
copperS100
3rd October 2006, 19:16
Bad luck or wot!!! today coming home at around 430-5 this guy in the passengers seat of a white van sees me coming in the sidemirrors so wen i drive past(i was riding between traffic by the way) he bops me on the head with a rolled up mag or paper. UNfucking believable i tel ya
redbaron36
3rd October 2006, 19:33
Naa Man you need to sort your locals out as they ain't to good.
I see you live out west, maybe try a bigger bike or as someone else suggested organise a ride out there to sort them out. :(
R6_kid
3rd October 2006, 19:45
umm, only ever had a bottle thrown out the window at me... but my headlights werent setup so were pointing high and i had superbrights on.
Fortunately i passed them at about 210kmh so they didnt have much chance at hitting me.
Whenuapai aint that rugged man, is it kids, teenagers, adults, or a mix that are doing it?
copperS100
3rd October 2006, 19:51
nah not whenuapai they cool as, i think its the te atatuians ( Te atatu) yea tru maybe if i had a bigger bike this wuldnt happen but im on a quite a tight budget so i cant really afford a bike plus the guy who bopped me on the head was 1 big mofo
Lee Rusty
3rd October 2006, 19:54
one day i quick enuff to catch one (gloves are good for that) and at the next lights when he stopped i flicked it back into the back seat of his car - he didnt look happy but I bet he use his ashtray after that - at least for a while
copperS100
3rd October 2006, 20:09
i dunno aye, i am a former eastie so mayb thats y westies dont like me but really my luck is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo shit :crybaby: :crybaby:
Shadows
3rd October 2006, 22:42
I've had rocks thrown at me by a couple of homies before which was dealt with accordingly.
I've had oranges thrown at my by homies.... there was about 40 of them so I didn't bother stopping.
I have had little homie kids throw stones at me several times.
I have had people throw other random shit at me including a couple of homies running down the road after me in GI swearing in Tongan/Samoan and throwing beer bottles at me for no reason at all.
Moral of the story... Homies suck!!
Little fuckers should be sent homie.
Moxy
4th October 2006, 13:32
Usually I avoid Hamilton but last year I was following a car through town when a woman in the back "vomited" out the window at the strategic moment. It turned out to be milkshake and I assume was a simulated vomit performed for the amusement of the other occupants of the (rental?) car.
That reminds me of the time I got my second speeding ticket (2 of 2 in 4 years riding).
Heading home at about 1am on a Saturday night, the dude on the passenger side of a ute (driving in front of me) puked out the window. Luckily the projectile vomit zoomed straight past me and I somehow managed to avoid all of it.
I then overtook the ute (so as not to be the victim of any further vomit), and as soon as I got in front of him I saw disco lights start up ahead of me, and I was pulled over.
Cop chick asked why I was speeding, I told her the story, she replied with a friendly (i.e. with a smirk) "I don't care, I'm writing you up a ticket right now" and proceeded to write me a ticket for 83 (WHILE OVERTAKING) in a 70k zone. Nice one.
MWVT
10th October 2006, 14:13
Hmmm... Nothing so far except godawful quantities of water this morning...
Note: Road water from Ellerslie Panmure Hwy tastes like sh*t.
Yup, tastes real real bad, and as for thrown stuff. Cigarrete butts, mostly just coz theyre blind and don't see you. Nothing else yet, except the occasional abuse.
GSX-RJIM
10th October 2006, 15:56
Not normal, have had a cig' butt bift at me. The young bugger was white as a sheet by time i had finished screaming at him at the next set of lights.
sunhuntin
10th October 2006, 16:50
only ever had ciggy butts. ive got the point where i can usually smell the smoke, so ride in accordance. have only hit by one butt, but that was 100k from an oncoming car...likely would have lost an eye but for my sunnies.
other than that...bugs, a butterfly, grit from passing cars, crap from cattle trucks etc is the worst.
make a note of when and where the events are happening cos the last thing anyone wants is another "biker down...kb new member from thrown missile" thread.
slimjim
10th October 2006, 17:34
:whistle: fuck ,stop and bitch slap the fucker's, feels good too afterward's:banana: :jerry: :mad: :spanking:
NighthawkNZ
14th October 2006, 22:21
Jus wundaing im a new rider (riding for like 4 months) and in those 4 months i've had all kinds of shit thrown at me e.g. apples, oranges, bananas, cans and otha really stupid shit!! jus wundaing if dats normal??
In general no, but I have had a smoke butt it my visor from the car ahead of me, ... I stopped... picked it up and followed the car to a petrol station... and approached the driver and kindly said "I believe you dropped something, and believe this is yours" then handed his smoke butt back to him... :calm:
adiddy
15th October 2006, 19:14
mate, how do you ride?! maybe the way you ride fucks everybosy off?!!
toymachine
19th October 2006, 17:34
I've found the window washers of vans etc often end up on me if i'm following..
samwp
23rd October 2006, 11:37
Yea I'd say its the way you ride - not luck.
Some homies dressed up in red were walking down the middle of a road but they got out of my way as I pulled up and didn't try anything it's all how you hold yourself. Had same shit when i used to blade.
JMemonic
23rd October 2006, 12:22
Had the odd thing thrown at me normally by drunken idiots, when the bike was on the road I used to regularly head out to the GF's place, my route took me across the city hangout for boyracers (for those in Chch Colombo, Milton intersection by the mobil).
First Friday night I took this route I ended up with all sorts of rubbish being hurled at me by two cars tht peeled out of the gas station, including half eaten McD's as a car sat either side of me, I figgured this was not a good look as they were going to drag off the lights and cut me off, while I could see their mates in the station just waiting for me to have a go. I know I could have beaten them off the lights but thought why bother and let them go for it.
About 20 meters down the road they nearly collided, disco lights fired up and both cars were rapidly halted by the folks in blue, I stopped informed them of what had happened moments before, showed them the evidence smeared over my jacket and pointed to the crap on the road, they seemed little interested in this until I pointed out the fact that had this happend while I was riding it has potential to cause an accident, that technically it was assault and yes I would be willing to follow it up if required. Never heard any more about the charges but it was funny to watch the cars impounded and the lads made to go back and clean up the mess on the road.
I also changed my route on any of those special boyracer nights.
metric
23rd October 2006, 13:18
have never been stiff-armed, had shit thrown at me, nor been abused by anyone in the time I've been riding... however I have yelled a few times at various morons drifting into my lane without indicating... but I guess that's another thread altogether
crack
25th October 2006, 03:06
This may bring a smile to some, a scowl to others.
One thing I detest with passion is littering, I can not stand it, I guess after seeing all the detritus,refuse,and the occassional body, and parts, in the streets of Rag Head & 3rd world countries, I get really pissed off when I see this great little country getting litered, even more so when it is deliberate?.
Now to the happening.
As I took off from one set of light's to another set, the car beside me to my left, with 4-5 young kids,( Teenagers) blasts off, and the driver lets fly with a half eaten "Big Mac" yep it was definately a Big Mac, it landed in my crotch.
I spead up to beside him and proceed to tell him to keep his shit to himself and have some respect.( Window is still down, lights approaching)
Tells me to go F--- myself??????, My left boot really just "automatically" shot out and proceeded to munt his door, ( Bright Red Cefiro) the lights go orange, we are going to have to stop?
As we stop I flick my side stand down,( The poor little pricks taken by surprise) suddenly they stopped telling me to go F--- myself, they just went quiet, real scared in their eye's, shit it was bloody marvelous, their mouths just opened, I took his Big Mac and mashed it in his face, and gave his door another couple of kicks, and went back to await the change of lights, and took off turning right, they had to go straight ahead.
The look on the car drivers face behind me was priceless.
As I turned right, guess what, a bloody black & white, well white, the copper sort of looks at me but didn't stop me so I just buggered off.
I never had any intention to kick the shit out of his door, it just happened, shit it was good.:scooter: :rockon: :dodge: :done: :Punk:
Lil_Byte
25th October 2006, 07:01
On the subject of possums... they make one helluva bump when hit at 1??kph, took one out on sat night, thought my front end had exploded!
Possums suck - hit one one night going through the Kawarau Gorge, just managed to stay on my RF400, the little prick just kept on running and I had found it had broken the bottom of the fairing - death to possums:Punk:
Cobalt
25th October 2006, 07:10
I only had it once some young dip shit hanging out the back window of a car with a tray of eggs
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