I (and the Missus) survived the weekend - just

[Da Bird]

Took my girlfriend for a ride to Pokeno on Saturday and just about got taken out on the Bombay Hills by a large truck and trailer unit, travelling at about 115km/hr who decided to pull into the left lane (where I was) without indicating!

I promptly went into the right lane, rode right up to the drivers door and in unison, both me and my partner gave him a big wave :finger:

Today we went for a ride out to Kawakawa Bay and got tail-gaited by some young dickhead in his "oh so cool" Mazda Familia with his 4 mates for a few kms before he decides to try and kill about 8 people at once by overtaking me (and my partner) and almost having a head-on collision with a 4x4 who almost ended up in the ditch trying to avoid him.

No 2 is getting a visit when I go back to work - GOD HELP HIM! :Police:

That's my vent for the day - could have been a lot worse... still here to vent.

[Antallica]

Benefits of being a cop eh.

Good on ya I say!

[scumdog]

Today we went for a ride out to Kawakawa Bay and got tail-gaited by some young dickhead in his "oh so cool" Mazda Familia with his 4 mates for a few kms before he decides to try and kill about 8 people at once by overtaking me (and my partner) and almost having a head-on collision with a 4x4 who almost ended up in the ditch trying to avoid him. WA#$%ER No 2 !

No 2 is getting a visit when I go back to work - GOD HELP HIM! :Police:

That's my vent for the day - could have been a lot worse... still here to vent.

Good on you, too many just vent and that's it. Go and nail the bastard,if you saw him screw up like that I doubt it was the only screw up he has had in his "driving' career.

[Ms Piggy]

Scary stuff mate! I hate that whole changing lanes with out indicatiing! :blink: Glad you & your g/f are ok though & I hope it hasn't put her off riding with ya!

[riffer]

Sometimes I am so bloody jealous of cops.

Imagine actually being able to do something about the idiots we see every day.

Good on ya Bykey Cop. :niceone:

[6Chris6]

I know the feeling.
On yesterdays KB ride, not once but twice when overtakin i had the vehicle i was overtakin pull out without indication and try to overtake another cage.
First time i had to slam on the anchors or end up in the ditch and 2nd time i was lucky, there was enough room for 3 wide :blink:
Certainly gets the heart workin though!

[Deano]

Good to see you and your g/f made it through the weekend in one piece BC.

Yesterday as I was undertaking a car on the motorway, he simultaneously indicated and moved left into my lane - 3 seconds indication? More like 0.3s.

Then as we were heading through Kaitoke up to the Taka's, some young prat with his mates in the car in front decides it would be fun to move across towards us as we were overtaking - he got the finger and would have got more if he had carried on up the hill past the carpark, but alas he must have turned off somewhere. I was going to signal him into the carpark and have a few words.

There is an idiot born every day.....

[Eddieb]

Must have been a weekend for it, we got overtaken on the haywards hill road while in a single lane section with double yellow line markings by some idiot, not a young hoon though who once past us tailgated the van in front of us for several km before turning off.

[Mongoose]

No 2 is getting a visit when I go back to work - GOD HELP HIM! :Police:

That's my vent for the day - could have been a lot worse... still here to vent.


That is sure some excitement you can do with out BC, some people just shouild not be allowed unsupervised on our roads.
As for the rest of you, you can do the same as BC. If only more people took the time to make a formal complaint these dick-heads would spend less time on the road and/or be paying a lot more towards their learning all about it.

[Paul in NZ]

I've been noticing this of late... Or maybe I'm just getting older and wiser (ie slower)

As the speed limits are being more 'rigidly' enforced, there seems to be a hell of a lot more mindless agression out there on the road. Tailgating and rapid lane changing are 2 things that spring to mind.....

If you ride an older bike, the fact is that you can't easily outrun a lot of the really fast cars on the road these days and you seem to get morons happily gambling with your life.... Why?

I commute in a 1989 Toyota Starlet.... No body looks twice at it... On the bike, there is always some moron ready to give you a go...

Cheers

[750Y]

nail that ass!

[James Deuce]

Had similar experiences yesterday. On the way up the Takas I had a Mercedes Benz 300E drift into my lane while I was overtaking him in the first set of overtaking lanes north of Kaitoke. Then I had a Toyota Corolla cross into my lane while I was alongside heading up the hill from "Jim's Corner". Just laziness. The ones that tick me off are the oncoming traffic that crosses the centreline and deosn't even try to get back into their lane because it's "only" a bike coming the other way. Had two cars do that just before the top heading north.

[Milky]

Yesterday as I was undertaking a car on the motorway, he simultaneously indicated and moved left into my lane - 3 seconds indication? More like 0.3s.
when riding in auckland, those orange things on cages are known as 'confirminators' and are seen to be used accordingly :blink:

[merv]

when riding in auckland, those orange things on cages are known as 'confirminators' and are seen to be used accordingly :blink:

.. and I guess just like in Wellington one blink is enough confirmation.

Bykey Cop do you and your brothers pay attention to these things as it seems to us Joes that speed is such a target that bad driving is just ignored? Lack of indication and lack of keeping left when not passing on multilane roads are probably a couple of the biggest agression raisers there are let alone the crossing of the centreline stuff as mentioned by Jim.

Yet do we see these people being pulled up? Rarely.

[Paul in NZ]

when riding in auckland, those orange things on cages are known as 'confirminators' and are seen to be used accordingly :blink:

What?

I thought the switch was for the cloak of invunerability.. Surely nothing bad can happen if I turn on the orage blinky light that warns others my cloaking device is working??

Just a thought....

But as you are passing a car (in extremis) the chances are you will be in the cars blind spot and most folk don't turn their heads to check this so be careful!! It IS possible (but unlikely) that they are not actually tring to kill you...

Paul N

I was dead once, but I got better...

[Quasievil]

The lever you use on the side of the steering wheel is for turning the car isnt it?, you change lanes with it, it just happens to make a light flash at the same time.

[Firefight]

The lever you use on the side of the steering wheel is for turning the car isnt it?, you change lanes with it, it just happens to make a light flash at the same time.


On ya Quazzie :killingme :killingme :killingme

F/F

[scumdog]

when riding in auckland, those orange things on cages are known as 'confirminators' and are seen to be used accordingly :blink:

And you always activate them just as you start to change lanes etc, - to activate them before you start your manoevre (sp) means you might wear the bulbs out early and have to buy new ones. :rolleyes:

[merv]

And you always activate them just as you start to change lanes etc, - to activate them before you start your manoevre (sp) means you might wear the bulbs out early and have to buy new ones. :rolleyes:

... and someone else might misunderstand you and think its time to move up quickly to block your path.

[6Chris6]

... and someone else might misunderstand you and think its time to move up quickly to block your path.

Ahh, you must be an ex Aucklander then

[merv]

Ahh, you must be an ex Aucklander then

Nah but funny there are some just like it down here. I'm a Hawkes Bay man myself but have been stuck in Wgtn for more than half of my life now.

[toads]

I know exactly what you mean, it's shocking the way other drivers treat bikes , I think they think you are only using a small part of the road and you can easily swerve to avoid a collision, the problem being is while that might be true you can't mind read as well. Damn scary glad you and your partner are ok

[marty]

hey bykey - that wasn't you who kangarooed out of the give way on druces rd onto kerrs rd about 3.45 today, thought about it, realised that if you stopped you'd be t-boned by my mitsi, then rode off shaking your head....was it?

i had a little chuckle to meself i did :)

[Two Smoker]

Hey BC, you sound like my old man hehehe, he has done some "afterridewhenimbackatwork" visits too.... Nail the bastard i say....

Can't say i have a problem with cages passing me, as they never really can..... :whistle:

AAAAAHHHHHH CAGES!!!!!!!! :angry2:

[Skyryder]

Pleased that you and the Missus are OK etc. We you down here in Christchurch.

Skyryder

[dangerous]

IMHO car and some bike riders are becomming VERY lazy nowdays, by this I'm talking about the ones that drive (not drift) over the center line when going around a right hander all because they are too forking lazy too turn the bloody wheel/bars.
There is NO excuse for this as there is plenty of room in the left hand lane. I find when following a car doing this I am uncertain weather to pass or not as who knows what the hell they are going to do on the next bend. And then theres the ones doing it while comming towards you apart from making you soil ya undies it causes you to stand the bike back up cocking the corner up :brick:

ps: good to see that BC suvived yet another normal w/e on the bike.

[Lou Girardin]

Jeez, it happened three times coming home tonight. I'm getting back on the Bandit. At least on that, you're past before they cross the lane divider. The Harley's too much of a slow target.

[bgd]

Over here they teach us to only indicate if it provides advantage to either you or someone around you. The idea being that it forces you to assess what you are doing and what is around you. Pulls you out of the 'I indicated so I must be in the right' approach.

They also teach us to check that the lane is clear before moving :doh:

[Da Bird]

hey bykey - that wasn't you who kangarooed out of the give way on druces rd onto kerrs rd about 3.45 today, thought about it, realised that if you stopped you'd be t-boned by my mitsi, then rode off shaking your head....was it?

i had a little chuckle to meself i did :)
Marty,

No, it wasn't me but I can sure find out who it was... aint many of us in Sth Ak. We have 2 of the Uk guys riding bikes out South so prob one of them !! (one who claims to be the best motorcycle cop in the world - yeah, right)...

[marty]

it was just the whole 'should i go - yes no yes no yes maybe' thing that made me laugh - been there done that in a marked car - the best thing is to flick the lights on and feck off into the distance :) :) :) it's a 70k speed limit on kerrs, i was doing about 65, but the road crests a hill and you have to make a decision and stick with it.

[Da Bird]

Quick update - nice little $600.00 ticket is in the mail for Dickhead number 2. Spoke to him on the phone and still had an attitude problem... at least mummy and daddy are going to rip into him.:nono:

[Lou Girardin]

Quick update - nice little $600.00 ticket is in the mail for Dickhead number 2. Spoke to him on the phone and still had an attitude problem... at least mummy and daddy are going to rip into him.:nono:

Infringement? Wouldn't manner dangerous have been appropriate?

[spudchucka]

Infringement? Wouldn't manner dangerous have been appropriate?
$600 is probably more than the Courts would dish out.

[Funkyfly]

Quick update - nice little $600.00 ticket is in the mail for Dickhead number 2. Spoke to him on the phone and still had an attitude problem... at least mummy and daddy are going to rip into him.:nono:

Love it! Good stuff. :niceone:

Many of us see examples of bad driving, is it actually worth taking the number plate and calling to police?

What is police policy on calls regarding bad driving?

[rodgerd]

Many of us see examples of bad driving, is it actually worth taking the number plate and calling to police?

What is police policy on calls regarding bad driving?

Sometimes. There was a bloke who consistently went the wrong way down a one-way street I lived on (ie not an accidental one-off). I reported him and the cops snapped him for it.

[Mongoose]

Love it! Good stuff. :niceone:

Many of us see examples of bad driving, is it actually worth taking the number plate and calling to police?

What is police policy on calls regarding bad driving?

Carries more weight if you are prepared to go to a station and make your complaint a formal one as against just phoning up and moaning after all the only evidense the coppers have is yours

[spudchucka]

Love it! Good stuff. :niceone:

Many of us see examples of bad driving, is it actually worth taking the number plate and calling to police?

What is police policy on calls regarding bad driving?
If you really want something done about it you will have to be prepared to go to Court as a witness. Otherwise the police can't do too much unless the person admits to the facts presented.

[k14]

What did you fine him with? It wasn't the old "using the motor vehicle to the annoyance of any person" (or something like that), good one anyway.

Was nearly a witness to a head on coming back from akaroa one sunday a few months ago. Some dickhead that was driving a 4X4 and towing a boat decided he would pass someone doing around 100kph on a fairly short stretch of road. Just as he pulled out a car came round the bend ahead. Both the car being passed and the car coming towards the 4X4 had to brake quite considerably to let this dickhead pass. I couldn't believe it.

Good stuff you gave him a wake up call.

[scumdog]

Quick update - nice little $600.00 ticket is in the mail for Dickhead number 2. Spoke to him on the phone and still had an attitude problem... at least mummy and daddy are going to rip into him.:nono:

Hope it goes with a whole slew of demerits too :Police:

[speedpro]

Saw a classic coming home tonight. Crept up the off ramp at Te Atatu with everybody else. Just as I turned towards the give way sign I saw this dick zooming up on the right with the obvious intention of getting past everybody else. He ended up diving through the 'bus only lane' going left and then nearly ran up the arse of the pickup in front of me as we headed up Te Atatu Road.
Sadly for him a couple of Coppers jumped out of the first road on the left and hauled him in. I love it when that happens.

[Da Bird]

What did you fine him with? It wasn't the old "using the motor vehicle to the annoyance of any person" (or something like that), good one anyway.
Yip, ticket was for Driving a Vehicle in a Manner Likely to Cause Annoyance. I did think about a Dangerous Driving charge which would have caused him to lose his licence but I decided to issue the ticket instead and his mother was even unhappy about that.