Insanity Rules' Darwin of the week

[Insanity_rules]

Well with a handle like mine you'd think I'd know a thing or two about insanity so I thought I'd add this thread for a bit of entertainment. Feel free to add your own but they must be either personally experienced or viewed on our great (sic) highways and byways.

This is mine for this week........
Riding down the river rd in Upper Hutt (State highway 2 with a 100Km/h limit)I witnessed a 50cc scooter in the safety lane ridden by a young bloke (17-18ish) wearing a hoodie, board shorts and Jandals.

Just like to say..... No! No! No! if your going to do that you deserve whatever you get. I felt like schooling him on what road rash looks like. I have a wicked scar I earned through a pair of jeans on my thigh from 14 years ago, spill on smooth ashphalt cornering on an oil patch.

[scumdog]

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Just like to say..... No! No! No! if your going to do that you deserve whatever you get. I felt like schooling him on what road rash looks like. I have a wicked scar I earned through a pair of jeans on my thigh from 14 years ago, spill on smooth ashphalt cornering on an oil patch.

But that happened to YOU - it won't happen to him.

THAT is the mentallity you're dealing with when it's the young.

[snuffles]

Got a better one, Some guy in the Wiararapa, him on front of 600 with shorts singlet and the safety of a helmet, her on the pillion with singlet jeans and jandals........ oh and a helmet.

[slinky]

seen a gixxer thou on mway, (going way faster then the speed limit)
cant remember what was on the lower half, but top half was t-shirt, no gloves, and helmet.

dad seen one splitting through heavy auckland mway traffic at dangerous speeds - jandles, shorts and t-shirt, helmet.

[Squeak the Rat]

This is mine for this week........
Riding down the river rd in Upper Hutt (State highway 2 with a 100Km/h limit)I witnessed a 50cc scooter in the safety lane ridden by a young bloke (17-18ish) wearing a hoodie, board shorts and Jandals.

He was riding a scooter?????!!!! :gob:

[Alice]

Sitting in Woodville last evening eating some dinner and watching the world go by after rideing back from Castlepoint, a guy riding some type of cruiser bike, not exactly sure what it was cause I was taking more notice of the small 7 or 8yr old boy on the back with shorts T shirt and jandals, the rider, presumably the father had on leathers.
Hmmm, makes yu wonder, worse case senario and he would live with a haunted mind for a long long time.

[Insanity_rules]

He was riding a scooter?????!!!! :gob:

Yep Scooter on the motorway, ringing the living crap out of it doing no more than about 65 K's but attired as per the above description.

So far I think Alice's Darwin takes the Award for this week though!
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[bikemike]

Does it have to be a bike?

Just saw a car driver try pretty hard...

Following a car at a four laned approach crossing two laned Brougham Street in Christchurch. Lane 1 for left onto Brougham, lanes 2 and 3 for ahead, and 4 for right onto Brougham.

Guy/Gal at front of queue in lane 3 turns left onto brougham as the lights go green, across one queue going ahead, and one going left.

Nice.

[bikemike]

I have a scooter one too. One of those flimsy 2-bit thingys. Middle-aged woman rides in casual gear, no protection at all except for bicycle helmet. Rides off in the cycle lane, crosses roads through pedestrian islands and so on. Doesn't know if she's a pedestrian, cyclist or motorcyclist.

Probably all seen similar?

She also had a youngster perched between her and the bars, maybe 6 to 8 years old, no gear except bicycle helmet also. I have a grainy cellphone photo, but need a better shot next time I see her.

[WarlockNZ]

How about the guy i saw on a scooter on scenic road on sunday ?? .. no shoes or shirt and wearing only shorts.

Did have a helmet tho .. lol

[Nicksta]

3 bikes split passed me today on the n/western.. all in t-shirt, 2 in jeans, 1 in shorts... all in tennis shoes.... only good thing was a helmet....
whats wrong with these people?? i think they should all get shown the real Road Rash Chick's story..... might scare some sense into them....

[Mr. Peanut]

Me, today, jeans and a t-shirt, spinning the back up coming out a roundabout on a highly strung 2 stroke...

I was just getting milk!! :dodge:

[zeRax]

fucking hell, look after yourself, maybe educate a few people on wearing gear,
but dont fucking come onto a forum full of bikers complaining about some chump in jandals,


who cares? sick of these threads, no offence.

[RC1]

i live out in a rural area not to far from hamilton and see three farm workers racing around at least 5-6 times daily on trail bikes to quads doing at least 70-80kph always in shoes ,shorts, t-shirts and NEVER seen a helmet on them

[quickbuck]

i live out in a rural area not to far from hamilton and see three farm workers racing around at least 5-6 times daily on trail bikes to quads doing at least 70-80kph always in shoes ,shorts, t-shirts and NEVER seen a helmet on them

Yep, it was the thing to do 20 years ago (done it myself when I was a lad), but I have since realised that a bee in the eye causes enough pain to justify a helmet. Good protection stops MORE than the worst case scenario.

While down south (Ashburton) I went out to lake Hood (for those playing at home), and spotted a 96 GSXR11 sitting outside somebody's place.
Yep, very unusual to see a sports bike (do we call GSXR11's that?), in Mid Canty (Cos from my experience of growing up there, it is straight and boring!

Anyhwo, While returning from lake Hood, I saw the bike in question coming toward me with rider in FULL gear, and girl on back in Very little! She was in a helmet, but was in a singlet!

I said, "Put some bloody clothes on woman!"

I guess the message is; Dress your pillion as well as you would dress yourself!
As with the case of the guy with his young son earlier.....

Of course I am preaching to the choir here.

[Timber020]

I used take my dirtbike for little tests up the driveway after I had done work on it, I would end up crossing the road and blasting down the firebreak. MX boots, shorts, tshirt, sunglasses, baseball cap backwards to stop it falling off at 130kmph. Dumb. I blame the parents

[Flyingpony]

There's a guy commuting in my neighbourhood on a red large capacity bike, wears a helmet, jacket and gloves but the cake is ... wears shorts nearly all year round :gob:
Not sure if he wears bike boots or general purpose work boots.

[pervert]

fucking hell, look after yourself, maybe educate a few people on wearing gear,
but dont fucking come onto a forum full of bikers complaining about some chump in jandals,


who cares? sick of these threads, no offence.

Agreed.

If someone doesn't want to wear gear, that's their choice. You'll find a good number of them are probably fully aware of the dangers/consequences and choose to do it anyway. For some people the fun of riding a bike is lost when wrapped from head to toe in leather.



i live out in a rural area not to far from hamilton and see three farm workers racing around at least 5-6 times daily on trail bikes to quads doing at least 70-80kph always in shoes ,shorts, t-shirts and NEVER seen a helmet on them

I lived in a rural area for 18 years, it's a very small number of people that wear helmets on their own property. I know I don't. The beauty is no-one tells you off, or gives you queer looks. It's the best.

[Insanity_rules]

Yep there appears to be a large amount of Under dressed idiots and oblivious morons out there.

I started this thread with a view to us letting off steam at some of the stupidity out there and so maybe noobs who drop in can read some examples of what not to do (and the consequences).

Keep em coming guys this is really educational.