Red Rag to a Bull? Red Bike to a Dork?

[vifferman]

I dunno if anyone gives a damn, or even if I still do, nor am I sure what the point of this is. But I'm in a crap mood (didn't stack enough Zs last night), so what the hell...
This morning, I took off from the front of the lights on Jervois Road, reasonably smartish, but not racing (it was very wet), and only up to about 60. When I went to move to the left lane, there's this friggin Subaru WRX STI right there, like within touching distance, just to my left and behind me. WTF?!? He must've gone, "Ahh... a bike. I'll show him how big my pecker is, and how incredibly fast I can go." Dick. (Small one, at that.) So after I'd recovered from my momentary surprise, I put the confirminator on, and luckily he dropped back and behind me, so I moved over and turned left.
As he went past, I noted the dealer plates, so he was either a dealer or had had the WRX out for a test drive. Either way, I've decided he was a plonker.:tugger:
This is the second time someone with a WRX STI has seen me and gone, "Aha!!" Last time, I came up behind a brand-new black one (the white one this morning was a Jap import), and the guy obvioulsy went, "Battle!!" (like John Travolta in "Michael"), and floored it. Yawnnn.... zzzzz....
He was really going for it; revving the snot out of it, stones were being ripped up off the road (and one hit my visor, which is still chipped). Meanwhile, I was barely tootling along, most of the time in first gear, and not pushing it at all. (I couldn't safely pass, as there wasn't room), so I slowed up a bit (from my already torpid pace). Finally, as he seemed to be going the same way as me (he turned off near my workplace), I took the next turn, and gave it a bit of a blat - nothing too extreme, mind - and at the next intersection, I ended up right in front of him (once he'd caught up). This time, without him in front of me, I had an unimpeded run, so I just ran it up to about 6K rpm in first, leaving him about a block behind.:whistle:

What did this prove? Any of it? Absolutely nothing. :blink: I hope the WRX driver got the hint. Even a moderately powered bike has a higher power/weight ratio than some very sporty car. And if some boy racer does beat you, so what? And if you beat him, so what? Is either one of you better, for driving/riding like a wanker on public roads ?:whocares:

My favourite trick is to bait someone into racing you, like one time when I was driving the Vortex, and pulled up next to another (guess what?) WRX. I took off fastish, beating him to the jump, and across the intersection, then promptly let up. I knew I couldn't beat him, but he took the bait, and roared off up the road at a terriffic rate of knots, heh heh... Yeah, it proved nothing, but it was fun (and safe, and legal.) Ah, those mind games... :msn-wink:

[Mongoose]

Still trying to figure out who has/had the smallest dick. Both guilty of a little ahhh, street racing so go tell someone that cares. :finger:

[aff-man]

Your bike is red mate. So to any wanna be boy racer out there is must mean that it is fast :killingme.which it is but a vt250 can be red. The problem is that sometimes they actually believe they can beat a bike :killingme :killingme . Now the thing i love doing the most, especially in 60 or 80 zones, is accelerate at a "moderate"( :msn-wink: ) pace and then slow when i get to the speed limit. Of couse the guy goes flying past me and i just sit there saying to myself "please let there be a cop please oh please oh please".

[ManDownUnder]

Bearing in mind I was 16 at the time, riding a GPz 550...

I had a similar experience a few years ago (well... ok... 19 years ago) and some guy insisted on catching up to me... I accelerated away up to 160 left him behind, he floored it and caught up, sat so close he was a threat behind me. Pissed me off so I shot through again... etc - you get the idea.

We finally got into New Plymouth and running the length of Coronation Ave (about... 2 kms long?) at 5:00pm so there is traffic everywhere, I pulled into the middle of the lane so he had no chance of going around me, and I slowed to 40 kph, from the top of Coronation Ave all the way to the lights at the bottom of the hill past the Boys' High.

I could see him spewing the whole way.

In hindsight it was VERY childish of me to do that... obstructing traffic etc, but damn it was memorable and well worth it.

As for street racing now, not for me anymore. Just knowing I could do it is enough for me, and I love to make a dick of the guys who take me on at the lights, you make it look like your going to go for it, they shoot through, and I just toodle off the line... The image of the disappointment makes it all worth while.

[ManDownUnder]

Of couse the guy goes flying past me and i just sit there saying to myself "please let there be a cop please oh please oh please".

Exactly my sentiment - I'd LOVE to see that happen.

Hasn't happened yet - but one day it will!

[rodgerd]

WTF?!? He must've gone, "Ahh... a bike. I'll show him how big my pecker is, and how incredibly fast I can go." Dick. (Small one, at that.)


It ain't just the boy racers. A month or two back I was coming over the Rimutakas from points North; passed (within the speed limit, I might add) a Merc CLK230 on the hill itself (the driver was going soooo veeeery slooow around the corners).

Well, that tore it. How dare I, in my Japanese car, dare pass the Mighty Mercedes! Tailgated me down to the dual carriageways at Upper Hutt, and then screamed past at a good 140 or so. That showed me, that did.

[vifferman]

Still trying to figure out who has/had the smallest dick. Both guilty of a little ahhh, street racing so go tell someone that cares. :finger:Must be me: I don't have a dick - it got shot off in the last war. Before that, it was about a thousand miles long.
Street racing? I wasn't. The WRX driver thought it was a race - I was just on my way back to work. Up until the point I took a different route, I doubt that I exceeded the speed limit. Much. Well, OK - maybe just a tad. There was no 'red mist', no adrenalin, no real effort on my part. I'm fairly sure I kept both wheels on the road at all times, and certainly didn't go anywhere near that red bit on the tachometer.

(Did I sound at all convincing?)

[Mongoose]

Must be me: I don't have a dick - it got shot off in the last war. Before that, it was about a thousand miles long.
Street racing? I wasn't. The WRX driver thought it was a race - I was just on my way back to work. Up until the point I took a different route, I doubt that I exceeded the speed limit. Much. Well, OK - maybe just a tad. There was no 'red mist', no adrenalin, no real effort on my part. I'm fairly sure I kept both wheels on the road at all times, and certainly didn't go anywhere near that red bit on the tachometer.

(Did I sound at all convincing?)

This time, without him in front of me, I had an unimpeded run, so I just ran it up to about 6K rpm in first, leaving him about a block behind.

And this was not part of what could be considered street racing? Dont get me wrong, we all have or still do it to some extent, but you bemoaned a WRX driver for this very behaviour and then relate how you too participate. :calm:

[jrandom]

And this was not part of what could be considered street racing? Dont get me wrong, we all have or still do it to some extent, but you bemoaned a WRX driver for this very behaviour and then relate how you too participate. :calm:

The WRX driver was a wanker for trying to take him on. It sounds like firestormer managed to politely convey the 'bikes are faster than you, so don't bother' message without endangering himself or anyone else, or even breaking the speed limit (much); good job. Mr WRX now hopefully has a better grasp of reality, and might even be less likely to endanger motorcyclists in future (I'm not too hopeful about that, though).

[FROSTY]

Um er um er firestormer me ol buddy mate pal :innocent:
Was one of those "dorks" in a blue legacy GTB -possibly with one tailight missing ? Wairau road -yesterday.
If so I'm sorry mate -I was trying to admire your bike.
Seriously. I really was

[Slim]

It ain't just the boy racers. A month or two back I was coming over the Rimutakas from points North; passed (within the speed limit, I might add) a Merc CLK230 on the hill itself (the driver was going soooo veeeery slooow around the corners).
:killingme

I've done the exact same thing, on the exact same road, in my widdle 1600cc auto Toyota Corolla. Got past something four wheeled (can't remember what) on some passing lanes & he tried to keep up with me, but couldn't. I saw him finally back off when he came round a left hand corner some distance behind me & overshot really badly into northbound passing lanes and obviously realised how damn lucky he was that there wasn't something going the other way! :eek:

I've also shot the lights at Huntly on my bike, up to 70 reasonably fast (70kph starts just after the lights) and saw a cop in his car on the other side of the road just about get whiplash watching me & then checking out his radar ... only to find that I was doing the legal speed limit. :devil2:


I s'pose I get an added benefit when I beat boy racers on the jump at the lights, because I know they have no idea that I'm female & that'd piss them off no end. :D



Besides getting the jump off the lights, that's about all the bait I'll take. Gotta get some grins somehow when you're stuck in town traffic, and if anyone's tailgating me on the open road, I just pull over to let them past so they can kill themselves without involving me.

[ManDownUnder]

Must be me: I don't have a dick - it got shot off in the last war. Before that, it was about a thousand miles long.
Street racing? I wasn't. The WRX driver thought it was a race - I was just on my way back to work. Up until the point I took a different route, I doubt that I exceeded the speed limit. Much. Well, OK - maybe just a tad. There was no 'red mist', no adrenalin, no real effort on my part. I'm fairly sure I kept both wheels on the road at all times, and certainly didn't go anywhere near that red bit on the tachometer.

(Did I sound at all convincing?)

ooo that's gotta hurt...

[aff-man]

True about open road stuff. Except this one time (when i was on the 250) some young guy in his wrx was sitting right up my ass when going on that road between hanua and papakura. So i just turned on the heat and laughed at him trying to keep up........................... he couldn't. I ended up going a bit quicker than i would have liked but not really getting to close to my limits.

[Mr Skid]

snap! had the same thing from a black WRX yesterday on Gt North Rd.

I noticed him/her in the right lane, and accelerated slowly so as to not encorage sillyness on their part.. They were matching my speed and I guessed were looking to play silly buggers, so backed off the throttle until about 40km/h at which point they lost interest..

I also don't quite get the stickers down the doors on WRX's.. Momo Apexi? Trust Greddy? are these like the driver and co-drivers porn star names or something?

[sAsLEX]

We finally got into New Plymouth and running the length of Coronation Ave (about... 2 kms long?) at 5:00pm so there is traffic everywhere, I pulled into the middle of the lane so he had no chance of going around me, and I slowed to 40 kph, from the top of Coronation Ave all the way to the lights at the bottom of the hill past the Boys' High.


once back in the day in my 1.3ltr sunny I gassed it from the Northgate lights heading in towards town and the integra next to me absolutley blitzed me across the lights and up to a decent pace and straight past the cop waiting for people doing just that, I sneaked away up the side street the cop came out of as he chased the other guy! :buggerd:

[Mongoose]

Guess it all depends on what side of the fence you look at things from. Ever wondered how often a cage driver sees some antics done by M/bike riders and thought "Tosser" ? :Pokey:

[aff-man]

with the way i ride sometimes i suppose almost every day :whistle: :whistle: .

[vifferman]

Um er um er firestormer me ol buddy mate pal :innocent:
Was one of those "dorks" in a blue legacy GTB -possibly with one tailight missing ? Wairau road -yesterday.
If so I'm sorry mate -I was trying to admire your bike. Nah, it wasn't me: (a) I wasn't on Wairau Rd yesterday, and (b) my bike isn't especially admirable.


ooo that's gotta hurt...It was a 'joke', Matey - an obscure quote from "Derek and Clive Alive".
And to show I am not sensitive about genital size aspersions being cast.:)


Guess it all depends on what side of the fence you look at things from. Ever wondered how often a cage driver sees some antics done by M/bike riders and thought "Tosser" ? :Pokey: But of course (mais certainment). It was entirely subjective. I do look at the antics performed by some bikers (including myself) and shake my head bemusedly. And I do worry about the bad rep said ill-conceived activities are likely to give us.
Sometimes.
And sometimes I just don't give a toss.:shifty:

[Jackrat]

I don't mind the odd race with cars.
Mainly cos' I usualy win. :2thumbsup

[loosebruce]

I also don't quite get the stickers down the doors on WRX's.. Momo Apexi? Trust Greddy? are these like the driver and co-drivers porn star names or something?

Stickers make you go faster, fact! Really need to get a plastic number plate surround with something like "unless you got 600+bhp under that bonnet don't bother".

I travel home from work in the early morning 2am kinda thing always get some interesting cages to play with, i wonder what goes through there heads when your're sitting next to them at 180 odd kph they can't go any quicker and you're sitting there waving to them as you roll it on in 6th.................

I got kinda learned once thou, BMW M3 2000 model, blitz by him on SH16 slowed down a bit and waited for him to catch up and catch up he did, bad for me is my bike was geared down, good for wheelies etc but yeah we both ended up side by side at 250kph kinda looking at each like wtf. Need a gixxer 1000 me thinks.

[Motu]

My Pajero can fair haul arse,it's got a turbo y'know.Sometimes I feel like Micheal Schumacher,I look in the mirror and see a long line of cars trying to get past....fucking wankers,their cars are too slow and they can't drive for shit,well,not when I do my 'chop' and stick them on the other side of the road.Sometimes I see bikes try to have a go at me - what a sick bunch these pricks are,when they try and have a go - I give the turbo diesel a big boot,and I see the faggots double up coughing,like,hello ,take your medicine before you leave home next time eh?

[Posh Tourer :P]

I well remember racing some guy in a ............ WRX. :P Again off the lights, not looking to race, I just took off smartly, as I always did.... Then realised he was trying it on, and went a bit harder through first and second. By that time I'd hit 60, and sat at that speed. He was *really* short shifting but trying really hard....

Thing was, I was on an MZ ETZ 250..... And 60 was 60kmh :D

He proved nothing by blasting past me in third gear after having proved he couldnt shift gears at the right time, and I got an amusing story about how he couldnt even beat me off the line in a far superior vehicle... I only had 10-15hp.....

it is always the people who cant drive well that are trying to prove that they can...

[Wonko]

Those M3's can haul arse. Olny time I've been convincingly beaten my a car was from on of them getting onto the southern late one night out the back of Newmarket. I had the lead from the give way sign and booted it up the on ramp. He decided to give chase. I see him in the mirrors so just kept the throtle open all the way. Passed me around the 140 mark and was still pulling away from me fast at 180.

I let him go, honestly I could have caught him, you all belive me don't you?

[Zapf]

Cars to watch out for would be...

AMG55
M3's
Turbo Supra's
RX7's
GTR's
.... Red 25T 2Dr :buggerd:

They are all quick down the stright line

[Lou Girardin]

Cars to watch out for would be...

AMG55
M3's
Turbo Supra's
RX7's
GTR's
.... Red 25T 2Dr :buggerd:

They are all quick down the stright line

Won't get near a properly ridden 600, unless you go well into 'go to jail' speeds.
Not even any of the Supercars can get close to a litre-bike up to 160 km/h

[Zapf]

Yea... its pretty much all out speed. Like going down the airport runway.... Or a closed / private motorway... :P 0 -> 250kmh

[loosebruce]

Cars to watch out for would be...

AMG55
M3's
Turbo Supra's
RX7's
GTR's
.... Red 25T 2Dr :buggerd:

They are all quick down the stright line

nah supra's are all sheeeet my flat mates got a JZA80 fast car in it's own right but 1700kg or so of fat to haul is asking a bit much unless it's pulling 600 odd bhp, most of the supra's in auck are non turbo, autos, my flat mate will try running me over if he see's this :Pokey: if he can catch me.
There are pleanty of high tuned GTR's though, and they're farking quick off the line and at top end

[tuscan]

When I'm in my car I often try to keep up with bikes. Not because I'm trying to "beat" them - for Christ's sake I drive a $3000 Toyota. But I love to see a powerful bike really go for it! :Punk:

My father has a Porsche 911 Turbo and it's just the same. Every WRX etc. you ever pull up to at the lights (and I have nothing against such cars. In fact, I really like them) tries to race. Bearing in mind my Dad's a balding (don't quote me on that) accountant in his 40s, it's quite funny. :laugh:

If you ever see a young bloke pull up in a black 911 Turbo and he's trying to keep up with your bike, give him a break - it's probably me :D

Not that I get to drive it often... :(

[Zapf]

Ermmm... I did beat a 911 Turbo 3 times in a row going up hobson street....
That was in a cage that puts out about 400bhp.... its in statis at the moment as it needs a cert.

I should hav said a worked Supra / GTR / "RED 25T Coupe" (cause thats me :blah: )

Oh and there are some crazy 3L Turbo VL's out there as well...

Anyone wants to buy a 400hp cage by chance? Am selling mine