I just hit a girl on my bike.

[zeocen]

This post won't really have a point, I'm just furious at the human race in general right now.

So I was feeling a bit peckish and decided to kill my arteries a bit by getting McD's, so off I go! Happy as larry I pootle down the road to the local mcdonalds, which is in southmall, manurewa.. Going there at night should have been caution enough to turn back, but I really felt like a cheeseburger damnit.

So I go in, get my fatty fill in a bag and head out, I'm in the southmall carpark and head out towards the roundabout and I see this group of kids, maybe 15 - 18, oblivious to traffic on the road and almost get run over by a car ahead of me.. so I think, not the smartest kids out tonight and as I approach them I rev my bike pretty loudly so they get the idea that they are infact on a road and that dordling along isn't the best idea, a couple of the guys look my way but keep dordling, one slightly moves out of my way and I think ok they've got the message.. I'm only going at about 5kmph, if that.

Next thing I know this girl on her cellphone just walks, looking the other direction, right into the front left side of my bike, bam! wobble! "Watch where you're fucking going you stupid fucking idiot!", in anger I turned around, parked and got off and asked if any of them would like to apologise for acting like ducklings following their mother, no response, I say "well?" and get a few "sorry"'s under their breath.

This was a fairly big girl that bumped into me so I check if there's damage and rearrange my mirror back to its position and ride off.

I had to stop just down the road to take a few deep breaths.

Why, oh fucking why, do people not look where vehicles are clearly going? Forget that bint, I almost dropped my fucking bike because of her, fuck that!

Anyway, rant over.. I might get some "you're in the wrong you dick" posts, maybe I worded the story wrong (only just got back and jumped on kb... is that weird?) but I kow 100% I was in the right and that bitch should have been taught how to look left and right before crossing anywhere with vehicles on it by now.

/rant over

Sorry, like I said, pointless post.. I just had to vent.

[Spuds1234]

You should have hit her properly. You would have been doing the gene pool a favour.

[Donor]

You should have hit her properly. You would have been doing the gene pool a favour.

Agreed - where's Ixion, travelling salesperson of the wonderous Gene-o-kleen?

Cheer up, it was probably an innocent mistake, she saw a big black noisy object and probably thought it was a relative coming up for a hug...

[Ixion]

Was it a pestestrian crossing ? If not, she hit you. You oughta sue her.

[Coyote]

You should've done a wheelie up to them followed by a stoppie then a burn out. That's the only way to drill into people's heads that you're there

I agree with Ixion, sue

[zeocen]

Was it a pestestrian crossing ? If not, she hit you. You oughta sue her.

Nah, it was no where near. When I got home I thought maybe I should get her details but I doubt I would have gotten them easily, and they were pretty smug/careless about the whole thing.. I didn't really want to get in their faces, 1 angry biker against 2 car loads of .... yeah, :/

I just can't actually fathom the stupidity of some people, I really can't.

[Trudes]

I'm with you!! I can not believe the amount of people that dawdle out onto the road in front of car and then don't actually run when they see you but just keep waddling along at the same slow arsed pace. I will slow or stop for old people, cripples, the mentally retarded, children etc, but not some dipshit on their phone or too busy listening to snoopdog on their ipod or something, fuckers should know better or get run down like dogs!

[Chickadee]

Bet she'll think to look next time.

Saw a bicycle and a pedestrian accident years ago when I lived in London (think the pedestrian was on a mobile also) step right out in front of a cyclist going probably 30kms. Right superfu#ked both pedestrian, cyclist and bike. Think the bicycle was super twisted. Felt sorry for the poor cyclist - bet his bike cost a pretty penny. At least you're okay and the bike, she probably got a fright - perhaps a bruise.

Not that uncommon unfortunately, just glad to hear you're okay matey.

[zeocen]

Thanks Chickadee, I'm glad I'm okay too! It could have been worse had I'd been going faster, like I said I had to stop down the road to compose myself.. just the thought of hitting another human being kinda stumped me for a second.

[MidnightMike]

Get a rocket 3, put a bull bar on the front, then put into practice 'survival of the fittest'

[bmz2]

dude ,know how you feel , out tonight with another bike, woman in a black 4x4 in the strand parnell, tail gated me and my mate so close i could see the colour of her eyes , bitch , run between the to bikes hit the brakes and she moved between the to bikes with inches to spear in fact she hit my knee, so i pulled upto her , kicked the her tail gate in , now explain that to the husband

[Shadows]

Sorry, like I said, pointless post.. I just had to vent.

I can't believe you only slightly grazed one, that's a pretty poor effort. Better luck next time.

[McJim]

So she didn't show you her tits?

Bo-ring. Move along folks, nothing to see here. :rofl:

[yod]

i know how you feel...hows this one:

i was heading down ilam rd in chch (aaaaages ago), on the way home from uni...reasonably busy road, only doing 50kmh and there's a primary school next door to the uni...

so im heading straight and there are a pair of young girls (maybe 10-12 years old) riding side by side along the side of the road on little pink girlie bikes....so as i pass them there's a side road on the right and one of them decides its time to turn down the side street, right across my path!! didnt look, obviously didnt hear the bike (big black GPz900R with custom stainless pipes = pretty loud), she was just lucky i was on my bike and not in my car!!!

so i yell "FUCK!" and collect her right side with my left side and we got down in a heap - i tried to swerve right but she just came across so sharp i couldnt miss and we actually skated across the oncoming lane and ended up in the mouth of the side street (again...lucky for both of us there weren't any oncoming vehicles!)

so i get up...a few scrapes and bruises but no worries....i ask her if she's ok, she's fine, a couple of small grazes, bloody surpised and probably in shock but ok nonetheless....so i pick up the bike and then look it over, indicators gone, fairing scraped to shit, side of engine scraped to shit, mirror smashed, pegs bent, pipe scraped all to hell, etc, etc

so i turn around and her and her friend have gone....

i contacted the school and got nowhere with finding out who it was or compensation for the damage

thanks for repair bill ya stoopid tart!!!

[Ghost_Bullet]

Useless inconsiderate jaywalkers, "What about the burger"... damn I hate cold burgers...someone gotta pay for that!!!!!!!

[FROSTY]

Yod
Funny innit how theres 2 sides to every story.
front page story in the local paper ---Poor lil girl got run over and abused by a group of competition cyclists.Her bicycle was written off and she was in shock as a result--She was acosted by members of this "arrogant group of racers" who think they owned the road.
Sounds terrible doesn't it??

Then tucked away in the back page a week later was a letter from a VERY irate parent.

My son was involved in a cycle road race.
The road was closed for the duration of the race.
I and the group of people I was with saw 2 young children were riding their cycles onto the road from a driveway in front of a parked car They were oblivious to the oncoming racing cycles.
In response to our called warnings they responded with profanities and carried on riding out behind the parked car --directly into the path of the group of racing cyclists my son was in.
The collision caused my son to be catipulted down the road.

[Macktheknife]

Just a bloody shame that you couldn't have dodged enough to miss her but given her a good slap in the head as you went by. grrrr

[Donor]

Just a bloody shame that you couldn't have dodged enough to miss her but given her a good slap in the head as you went by. grrrr

What, and break his burger eating hand on a skull that thick?

[McJim]

I still think he should just have asked to see her tits.

[Donor]

I still think he should just have asked to see her tits.

Anything out that time of night, roaming away from McDs in Manurewa... hell no :puke:

[Grahameeboy]

It's look right first but agree people in NZ (Well a lot) have no concept of crossing the road......sorry but it's this Kiwi attitude that I am here, I don't care about you, you should be responsible and avoid me.....bit like a lot of cagers....change lanes, maybe indicate, so what if I have just cut the other guy up..didn't they see me..

Glad you did not get knocked off and sadly doubt the girl will not learn from it.

And McJim................well what can I say

[zeocen]

McJim, go down to southmall right now, and take a look at the fine specimen you're asking to see tits from. I think you'll see why I kept my mouth shut about seeing any sort of body parts resembling breasts!

I had another look at my bike and noticed that the windscreen crack has extended even further now, looks like I might actually have to finally buy a new windscreen. I wanted to buy a new visor first, gah, the last thing I needed was a whale to strand herself infront of my bike *sigh*

And yes, the burger was cold. :(

[gijoe1313]

And somewhere, an angel groaned at being forced to save her plonker of a charge from GBH... the groan was the effort of physically trying to restrain the pendulous frame of flesh, stuffed with variegated McDeath's food products!

Glad to hear nothing more came of this, lucky you didn't end up being taken out by the group of them (I think the fear of retribution from the biker tribe kept them in check! :lol:)

Next time, go to Wendys. Higher class of idiots to walk into your bike!

[cowboyz]

Mrs cowboyz and I went to speedway and took the bike for easy parking. On leaving there is 10001 cars all trying to get out of the place. We lane split on the centre medium at about 15km/hr as the cars were all at a standstill.
There was a Dad with 2 kids standing in the middle of the road trying to get across.
I was bouncing the clutch and keeping the revs up so people knew I was there. I stopped about 1m away from these peds and they still didnt notice us. Gave the bike a few good revs and still no notice.
Then they saw the bike and near jumped through the ceiling (if there had been one there). Pity I had been there for 2 mins.

[jafar]

Use a truck next time you will get a better result :devil2:

[Quartermile]

This post won't really have a point, I'm just furious at the human race in general right now.

So I was feeling a bit peckish and decided to kill my arteries a bit by getting McD's, so off I go! Happy as larry I pootle down the road to the local mcdonalds, which is in southmall, manurewa.. Going there at night should have been caution enough to turn back, but I really felt like a cheeseburger damnit.


Bah when people tell me shit like 'save your organs' that I tell them I'll probably fall off my bike and die first, gets a nice shocked look followed by a oh ok then


Nah, it was no where near. When I got home I thought maybe I should get her details but I doubt I would have gotten them easily, and they were pretty smug/careless about the whole thing.. I didn't really want to get in their faces, 1 angry biker against 2 car loads of .... yeah, :/

I just can't actually fathom the stupidity of some people, I really can't.

That depends, what type of knuckled gloves do you have?:innocent:

[Forest]

Get yourself one of those super loud horns. Problem solved!

[skidMark]

This was a fairly big girl that bumped into me so I check if there's damage and rearrange my mirror back to its position and ride off.


and of course there was some tyre tread lost as you took off right...

once a car pulled a u turn infront of me...spat me off my bike (they were charged for being at fault)

outside a private girls school about 50 of them all sat there laughing at me...so i backed the bike up to them 2nd gear.....revved the snot out of it and just dropped the clutch..... smoked them all out...said something along the lines of whose f***king laughing now. and rode off ....another clutch pop and up onto one wheel down the road.

i was so pissed off it wasn't funny.

twas on my gpx 250 too :D

[skidMark]

dude ,know how you feel , out tonight with another bike, woman in a black 4x4 in the strand parnell, tail gated me and my mate so close i could see the colour of her eyes , bitch , run between the to bikes hit the brakes and she moved between the to bikes with inches to spear in fact she hit my knee, so i pulled upto her , kicked the her tail gate in , now explain that to the husband


car drivers can be stupid but i don't do the whole...kicking in doors and mirrors...a) i have a numberplate b) cars are bigger if they swerve hard as you do it your proper fucked.

[elle-f]

Agreed - where's Ixion, travelling salesperson of the wonderous Gene-o-kleen?

Cheer up, it was probably an innocent mistake, she saw a big black noisy object and probably thought it was a relative coming up for a hug...

:laugh: ............

[peasea]

Sorry, like I said, pointless post.. I just had to vent.

No, no, fair post, ped's often don't look where they're going. I am pretty consistent when it comes to dealing with this; a big 'fuck you' finger followed by (or in unison with) a big 'fuck you' verbal. I have no idea how to rate the performance because I can't (so far) identify second offenders. The worst are mums pushing prams, they use their babies as a 'force' shield. (And somewhere to stash their P)

Oh well, V8 day today...........

[JimO]

motorist verses pedestrian......motorist always at fault....and that was what the judge said......i know someone who was convicted of careless driving when a jaywalker stepped on to the road as the car was doing a left turn, the jaywalker got a broken leg as it connected with the left front of the car, driver lost licence for 6 months $500 fine, DONT ever hit someone avoid them at all cost or you will be walking to work

[martypants]

Surprised that when you stopped and got off you didnt get a group bashing, your bike stolen and fat chick stealing your burger.

[ynot slow]

in the big smoke here in hawera we have courtesy crossings,most retards think they are pedestrian crossings.seems the local council in their wisdome thought we'll redesign the main street,out went the ped crossings and in came the courtesy crossings.difference eh?not to some,they walk out as if they own the road.i had near miss one day in car,idiot walked straight out,i just missed him and he abused the crap outa me.i parked nearby and said fuckwit came past prattling on about car drivers to mate with him.i asked what happened?reply was nearly got mowed over on crossing.i said yep you were lucky,it's not ped crossing.it is was reply.nope i replied.we argued for about 5 mins and a cop was walking along(holy shit batman),asked him who is in the wrong.he said pedestrian was.i said to be a ped crossing you must have zebra stripes,diamond on road either side of crossing, and zebra pole sign.i also asked the cop if i hit a ped on crossing can i be done for driving offence as well.not to sure was reply.wtf i said if dickhead people walk out in front of cars etc they are in wrong.just then a car ran into said dickus head on crossing,no injuries just pride,cop went over and all ok.he then went to check with superiours re charge i.e careless use,dangerous driving come to mind.the driver was a lawyer and asked if it was ped crossing cop said no lawyer said see ya .:sunny:

[MSTRS]

....i know someone who was convicted of carless driving ....

Really? No doubt, some of them should be...:dodge:
Zeocen, if there is a next time, just extend the appropriate-side leg at kneecap height:innocent:

[Trudes]

I had some mouth breather throw a Wendy's milkshake at my car one day as I didn't stop for him to drag his carcass across the road, wanker, I'd just cleaned the car too and it came right through the window (still smells like spew when it gets hot sometimes too)

[pritch]

There can be many reasons for a post, not all need a point. Some may be theraputic. Glad you weren't hurt.

When I was overseas in the Army many years ago we were told that if we were involved in an accident we should not stop but drive to the nearest Police Station and report the accident. The risk of attack by angry machete wielding locals was too high.

These days there are parts of this country where I would probably follow that advice.

[cowboyz]

and of course there was some tyre tread lost as you took off right...

once a car pulled a u turn infront of me...spat me off my bike (they were charged for being at fault)

outside a private girls school about 50 of them all sat there laughing at me...so i backed the bike up to them 2nd gear.....revved the snot out of it and just dropped the clutch..... smoked them all out...said something along the lines of whose f***king laughing now. and rode off ....another clutch pop and up onto one wheel down the road.

i was so pissed off it wasn't funny.

twas on my gpx 250 too :D

I used to have a gpx250 and I know thats not true.

[zeRax]

im one of those monkeys, i got hit by a car last night, more like bumped onto the bonnet and taken down the road then thrown off of it :/ sigh, pain O_o

[scumdog]

Why, oh fucking why, do people not look where vehicles are clearly going? Forget that bint, I almost dropped my fucking bike because of her, fuck that!

Anyway, rant over.. I might get some "you're in the wrong you dick" posts, maybe I worded the story wrong (only just got back and jumped on kb... is that weird?) but I kow 100% I was in the right and that bitch should have been taught how to look left and right before crossing anywhere with vehicles on it by now.

/rant over

Sorry, like I said, pointless post.. I just had to vent.

THink of it this way - in days gone by a drongo like that girl would have walked straight into a lion and been eaten - no passing on the stupidity gene.

Unfortunately todays lions (your bike) ain't allowed to eat drongos.

Maybe she DID learn something from it, who knows???

[Manxman]

This post won't really have a point, I'm just furious at the human race in general right now.

So I was feeling a bit peckish and decided to kill my arteries a bit by getting McD's, so off I go! Happy as larry I pootle down the road to the local mcdonalds, which is in southmall, manurewa.. Going there at night should have been caution enough to turn back, but I really felt like a cheeseburger damnit.

So I go in, get my fatty fill in a bag and head out, I'm in the southmall carpark and head out towards the roundabout and I see this group of kids, maybe 15 - 18, oblivious to traffic on the road and almost get run over by a car ahead of me.. so I think, not the smartest kids out tonight and as I approach them I rev my bike pretty loudly so they get the idea that they are infact on a road and that dordling along isn't the best idea, a couple of the guys look my way but keep dordling, one slightly moves out of my way and I think ok they've got the message.. I'm only going at about 5kmph, if that.

Next thing I know this girl on her cellphone just walks, looking the other direction, right into the front left side of my bike, bam! wobble! "Watch where you're fucking going you stupid fucking idiot!", in anger I turned around, parked and got off and asked if any of them would like to apologise for acting like ducklings following their mother, no response, I say "well?" and get a few "sorry"'s under their breath.

This was a fairly big girl that bumped into me so I check if there's damage and rearrange my mirror back to its position and ride off.

I had to stop just down the road to take a few deep breaths.

Why, oh fucking why, do people not look where vehicles are clearly going? Forget that bint, I almost dropped my fucking bike because of her, fuck that!

Anyway, rant over.. I might get some "you're in the wrong you dick" posts, maybe I worded the story wrong (only just got back and jumped on kb... is that weird?) but I kow 100% I was in the right and that bitch should have been taught how to look left and right before crossing anywhere with vehicles on it by now.

/rant over

Sorry, like I said, pointless post.. I just had to vent.

Good rant...

[_intense_]

mmmm rant....

// buy a pannier and fill it with bricks? or two even, then you won't riide in a cricle? my 5c worth.

[Bnonn]

I've got one. Coming down to Bridge St from Hamilton East in rush hour traffic, there was an Asian girl and her boyfriend trying to cross the road from the left side over to Memorial Park, right on the intersection with River Road. That, in itself, should have been a warning to me. Anyone attempting this at 5 pm on a weekday is not fit to be let out by themselves.

Said girl steps onto the almost nonexistent cycle track and looks up the road toward me as I'm heading toward the bridge at a respectable 45 km/h. I always have my brights on during the day for visibility, and I know for a fact how bright they are, so I'm pretty sure that when she looked directly at me approaching about 70 m away, she did indeed see me. In fact, she stopped with one foot on the roat and stepped back. So naturally I assumed that she was going to wait for me to go past.

Unfortunately, probably because cellphone radiation has rotted this bint's brain, she appeared to have the memory of a goldfish. Her boyfriend said something to her (he was standing on the pavement behind her) and she turned around said something back, and then stepped out into the road directly in front of me (remember, I was only 70 m away a couple of seconds ago). So I emergency brake and swerve around her, and yell something along the lines of "Are you an idiot?!" as my helmet and her head line up about 10 cm from each other. She gives me this look of complete astonishment, like she has never seen a motorcycle of any kind before, and as if she's not standing on a road completely packed with cars. I wonder to this day if what she was seeing in her head actually correlated at all with the reality of what was going on around her. Maybe that's why Asians are such bad drivers? Perhaps their minds have developed a filter which removes obstructions and replaces them with green fields and fluffy lambs, as a defense mechanism to avoid going insane after living like ants for a couple of centuries?

Then there was the time a kid on a bicycle was cycling down the center of a 60 km/h zone directly after a blind roundabout, and I tootled around it and hit him to his enormous surprise. Dorks.

[Patrick]

i also asked the cop if i hit a ped on crossing can i be done for driving offence as well.not to sure was reply.wtf i said if dickhead people walk out in front of cars etc they are in wrong.

If they are on a crossing, yep, you would be charged. You as a driver should be aware of someone approaching a crossing to cross... If they step out suddenly between cars etc, NO WAY would you get charged (Unless you are doing 90 in a 50 or summit...).

[Insanity_rules]

I am truly begining to believe that Darwinian theory of survival of the fittest is coming into play here and this girl may eventually walk out in front of a bus and do us all a favour.
Glad your OK though as shit like that can give anyone a nasty start, enough even to make you crash.

[NotaGoth]

Its really bad for that in Kaitaia... People look the other way as they step out in front of you.... You end up having to slam on your brakes... Then they glare at you like you did something wrong....


Best ones are in Kerikeri... You'll be already backing out of a parking space... And you have some silly tart walk behind your car as your backing.. Whats worses is she'll be dragging a couple of little kids along behind her...


Just glad to hear your ok though.. Would have given you a bit of a fright.. But its good to see your aware of whats going on around you...

[sunhuntin]

never hit anyone stupid enough to walk out in front [well, ok, once on my bicycle, and he was being a cock anyways] but i did see an elderly lady nearly get hit on friday... she was crossing at a courtesy crossing in town. car full of yobs come along and just drove straight in front of her... cars on the other side were stopped, and she was roughly at the halfway point. i was full expecting to see her get knocked over. shed started crossing well before the car got there, so had right of way.

[Patrick]

..she was crossing at a courtesy crossing in town... shed started crossing well before the car got there, so had right of way.

No she didn't... pedestrians give way. (At least that is what the signs say on the crossings here in New Plymouth...)

[vifferman]

This post won't really have a point, I'm just furious at the human race in general right now.
Been there, done that.

First girl I ran over did a u-turn on her pushbike without looking. I got a few grazes and bruises, she was a bit shocked but not particularly damaged.

The second one I hit fair and square after she stepped in front of me. It made quite a mess of the bike (~$3800 worth) and she had her leg broken in two places. I got a slightly grazed knee.