I scared a biker - DOH!

[Donor]

Took a sick kiddie lights and sirens to Starship from Middlemore this afternoon...

I was splitting traffic on the motorway on the way to Starship, and about 10 cars ahead was a biker also splitting. He can't have seen me, as he was furiously trying to split and getting nowhere fast.

As I crept up, the cages ahead of me must have noticed the flashies and the wah wahs, and suddenly opened, and this guy must have thought all his Xmases had come at once! A wide gap between two lanes opened up for a good 50 meters!

He gapped it up to the end - thing is, so had I, and I was now on his bum with lights and siren blazing, and he obviously couldn't hear me (ear plugs/iPod or summat?) I was hesitant to hit the air horns, but needed to get moving again, faster than the standard Auckland crawl, so sat on the electric bullhorn, and bugger me, THAT got his attention.

Full marks for his rapid lane change abilities, and full marks to the cage pilot that had seen this, and made room for him already.

I pissed myself laughing... but I did wave as I went past :D

[Toaster]

Hehehe........... nice job!

[McDuck]

Nice one. (you are a ambo ay?)

[McJim]

Poor maverick will have to change his undies again - last time he was oblivious to lights and siren he was lane splitting with a copper behind him :rofl:

[McDuck]

Maby ear plugs are not a good idear in a slow moving motorway? Besides in my ear plugs i can hear a siren...

[Donor]

As a biker - I felt for him, to go from a splitters dream gap to blubbering mess in a split second... ruined a good commute.

As a complete and utter bastard - goddam it was funny in retrospect :o

[gijoe1313]

And Dr Jeckle and Hyde have gone to town in an ambulance... at least I got to ride on Donor's cruisier tonight! I almost felt the moustache starting to sprout and this curious need to want to wear tassles.... :eek:

I think Donor enjoys scaring bikers and using his ambonaught to bully his way through to the horspital!

[McJim]

And Dr Jeckle and Hyde have gone to town in an ambulance... at least I got to ride on Donor's cruisier tonight! I almost felt the moustache starting to sprout and this curious need to want to wear tassles.... :eek:

I think Donor enjoys scaring bikers and using his ambonaught to bully his way through to the horspital!

Yeah, I must confess I had the disturbing image of him pillioning an injured patient on his cruiser through rush hour traffic until I realised he's a fully fledged ambo driver now. :rofl:

[Boob Johnson]

Nice one. (you are a ambo ay?)
Geez no flies on you :whistle:


:clap:

[Forest]

There's no excuse for not taking the occasional glance at your mirrors.

Especially when you're splitting.

[janno]

You've probably done that rider a favour Donor, a non-ouch way of learning to pay more attention.

As a complete aside, can you get a drivers licence if you are deaf? Was just wondering . . . I would have thought it would be extremely dangerous but maybe a profoundly deaf person has developed much more sensory perception than the average humanoid.

Plus half the traffic on the road seems to be completely oblivious anyway.

[martybabe]

oh my,you gota see it to believe it aint ya,used to drive a fire truck, quite often in a convoy of two.the amount of people that would give way to truck one and then fill the gap cause they've completely missed truck 2.easy to miss 13 tonnes of blaring,tooting,flashing monster truck eh?
ther was a special locker in truck 2 just for clean underpants!!:angry2:
respect for doin a valuable job mate.:clap:

[Grahameeboy]

Maby ear plugs are not a good idear in a slow moving motorway? Besides in my ear plugs i can hear a siren...

You have a point especially in Town.....you may hear a bit but working out the direction would be hard....hard enough without ear plus sometimes.

[Blue Thunder]

And Dr Jeckle and Hyde have gone to town in an ambulance... at least I got to ride on Donor's cruisier tonight! I almost felt the moustache starting to sprout and this curious need to want to wear tassles.... :eek:

I think Donor enjoys scaring bikers and using his ambonaught to bully his way through to the horspital!

I feel that sir GIjoe maybe taking the PISS:argh:
It is after all MOVEMBER and the handlebars of the hairy variety are in fashion this month

[Blue Thunder]

As a biker - I felt for him, to go from a splitters dream gap to blubbering mess in a split second... ruined a good commute.

As a complete and utter bastard - goddam it was funny in retrospect :o

Wait till I catch you on the motorway:whistle: you bully:2guns:

[MaxCannon]

Always amazes me how many people can miss flashing lights and sirens directly behind them.

Almost every time I've moved over for Police / Ambo / Fire some twit ahead drives along blindly without a clue.

[Blue Thunder]

Yeah, I must confess I had the disturbing image of him pillioning an injured patient on his cruiser through rush hour traffic until I realised he's a fully fledged ambo driver now. :rofl:

It is a disturbing image on his wee cruiser alright.
But the Image of him in his wee ambo is even scarier.:Oops:

[Swoop]

As a biker - I felt for him, to go from a splitters dream gap to blubbering mess in a split second... ruined a good commute.

As a complete and utter bastard - goddam it was funny in retrospect :o
Too bad for him/her. If the plonker cannot use the mirrors they deserve a good fright.
The amount of bikers that fall into that category is growing. When filtering, keep checking your bloody mirrors!
If you don't have situational awareness - get back into your cage.

[sprag]

Took a sick kiddie lights and sirens to Starship from Middlemore this afternoon...



Lies all Lies, I have seen you in your little ambo just waiting on the on ramps to the motorway waiting for bikers, LOL
:ar15:

[McDuck]

I am gogin to have to be carefull when i am in AK next....

[Taz]

I agree the guy has eyes and he should have been continually scanning ahead, to the side and also in his mirrors every few seconds. Gotta build your safety envelope. If he'd been scanning he would have noticed the ambulance alot sooner. But sounds like he has no real road craft yet.

[Mikkel]

The stealth ambulance... :lol:

[klingon]

Maby ear plugs are not a good idear in a slow moving motorway? Besides in my ear plugs i can hear a siren...

I agree. My morning commute takes me through some busy parts of town, then over the bridge (opposite way to the traffic) and 100kph :msn-wink: on the rest of the motorway once I've cleared Esmonde Rd. Helmet noise is really annoying when I reach 100kph but I don't wear ear plugs because I need every clue I can get when I'm splitting on the busy parts of my commute.

It's interesting how often I use hearing to keep track of what's going on around me - like where that 4WD is by the sound of its tyres on the road, or the big bike coming up behind me splitting faster than I am, or someone changing down a gear to make a quick lane-change right in front of me.

I really enjoy it as one of the advantages of riding. In a car you tend to have the radio on & the windows wound up, so you're not really aware of the subtle sounds that can give you a split-second reaction advantage. I will never use an iPod while riding for that reason.

[Patrick]

[QUOTE=janno;1308680]As a complete aside, can you get a drivers licence if you are deaf? QUOTE]

Yep... a condition on the licence will state that you must have internal and both external mirrors.. some friends I had, who were deaf, added more mirrors to the internal, facing every possible angle! No blind spots!!!