pet peevs..

[bugjuice]

a few times on the road, other drivers do stuff that really hacks me off.. Just want to share, and see what others think etc yadda yadda..
what pushes your buttons..??

in no order (and from what I can think of at the mo)
can't stand people who can't get their windshield clean enuff and have their washer jets pointing over the roof of their cars
people who move onto the white line when you try to pass in traffic
following cattle trucks
drivers who forget about the dangly things on the side of their cars which we know as mirrors, and turn signals for that matter..
people who do 60-90kph in the middle and right lane and don't move over
I'm sure there's a few other, but just a couple to get started.. :Pokey:

[James Deuce]

People who can't spell "peeves".

;)

[Pwalo]

People who don't signal. Oh and most people in their urban 4WDs.

[Hitcher]

And drivers who wear hats. Danger Will Robinson, danger...

[bugjuice]

People who can't spell "peeves".

;)
point taken :whocares:

[Skunk]

And drivers who wear hats. Danger Will Robinson, danger...Hey! I hope you mean hats and aren't including caps...
I wear a cap to cover my bald(ing) head... :crybaby:

[vifferman]

There was a survey taken of this on MCN - some of them were pretty bad, like following muck-spreaders on country lanes (not such a problem here, although cattle trucks are).

One not mentioned yet is people flicking their cigarette butts out the window. Dangerous if you're wearing textile bike gear and one lands in your lap...

My personal pettest peeves are:

Rubbish on the road, especially if it's camouflaged.
F*&$kin softdrink can! Grrrrr!!! :mad:
Pedestrians leaping into your path, after you've already taken avoiding action to avoid running them over.
F*&$kin mental pedestrians! Grrrrr!!! :mad:
People changing lane without any thought to who might be in the lane they're changing to.
F*&$kin BMW driver! Grrrrr!!! :mad:
People U-turning without indicating, especially after they've pulled into the curb to fool you into thinking they're aware of you being behind them.
F*&$kin Audi driver! Grrrrrr!!! :mad:
Crashing.:Oops:

[Devil]

People in peak traffic hours (but not nose to tail) who dont do the speed limit even though the road/traffic allow it. FUCKERS! GRRRR! Ie. this morning. great empty space in front of this car, they're doing 60! over the vic park overpass (80km/h limit), are they trying to fuck the traffic on purpose???

[vtec]

People who turn in front of you cause somehow despite the fact you are coming straight at them they. think cause you have a small outline it means you are going extremely slow.

Also multilane roundabouts, where there's two lanes coming off they shortcut the exit off the roundabout moving into your lane forcing you off the road.

Both of these instances have caused me to come off my bike once each, and have managed to avoid accidents other times when they have occurred. Both times the people involved didn't stop.

Thats another pet peeve of mine, people not stopping when they've forced you off your bike.

[Hitcher]

Hey! I hope you mean hats and aren't including caps...
I wear a cap to cover my bald(ing) head...
Caps, as worn by boi racers or retired bowling gents, most certainly. Maybe your "cap" is a different sort...

[Ms Piggy]

People who drive in the passing lane at 100 km/hr and there is a car in the non-passing lane driving at the same speed so you can't pass!

People who pull out of a side street in front of you and then travel at
30 kms/hr up the street!

People who don't indicate! (sorry repetative)

[Sniper]

Wankers who dont know the GIVE WAY rule and when hitting you off your bike drive off with the excuse, oh well I was bigger than him.

[outlawtorn]

I ride from Torbay to the Western Viaduct and back everyday and without a doubt for me the most irritating thing has to be these jealous yuppie fuckheads in their fancy-ass BMW's or Mercs purposefully blocking the lanes and not moving over while I'm filtering. Just because they are stuck in traffic.

And any other tosspot who thinks they can quickly nip in front of me causing me to slam the anchors and release a fury of handsignals!!!!!

People in cages need to give bikers more respect dammit!!!!!! :angry: :angry2: :mad:

[Coyote]

Homies in Cars.

Allthough, they're good fun to piss off

[EDIT] Also being stuck at 70kph. 5 more months

[Sniper]

Da homies maaan, dey arrr like da mean peoples. :)

[Motu]

I'm finally getting the hang of my Pajero and driving true to form - it has lost overdrive and I'm only able to do 80kph on the open road...if you see an old guy driving a 4x4 in a wide brim hat going slow in the fast lane...give me a wave.

[Deano]

Big black four wheel drive reversing out of a driveway on a blind corner/brow of hill into passing lanes.....like WTF......eh Trashy ?

[Coyote]

Da homies maaan, dey arrr like da mean peoples. :)
Chea bro .

[White trash]

Big black four wheel drive reversing out of a driveway on a blind corner/brow of hill into passing lanes.....like WTF......eh Trashy ?

i'd forgotten that! Scared the shit outta me, stupid bitch!

She's backing straight out into Southbound traffic, looking south? Lay off the bong cabbage lady!

[Deano]

.if you see an old guy driving a 4x4 in a wide brim hat going slow in the fast lane...give me a wave.

And not this wave eh Motu :finger: cause I heard that particular Pajero tends to swerve about erratically sometimes.

[Jonty]

Grit trucks

[idb]

[QUOTE=Celtic_Sea_lily]
People who pull out of a side street in front of you and then travel at
30 kms/hr up the street!
QUOTE]

Yeesss
Also those that indicate to turn left into a driveway, slow right down then suddenly take a big wide turn out across the centre line.

Mostly, though, living in the land of the Maui Camper has cured me of my road rage tendencies-shrug yer shoulders and smile through gritted teeth.
Mind you that means that I have the shoulders of Arnold 'The Governator' Schwarzenegger and stumps to try to chew my bbqed snarlers with.

[Deano]

Scared the shit outta me,

Me too - I don't really want to know what a Gixxer with an SP1 hanging out the back of it looks like. (sounds a bit ghey too) :laugh:

[toads]

my personal pet hate in other drivers is following behind a driver who is constantly talking ot someone else in their vehicle, their heads turned looking at their passenger, you just know they are not aware of the traffic on the road at all.
The other one is little kids bouncing all over the back seat etc, instead of being in car seats, gives me the shits.

[sedge]

The other one is little kids bouncing all over the back seat etc, instead of being in car seats, gives me the shits.

Especially when they overtake me doing 150... What wonderful parents these people are.

Sedge.

[sels1]

All of the above. And people busy talking/txting on cellphones and not watching what they're doing

[Krayy]

Boy racers...
...who cut their seat so low that they can't look over the steering wheel so are essentially blind
...who drop back to form a gap, only so they can drop a gear and see how fast they can close it to impress their mates (expecially when I';m making for the same gap)

Anyone...
...who pulls up alongside another car with their mates in it that has slowed to 80, then has a conversation through the open windows. Thats what a mobile is for people!!! Oh hang on, thats illegal now.
...doing 80 on a country road where the open road limit applies creating a rolling roadblock and the road has 1 passing lane over its ~20km distance that lasts for 100m (travel south of Dorkland to Waiuku to see what I mean)
...the dick in front of me (when I'm in a cage) who uses that 100m long passing lane to pass the other idiot doing 80km/h at 85km/h so I can't get past them both!!!

[vifferman]

my personal pet hate in other drivers is following behind a driver who is constantly talking ot someone else in their vehicle.
Not as bad as those mentals who try to drive while talking on their cellphone, when in reality they can't cope with driving, let alone cellphoning at the same time!
At Christmas, we had an apartment at Mt Maunganui, overlooking a busy intersection. The boys spent many happy hours watching "Mentals" driving past, commenting on/ scoring their driving techniques, such as "driving holding the door on with one hand", "driving one-handed", "trying to drive and cellphone", etc.
The absolute best was the dickhead who was 'driving' (I use the term most advisedly), holding his door on with his right hand, and talking on the cellphone which was in his left hand.
"Aha!! What's he gonna do when he has to turn right at the intersection?!?"

Simple - steers with his left elbow stuck in the spokes of the steering wheel. :shit: :eek: :blank:

[MSTRS]

People on motorcycles. Ahhhh...........I peeve myself. :bash:

[Krayy]

Another boy racer one.....

What is it with these idiots who lean across the centre console with only one hand on the wheel when they're driving? (when I say "hand on the wheel" its actually their wrist and their hand is hanging limp over the wheel towards the screen)

[Sniper]

Another boy racer one.....

What is it with these idiots who lean across the centre console with only one hand on the wheel when they're driving? (when I say "hand on the wheel" its actually their wrist and their hand is hanging limp over the wheel towards the screen)


Its a means of less to snag when they die!! :eek5:

[Coldkiwi]

Boy racers...

Anyone...
...who pulls up alongside another car with their mates in it that has slowed to 80, then has a conversation through the open windows.

Thats the BEST time to lane split them at full noise (really gets them excited cause they don't see ya coming).. had great fun doing that one (and only) friday night having to go down queen street at midnight between all the wannabehomies stuck in traffic.

what really gets my goat (and that annoys me because I like my goat) is plonkers who enter intersections after the light has gone red and the other traffic has a green. I did this once and got rightfully busted by a cop I didn't see (quite delighted he didn't have a radar in the car too I might add).
The amount of people that do this in Auckland (especially the CBD and the Pakuranaga/Ti Rakau Drive intersection that i go through lots) is absolutely staggering and is only made more staggering by the equal number of tossers who don't have two brain cells to figure out (or just don't damn care... UTTER JAFA's!!) that they'll block the traffic if they try and squeeze on the end of the queue that is clearly NOT going to move before their light goes red. I can see why other kiwis think Aucklanders are gits if they witness this sort of arrogance.

[Skunk]

Caps, as worn by boi racers or retired bowling gents, most certainly. Maybe your "cap" is a different sort...Oh, yeah, mine goes on forwards. :laugh:

Big black four wheel drive reversing out of a driveway on a blind corner/brow of hill into passing lanes.....like WTF......eh Trashy ?And still fucking about on the highway when I went through... :kick:

[Yokai]

tractors. Tractors are a pet peeve. in the cage they hold me up, on the bike they threaten to kill me!

Grrrrr Tractors.

[Ms Piggy]

Wankers who dont know the GIVE WAY rule
Oh yeah! That too!!

[Ms Piggy]

I'm finally getting the hang of my Pajero and driving true to form - it has lost overdrive and I'm only able to do 80kph on the open road...if you see an old guy driving a 4x4 in a wide brim hat going slow in the fast lane...give me a wave.
I hope it has black smoke pouring out the exhaust as well making it just about impossible to actually see for a few seconds. :blink:

[enigma51]

I HATE CARS

[madboy]

Personally when I'm on my bike I hate those bastards in cars that are trying to kill me as I whiz past... and when I'm in my car I hate those bastards that whiz past trying to kill themselves on their bikes!! Hypocrisy... a quality not limited only to politicians and women.

Oh, and at the risk of repeating what every biker will say - why oh why can car drivers have enough brains to get and keep a job that pays enough to buy a big f***ing Isuzu Bighorn and yet NOT have enough brains to figure out which stalk makes the flashing orange thingeys work BEFORE they do a lane change.

[Blakamin]

Wankers who slow down at the end of passing lanes... wankers that do 70 in a 100 zone or dont even have a clue of the speed limit in the area they are in... wankers who stop at the beginning of a merging lane like it was a give way sign... people in cages... pedestrians... birds... cats.... gravel... rain... work....
should i go on?

[inlinefour]

a few times on the road, other drivers do stuff that really hacks me off.. Just want to share, and see what others think etc yadda yadda..
what pushes your buttons..??

in no order (and from what I can think of at the mo)
can't stand people who can't get their windshield clean enuff and have their washer jets pointing over the roof of their cars
people who move onto the white line when you try to pass in traffic
following cattle trucks
drivers who forget about the dangly things on the side of their cars which we know as mirrors, and turn signals for that matter..
people who do 60-90kph in the middle and right lane and don't move over
I'm sure there's a few other, but just a couple to get started.. :Pokey:

The farking complete arse pieces that are happy to do 90km/h or less UNTILL a passing lane comes up and then its full race mode to stop others from getting past. Then once the passing lane is over then its back to snail pace again.
On my bike its not a problem, but when I'm in the deisel cage it farks me right off because at best I need as much help as possible to pass anything (my truck is constipated? :eek5: ).

[inlinefour]

Personally when I'm on my bike I hate those bastards in cars that are trying to kill me as I whiz past... and when I'm in my car I hate those bastards that whiz past trying to kill themselves on their bikes!! Hypocrisy... a quality not limited only to politicians and women.

Oh, and at the risk of repeating what every biker will say - why oh why can car drivers have enough brains to get and keep a job that pays enough to buy a big f***ing Isuzu Bighorn and yet NOT have enough brains to figure out which stalk makes the flashing orange thingeys work BEFORE they do a lane change.

You know why they call em Bighorns? Because of the dickheads that drive em. :crazy:

[Riff Raff]

You know why they call em Bighorns? Because of the dickheads that drive em. :crazy:
Truck drivers who overtake another truck and pull into the fast line on the motorway in front of you, causing you to slam on the brakes, and then they sit in the fast lane doing 80kph and can't get past the other truck so both lanes are crawling.

Cars overtaking you on your bike in your lane while there is oncoming traffic, effectively pushing you into the ditch. Every time that's happened to me it's always been a wanker driving a BMW!!!

People who don't know to pull over to the left when an ambulance is behind them with lights and sirens. There is a certain population who, when they eventually notice the ambulance, slam on their brakes and come to a complete halt in front of the ambulance, usually blocking the road so ambulance can't get past, and sit there in a blind panic while you're screaming at them to GTF out the way! :calm:

[madboy]

People who don't know to pull over to the left when an ambulance is behind them with lights and sirens. There is a certain population who, when they eventually notice the ambulance, slam on their brakes and come to a complete halt in front of the ambulance, usually blocking the road so ambulance can't get past, and sit there in a blind panic while you're screaming at them to GTF out the way! :calm:

Bugger driving ambo or fire... at least the 5-0 have something that is still kinda small-ish to sqeeze past!

[Jackrat]

People That don't like country music.
People who seem to have a problem with me rolling a smoke with one hand while changing the country music tape with the other,while changing lanes at a constant speed of 90kms everywhere.
People that seem to think I'm going to move over for them,50kms down the road the penny finaly drops and THEY change lanes but give me the finger "dip shits" can't they see the hat.
Lane splitting bikers,kick this mirror mate,it'll break ya' fuckin' leg :killingme
Bikers that tail gate with their head light on full beam.My brake lights are also very bright,You like ?
Oh yeah,electric starts are still for pussys.

but really, it's all cool,I drive a 4x4,I'm safe.

[gav]

Followed a woman the other day on way to work, cell phone tucked into shoulder with head titlted to hold it their chatting away and with other hand combing her hair, while driving. Classic moment when she took hand off wheel to shift celly to other side and combed other side of hair!!
Oh, and dickheads who sit waiting to turn at traffic lights, get green arrow but red light, Ok to turn , not OK to go straight. Friggen taxi today did this, thought fuck this, went round the outside of him and then he must have realised he could go, so had to go further around him to get passed.

[Smokey]

Hmm this could take a while :msn-wink:

1. Text messaging while driving on the motorway, I mean WTF????
2. Talking on a cellphone while driving (see above)
3. Trying to eat that upsized greasey mess while driving...cant they wait till they get home?
4. Waving hands around while driving
5. Turning around to talk to the back seat passengers and not watching the road
6. Cage drivers who cant use roundabouts (e.g ANY two lane roundabout)
7. Boy racers going hell for leather on straight bits and slowing right down for corners
8. "I didnt see you", well I must be the invisible man..
9. Not knowing how to merge

:done:

[Motu]

Followed a woman the other day on way to work, cell phone tucked into shoulder with head titlted to hold it their chatting away and with other hand combing her hair, while driving. Classic moment when she took hand off wheel to shift celly to other side and combed other side of hair!!


Total bullshit! You have no idea what you are talking about - do the reshearch next time before you post crap like this....It's a well known fact that women can multi task - this woman was only using a small part of her brain,the rest of her brain was involved in the matter of whether she would have to buy new shoes with the new skirt she bought last night...it's sooooo hard to find 6in pumps in peach!

[Smokey]

Hmm this could take a while :msn-wink:

1. Text messaging while driving on the motorway, I mean WTF????
2. Talking on a cellphone while driving (see above)
3. Trying to eat that upsized greasey mess while driving...cant they wait till they get home?
4. Waving hands around while driving
5. Turning around to talk to the back seat passengers and not watching the road
6. Cage drivers who cant use roundabouts (e.g ANY two lane roundabout)
7. Boy racers going hell for leather on straight bits and slowing right down for corners
8. "I didnt see you", well I must be the invisible man..
9. Not knowing how to merge

:done:

p.s

10. Following a car that smokes more than my bike when cold :crazy:

[Will]

Look out for utes. I find that they are slow because the cocky ( who is wearing a hat) still thinks he is in his paddocks and is driving as such. Slow pull out right in front of you - no need to look when he is driving the ute in his paddock. Slowly get up to 70 k - the "paddock" tends to be bumpy so you can't go fast. Beware of the Ute!

[gav]

...it's sooooo hard to find 6in pumps in peach!
Well, I hope you eventually found some..................... :shutup:

[avgas]

roofing nails

[Waylander]

Bikers who dont wave back :eyepoke:
ok so maybe they dont see me but still it hurts :thud:

[Blakamin]

just got a new peeve... being called out to welly at 8.30pm coz some dickwad turned of a machine and couldnt turn it back on... 2 minutes after pulling my contacts out (and someone drove over my glasses during the week) :pinch:

[Lou Girardin]

Cagers merging with 100km/h traffic while doing 60.
Cagers who don't leave a gap for merging traffic.
Indicating after the fact.
Weaving from one side of the lane to the other.
Hugging the centreline at 35km/h.
Braking for corners that they could take at 30km's more.
4WD's
All diesels.
Birkenhead Buses.
Boy Racers
Oh stuff it, I hate 'em all.

[Ms Piggy]

9. Not knowing how to merge
Yes it appears to me that a lot of cagers don't trest roders like traffic...they have the attitude of "Oh, they're on a bike so they can stop, swerve, move over" etc, etc :ar15:

[MacD]

How about the trendily-dressed 30-something woman today, with a baby in a pram, who decided to cross a main road in Auckland in front of oncoming traffic, but was too lazy to walk the extra 4 metres to a pedestrian crossing, and so stood on the painted median strip with her pram's front wheels sticking out into the lane!

I would put money on the fact that she drove a RAV4 or similar too!

[Skyryder]

If there is one thing that pisses me off no end is bikers who pass too close.

Skyryder

[SuperDave]

When another driver cuts you off or does something that forces you to take quick actions to avoid a collision. But what's even more annoying is when you honk your horn at them, and they throw both their damn hands in the air, (yes take their hands off the steering wheel) and shake their hands and head in a sign of denial as if to say "Why are you honking at me? I didn't do anything wrong"

[inlinefour]

When travelling along the motorway there are alot of people who indicate, once and then change lane. That is, one blink of the indicator and not the full three seconds as required by law. Don't know what its all about but its friggin dangerous. :mellow:

[Motu]

People who don't think ahead annoy me - like,I wanna get off at this off ramp,so they go across 3 lanes off traffic to get there....there's a hill coming up,and you've got a diesel,um,FLOOR IT! You've been sitting at the lights for 3 minutes,all the other roads have had their turn...WAKE UP! your turn is very soon.

[Redstar]

When I'm driving my 4X4 Nissan and washing the windows while texting me mate about the newspaper ad. i'm reading on the chip paper I got with me fish and chips I'm eating after a big pissup at the pub, and lost all scense of direction cause I'm looking at the chick in the mini right next to me in the fast lane! I really hate myself.
I just hate everything and everyone they should all be exterminated! :bash:

VERMIN! VIRMAN! hate people who speel correctly too! tossers!

[Waylander]

bloody dogs or other loose animals who dont know that if its bigger and faster than them chances are its gonna hurt if it hits them (damn dog that jumped in front of me at 100k, lucky i stayed upright)

[Rainbow Wizard]

...the dick in front of me (when I'm in a cage) who uses that 100m long passing lane to pass the other idiot doing 80km/h at 85km/h so I can't get past them both!!!

Any dick that doesn't pass the car in front but hangs so close behind them that it makes it harder or even impossible to overtake the tedium safely. The domino effect is probably one of the most accident inducing behaviours on the roads; frustration builds up and boundaries are pushed: here comes another head-on!

[Blakamin]

got another one during work today... old bastards who pull into a passing lane, pass one car and then dont move back left... at 90kph.... so you get stuck behind them for the rest of the passing lane.. (old prick did it twice before I found a gap on the normal road to get by him) especially on 1k long lanes.... arghglj#$^&*#&*#%^*&$% :angry2: :angry2: :angry2:

[Gen]

Drivers that are willing to cause a potential accident just to get where they want to go fast (well that narrows it down to about 35% of auckland drivers).

I was driving along on a nice stretch of straight motorway, coming from orewa and a woman in a red sports car comes racing up my arse, tailgates, I purposefully slowed down from 110 to exactly 100, as is the legal speed (smirks).And her rudeness pissed me off. She had a free lane to the left, so
she chucks a tanti, swervs out to the left, zooms past my car, missess the froint of me by about 2cm and roars off.

Stupid tart, made my blood boil :2guns: :2guns:

[idb]

Why doesn't any one else drive as considerately and safely as me - and why don't they all get out of my bloody way?!!!!!!

[StoneChucker]

When the first rains come after a dry "spell" and the roads turn to custard. One then accelerates slightly, and the back wheel spins away, fish-tailing the bike. (was saved, just a "brown-trouser" moment).

Th road looked like it had foam on it, very weird indeed.

[Clockwork]

When travelling along the motorway there are alot of people who indicate, once and then change lane. That is, one blink of the indicator and not the full three seconds as required by law. Don't know what its all about but its friggin dangerous. :mellow:

Not disagreeing with you at all, but try giving most drivers three seconds notification in Wellington's rush hour and odds on the bastard will accelerate to close the gap!. :mad:

[Clockwork]

I was driving along on a nice stretch of straight motorway, coming from orewa and a woman in a red sports car comes racing up my arse, tailgates, I purposefully slowed down from 110 to exactly 100, as is the legal speed (smirks).And her rudeness pissed me off. She had a free lane to the left, so
she chucks a tanti, swervs out to the left, zooms past my car, missess the froint of me by about 2cm and roars off.


Drivers who hog the right hand lane when they are not passing anyone? :whistle:

[vifferman]

When travelling along the motorway there are alot of people who indicate, once and then change lane. That is, one blink of the indicator and not the full three seconds as required by law. Don't know what its all about but its friggin dangerous. :mellow:
Uhhh... that's not your typical D'Auck at all.
Most either don't indicate, or their car is equipped only with confirminators: those flashing lights that are switched on after changing lanes, to say, "I'm just confirming that I meant toi change lanes - it wasn't accidental!"
Although in some cases, it is accidental (i.e., an accident results...)

Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I just thought (after riding home last night) of another pet peeve:
I HATE people that start turning into an intersection before you've gone past them. Y'know - you're riding down the road, some plonker coming the other way is waiting in the middle of the road to turn right, and just as you start going by him, he starts to move. :angry2: Happened to me three times last night, and once this morning.

Some more:
Knob-ends that don't speed up to motorway speed when they're on an on-ramp. I think they might believe they're driving safely by approaching the motorway at 60 km/h...:blank:
People who carefully avoid driving on the chevrons before the turning bay, so their vehicle doesn't explode into flames (coz we all know that's what happens, right?)
Queue jumpers. Selfish pricks. :angry2: (Uhh - this doesn't include motorcyclists, as I believe motorcyclists have an imperceptibly small effect on traffic flow and speed.)
The bastards that tootle me when I'm turning into my gargre, having tailgated me for the last few hundred metres, and ignored my indicator and taps on the brake that tell them, "Look! I'm about to turn in here! I'm sorry to slow you up, but I don't have any parking outside my house, so I can't pull over to let you zoom past, you impatient prick!" (This also applies to those who tootle me when I back out, because the road's clear when I back out of my gargre, and I can't stop because I've no driveway, so once I start to back out, I'm committed to the manouevre.) Don't these arseholes have brakes? Is it so hard to slow down and wait?:blank:

[Sniper]

Rabbit, bloody rabbits

[Krayy]

* T-Shirt bikers. Those idiots who ride around on their bikes (large and small) on a sunny day like last weekend in short sleeves, shorts and light footwear with no socks on open roads or motorways who will probably expect all our sympathy when they come a cropper.

* Cage drivers who need to get to the outside lane as soon as the on ramp ends. I'm sure there's a driver school out there somewhere telling everyone that if they're on the motorway, they should be in the RHL.

* Cage drivers who need to "merge" with the on-ramp that becomes a new m/w lane as soon as possible (Western Springs in particular). FFS, the Newton St exit isn't for another 2 k's.

[Wolf]

Hmm

Vans - usually travelling @ 60-90km/h on the open road
Toy 4WDs - especially Pajeros - likewise often travelling @ 60-90km/h on the open road and in the 50km/h zone
Truckies that see you coming, watch you and then pull their truck-and-trailer out in front of you anyway
Truckies - PERIOD

[Wolf]

Not disagreeing with you at all, but try giving most drivers three seconds notification in Wellington's rush hour and odds on the bastard will accelerate to close the gap!. :mad:

Same here in Hamilton - at any time. That's one thing I did note about the "JAFA"s when I was on the Auckland M/way - I needed to lane change quickly (because I'd daydreamed and nearly missed the exit) and I gave the legal three seconds then changed lane, three seconds then turned off - and they let me in. Try that in Hamilton you'd wind up as a novelty bumper sticker.

[**R1**]

All the idiots that dont ride yamaha's....who the hell do they think they are? oooppps did i say that out loud

J/K actualy its harley persons i dis like, i mean im a prety frienly guy so i wave at any dudes on bikes but most hog riders are tossers and just look straight ahead...so on the odd occasion i have turnd around and wheelied past em :devil2:

[speedpro]

Drivers who hog the right hand lane when they are not passing anyone? :whistle:

Yes it does bear commenting on but I can't think of anything that's witty and to the point. Simple abuse wouldn't work on someone who has the intellect to reason that doing that is a reasonable thing to do and not a right pain in the arse. In fact it is illegal, and has also been the subject of various disparaging remarks on this very forum.

"Wanker" is the word that springs to mind.

Seattle (USA) had a rule when I was there that if you had more than 3 cars following, on a normal 2-way road, then you had to pull over and let them past. I think in the UK you must pass only on the right, BUT, you must also keep left unless overtaking. sort of like here but maybe enforced a bit more.

[Riff Raff]

I really hate it when people don't discreetly tell you when you've got lipstick on your teeth, or lots of broccoli or something between your teeth, or a big booger hanging out your nose, or you've sat on some chocolate and it looks like you've got skid marks on your bum, or your top has become totally see through under the lighting at the London Shed, or your skirt has got hooked up in your knickers, bla bla bla bla bla etc

[James Deuce]

I think in the UK you must pass only on the right, BUT, you must also keep left unless overtaking. sort of like here but maybe enforced a bit more.

Yes that is correct for the UK, but I was under the impression that that particular rule isn't in NZ law.

I found driving in the UK to be a joy compared to NZ, even with the massive differences in traffic volume. People are 5 billion times (no hyperbole I assure you) more polite in the UK, and the general level of road rule knowledge and vehicle competence is much higher than NZ.

[gav]

Another that pisses me off is at pedestrian crossings where people push the cross button then just saunter over anyway, and youre left waiting at the crossing with no one there. Hey, just cross without pushing the button or bloody wait, all right?

[NC]

Riders that don't turn off their indercators

People that don't indercate

Dumb people

[James Deuce]

Another that pisses me off is at pedestrian crossings where people push the cross button then just saunter over anyway, and youre left waiting at the crossing with no one there. Hey, just cross without pushing the button or bloody wait, all right?

What, and deny myself one of the prime pleasures of perambulation?

[gav]

So what with the banana? Have you spilled the beans yet?

[James Deuce]

So what with the banana? Have you spilled the beans yet?

Yes. :)

Keep up.

Is the speed of light really slower in the Sth Is.? :)

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=8197

[Krayy]

* All those lovely people on the Northwestern this afternoon that decided a van that had broken down on the side of the road just before the Western Springs off ramp deseverd slowing down to 10km/h to have a look at and causing a backlog to Nelson St

This thread has made me realise that I'm an angry young man :brick: , so I have had to change my avatar to reflect that. I better make an appointment with my Yogi, nad not the "Hey, hey Boo-boo" kind either :blink:

[gav]

Yes. :)

Keep up.

Is the speed of light really slower in the Sth Is.? :)

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=8197
OMG, thought you must be playing some sort of prank.....never mind.
I'm sure it'll look quite "nice" parked outside the local bowls club. :bleh:
Hope it was cheap? Was almost going to offer you my CBR.....

[James Deuce]

OMG, thought you must be playing some sort of prank.....never mind.
I'm sure it'll look quite "nice" parked outside the local bowls club. :bleh:
Hope it was cheap? Was almost going to offer you my CBR.....
You're just jealous 'cos YOU don't have a Suzuki too!

[Krayy]

You're just jealous 'cos YOU don't have a Suzuki too!
This could be the start of a loooong thread.....

[James Deuce]

This could be the start of a loooong thread.....
Shuddup or it'll be about all the stuff I know about YOU! ;)

[Krayy]

Shuddup or it'll be about all the stuff I know about YOU! ;)
Yoinks!! Oh, is that the time!! :o ...and the wifes calling... I'd better be off then :disapint:

[Gen]

Drivers who hog the right hand lane when they are not passing anyone? :whistle:

I was not in the right lane. I was in the middle of three lanes actually.

[Rainbow Wizard]

People who drive below the speed limit and don't pull over to help others to pass or who speed up when they enter the passing lanes.

Then there's the twats who follow so close that they can't see when it's safe to pass (particularly bad when it's a truck) or have insufficient awareness to pull over or don't have the balls or skill to pass the slow vehicle.

And the next poor sod behind them has an even more difficult task and often follows with the same dickhead behaviour; and so they stack up.

Now that's when the bike has it over the cage hands-down!

[Ixion]

Drivers who hog the right hand lane when they are not passing anyone? :whistle:

In fairness, that may be necessary if one is planning to make a right hand turn up ahead