Don'cha just hate it when...

[slofox]

I have the odd pet hate when riding...and I wondered what other people have as their pet hates....

Current No 1. One of the routes I ride regularly has a wonderful corner just before the end of the ride. I look forward to hitting this one every time I take that ride. Lovely smooth seal, not usually much traffic, a chance to get the bike over and power through...:devil2:...the hate? When I anticipate this corner all through the ride, only to get to it and discover my way blocked by other traffic...and I have to putter round it like an old grampa...frustration that lasts most of the day...:angry2:

So what's yours?

[psycho22]

The same thing.

Theres some tight corners on the way out to Turangi but just as you approach them there will be either roadworks or people who like to take corners at about 30kph.:(

[Anarkist]

Same thing. My ride home consists of 90% motorways, so when there's traffic on my closing corners it makes me want to crush skulls.

[riffer]

You know, I think it's everyone's pet hate.

One of the reasons I avoid Paremata Rd now that they've put double yellows right through.

Grays Rd is usually mostly carfree at the time I go home. :)

[Burtha]

CARS & COPS !!! :2guns:
Oh, and potholes, grrrrr.

--- unless I'm in my mini cooper going as fast as I can on a winding road with no one else around trying to go sideways.... completely contradictory I know...
:rolleyes:

[Duke girl]

Thats why they should have an only all bike day on our roads then you wouldn't have to put up with slow cage drivers doing 30k's around corners. Nothing more frustrating than coming up to your favourite piece of road and having someone in front of you who doesn't know the road and driving like everyday is a Sunday.:(:beer:

[The Pastor]

when you've striiped and cleaned your bike ready to paint and your dad comes through and crc's it.

[nodrog]

just go around the outside, inside, upside downside?

[A_Mans_Ruin]

Farkin tourists and their camper vans!!!!!!!!!!:mad:

[The Stranger]

when you've striiped and cleaned your bike ready to paint and your dad comes through and crc's it.

Sounds like the bastard needs some discipline.
I hope you put him on the naughty seat for a few hours.

[Madness]

When you think the Rego's fine until September 'coz there's a little hole where the number 9 is on the sticker, but you check the back one day to notice the pillock punched the wrong month. Rego's due next week, front tyre will need replacing.

[Sparrowhawk]

When they decide that now is the right time to rip up the seal on your favourite road. In a cage I love gravel, haven't mastered it on the bike yet!!

[CrazyFrog]

I love gravel, hell, even roadworks don't bother me, but what I hate is really shithouse patch sealing jobs, lumpy as hell with an eclectic mix of tar seal, ashphalt and whatever else they can throw into the bitumen.....and always in the middle of the "best" lines thru a corner. Fulton Hogan excel in these down our way:mad:

[Karl@Alpha]

when it rains on my day off...

[The Pastor]

Sounds like the bastard needs some discipline.
I hope you put him on the naughty seat for a few hours.
its a bit hard when your living in HIS house using his tools tho aye

[madbikeboy]

I hate it when...

When I'm all leathered up, after wriggling into one piece, with back protector, and gloves, lid, boots... And then I realise my T shirt has wriggled up, and the back protector is going to wear a hole in my back.

When that dopey cager doesn't look - at all!

When you're all leather up, swinging your leg across the bike, and the phone rings, and you look at it with a sinking feeling, knowing you really have to answer it...

When I start cramping - this happened on the weekend, 2 hours of straights and wet corners, finally dry corners, and then, boom, cramp city. Sitting on the side of the road watching bikes roar past, knowing that the 2 hours home will be interspersed with several cramp breaks like this.

When I warm the bike up for a few minutes, and then realise I have 20 minutes of riding carefully anyhow because the tires are still cold...

When I'm sitting in the cage, wearing a suit, and bikes filter past.

:doctor:

[Big Dave]

Putting gloves on and then remembering the keys are still in my pocket.

[Rockbuddy]

idiots doing 20kms or more less than the posted limit ie; doing 80 in a 100 zone holding up queues of traffic, happens a bit on the route i take pisses me off hugely

[vifferman]

When the weather forecast says it's going to be fine, so I've left my wet weather stuff at home.

When the car driver in front of me turns towards the sun, realises he can't see coz his windscreen's covered in crap, and turns on the washers.

When I don't check the underside of my tank bag and the grit stuck to it wrecks the paint on my tank.

When I come up to an intersection and someone slows down/stops, looks, then goes anyway.

When I'm sitting at the lights at the end of my street, see the other lights go orange and then red, and the cars aren't stopping.

When the traffic lights are synchronised to go red every time I get to them. I had a lovely ride out to Parakai and home one day, until I got to the suburban streets. Of the eight (8!) sets of traffic lights I came to, eight (8!) turned red just before I got to it. My bike was running at over 100C for nearly 10 minutes. If the Council was serious about being Green, they'd install some more intelligent traffic management systems. Or maybe that was it - they were stopping me going more than 100m or so without stopping.:crazy:

[Big Dave]

...when people describe cars as a cage or drivers as cagers.
Would you like fries with that lame simile?

Calling Hondas gay.
That's 'KB only' crap.

[mister.koz]

When people in tight traffic intentionally speed up to block off your only clear passing spot and then slow down to 20km/h for the corners i was seeking in the 1st place.

When you are sheduled for your first track day and you squash your AC join 4 days before doing something you've done a 1000 times before.

When you are changing riding positions in twisties and as you roll from one to the other you realize there's grit on the road :woohoo::eek5::woohoo: then you know you gotta do it again for the next 40 corners.

Um, when cagers drive cages in their cageyness?

[3Banger]

When my brother and I feather through to the front of the traffic at the Whitford Brown lights ready for a drag race to show who's got the better bike.. and he stalls it and makes me look like the wanker on my own!

[The Pastor]

when your mate takes your clutch cover off and drops a bolt down into your sump.

[Mom]

when your mate takes your clutch cover off and drops a bolt down into your sump.

again! :pinch:

[3Banger]

when your mate takes your clutch cover off and drops a bolt down into your sump.

I think you are your Dad and your mates pet hate?????

[Max Preload]

When you're all leather up, swinging your leg across the bike, and the phone rings, and you look at it with a sinking feeling, knowing you really have to answer it...

You don't ever have to answer a phone.

[madbikeboy]

You don't ever have to answer a phone.

Depends on how badly you want (or don't want) to get paid, or get laid... :innocent:

[A_Mans_Ruin]

When you are sitting at the lights, the guy in the car next to you realises your a chick on a bike and tries the lamest ever line invented "cool bike"..... and the eye thing YUK....
WTF no, no its not idiot!

[A_Mans_Ruin]

Ok so I admit, I woulda said cheers if he was hot......:innocent:

[mister.koz]

Ok so I admit, I woulda said cheers if he was hot......:innocent:

And the truth comes out :)

[A_Mans_Ruin]

hehehe yup but shhhhh..... :2thumbsup

[mctshirt]

Putting gloves on and then remembering the keys are still in my pocket.

Happened again today at the petrol station :doh:

[Starky307]

1/ Gloves on and keys in my pocket.
2/ Coming up on traffic on a beautiful windy section of road.
3/ Shit road conditions.
4/ Unmarked resealing.
5/ Nummber 3 again.

Man it's been a stressful week and then I read this thread, got my blood boiling now.

[adam1194]

When you are sitting at the lights, the guy in the car next to you realises your a chick on a bike and tries the lamest ever line invented "cool bike"..... and the eye thing YUK....
WTF no, no its not idiot!
I know what you mean, i have long hair and get that all the time. Open up my visor and see the surprised look on their faces.

[slofox]

When you are heading through the roundabout onto your fav open road run and a HP car pulls through in front of you and heads out the same way.....and you are stuck behind him for the next thousand miles...:yes:

[mister.koz]

When you are heading through the roundabout onto your fav open road run and a HP car pulls through in front of you and heads out the same way.....and you are stuck behind him for the next thousand miles...:yes:

Yeah had that on the waihi whanga road... sucks!

[saltydog]

When one of those big-arsed bug decides to deposit itself right in the centre of your just cleaned visor. And then thinking, 'whats the chances of that happening again?' Splat.

[slofox]

When one of those big-arsed bug decides to deposit itself right in the centre of your just cleaned visor. And then thinking, 'whats the chances of that happening again?' Splat.

Yep. Happens every time...

[mister.koz]

When you just feel like a ride, you check the weather - little overcast but nothing to worry about then you get your gear on and head outside and somehow the weather turns to a monsoon... :mad:

[Blackshear]

When it's Friday the 13th of March...
And you're happy cause you just got a job :pinch:
So you head onto the motorway for a bit of travelling, cause you can now spend that $500 of safety money... When the moment you hit the on ramp... You hear a weird noise. So familliar, yet so hard to pin it.
You clutch off... No no, it's gone now, it's just another mystery of the world now.
Pop bluuuurrrrrb-luuuuuuuuuub-b-b-b-b-b chuff.
BUT THE TRIP METER SAYS I HAVE FORTY K's LEFT IN THE TANK OOOOH MAN SOOOO MAD, but you have to push that sucker as hard as you can up the hill, down the next one and to the closest petrol station.

Man, don't you just hate that.

[mister.koz]

When it's Friday the 13th of March...
And you're happy cause you just got a job :pinch:
So you head onto the motorway for a bit of travelling, cause you can now spend that $500 of safety money... When the moment you hit the on ramp... You hear a weird noise. So familliar, yet so hard to pin it.
You clutch off... No no, it's gone now, it's just another mystery of the world now.
Pop bluuuurrrrrb-luuuuuuuuuub-b-b-b-b-b chuff.
BUT THE TRIP METER SAYS I HAVE FORTY K's LEFT IN THE TANK OOOOH MAN SOOOO MAD, but you have to push that sucker as hard as you can up the hill, down the next one and to the closest petrol station.

Man, don't you just hate that.

You win... worst thing that happened to day was i forgot to spit out my gum before eating the first piece of wasabi covered sushi..

[Blackshear]

You win... worst thing that happened to day was i forgot to spit out my gum before eating the first piece of wasabi covered sushi..

You can have that one, ain't no green death going near my face! :baby:

[Blackshear]

Hey, who here puts their keys in the helmet whenever they will dismount their bike and walk away from it?
It's tricky sometimes when you go to put down your helmet, but if you stuff your gloves into the lid hard enough, the keys stay at the top! (bottom)
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THIS THREAD IS NOW ABOUT SHARING THOSE LITTLE TIPS
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[Kemet]

When you riding at a fairly good speed of [insert number here]kph and that car still has to try and pass you.....

[Blackshear]

When you riding at a fairly good speed of [insert number here]kph and that car still has to try and pass you.....

Well, let us assume you have the highest possible number, and at that 9kph, I'd try to pass you too.

Haven't had anyone try pass me before. Usually all over the goddamn road :shifty:

[slofox]

When you riding at a fairly good speed of [insert number here]kph and that car still has to try and pass you.....

Yep yep - had that happen a couple weeks ago. Young loon and his mates just had to pass everything...me and a line of cars...into the face of an oncoming car...on a double yellow line...into a dip you can't see into...and into a blind right hander...very sensible...

[skidMark]

Pet hate, 2 in one...

Speed limits, and cops.

[newbould]

Hey, who here puts their keys in the helmet whenever they will dismount their bike and walk away from it?
It's tricky sometimes when you go to put down your helmet, but if you stuff your gloves into the lid hard enough, the keys stay at the top! (bottom)
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THIS THREAD IS NOW ABOUT SHARING THOSE LITTLE TIPS
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Yip learned that one. After going round the supermarket getting to the checkout and not finding keys. Panic. Got to bike and found them in the ignition. Only in Dunnners!

[peasea]

I have the odd pet hate when riding...and I wondered what other people have as their pet hates....

Current No 1. One of the routes I ride regularly has a wonderful corner just before the end of the ride. I look forward to hitting this one every time I take that ride. Lovely smooth seal, not usually much traffic, a chance to get the bike over and power through...:devil2:...the hate? When I anticipate this corner all through the ride, only to get to it and discover my way blocked by other traffic...and I have to putter round it like an old grampa...frustration that lasts most of the day...:angry2:

So what's yours?

I hate pets.

[peasea]

Pet hate, 2 in one...

Speed limits, and cops.

The first doesn't matter if you lack the second.

[Blackshear]

Yip learned that one. After going round the supermarket getting to the checkout and not finding keys. Panic. Got to bike and found them in the ignition. Only in Dunnners!

I did this once too, scared the living shit out of me...
Walking around the store after browsing for a good hour... OH GAWD, WHERE'S MAH KEYS!!!! Got the whole shop looking... Two minutes till some guy came in dangling my keys :lol:
FROM THAT DAY ONWARDS! Helmet.

[peasea]

Yep yep - had that happen a couple weeks ago. Young loon and his mates just had to pass everything...me and a line of cars...into the face of an oncoming car...on a double yellow line...into a dip you can't see into...and into a blind right hander...very sensible...

I happens in automobiles too. Just recently a buddy of mine picked me up in his Subaru. It's turbo'd etc, pretty fast etc and he says "you wouldn't believe the number of cocks who want to race you while you're puddling along in this thing". I thought "yeah right". Ten minutes into the journey, we're pulling about 110-115 and bam, this turkey with his hat on backwards (driving some equally fast Nippon-dense-oh fart bucket) races up to our right, on and off the gas and then nails it!

We were laughing so hard it would heve been impossible to race him. What's up with that? Take it to the track dude.

[Blackshear]

I happens in automobiles too. Just recently a buddy of mine picked me up in his Subaru. It's turbo'd etc, pretty fast etc and he says "you wouldn't believe the number of cocks who want to race you while you're puddling along in this thing". I thought "yeah right". Ten minutes into the journey, we're pulling about 110-115 and bam, this turkey with his hat on backwards (driving some equally fast Nippon-dense-oh fart bucket) races up to our right, on and off the gas and then nails it!

We were laughing so hard it would heve been impossible to race him. What's up with that? Take it to the track dude.

MANG MY GIZR ON 18 INCH CHROMIES, POD FILTA, BIG BORE ZORST AND 18 POUNDS OF BOOST WILL WIPE THE SMIRK OFF YOUR OLD MAN FACE!

I seriously don't know.
I always get dicks in their $500 cars egging me on at the lights and what not. Very frustrating when they try to MAKE you play the game.

[peasea]

MANG MY GIZR ON 18 INCH CHROMIES, POD FILTA, BIG BORE ZORST AND 18 POUNDS OF BOOST WILL WIPE THE SMIRK OFF YOUR OLD MAN FACE!

I seriously don't know.
I always get dicks in their $500 cars egging me on at the lights and what not. Very frustrating when they try to MAKE you play the game.

I'm not quite sure what you just said but yes, the do try to MAKE you 'play the game', race that is. I get it on the bike with cars and bikes, but fuck it. If I'm not commuting I'm out there for fun and nobody (cept for a plod perhaps) is going to ruin for me. If I want to puddle along at 115 then so be it, I'll move left for those who want to 'prove' themselves.

18lbs I understand. I built a 355 SBC with 22 or more, on alcohol and there's no way I'd drive it.

Yup, I gots da old man face.

[Blackshear]

I'm not quite sure what you just said but yes, the do try to MAKE you 'play the game', race that is. I get it on the bike with cars and bikes, but fuck it. If I'm not commuting I'm out there for fun and nobody (cept for a plod perhaps) is going to ruin for me. If I want to puddle along at 115 then so be it, I'll move left for those who want to 'prove' themselves.

18lbs I understand. I built a 355 SBC with 22 or more, on alcohol and there's no way I'd drive it.

Yup, I gots da old man face.

I was trying to speak tough-rev-head talk. Not very fluent it seems <_<
You cheated with cubics. Anything on alcohol is usually running decent compression, AND gets air shoved down its gob.
How to squeeze a couple more ponies out of my dearest Bobbie... Hmmmm :shifty:

Just a bit of harmless fun when you're in the mood :Punk:

[Shadows]

Bus drivers.

Taxi drivers.

SUVs.

White vans.

Volvos (with or without soccer mums).

HSVs, FPVs, and BMWs with 50+ fat balding fuckwits behind the wheel who think the car they are driving automatically qualifies them as somebody who can actually handle a car at speed.

GSXR riders passing within half the diameter of a gnat's testicle of one's leg at 160+ because, well, fuck only knows really. Maybe because they actually have testicles half the diameter of a gnat's.

Cars that inch out of intersections as one approaches as if they're about to pull out on you.

Well meaning but misguided drivers who pull over to the left and shower rocks, lumps of wood, broken glass and shit all over you.

Boy ricers in their blinged up cars that go pfffft? Well, they always provide a laugh when they get blown into the weeds but I still hate them.

In fact I think I hate everybody with the outright cheek to use MY FUCKING ROAD.

[peasea]

I was trying to speak tough-rev-head talk. Not very fluent it seems <_<
You cheated with cubics. Anything on alcohol is usually running decent compression, AND gets air shoved down its gob.
How to squeeze a couple more ponies out of my dearest Bobbie... Hmmmm :shifty:

Just a bit of harmless fun when you're in the mood :Punk:

Decent compression? That engine I was referring to ran about 7.4:1 with a slightly overdriven 6/71 GMC supercharger. When I say 'slightly' I think it was about 5-7% but I really can't recall. Also, when I say 20lbs boost I'm guessing coz the guage went to 18psi and it went round to the stop. It could have been more, maybe 24. We played with blower drive pulleys and found that the ports couldn't sustain the intake manifold pressure, valve size was an issue as was the 'soft' camshaft. The combo still exists and still runs mid-sevens in the 1/4. Personally I think it's good for low 7's with the high-speed lean-out functional but it's all about money.

[Kemet]

Yip learned that one. After going round the supermarket getting to the checkout and not finding keys. Panic. Got to bike and found them in the ignition. Only in Dunnners!

Hell, half the thieves down here probably wouldn't even think to look in the ignition.....

And I have also made a successful burst around the supermarket with my keys left in the ignition :crazy:



HSVs, FPVs, and BMWs with 50+ fat balding fuckwits behind the wheel who think the car they are driving automatically qualifies them as somebody who can actually handle a car at speed.

In fact I think I hate everybody with the outright cheek to use MY FUCKING ROAD.

Maybe it's just a Dunedin thing then but down here if you get stuck behind a V6 model - Holden or Ford - and it's going as slow as fuck, esp on corners going uphill, when you do finally pass (or even just see their face in their rearview mirror) they're 65+ retirees in their very shiny, probably-just-purchased-off-some-pimply-faced-twat-of-a-sales-person-who-has-somehow-convinced-them-they-need-to-buy-it new car!!:angry2:

Fuck off and buy a car you can actually handle!!!:angry2:

There... I feel a little better now.... just a little....


Decent compression? That engine I was referring to ran about 7.4:1 with a slightly overdriven 6/71 GMC supercharger. When I say 'slightly' I think it was about 5-7% but I really can't recall. Also, when I say 20lbs boost I'm guessing coz the guage went to 18psi and it went round to the stop. It could have been more, maybe 24. We played with blower drive pulleys and found that the ports couldn't sustain the intake manifold pressure, valve size was an issue as was the 'soft' camshaft. The combo still exists and still runs mid-sevens in the 1/4. Personally I think it's good for low 7's with the high-speed lean-out functional but it's all about money.

Is it a bird?? Is it a plane???

Nope... it's just that post going way, way, way over my head...

I really need to get off my arse and learn more about engines and maintanance etc.....:wacko:

BTW I did recognise some of the terms and what they are sort off but still...

[Hiflyer]

people that inch out at intersections when its a green arrow but people are still ceossing. . . just frickin wait, what is 2seconds gunna help? fuck sakes

[Blackshear]

people that inch out at intersections when its a green arrow but people are still ceossing. . . just frickin wait, what is 2seconds gunna help? fuck sakes

Can I still give the throttle a twang?

[Hiflyer]

Can I still give the throttle a twang?

haha yep! just dont inch forward haha and i may let you off

[Blackshear]

haha yep! just dont inch forward haha and i may let you off

My front brakes work fine.
More traction than my rear wheel, incidentally :bleh:

[Hiflyer]

just came back from riding thru town to look at the drunk people haha and another thing that really pisses me of are people in poo ass cars going 6kph and revving the shit out of their back bean can exhaust thinking theyr cool. THEN proceeding to cut you off and make you miss a left hand turn at a set of lights cos theyre so dumb they dont think to look anywhere else except 2m infront of their car.
rant over hahaha

[trump-lady]

Lane splitting and one car makes me have to brake, sees me and still doesnt give a shit to move over a bit (been tempted to try...and take out his mirror).....
Auckland motorway @ 4pm on a Friday. WTF I cant even lane split!
When Im lane splitting and a bikes infront that I catch up with STILL wont let me pass and stops every two cars
When I put my mirrors in to lane split then forget to push em back out
When I think Im cool and realise Ive had my indicator on for 5 mins
When the lights turn green before I get through the line waiting....
When I life my visor...eat a bug and say not doing that again then do it again 5 mins later
When Im late and take the bike to work thinking im cool and then the dam petrol light comes on
When its pissing down and I didnt watch the weather forecast and now Im an hour late to work stuck in a cage... on top of that in traffic and a pissed boss
Two cars in a two lane doing 40! in a 50 side by side grrrrrrrrr

WHEN THERES SO MANY GROUP RIDES AND I GOT FING SCHOOL ALL WEEKEND

rant over

[trump-lady]

Oh forgetting im on a bike and buying three bottles of wine and only 2 will fit in my backpack

[Blackshear]

Oh forgetting im on a bike and buying three bottles of wine and only 2 will fit in my backpack

I managed to carry home 3x 355ml 6 packs of sparkling duet, two down my jacket, and one under my gut, on the tank. All 10k's home. You have no excuse.

Except if your jacket is tight fitting :mellow:

[trump-lady]

I managed it lol

My riding home though was restircted, slow and "fat looking"

But yes, priority prevailed

cheers :)

[scumdog]

just came back from riding thru town to look at the drunk people haha and another thing that really pisses me of are people in poo ass cars going 6kph and revving the shit out of their back bean can exhaust thinking theyr cool. THEN proceeding to cut you off and make you miss a left hand turn at a set of lights cos theyre so dumb they dont think to look anywhere else except 2m infront of their car.
rant over hahaha

When the fuck-witted 'back-wards-hat-wearing-sitting-in-a-seat-with-no-mounts-and-reclined-as much-a-possible' are driving they cant see jack-shit closer than 80 metres on front of them anyway...

[elevenhundred]

When you get on the motorway then realise the gas gauge is on empty so you go to turn it to reserve before it actually runs out and you find it is already on reserve and you don't know how much gas you have left...fark

[scumdog]

When you get on the motorway then realise the gas gauge is on empty so you go to turn it to reserve before it actually runs out and you find it is already on reserve and you don't know how much gas you have left...fark

You mean people actually use 'reserve' on their bike tank??

Before they actually have too??

And then never return it to the correct position??

Whatthehellishteworldcomingto?

[crynsie]

Leaking stock trucks...ewwwwwww
People who still ask if I ride my bike after the accident...
Trucks that sand blast your bike and you...gritty teeth...
Falcadore drivers....apparantly gods gift to motoring...
Boy racers...unfortunately, they can't hear me laughing at them over the sound of their "big bore" exhaust...

Oh and leaky stock trucks again

:calm:

[Blackshear]

You mean people actually use 'reserve' on their bike tank??

Before they actually have too??

And then never return it to the correct position??

Whatthehellishteworldcomingto?

I dunno what the hell my valve guy is set to, but if I don't watch the trip-o-lifesaviour, Bobbie will suck the tank bone dry. Peraps I should investigate.

[Jiminy]

For me, right now, seeing my bike parked in front of my place and knowing that I have 5 weeks of cast to go while the summer fades off

[Kemet]

WHEN THERES SO MANY GROUP RIDES AND I GOT FING SCHOOL ALL WEEKEND

rant over

What kind of school do you work at??!!! Do we need to talk to your boss!!


When the fuck-witted 'back-wards-hat-wearing-sitting-in-a-seat-with-no-mounts-and-reclined-as much-a-possible' are driving they cant see jack-shit closer than 80 metres on front of them anyway...

Don't you mean 80mm. Even then they can only see sky over their dash. twats!!!


For me, right now, seeing my bike parked in front of my place and knowing that I have 5 weeks of cast to go while the summer fades off

Bummer. How long has it been on for so far? one week out of a general 6 week stint or is your break (?) bad enough it's been on longer...

Find a friend with a side car!!! :blank:

[Jiminy]

Bummer. How long has it been on for so far? one week out of a general 6 week stint or is your break (?) bad enough it's been on longer...

Find a friend with a side car!!! :blank:

2 weeks of cast already, and three weeks with a broken thumb before that until the doc finally decided to look at the x-ray. Just a thumb, but 7 weeks with a cast from the elbow to the hand :(.

Hey, I was checking my dream side car only a few hours before I fell! Well, turns out that I can't really buy it right now for other reasons anyway, but that was damn tempting...

[MarkH]

When one of those big-arsed bug decides to deposit itself right in the centre of your just cleaned visor. And then thinking, 'whats the chances of that happening again?' Splat.

Bugs always aim for the cleanest visor they can find!

[mctshirt]

The wheels on the car waiting at the intersection start rolling just as you get to the point of no return resulting in a cosy little case of panic: " :shit: WTF...have they seen me?...all the anchors out NOW!...feed it the fat and escape the impending doom!...swerve up on to the footpath like an old XR200" in the millisecond they're going to save by starting across the intersection as you get there intending to pull in behind and get a good tailgate going.

I hope they realise that nanosecond they saved in travel time took a year off my life :mad:

[monkeymsea]

Calling Hondas gay.
That's 'KB only' crap.

but hondas are gay :whistle:

Tehehehehe

[Tink]

A year down the line, and have to bring this back up, because its been happening a lot....

Turning right into my road, I find that a lot of cars have the pleasure of getting a tad too close for my comfort... another pet hate is being callled hon, hun, dear by anyone that is under 70... being english I know how the english tend to do it out of habit, but in the supermarket yesterday a 30 something called me dear... oh that grinded me... keeping my mouth shut this time.. but normally I ask them how old they are, even more offensive than saying hun, hon or dear... they are gobsmacked I ask, as 9/10 are younger than me... so I inform them it is a term of endearment, and I don't know them so its best to learn not to use it, as it may offend... haha:crazy:

[duckonin]

A year down the line, and have to bring this back up, because its been happening a lot....

Turning right into my road, I find that a lot of cars have the pleasure of getting a tad too close for my comfort... another pet hate is being callled hon, hun, dear by anyone that is under 70... being english I know how the english tend to do it out of habit, but in the supermarket yesterday a 30 something called me dear... oh that grinded me... keeping my mouth shut this time.. but normally I ask them how old they are, even more offensive than saying hun, hon or dear... they are gobsmacked I ask, as 9/10 are younger than me... so I inform them it is a term of endearment, and I don't know them so its best to learn not to use it, as it may offend... haha:crazy:
PHEWWW !! HI Babe , coming from a 70+ would that make you happy ? ha ha

[crazyhorse]

A year down the line, and have to bring this back up, because its been happening a lot....

Turning right into my road, I find that a lot of cars have the pleasure of getting a tad too close for my comfort... another pet hate is being callled hon, hun, dear by anyone that is under 70... being english I know how the english tend to do it out of habit, but in the supermarket yesterday a 30 something called me dear... oh that grinded me... keeping my mouth shut this time.. but normally I ask them how old they are, even more offensive than saying hun, hon or dear... they are gobsmacked I ask, as 9/10 are younger than me... so I inform them it is a term of endearment, and I don't know them so its best to learn not to use it, as it may offend... haha:crazy:

I think the word "love" has gotta be worse than dear! I absolutely hate it when they call me love:oi-grr:

[Tink]

PHEWWW !! HI Babe , coming from a 70+ would that make you happy ? ha ha


I think the word "love" has gotta be worse than dear! I absolutely hate it when they call me love:oi-grr:

If its coming from a fella duckonin sure... why not!... and love is just over the top... lol agree with you there... I guess its the shopkeeper/retail/supermarket attendants that do it a lot, and they are mostly woman...

[crazyhorse]

If its coming from a fella duckonin sure... why not!... and love is just over the top... lol agree with you there... I guess its the shopkeeper/retail/supermarket attendants that do it a lot, and they are mostly woman...

Yeah, and helps of Melbourne people do it to - and it so sucks!

[fliplid]

Yeah, and helps of Melbourne people do it to - and it so sucks!

In the south west of England, they use the term "my lover"... Could cause embarrassment;)

Bograt- nearly forgot! Pet hate- them fekkers that do the roads with toffee and stones! E.g between the Waiau Pa roundabout on Kingseat Rd and Glenbrook Rd this evening! 2 fekking kilos of road metal needed flushing out of me bike and fairing, and I was teetering along around 10 kph!:angry2::angry2::angry2:

[crazyhorse]

In the south west of England, they use the term "my lover"... Could cause embarrassment;)

yeah ha ha..... esp if you were out where you were being discrete lol

[fliplid]

yeah ha ha..... esp if you were out where you were being discrete lol

or with a different partner:whistle:

[crazyhorse]

or with a different partner:whistle:

that was the discrete part i was referring to :laugh:

[fliplid]

that was the discrete part i was referring to :laugh:

Sorry, I don't get out much

[crazyhorse]

Sorry, I don't get out much

hehehehehehe :ride:

[fliplid]

er, as in booking rooms with various folk...:Oops:

[Tink]

In the south west of England, they use the term "my lover"... Could cause embarrassment;)

Bograt- nearly forgot! Pet hate- them fekkers that do the roads with toffee and stones! E.g between the Waiau Pa roundabout on Kingseat Rd and Glenbrook Rd this evening! 2 fekking kilos of road metal needed flushing out of me bike and fairing, and I was teetering along around 10 kph!:angry2::angry2::angry2:


hehehehehehe :ride:

Maybe there should be a ROADWORKS WARNING THREAD, actually there prob is.... and crazy.... you giggling girl lol. ;)

[Mudfart]

Constantly calling up Huntly council to tell them of their dangerous roads.
I had to ring to ask when Hampton Downs road was going to be sealed coz they left it as gravel for ages.
I reminded them that at my job down the road there are at least a dozen riders, and it was a hazard.
Turns out they never did seal it, only tarred and metaled it.
Turns out "only" two riders came off their bikes during the rather lengthy time it took to repair that small ass section of road.
Now, theres a really really bad trench been cut into the nasty 90 degree corner coming into Te Kauwhata, just before the railway tracks.
The 1000 or more heavy truck trailer units that drive the road daily have gouged all the metal out of it, and yesterday I watched a 4x4 cross the centreline COMPLETELY into the wrong side of the road, to avoid it.
Its been like that for 3 weeks now, and will require approx 5 number 8 shovels of hot mix to cover it!! Fark all!!!!!
Time to waste my breathe on the phone again.

[firefighter]

My pet hate when riding, is when you're on the open road, and there's a line of traffic. 4x4's are the worst for what i'm about to describe, and you'll all have had it happen.

The cunts will hog the right hand side of the lane, as if they can or are looking to pass, but they know there's not a shit show and that they really ca'nt. :angry2:

I'm positive that they're just doing it in spite of the fact that they ca'nt pass, so they wo'nt let you either.

I've actually had one swerve at me heading back to Auck from Towelronga. Not sure what he was trying to achieve other than murder. :crazy:

I fucken hate that.

[Bounce001]

1. Cyclists

2. Roads around home where tractors have come out of the paddock and leave a trail of shit all over the road.

3. Cars that sit on 80km and then speed up to 120km on a passing lane, then slow down to 80km when passing lane ends.

4. Following bikes that do high speeds on a straight piece of road and then slam on the brakes for every corner but won't let you pass.

5. Road Lice (camper vans).

6. Cyclists