Lanesplitting dickwaddery by me

[xwhatsit]

Sorry to the Harley Davidson (looked like a Sporty?) just before the Newmarket Viaduct today half an hour ago. I followed you for about a kilometre where you stayed inline with traffic and stuck in a proper lane. Was just splitting to overtake when you started moving into lane 2a. If you'd used your indicator I would've guessed but instead I just hit the picks.

Possibly I looked like a complete twat trying to barge my way though. Didn't mean it like that. I don't really want to shit in my own nest, as it were.

[snuffles]

fuck him, he s only a harley rider

[Blackshear]

Sorry to the Harley Davidson (looked like a Sporty?) just before the Newmarket Viaduct today half an hour ago. I followed you for about a kilometre where you stayed inline with traffic and stuck in a proper lane. Was just splitting to overtake when you started moving into lane 2a. If you'd used your indicator I would've guessed but instead I just hit the picks.

Possibly I looked like a complete twat trying to barge my way though. Didn't mean it like that. I don't really want to shit in my own nest, as it were.

I don't think he'll be on KB, he'll be waiting with a meat cleaver tomorrow :lol:

[Elysium]

Did you get a look a what gang patch he was wearing? :laugh::2guns:

[madbikeboy]

Where's your fucking man card? If he's in the way, pushing him out of the way is just fine - this is NZ after all.

[martybabe]

As the owner of a Harley T shirt I have the power to exonerate you. Go forward in piece my son, all is forgiven, anybody that can use the term dickwaddery can't be all bad.:laugh:

[gijoe1313]

There is a Freudian connotation here, I think it is a combination of being a Honda rider combined with the leather fetish combined with the whipping frenzy of tassles ...

X-whatsit-formerly-known-as-Xerxesdaphat ... you are really wanting to be a crusier rider! :whistle:

[Murray]

Did he wave????

[Kiwi Graham]

fuck him, he s only a harley rider

Oi dont tar everybody with the same brush :spanking:

[CookMySock]

[ I? ] Was just splitting to overtake when you started moving into lane 2a. If you'd used your indicator I would've guessed but instead I just hit the picks.If HE had used his mirror it might have helped too. Splitting with no mirrors and no indicators? I don't think you are the twat here.

Steve

[BiK3RChiK]

If HE had used his mirror it might have helped too. Splitting with no mirrors and no indicators? I don't think you are the twat here.

Steve

You forgot the head check...<_<

[Big Dave]

I think there is some duty of care/courtesy that lies with a following rider too.

If you are lane splitting it requires intense forward concentration to avoid lane changers.

Too much time in the mirrors can prove costly.

DAMHIK.

Cut another rider some slack till he/she spots you.

[fergie]

Ah the joy of living in the city,:woohoo:

[Dooly]

Did he wave????

Was thinking the same.
Cos thats all that matters.:lol:

[MsKABC]

Go forward in piece my son,

Or do you mean pieces? :D

[rosie631]

If HE had used his mirror it might have helped too. Splitting with no mirrors and no indicators? I don't think you are the twat here.

Steve

I would agree with that.

[Gubb]

I would agree with that.

You'd be the only one.

[xwhatsit]

I think there is some duty of care/courtesy that lies with a following rider too.

If you are lane splitting it requires intense forward concentration to avoid lane changers.

Too much time in the mirrors can prove costly.

DAMHIK.

Cut another rider some slack till he/she spots you.
Exactly why I felt bad. The guy had enough on his plate trying to get through the lanes in one piece without me popping up by surprise.

It was like when you are trying to get by somebody in a narrow corridor -- `You first!,' `No, you!,' `No you go...'

[Big Dave]

Streetball rulez: No blood - no foul.

[Motu]

You need a more authorative exhaust note - ride like a duck...quack,quack.Ride up to his rear quarter and back off...knock knock,I'm here....You need to ride with a gang more often,you'll pick these things up pretty quick....

[xwhatsit]

You need a more authorative exhaust note - ride like a duck...quack,quack.Ride up to his rear quarter and back off...knock knock,I'm here....You need to ride with a gang more often,you'll pick these things up pretty quick....
I fitted the Cycleworks, but after re-packing it it's quite civil. Even so, I'm sure there's more cars moving over to let me through.

However, riding down the motorway (where it finishes up in Mt Wellington, the little one that goes over Sylvia Park), had the ex on the back. As I'm engine braking, the exhaust note suddenly becomes ridiculously loud. I pull over... the little bolt on the underside of the zorst has vibrated out and the baffle is hanging 60cm out of the end of the pipe, looking like a small dead black bird with the packing ruffling in the breeze of the exhaust. I told the ex it's because she's got a fat arse.

Stuffed it back in there; as soon as I blipped the throttle it came farting out again. Idled bike carefully around the corner to Wade Automotive (literally happened right on the corner where they are, I have such good luck sometimes), nice young guy there gave me a bolt and washer and I was happily on my way again.

I think even a guy on a Harley would know I'm there with an unbaffled straight pipe. Unfortunately so would my neighbours :girlfight:

[caseye]

A noisey pipe is as good as a fog horn for waking up the cage drivers in front, it also tells other bikers you are about, pity is the neighbours factor always comes into it when going home. LOL.
I personally am worried that he didn't wave, as most harley riders are good sports and usually do wave, even if only with 1 finger.