Tailgaters

**MaxB** · 30th August 2009, 22:40

I lot of it just laziness at night I'm sure. They want you to light up the road in front and just sit on your tailight, braking when you do.

Then if you pull over to let them by and rely on their driving ability you end up catching them up almost straight away.

And then there are those beyond help. Tonight I was cut off by a Previa full of people. In the following 3 km I watched as the driver blew through a stop sign, went on a red light and did 80 kmh though a 30kmh roadworks tailgating other drivers. When I caught up at a busy junction a sign on the tailgate read "Mayflower Chrisian Fellowship." Maybe they will meet their maker a bit sooner than they thought?

**CookMySock** · 31st August 2009, 06:57

Originally Posted by NighthawkNZ

Wrong... I have seen tailgates squabbling with the person in the passenger seat, or yelling at the kids to shut up, even trying to change music or Cd, including chatting on the fucken cell phone... so you statement does not stand up... from experience most tailgaters are hardly looking at the road let along looking ahead...So, wrong...

One event does not make a fact, from you or from I. I bet I have ten times the road experience you do though, so probably you shouldn't shoot your mouth off and put-down so readily.

Steve

**Mikkel** · 31st August 2009, 07:55

Originally Posted by DangerousBastard

so probably you shouldn't shoot your mouth off and put-down so readily.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahaha

**sunhuntin** · 31st August 2009, 08:21

if possibile, i will pull over and force them to pass. the ones i hate are the ones in 100k zones who dont overtake on uphill passing lanes. my lil bike is gutless on hills. silly people.
once, in a 50k zone, i have slammed on the brakes and come to a dead stop in the middle of the lane, but the tail gater had nearly hit me a few mins earlier as i was turning left and she went straight through a stop sign on my right, both of us going the same direction.
by the time she realised what i was doing and reacted, i was already on the gas and moving away. i didnt even have time to put my feet down. she stayed back after that, but ive since had another near run in with her when i waited in the main street for a vehicle to back out of a park, and she decided it would be ok to overtake into oncoming traffic. stupid bitch. shes a customer i knew from bp and has a personal plate.

**SilverGrin** · 31st August 2009, 08:36

Originally Posted by DangerousBastard

One event does not make a fact, from you or from I. I bet I have ten times the road experience you do though, so probably you shouldn't shoot your mouth off and put-down so readily.

Steve

Nearly every time you post, you're bagging someone.
Your advice was crap, you appear to know very little, yet you lambast others (and neg. rep.) for disagreeing with you.

For the record on tailgaters, what is it about pulling over and letting them past that is not to your esteemed approval?
Personally I thought it was very sound advice, and if you knew Nighthawk like many of us here do, your suggestion of having ten times his riding experience is ...well, laughable.

And please don't reply to me with foul language on my home page like last time I thought you were out of line, it says more about you than it will me.

**Jantar** · 31st August 2009, 08:52

Originally Posted by DangerousBastard

One event does not make a fact, from you or from I. I bet I have ten times the road experience you do though, so probably you shouldn't shoot your mouth off and put-down so readily.

Steve

I'll take that bet. 10 times the road experience of NH?

Look DB you are a novice, and from what I have seen on here you would be Dangerous Bastard to ride with.

**CookMySock** · 31st August 2009, 12:20

LOL. I have been commercial driving for 25 years. I know exactly what I am talking about.

edit: when you hit 40,000 hours behind the wheel, come back and start a rational argument - you will be getting in the ballpark around about then.

Steve

**NighthawkNZ:Me** · 31st August 2009, 13:19

Originally Posted by DangerousBastard

LOL. I have been commercial driving for 25 years. I know exactly what I am talking about.

edit: when you hit 40,000 hours behind the wheel, come back and start a rational argument - you will be getting in the ballpark around about then.

wow behind the wheel, with driving experience... didn't relise bikes had a wheel to sit behind. Come back to me with some Riding experience... and 40,000 hrs pfffttt is that all... I have seen some driving instructors that should not have a licence let alone instructing people, seems you are one of them.

**hayd3n** · 31st August 2009, 13:27

Originally Posted by DangerousBastard

LOL. I have been commercial driving for 25 years. I know exactly what I am talking about.

edit: when you hit 40,000 hours behind the wheel, come back and start a rational argument - you will be getting in the ballpark around about then.

Steve

i think ill make a billboard for this one

**hayd3n** · 31st August 2009, 13:32

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**Virago** · 31st August 2009, 14:22

Originally Posted by DangerousBastard

One event does not make a fact, from you or from I. I bet I have ten times the road experience you do though, so probably you shouldn't shoot your mouth off and put-down so readily.

Steve

It must be difficult to shoot your own mouth off, with both feet in there...

I think you should heed your own advice, before assuming such nonsense about the former owner of a successful courier business. NH's road skills would run rings around your ice-cream van.

**hayd3n** · 31st August 2009, 16:09

Originally Posted by Virago

It must be difficult to shoot your own mouth off, with both feet in there...

I think you should heed your own advice, before assuming such nonsense about the former owner of a successful courier business. NH's road skills would run rings around your ice-cream van.

wankers normally shoot in their own mouth lol