OK, so maybe being a bitch isn't working.

[James Deuce]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4778836a11.html

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4778813a11.html

Please,please, please, from the bottom of my heart, do whatever you can to not fall off, get hurt, or die. Fall off on the track, or at a motorcross park, or even on a trail ride with your mates. Chances are those arenas are more forgiving.

But the road is different, as much as you think it is safe, as much as you think you're in control. It's different and deserves more respect than a track, or a motorcross park, or even a trail ride, things that people look at from the outside as dangerous. They have nothing on the road.

I look at my kids after I read articles like those and I think to myself, "even a cunt like Carver has people who feel about him, like I do about my kids."

And still people cross the centreline, assume that granny has given way, and think that trying to put right a "wrong" some clueless road user in a 2 tonne SUV has committed "against" you by knocking a wing mirror off is OK.

Aggression, competition, laissez faire overtaking, and baiting "Boy Racers" are all expressions of nihilistic stupidity.

Motorcycling is a transcendent act. How about using a ride to transcend some of those urges and just enjoy being. Precious few have what we have.

[Maha]

OK, so maybe being a bitch isn't working.

Works for me....ask Trudes or Number one.

[Number One]

Geez James I was expecting a very different thread based on your title and was going to say - if it ain't working you ain't doing it right!

OK, so maybe being a bitch isn't working.

Works for me....ask Trudes or Number one.

That's right Maha - just ask Trudes she's a great bitch one of the best in fact

[tri boy]

And yet some road riders still push far past even "sensible" spirited road riding.
Case in point, coming back from Coro on the winding/narrow/built up/weekend family time, a Busa, and CBRR coming from the opposite direction were dicing at mega speed between rows of cars, just to compare stupidity levels

Children and old folks on both sides of the road, and dumb n dumber showed outstanding lack of consideration for all other humans in the vicinty.

Some riders come to grief under what I would deem motorcycling's common risks, while others deserve whatever is dished up to them. (hopefully without harming others).

[Coyote]

I'm taking the bus (not that I've ever bitched about that on this site before) and I reckon, with all the drunk arseholes, crips and bloods, holier-than-thou/aggressive mentally disabled people (both a derogatory term for normal people but mainly to be taken literally), careless bus drivers with a "might is right" mentality, and other repressed memories, riding a turbo'd ZX10R without a helmet on Ice during the school SUV run time during a solar eclipse would be safer. And here's a second sentence to make this a paragraph.

[rainman]

Pahiatua man Anthony Jury, 49, died at the scene of the collision between his motorcycle and a Holden Commodore on Makomako Road about 3.50pm.

Fuck. RIP Tony. I only ever talked to him on the phone but he seemed to be a top bloke.

But to get back on topic, I agree, there's a lot of dumb riding out there.

[jrandom]

At least the guy who rode head-on into a car on the Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge route had the decency to do it two days after the bicycle race. Imagine the fuss if he'd done it on the day.

Three dead riders in three days... the annual silly season marches along. Spring fever. It's the same in every country that has roads and motorcycles.

[Fatjim]

I shall continue to smack mirrors of dickheads that STOP in the middle lane of the motorway when they can't get into the left hand one. I don't fancy seeing someone get squashed when someone behind can't stop in time.

I shall also continue to kick the shit out of vehicles that try and squash me.

i will also berate those cunts that block the right hand lane on the Terrace offramp because they want to get into the left hand one. I will also block said cunts from ever getting in the left hand lane and make them drive up the terrace instead of Boulcott st.

I will also try and stay alive by treating everyone on the road as if they are blind, stupid, and/or suicidal.

[Brian d marge]

and there was another poor sod on a triumph today, cant agree
more , race track is race track, road is road

and I am as guilty as sin

but I ve seeeeeen the light

and bought an Enfield

and to thosse born again bikers , Just because you rode a James Captain when in your Yoof does not make you a motorcyclist, iy makes you a car driver on a missile, with a one way ticket to oblivion ( right on peoples poet )

Now the sad fact is , if this years statistics are similar to last years

we need 7 more young lives

leave the testosterone at home

Please

Stephen

[slimjim]

I shall continue to smack mirrors of dickheads that STOP in the middle lane of the motorway when they can't get into the left hand one. I don't fancy seeing someone get squashed when someone behind can't stop in time.

I shall also continue to kick the shit out of vehicles that try and squash me.

i will also berate those cunts that block the right hand lane on the Terrace offramp because they want to get into the left hand one. I will also block said cunts from ever getting in the left hand lane and make them drive up the terrace instead of Boulcott st.

I will also try and stay alive by treating everyone on the road as if they are blind, stupid, and/or suicidal.

last bit....i strongly second.....

[Pwalo]

It's sad, but simply staying on your their side of the road would probably have saved most of these people.

I usually don't ride in the weekends. Too many people in too much of a hurry just not paying any attention to what's going on around them.

[riffer]

Three dead riders in three days...

Two years running. Exactly the same time of year. I've stopped riding the first Dec weekend.

[kiwifruit]

At least the guy who rode head-on into a car on the Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge route had the decency to do it two days after the bicycle race. Imagine the fuss if he'd done it on the day.

He rode into a car about 10 minutes before i came thru. I'm glad he didn't ride into me. Feel sorry for the lady he rode into...

[carver]

I look at my kids after I read articles like those and I think to myself, "even a cunt like Carver has people who feel about him, like I do about my kids."

yeah, cause i aint a cunt.
in real life im a arrogant cocky prick, but ya got to be happy with who you are

[James Deuce]

Wondered if you'd bite.