You HAVE to be alert when sharing the road with DICKHEADS!

[Str8 Jacket]

Well they say third time lucky but it was the opposite for me today....

1st incident: Car turned the wrong way up a one way street (molesworth) toward me. I manage to swerve to avoid him.

2nd incident: lady in car at roundabout waits until I am almost in front of her to pull out in front of me. I manage to brake and stop just beside her bonnet.

3rd incident: lady (parked next to curb) pulls out of carpark just as I am by her drivers door. I couldnt brake in time to completely avoid her so tried to go around her but there was a car coming the other way. I managed to brake but for some reason I tried to jump of my bike. Bike ends up "leaned" against ladies car, me on road. I only had a very very minor fall but landed on my crook knee which is now filling up with fluid. *sigh*.

Luckily I decided to go to the supermarket and buy beer after incident 1 and my bike is sweet!!

Beer time!

[Edbear]

You missed the bit about where you gave her a good telling off...

[yungatart]

You attract this sort of thing, don't you?
Glad you are okay, have a beer for me, will ya!

[Okey Dokey]

So is this a good day for you to get a lotto ticket, or a bad one?

Actually, luck ( except the bad kind that had you end up around these useless folk) had little to do with any of these- it was your skill and observation that kept you safe (ish) Mend well.

[Str8 Jacket]

You missed the bit about where you gave her a good telling off...

Yep, and then I looked at her car. My handlebars had badly scraped her drivers door and ripped of the wing mirror. My bike is sweet!

You attract this sort of thing, don't you?
Glad you are okay, have a beer for me, will ya!

I do get some bad luck but in a weird way I am also lucky. Things could have been much worse with all three of those incidents. They all happened within 20mins of each other as well!!
I will have a couple for you!

I am off to buy some airhorns ASAP!

[firefighter]

Bummer. Seems to be the time of year.

Riding up from Tauranga yesturday a 4x4 decided since he could'nt pass he would'nt let me either, so swerves at me forcing me over the double yellow rumble line (stupid things that they are), then some stupid Raji in a cab on the m-way comes up along side me in the middle lane (i'm in the right lane behind a car) then seconds after he's pulled beside me he's forgotten i'm there and decides my lane means more to him than it does me. Lucky I saw it coming and was ready on the horn. It seems to be a bit worse than usual at the mo.

Bummer about the knee I've had a crook right knee for over a year which i'm hiding from the doc (bad enough to hugely favour my left and is getting worse) so I can sympathise with you, if that happened to me it'd be surgery.

What's crook with ya knee? I'm pretty sure mines a miniscus (sp) tear.

[Skyryder]

Yea had a silly bitch come out at me today in the cage. She's half out in the road from a shopping centre exit so I figure she's waiting forme to go past then right at the last minute she drives out in front of me and does a right hander. So I give her a blast to wake her up and the silly bitch just grins at me as she drives past.

That's the bit that pisses me off. Their indifferance to their bad driving.


Skyyrder

[Deano]

I managed to brake but for some reason I tried to jump of my bike.

Hey if you were jumping into a free space at the last moment I'd say you have the reflexes of a cat and bloody well done on minimising the damage.

[p.dath]

1st incident: Car turned the wrong way up a one way street (molesworth) toward me. I manage to swerve to avoid him.

I had a similar incident happen mid-December when I was in my car when I met a lady also in a car enter a one lane road going the wrong way. There obviously wasn't enough room for two cars, and I had a go at the lady and asked her what she thought she was doing. She just shrugged her shoulders like driving down a one way road was okay.

She backed out, and when I was clear, proceeded to drive down the wrong way again. I was a little exasperated at the time. But what can you do. No point reporting it.

[mynameis]

[mattian]

Molesworth St. thats in Taita ? right ?

[Str8 Jacket]

Molesworth St. thats in Taita ? right ?

No the city. Its is off the street that the Beehive is on...

[YellowDog]

No the city. Its is off the street that the Beehive is on...

It was probably an overpaid MP.

Glad you got all of your 2010 incidents out of the way in one day!

Hope the knee calms down (plenty of ice).

Good luck.

[sinfull]

You got enough armourall to protect that knee Hells ?

Tis a numbers game in your case, the amount of riding you do in the city ! If ya aint having a close call at least once a day, they're gonna come at ya all at once, toward the end of the week !

I recon good elbow armour as well, so when the blind ones come out at ya like that one did, ya manouver yaself into the centre of the road ! There should be just enough room for two cars and you, if ya tuck that left elbow firmly through the drivers window !~

[peasea]

Well they say third time lucky but it was the opposite for me today....

1st incident: Car turned the wrong way up a one way street (molesworth) toward me. I manage to swerve to avoid him.

2nd incident: lady in car at roundabout waits until I am almost in front of her to pull out in front of me. I manage to brake and stop just beside her bonnet.

3rd incident: lady (parked next to curb) pulls out of carpark just as I am by her drivers door. I couldnt brake in time to completely avoid her so tried to go around her but there was a car coming the other way. I managed to brake but for some reason I tried to jump of my bike. Bike ends up "leaned" against ladies car, me on road. I only had a very very minor fall but landed on my crook knee which is now filling up with fluid. *sigh*.

Luckily I decided to go to the supermarket and buy beer after incident 1 and my bike is sweet!!

Beer time!

I commute on my bike, I don't know if you do, and things like that happen on an almost daily basis. I have often thought that it would be good to install a helmet cam' and record an average day on the bike then take the video to ACC to show them where the problems stem from.

It's about time some TV types took the time to make a program looking at things from our perspective in an effort to wake up a very dozy public. The LTNZ boffins spend enough money on ad's about drink driving and speeding, where are the ad's relating to watching for bikes, indicating at roundabouts and getting to grips with such basics as the right-hand rule?