Bikers who ride on Onewa Rd in the mornings...

[Al]

Placidfemme, not me you've seen...
I ride a yellow BMW "dual-purpose", no saddle bags, sometimes a top-box, ALWAYS filter whenever possible! (otherwise I would sit in a cage and wait!)
Good luck with your Onewa saga

Al

[oldfart]

Jim2, your onto it. What a waste of intellectual effort to even respond to bad driving. In most cases its a simple case of the driver didn't see us. Trashing spmeone's vehicle because of some imagined slight is pretty dumb.
It is rather interesting how many m/cyclists develop this us & them mentality towards cars drivers, (who just happen to be their wives/mothers/cousins/brothers etc) & seem to think they are a different race. The bad driving skills displayed by joe average car driver are no different to the bad driving skills displayed by joe average m/cyclist.

[placidfemme]

Placidfemme, not me you've seen...
I ride a yellow BMW "dual-purpose", no saddle bags, sometimes a top-box, ALWAYS filter whenever possible! (otherwise I would sit in a cage and wait!)
Good luck with your Onewa saga

Al

Oh ok, I didn't realise your bike was yellow. There is someone else who rides up Onewa Rd on a BMW that doesn't split lanes... I think it's the only bike I've seen that doesn't split lanes up Onewa Rd. I've been going up Onewa Rd some days and have like 3 bikers infront of me and about 3 behind me all filtering up the road lol

Well in any case... ride safe

[Lou Girardin]

Jim2, your onto it. What a waste of intellectual effort to even respond to bad driving. In most cases its a simple case of the driver didn't see us. Trashing spmeone's vehicle because of some imagined slight is pretty dumb.
It is rather interesting how many m/cyclists develop this us & them mentality towards cars drivers, (who just happen to be their wives/mothers/cousins/brothers etc) & seem to think they are a different race. The bad driving skills displayed by joe average car driver are no different to the bad driving skills displayed by joe average m/cyclist.

So the truch driver that looked straight at at me and pulled out when I was 30 metres away, "didn't see me" or my headlight and I should not waste any intellectual effort in remonstrating in the strongest possible terms.
One's things for sure, if there was anything to damage on his truck I would have.
We're not talking about fender benders for bikers, these cretins can kill us.

[Quasievil]

I've seriously wanted to kick off a few side mirrors as I go... But then all the cage drivers around who see will automatically think all bikers are arseholes

Personally when Im on the bike I try not to let a cage driver get away with anything I respond with a finger a fist shake, or a kick, which I have done twice in the last year because they deliberately tried to either hit me or run me off the road.

However on a sensible note if youre going to kick a mirror off make sure they can get you back and secondly make sure you dont fall off.

Personally i would recommend you dont kick a mirror but whack (if at low speed) it so it bends backwards, the spring return of the mirror will make a horrible noise, that will piss them off ,but there wont be any damage involved

on a couple of occassions I have invited a motorist to park up to have a chat about it also, they never do.

At the end of the day its wise to steer clear of these drivers, personally Im a bit aggro when cars cut me off or whatever and I take possibly the wrong action and come out fighting, I have a well adopted philosophy of "there is only one UM and thats FUCK UM" something my uncle taught me

peace out

[vifferman]

What kind of car do you drive?

It's a blue one. Although sometimes I take the silver one. Or the red one.
LOL. No, you wouldn't see me, as if I'm in one of the cars, I leave anywhere from 6:50 to 7:30, and on the bike (it's a blue one too, I think) I usually leave about 7:45 to 8:05.

Had to take the bike today (Oh, the humanity!!) and a car's mirror knocked against mine while filtering. It knocked mine out of place - should I have gone back and aggroed the car driver a bit?
Actually, I should be more careful - I've broken two mirrors so far, and they're not cheap.

Apart from the car mirror, I had no bad experiences today, although following someone who was obviously using a menu as his driver's licence was somewhat disturbing, as his car wandered all over the road, slowed down/sped up/slowed down, and took some very weird lines. Eejit.

[placidfemme]

lol

I've never knocked my mirrors on any car mirrors... I do a bit of swerving to duck between the mirrors on either side... I think the worst thing I've done... was...

*is ashamed to admit this*

I was filtering down Onewa Rd behind my partner... and usually when we reach the part of Onewa Rd where the traffic starts to merge, I try to merge to the right and then go up the centre line once I've made sure the on-coming traffic is in the far lane and there is no cops parked at the traffic lights waiting to turn onto the motorway... and this one morning I was behind my partner and went to pull out and my partner decided for the first time EVER to do the same thing... we both pulled out at almost the same time and my ankle hit her pipe and gave her a good scare and me a nice sore ankle...

I suppose we were both in the wrong for wanting to ride up the centre line, and I was wrong for assuming that she would... like usual... stay in the traffic and crawl up towards the motorway... That will teach me...

[johnny]

Hey

My partner and I ride down Onewa Rd every morning to the motorway, and I've started to notice a pattern with certain cage drivers that deliberatly cause problems for bikers... I've started to take note on which type of cars these are and how they behave most mornings... and so in general, if any other bikers ride up Onewa Road, they can keep an eye out for these dangrous drivers...

There is a white VW Golf with a female driver, I've seen her 3 times in the last week. Most cage drivers move over a little and give bikers some room when they see/hear you coming, which is great. I've had this VW driver nearly squash me into a 18 wheeler truck, and the other two times I saw her, she moves over as close to the car next to her, making it impossible to get past...

This morning I was following another biker (With a white helmet on a bike bigger than 400cc - not sure as I only saw him/her from behind) down Onewa Road just before the traffic merges... We both slowed down next to a red car (A Holden no less... with a male driver), when the traffic started moving again he stay still, I had my indicator on, as did the biker infront, and him (cage driver) not moving made me think he was waiting for me (and the biker ahead of me) to pull in and merge... at the last minute the cage driver revved up and moved forward a lot faster than crawling morning traffic required, I swerved over to avoid being hit, as did the biker ahead, So I pulled in behind the Red car and then took off up the centre line...

A lot more incidents have happened, but from now on I'm going to keep a running record of dangerous cage drivers to keep an eye out for on Onewa Road.

Anyway... to the biker in the white helmet... I feel your anger too... I saw you shaking your head... proberly swearing away in your helmet....

Ride safe

Good Man!!
traffic is bad already we dont need these bad car driver to make any more pain!!! When i not riding my bike i give away to any biker i see who is going to pass me from behind and once a biker even wave to me (as saying thanks i think) If everyone no matter you drive or ride are respect eachother this world will be lot better !!!

[placidfemme]

Good Man!!
traffic is bad already we dont need these bad car driver to make any more pain!!! When i not riding my bike i give away to any biker i see who is going to pass me from behind and once a biker even wave to me (as saying thanks i think) If everyone no matter you drive or ride are respect eachother this world will be lot better !!!

I agree! I try to wave whenever possible... I find it quite hard when splitting lanes as dodging mirrors takes both hands on the bar, but when goign slow enough I always try to wave

[vifferman]

lol

I've never knocked my mirrors on any car mirrors... I do a bit of swerving to duck between the mirrors on either side....

It's partly the bike; this is only (I think) the second time I've knocked the mirror, but the VF500 and VFR750 did it quite regularly (possibly partly because I used to filter/lanesplit/overtake/undertake/go over, through and around much more frequently. The VTR was good - very slim, low(ish) mirrors, and a rev of the motor made a nice growly "Get the fork out of my way!" noise when the sea of cars wasn't parting quickly enough.
But I've done more worserer things than knock mirrors: caroomed off the side of a car I was undertaking (thank Bob for fat, indestructible s/steel mufflers and knee armour!); rear footpeg hanger scratched the front of a car I was manoeuvering past (Yes - the FRONT ); riding on the footpath, when the cars were taking up too much of the road; riding on the gravelly/grassy bit beside the motorway when the cars were stationary and taking up too much of the road; folding someone's mirror flat so I could sneak past, etc. etc.

Naughty, eh?!?

[vifferman]

Hi! It's me again!

Was someone being vigilante-ish this morning, or very naughty, on Onewa Road?
Saw some flashing blue'n'red lights behind me ("Gah!! They're after me! What've I done now?!?"), and then the EagleyHelicopterThingo flying around.

C'mon - fess up! Who was knocking mirrors and like that there?

[placidfemme]

lol go hard!

I havn't done most of that... But then again I ride a small route to work and back and other than that I hardly ride much... *still hasn't been on a group ride*

[placidfemme]

Hi! It's me again!

Was someone being vigilante-ish this morning, or very naughty, on Onewa Road?
Saw some flashing blue'n'red lights behind me ("Gah!! They're after me! What've I done now?!?"), and then the EagleyHelicopterThingo flying around.

C'mon - fess up! Who was knocking mirrors and like that there?

lol wasn't me...

I bussed to work today... didn't like the look of the wind...

Rode yesterday... and got the shit scared out of me on my way home... fire truck heading towards the motorway and me heading the other way and as he got next to me he went HONKKKKKKKKKK HONKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKk and I saw the truck but wasn't expecting the horn and without even knowing I gripped the throttle a little too hard and revved and zoomed off up the road before I composed myself lol

[SPman]

if B = hospital

Actually, I find with mirrored visor down, black leather jacket, plastic fantastic bike, perfectly suited personalised plate and my trade mark high beams on, lane 1A tends to part like I'm Moses! I think most cagers get a giggle outta my plate as I avoid queueing

If your trade mark high beam is like the guy on the blue R1 , Northern motorway, @ 6.55am last week.......once my eyes had readjusted to the blindness induced by a full dose of high beam from the side mirror - I felt like cutting the prick off and jumping on his head ! Fucker. When will people realise that high beam is illegal in traffic and 50k areas. Car drivers can see you! Not when they've had their eyeballs fried and cant see anything for 10 seconds! This also applies to fuckwit cages running 27 fog, spot and sundry lights on their fucken SS Commodes and Jap wankmobiles!


ooops!

as you were

[vifferman]

.......once my eyes had readjusted to the blindness induced by a full dose of high beam from the side mirror - I felt like cutting the prick off and jumping on his head !

Indeed.
I've had a couple of instances recently while driving, of bikes behind me with their headlights either on high-beam or badly adjusted, and it's not good! I've had to dip the rearview mirror, then sit crooked in the seat to avoid the light blasting into my eyes from the side mirror of the car. And these are tinted mirrors! With darkish tinted windows!

So it's not just car drivers who are guilty of pharkwittery - anyone can join in the game.