Originally Posted by PrincessBandit
True enough, it may not be a monopoly but the Police do have considerable market representation in that regard.
Doesn't sound good Terbang. Take it easy and heal well.
They call me Mr Fahrenheit
True enough, it may not be a monopoly but the Police do have considerable market representation in that regard.
Doesn't sound good Terbang. Take it easy and heal well.
Keep on chooglin'
Fully Foxed
I think if you consider their accident rate on a per kilometre covered basis it would look pretty good no?
Heal quick terbang. If I may be so bold, how is your Daughter and her partner doing?
Hardcore Biker
People fuck up without realising it. If someone kicked my mirror off, i'd run the cunt off the road. Accidents do happen.
On the road, size matters. Intimidation and the tough guy act doesn't work.
Hardcore Biker
Yeah people fuck up, and if you fuck up so much you nearly killed someone ...you loose fucking mirror, fucking fair and realy simple bro...
minion
Get well, I can understand your pain, it does heal, hope you are riding again soon...
Forum whore
Fuck you're a dickhead. It's that sort of shit that will lead to a totally innocent motorcyclist being targetted by some irrate car driver as pay back for the wing mirror they lost.
Loud and Uncouth
I've smacked the mirrors off all my cars 'cause that way motorcyclists think I'm a crap driver and stay away from me
...if I do a U-turn and wipe them out?
Well they've had fair warning and can't complain....
Winding up drongos, foil hat wearers and over sensitive KBers for over 14,000 posts...........
" Life is not a rehearsal, it's as happy or miserable as you want to make it"
on a lighter note TB - a very nice Indian reg'd G550 was in HLZ over Xmas - full of Bollywood starts looking for properties to buy. had been to ZQN and NSN as well. Big orange and brown flashes across the tail - rego VT-BRS
Forum whore
Hey terbang = I hope you are doing well. How is your daughter?
I often think back on this thread when out riding, thank youI am sure it has saved my ass more than once!
Loud and Uncouth
Not a good start to 2011, fingers crossed that things only get better,
All the best and look after yourself.
Winding up drongos, foil hat wearers and over sensitive KBers for over 14,000 posts...........
" Life is not a rehearsal, it's as happy or miserable as you want to make it"
Hardcore Biker
I've had more issues with 45+ white men in their hsv's that hate admitting that they dont own the road.
Forum whore
Sounds like a large number of motorcyclists.
Coal Burning XV Rider!
Hope the ongoing effects of this accident have now been rectified.
Your intention in posting this account is admirable and of course it was going to attract attention.
In this case it stopped another rider from making a similar situation worse by simply remembering your story and "stopping' to see what happened next.
For those who asked for advice as to what to do in a similar situation, read what happened to p.dath.
The message is not, damn car drivers, damn asians, damn roads,rights or wrongs or who was at fault? it's "do everything YOU can to avoid getting hurt.
It's Make Sure of your own safety on your bike, do whatever it takes to not be involved in an accident.
Terbang, please don't confuse my messages above as making any negative comment on your accident,you did it all right, right up until she turned across you, that you could not stop, from that point on you were in the hands of the gods.
If you are riding off after a potential accident has been avoided then everything that Terbang, p.dath and katman have said and done here will have been to good effect.
It is exactly that scenario that katman is trying to bring about.
Collective experience, coupled with taking complete responsibility for our own SAFETY, not road rights ( they, road rights, don't stop us getting DEAD)
This thread has evoked some spirited discussion and some very strong opinions and ideas.
I am truely grateful that you and your daughter and her BF are all Ok and that this thread is about an accident, not another biker/s down.
How is the BF holding up, he'd not have been happy seeing you and her going for a burton.
He was right to be indignant and hostile to anyone who just wants to flee an accident scene, unfortunately this driver will never become a better driver for this experience.
Arrogance and ineptitude is thinly disguised by a veneer of politeness and respectability amongst a great many foreign nationals here in NZ.
Every day above ground is a good day!:
Hardcore Biker
I've done a stack of miles over the last ten days or roads with poor vision. There were quite a few corners that, as I approached them, though to myself "If a tourist comes around the corner on the right (wrong) side of the road I'm pretty much fucked"
All this at moderate speeds and well within my lane.
I agree with your sentiment that it is neessary to ride in such a way that the presumption is that every other road user is out to cause you harm.
Verbally however, your insistance on kicking the injured rider IN EVERY CASE dilutes your message.
"Katman," people think, What a fucking dick he'd be then"
Shit does happen. Good luck to you.
"I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it." -- Erwin Schrodinger talking about quantum mechanics.
Whisky Tango Foxtrot?
That's the main reason I like to read about others misfortunes on this site - so I can think about what happened and what I could do if I found a similar situation unfolding in front of me. I'd rather learn from other people's misfortune than suffer that misfortune myself - if I can.
Reading these threads make me think that even if I'm in a hurry it could be worth exercising a little patience and arriving a minute later than to rush passed someone and get hit so that I don't get to where I'm going at all.
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"If the cops didn't see it, I didn't do it!"
- George Carlin (RIP)
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