Auckland motorcycle riders.

[Juzzy]

It has amazed me after years of motor cross racing, recently starting out road riding the risks riders are taking on busy streets. I have been riding and learning street skills as best i can to enjoy a lifetime of motorcycle riding only to be left amazed at other riders around me! I can understand why we are being killed and
why many vehicle drivers are against the way some of us ride. I could list many events seen but the truth is "the riders that are giving us a bad name" should be aware of the bad habbits that may one day cost them greatly. After driving past a BMW bike vs car on my way to work (Wairau rd) end of last week i was shocked at the damage of the car & bike and felt for the rider still on the road as i drove between all the damage and people trying to help.Only seconds after driving past this point a large sports bike heading towards the mess over a blind hill with the front wheel off the ground blasting past the traffic at very high speed made no sence at all. Honestly I hope that the next few seconds after your wheel stand was the perfect time for you to re-think of what may happen if you ride like a Dick in a busy area at this time of the morning, NOT COOL!

[Latte]

It has amazed me after years of motor cross racing, recently starting out road riding the risks riders are taking on busy streets. I have been riding and learning street skills as best i can to enjoy a lifetime of motorcycle riding only to be left amazed at other riders around me! I can understand why we are being killed and
why many vehicle drivers are against the way some of us ride. I could list many events seen but the truth is "the riders that are giving us a bad name" should be aware of the bad habbits that may one day cost them greatly. After driving past a BMW bike vs car on my way to work (Wairau rd) end of last week i was shocked at the damage of the car & bike and felt for the rider still on the road as i drove between all the damage and people trying to help.Only seconds after driving past this point a large sports bike heading towards the mess over a blind hill with the front wheel off the ground blasting past the traffic at very high speed made no sence at all. Honestly I hope that the next few seconds after your wheel stand was the perfect time for you to re-think of what may happen if you ride like a Dick in a busy area at this time of the morning, NOT COOL!

Yeah that guy isn't on kiwibiker.

[TOTO]

wheelies are illegal

[Mom]

wheelies are illegal

NO! They are NOT big or clever. Geeze TOTO!

[YellowDog]

Saw the same thing with a Yellow Daytona today.

Not good

[TOTO]

NO! They are NOT big or clever. Geeze TOTO!

well they can be big sometimes

[Gremlin]

well they can be big sometimes

and cool

[EJK]

Just curious, is there such a thing as "clever wheelie"?

[Mom]

well they can be big sometimes

and cool

Just curious, is there such a thing as "clever wheelie"?

Where is Boomer when you need him?

[oneofsix]

It has amazed me after years of motor cross racing, recently starting out road riding the risks riders are taking on busy streets. I have been riding and learning street skills as best i can to enjoy a lifetime of motorcycle riding only to be left amazed at other riders around me! I can understand why we are being killed and
why many vehicle drivers are against the way some of us ride. I could list many events seen but the truth is "the riders that are giving us a bad name" should be aware of the bad habbits that may one day cost them greatly. After driving past a BMW bike vs car on my way to work (Wairau rd) end of last week i was shocked at the damage of the car & bike and felt for the rider still on the road as i drove between all the damage and people trying to help.Only seconds after driving past this point a large sports bike heading towards the mess over a blind hill with the front wheel off the ground blasting past the traffic at very high speed made no sence at all. Honestly I hope that the next few seconds after your wheel stand was the perfect time for you to re-think of what may happen if you ride like a Dick in a busy area at this time of the morning, NOT COOL!

Wheelies at 20k umm the speed limit past an accident is still 20 k isn't it?
You will find like minded people as yourself on this forum, let me introduce Katman , now that wasn't nice of me. What you describe sounds seriously frucked in the head. At first I thought it was going to be a rant about filtering or splitting but a wheelie at speed over a blind hill past traffic Katman would have my support in blasting that rider.

[Chancebmx25]

Pop wheelies in the carpArk with open spAce so if u fk out then its ur own fault

[Camshaft]

it sucks but your gonna c alot more of it, stay outa bus lanes! i no we have the right to use them, but its like car drivers somehow check there left mirror even less than their right mirror, seen so many accidents along dominion and whiteswan where a car has turned into bus lane approaching a corner and taken out bikers. not cool

[superman]

Auckland = haven for shitty riders/drivers. I don't know why, must be the silly city mindset in a small country.

[pc10]

Saw the same thing with a Yellow Daytona today.

Not good

only people who cant do them think they are not

[theseekerfinds]

I have seen some total eggs on the road in the capital, primarily it's the speed through traffic thing, the not stopping for red lights or running them as they change from orange to red and the riding across pedestrian crossings when the light is for the pedestrian and not the traffic.. but I have also seen just as many cars break the same rules.. however aside from the strip, and Fast and furious 1 and 5 I haven't seen too many car's pulling wheelies..
I love wheelies, I just can't pull a wheelie to save my life and as such I love seeing them performed (especially off the lights across an intersection when there's next to no traffic), but there is a time and a place for everything.. I see the bad habits of some riders and the repercussions of those habits have left a lasting impression when it all goes wrong. But I have some bad habits of my own to address so I will not be throwing stones in what is ostensibly my own glass house :-)