Cage drivers definitely getting dumber

[FJRider]

... going by the amount of time spent posting condescending remarks, you have all the time in the world.

Never a truer word was spoken. ALL the time in the world.

However ...

It is not untill you are lying on the tarmac bleeding ... do you realise how much time you had. But too often, there is only the realisation of how little time you have left ... and it is measured in hours ... at best.

[Zedder]

Ok so let me relate something from the OTHER side of the coin.
Tonight I left my works car park at about 6pm, still quite heavy traffic, two lanes that about 1.25k up the road splits into a feed to SH2 and a local secondary major road. where I join it limit is 50kph, turning into 70kph at the cake tin. So mr GN250 rider comes past me in traffic, all nicely ATGATT, lane splitting traffic moving at 50kph approx. Lane splitting was simply sitting between the rows of cars at a constant speed roughly 15-20 kph faster. By the 70k mark he is weaving in and out of the 2 lanes, no indicators no rear observations. The 'weaving' consisted of diving in front of a car at roughly 70-75 k when the traffic flow was between 45-55k. He basically was cutting into the tiny gap that rush hour drivers might leave between cars, then diving across the nose of another to keep 'car length hopping' ... I was lane splitting at about 50kph, and brother he was leaving me behind. After joining the motorway it took me from the Aotea quay filter till the filter joining SH2 at Ngauranga heading towards the hutt valley to catch up.. (I'm on a 1700cc bike).. At 70k, mr GN250 was still car hopping with no rear observations or indicators and i'd estimate doing 90k's.

Sorry guys but that's the OTHER side of the coin and he was simply riding with a total disregard for safety or with any roadcraft. Any of the drivers he 'cut up' would they be unjustified in getting pissed, sounding horns, flipping the bird etc, etc??

No argument there, the vehicle drivers had every right to give the idiot rider a rark up.

The vulnerability of bikers when vehicles endanger them is fully understandable too. And yet, even using the horn appears to be deemed too dangerous for the biker even though it is the legal and most accepted method of sounding a warning. So at the end of the day, the non reaction just allows the vehicle driver to continue their bad behaviour. Nothing changes.

[jafar]

The cage pilot that takes the bisciut this week is the 4x4 driver who decided to overtake a semi around a blind left hand bend into the track of on coming traffic. This on SH39 near the Te awamutu turnoff. He had no way of seeing what was coming & relied on dumb luck. This time he got away with it

Or was it the work ute that decided to overtake a truck & trailer into a blind left hand bend, nearly losing it into the hedge, all this just before another truck came round the bend & narrowly missed him. Some people are @ their best before sunrise

[meteor]

Only nerds say 'cage'.

I fucken hate nerds, they got all the hot chicks and all the high paying jobs...

Incidentally, I hate cage drivers too! One of them once sprayed that party string stuff at me and it was a bitch to get off and another pretended to be a camel and spat a chunk of meat pie at me, found it on my jacket when I got home. They're all bastards, all I was doing was splitting past them in a 5 mile long queue... haha fuck em all!

[nzvlogger]

I fucken hate nerds, they got all the hot chicks and all the high paying jobs...

Incidentally, I hate cage drivers too! One of them once sprayed that party string stuff at me and it was a bitch to get off and another pretended to be a camel and spat a chunk of meat pie at me, found it on my jacket when I got home. They're all bastards, all I was doing was splitting past them in a 5 mile long queue... haha fuck em all!

You could probably actually call me a nerd really, android developer and what not. but im married and broke so... lol

[javawocky]

That is the road leading up to Paremoremo jail, so possibly visiting a less intelligent "resident"?

don't know about intelligent, in my case AGE was a factor. Before I lost my cool I saw the familiar purple and white glow of grey hair and realised they probably wouldn't even have heard me shouting at them.

[superjackal]

I see it sometimes where two lanes become one before the Terrace tunnel heading into Wellington in the mornings. See bikes split up to that point, and I wonder where they'll go if the cars do something "unexpected".

I struggle with this everyday in the evenings. So what do you do?

Same goes for going through the Mt Victoria Tunnel to Hataitai. Up to what point is lane-splitting tolerable to cars? How do you tell which ones are the nutters? I had somebody veer left to try to take me out/stop me getting ahead last week. I just gunned it and was gone out of his life.

That's why we ride bikes in rush hour isn't it?

What is 2 into 1 etiquette?

[G4L4XY]

Hardly worth getting upset over, was it?

He probably posted on his local forum about the "cager" (o0o im a nerd now) who almost killed him

[Devil]

What is 2 into 1 etiquette?

Dont be in the middle when it merges. Not rocket science. Either find your own correct space, or move right and prepare to go around the right side of all the cars. Whichever you choose is often dictacted to by the particular road.

[superjackal]

Dont be in the middle when it merges. Not rocket science. Either find your own correct space, or move right and prepare to go around the right side of all the cars. Whichever you choose is often dictacted to by the particular road.

Thanks for that. Must say, have been going "left" quite often!

[Devil]

Overtaking on the left is illegal unless the traffic is stationary or in the process of turning right.

[tuirider]

Ok so let me relate something from the OTHER side of the coin.

And I must confess just this morning I had one of these "what the hell was I thinking" moments...
So if you have a friend in a yellow van or silver SUV who bitches about that stupid biker on Aro Valley road, that was me...

What's your most embarrassing "what was I thinking" moment?

[James Deuce]

What's your most embarrassing "what was I thinking" moment?

Creating a KB account.

[superjackal]

Overtaking on the left is illegal unless the traffic is stationary or in the process of turning right.

You sure about that?

[Devil]

Quite sure.