How long can you ride behind a cager befor you feel the need to overtake.

[crystalball]

Sorry, did I say "tough"?
I meant "seriously immature and delusional".

My mistake.

Thats it you made me cry. Im never coming back.

[Scuba_Steve]

Sorry, did I say "tough"?
I meant "seriously immature and delusional".

My mistake.

I don't get what the problem with "cager" is??? I think it's a good way to encompass all.
Maybee you'd prefer the title - 'how long can you ride behind a car, truck, van, SUV, people mover, or ute before you feel the need to overtake'

[haydes55]

Sorry, did I say "tough"?
I meant "seriously immature and delusional".

My mistake.

Didn't realise colloquialisms weren't allowed.

I'll stop calling my mother "mum" as well.

[Oscar]

Thats it you made me cry. Im never coming back.

Please don't go - we're short of people peddling clichés about motorcyclists..

[Oscar]

I don't get what the problem with "cager" is??? I think it's a good way to encompass all.
Maybee you'd prefer the title - 'how long can you ride behind a car, truck, van, SUV, people mover, or ute before you feel the need to overtake'

I just get bored with it.
Some motorcyclists have to build themselves up by denigrating other road users and/or treating them like chicanes.
One thread will be like this where someone is complaining about how difficult it is to "law-abidding" and then we have one complaining about ACC levies or the attitude of the public towards us.
There's probably no relationship, though.

[crystalball]

I just get bored with it.
Some motorcyclists have to build themselves up by denigrating other road users and/or treating them like chicanes.
One thread will be like this where someone is complaining about how difficult it is to "law-abidding" and then we have one complaining about ACC levies or the attitude of the public towards us.
There's probably no relationship, though.

Anyhow what is a chicane, never heard the word befor.

[Subike]

What made you convert from a classic bike (that actually looks pretty sweet ) to a budget commuter learners bike?

There is also a reason that all classic bikes under 660cc are going to be learners legal, the technology back then is underwhelming compared to a late model Gixxer. 600cc bikes these days have double the horsepower and weigh a lot less than a classic.

A gixxer is slimmer, can filter better, can corner better (a cruiser can't get much lean before it bottoms out), accelerates faster, brakes faster.

still have both those XS1100's
But need a license to ride them dont I, after 30+ years without a license, I decided to conform. Plus the 250 better for work commuting, and is a heap shit load of fun in traffic, on hills, and embarrassing bigger bikes in twisty sections who think a little Chinese cruiser is a piece of shit.

[Oscar]

Didn't realise colloquialisms weren't allowed.

I'll stop calling my mother "mum" as well.

It isn't a colloquialism, it's a cliché

Definition of CLICHÉ
1
: a trite phrase or expression; also : the idea expressed by it
2
: a hackneyed theme, characterization, or situation

[Brayden]

The worst is when a car is going 90 km/s then speeds up in a passing lane. I was following a group of cars on the way back from the rimutakas then about 4 cars sped, shit you not 140 km/s an hour, all four cars.. Couldn't make it past the last car, then back to 90 k's we go. Sad stuff

[xen]

The worst is when a car is going 90 km/s then speeds up in a passing lane. I was following a group of cars on the way back from the rimutakas then about 4 cars sped, shit you not 140 km/s an hour, all four cars.. Couldn't make it past the last car, then back to 90 k's we go. Sad stuff

Thats when you want thou power

[FJRider]

The worst is when a car is going 90 km/s then speeds up in a passing lane. I was following a group of cars on the way back from the rimutakas then about 4 cars sped, shit you not 140 km/s an hour, all four cars.. Couldn't make it past the last car, then back to 90 k's we go. Sad stuff

That last one could have been a mufti ... you were lucky ...

[FJRider]

Anyhow what is a chicane, never heard the word befor.

It's something you have to go around. Some racetracks have stationary chicane's ... public roads have moving ones.

[mossy1200]

Cars will normally try pass me after a few hundred meters. When I have the wife on the back they stay behind alot longer for some reason.
Does my arse look good in this?

[sootie]

agree with onearmedbandit

[ducatilover]

I stay behind cages for a loooong time without overtaking. Riding a GN does that to you.

I can relate

What made you convert from a classic bike (that actually looks pretty sweet ) to a budget commuter learners bike?

There is also a reason that all classic bikes under 660cc are going to be learners legal, the technology back then is underwhelming compared to a late model Gixxer. 600cc bikes these days have double the horsepower and weigh a lot less than a classic.

A gixxer is slimmer, can filter better, can corner better (a cruiser can't get much lean before it bottoms out), accelerates faster, brakes faster.

$30 says I can out ride you on his XS1100 Big ol' girls like that are surprisingly easy to haul around on.
Stating the obvious about a bike designed to go faster or be lighter, will be faster or lighter
$40 says I can pull a wicked skid on his Keeway

The worst is when a car is going 90 km/s then speeds up in a passing lane. I was following a group of cars on the way back from the rimutakas then about 4 cars sped, shit you not 140 km/s an hour, all four cars.. Couldn't make it past the last car, then back to 90 k's we go. Sad stuff

I don't suffer from that on one of my bikes.
The other won't even run for a day, so that's not an issue either lol


Oh and I am more than happy to tootle behind cages.