Motorists swerving at bikes

[TheDemonLord]

Please refer back to post #116.

If you refer me to post 116, I will refer to post 117 ad infinitum and then we end up in a continuous loop for all eternity

[The Reibz]

Could you please fuck up? Cheers

[Katman]

If you refer me to post 116, I will refer to post 117 ad infinitum and then we end up in a continuous loop for all eternity

At least that beats listening to you having a cry.

[TheDemonLord]

At least that beats listening to you having a cry.

It would seem that your skill of being able to tell someones riding skill level from internet posts is exceeded only by your hearing and reading comprehension....

[imdying]

I've been riding longer than I've been driving, and I don't make any allowances for lane splitters. Don't block them, but don't look or expect them. Don't remember reading anything in the Road Code about splitting, so isn't even in my thought process.

Splitting moving traffic is, and always has been, for retards; stationary cars don't smear you over the pavement. I've been that retard before.

[Paul in NZ]

Allow me to ride with an RPG7v2 for a couple of months and $10 says it will make a difference....

As soon as the consequences of bad driving are felt by the culprits, we will see driving improve - either by people learning from the mistakes of others, or by Darwinian evolution

Identifing the culprit is the issue...

I drive into town sometimes during rush hour. When on the motorway in heavy traffic trundling along at (say) 80kph I look in my mirrors way more often than most but I can usually only see at best 5 cars back. I'm often caught out by motorcycles splitting past me at speed and I hardly ever see them coming. If I need to change lanes I indicate check the mirror and move across. I can only see 5 cars back and if you are moving 30 or 40 kph faster than me I will end up driving over you... I just can't see you in a place where you are not supposed to be...

[imdying]

It would seem that your skill of being able to tell someones riding skill level from internet posts is exceeded only by your hearing and reading comprehension....

You're new here, on a 250, which means you're probably a new rider. Much of your survival instinct on a bike is hard won through raw experience. Those things, combined with your I'm in the right holy crusader attitude, which appears to be yet to be taken from you via some good old fashioned pain, paints you as new and inexperienced. I'd say he's probably on the money.

[swbarnett]

Splitting moving traffic is, and always has been, for retards

Come and live in Auckland for a while.

[TheDemonLord]

You're new here, on a 250, which means you're probably a new rider. Much of your survival instinct on a bike is hard won through raw experience. Those things, combined with your I'm in the right holy crusader attitude, which appears to be yet to be taken from you via some good old fashioned pain, paints you as new and inexperienced. I'd say he's probably on the money.

There is a lot of probably in your statement, compared to the absolute certainty without any objective proof of Katman's post.

If you must know - I have been riding for about a year - doing 110 Km a day, 5 days a week, with a 1 month exception which was when I binned my bike by grabbing the front brake in traffic (was filtering too fast for the conditions in-case you are interested) Tore several ligaments in my thumb, not to mention the cost of a new Jacket, Gloves and Helmet.

All that said - where and how does that justify a car driver changing lanes without checking their mirrors?

[Katman]

(was filtering too fast for the conditions in-case you are interested)

So I was right then?

[imdying]

Yup, young dumb and full of cum. Katman's post still stands. Even though I've explained it to you, I still don't expect you to get it. You will though, just keeping your pink bits all functioning till then is the fun bit

[TheDemonLord]

So I was right then?

If you mean that at some point in my riding I have made a mistake, then yes - but that is not what you are claiming is it? in which case no, you aren't right

[imdying]

All that said - where and how does that justify a car driver changing lanes without checking their mirrors?

In case you need another heads up, this is the bit you're still not getting.

Who gives a flying fuck about what the cagers are doing, you don't have any control over them.

[Katman]

If you mean that at some point in my riding I have made a mistake, then yes - but that is not what you are claiming is it? in which case no, you aren't right

No, I mean this bit....

You've already proven you can't lane split safely.

[imdying]

Try to remember that they're (generally) not out to get you. They don't hate bikers, far from it, you simply don't feature on their radar. They don't know about bikes, think about bikes, or care about them. Yes that's a shit situation for you as a rider, but I implore you to ride with that in mind. When you put yourself into situations that are atypical for drivers, you're putting yourself in harms way. You ain't gonna change the world.