Lane splitting in rush hour?

[James Deuce]

After the new BP advertisment on the TV (the one that features a Motorcycle/Rabbit road trip) ... how could we possibly get a bad name ... ??

Having had a pet rabbit that dude's tank bag is fucked. It's full of piss and rabbit pellets.

He should have just eaten it like a normal person.

[mossy1200]

The answer to the cost inequity is extremely simple. Take the entire ACC budget from income tax take (both personal and business).

You cant do that. That's how the acc system is supposed to be. Being an insurance company makes a lot more surplus as you can risk access and punish those that you can alienate and risk access as a minority group. When there is toll booths at ski fields, equestrian events and rugby grounds maybe the rest of NZ will notice.

[Racing Dave]

He should have just eaten it like a normal person.

A normal person doesn't taste as good as a rabbit does...

[James Deuce]

A normal person doesn't taste as good as a rabbit does...

You're not cooking them right. I have some pork recipes that are just phenomenal. One of them even produces decent crackling, despite using a crock pot to cook the meat.

[Big Dog]

A pet I'd likely return. A wild rabbit would meet a slow cooker and a 1/2 bottle of wine. Once reduced be peeled of the bone, added to some onion, veggies and gravied and baked into a two pastry pie.

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[Big Dog]

Maybe a little blue vein or cheddar.

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[Old Steve]

Lane splitting scares the sh** out of me, and I see some stupid behaviour on Auckland motorways. We all know how quickly motorbikes come up from behind, even as a motorbike rider I get surprised when a bike comes up fast behind me and passes me - a bike can travel a long way between looks in the rear vision mirror.

However, I lane filter, and have done from a couple of months after I started riding. But there's a difference between lane filtering and lane splitting - just before I came home from Queensland they introduced legal lane filtering, less than 30 km/hr, not in school zones, L platers not allowed. And the QLD road rules carries a distinction between lane filtering and lane splitting and highlights that lane splitting is still illegal.

When NSW did a lane filtering trial in Sydney for 6 months, they found that traffic flow improved by 4% and it was a win-win for both motorbikers and car drivers (for every motorbike lane filtering to the front of the queue one car moved up in the queue as a motorbike within the queue takes up almost the same length as a car).

But I cringe when I see a sports bike rider, wearing jandals, shorts, tee-shirt, no gloves and only a mandatory helmet go speeding down between lanes of cars doing 80 km/hr or more. Well I cringe when I see a rider wearing that sort of gear anytime. Thankfully more riders are wearing more protective gear now it's winter. I once picked a sports bike rider up off a roundabout, he'd been wearing jandals, shorts, tee-shirt, no gloves and only a helmet, where he'd hit a diesel spill and low sided into the gutter. Feet, calves, thighs, buttocks, shoulders and hands were a mess, and he was probably only doing no more than 30 km/hr when he came off. Took him to A&E, and the admissions nurse said, "Self inflicted injury?" I thought I was very restrained in not giving him an ATGATT lecture as I drove him to the hospital.

[Berries]

I once picked a sports bike rider up off a roundabout, he'd been wearing jandals, shorts, tee-shirt, no gloves and only a helmet, where he'd hit a diesel spill and low sided into the gutter. Feet, calves, thighs, buttocks, shoulders and hands were a mess, and he was probably only doing no more than 30 km/hr when he came off.

No worse than a cyclist falling off then?

[nerrrd]

Kudos to the rider I saw lane splitting down Gt North Rd into New Lynn on Friday night, it was mesmerising, indicate right, sashay to the right, switch to the left, a few blinks left, back to the right indicate right and so on, positively balletic it was.

Not so much kudos to the lane splitting sandwich I was in the night before, one speeding past on the left, one a bit slower on the right, wobbly old me in the middle with the cars. Very hard to distinguish bike headlights from all the other headlights in the queue at night in my mirrors.

[awa355]

After the new BP advertisment on the TV (the one that features a Motorcycle/Rabbit road trip) ... how could we possibly get a bad name ... ??

How the f..k does a rabbit found down the sth isl, get to belong to some kid up Auckland way???

[Moi]

How the f..k does a rabbit found down the sth isl, get to belong to some kid up Auckland way???

It got left behind... was it accidental? - we'll never know...

also...

what about the bridge that appears to have moved many kms south from its natural home on the Waikato River?



Just a shame about the product being advertised...

[swbarnett]

also...

what about the bridge that appears to have moved many kms south from its natural home on the Waikato River?

Yeah, I noticed that. Pretty big detour - Tuakau to Auckland via the deep south.

And then there's the BP station that he pulls into shortly after crossing the Tuakau bridge that's in Kumeu (north-west of Auckland).

[pzkpfw]

How the f..k does a rabbit found down the sth isl, get to belong to some kid up Auckland way???

The house across the road from the guy has a "Sold" sign on it.



Fuck me. I paid attention to an ad. I'm doomed.

[Maha]

I saw a GSX-R600 rider on Friday morning showing me how 'not' to filter as they followed me from Mountain view road onto the Western Springs on-ramp and into town.

Send me a PM if you read here, and Ill give you a quick lesson on how not to do it without rev-bombng every car "in your way", and stick below 120kmph whilst "filtering" just to catch up again as I slow down for the next off-ramp. Might save your life/not give riders a bad image.

Was in a 'discussion' once with a car commuter from out west on this very subject, she spoke of bike riders like that, then added that she ''would just love to open her door on them'' while that is simply a ridiculous reaction, I would assume that she is not a lone car commuter with that thought?

[TheDemonLord]

Was in a 'discussion' once with a car commuter from out west on this very subject, she spoke of bike riders like that, then added that she ''would just love to open her door on them'' while that is simply a ridiculous reaction, I would assume that she is not a lone car commuter with that thought?

This is why we need an RPG based protection system for drivers like that....