Damn cagers

[AllanB]

He must be new to motorcycling. That shit happens all the time.

And a motorcyclists has never cut a corner ..............

Hugged the center line .............

[TheDemonLord]

Ever traveled through Northern Italy? They take full size tour buses on roads hardly wider than the bus. The locals don't have a problem with it and patiently wait while two of them do "million-point turns" in order to pass each other.


I see what you're getting at but either way the rider would still have been in the line of the truck.

When all is said and done this is a perfect example of why a right-hander is approached from the left.

Not yet, but if they do it there, I still don't accept it as right or acceptable - plenty of countries do things that in NZ we would consider dangerous/idiotic/regressive etc.

As for the rest of it - I agree - bad lines from the Motocyclist, poor road craft and lucky he only escaped with hair raising footage and a story to tell.

[Tazz]

if buses have to invade the other side, they do so slowly making sure not to hurt anyone.

The problem is with our small population in NZ 99 corners out of 100 or more on a rural road will have nothing coming the other way, so IMO drivers get complacent and used to taking horrible lines in or on any vehicle because they get away with it so often it's not even considered a bad or dangerous habit.

Also there is a bit of impatience built into our driving culture.

[swbarnett]

you are wrong. I'm from northern Italy, and the difference is that if buses have to invade the other side, they do so slowly making sure not to hurt anyone.

When we was there in the late '90s (we lived in Switzerland at the time) we drove on roads that were hardly wide enough for two cars, let alone two tour buses. I would repeatedly pass oncoming traffic with only an inch or two between the mirrors and the same on the other side.

I agree that the driving standard was better there than it is here. I think that may well be due to the heightened risk due to having more traffic on some very narrow, winding roads.

The story of the "million-point" turn was from a friend who sat and waited for twenty minutes while the buses passed on a hair-pin bend.

[Black Knight]

Meh. Weekly encounters over Akaroa Highway.

Or the back road to Russell,but here,along with fully laden logging trucks with trailers, it is tourists gazing at the scenery while they move to your side,or livestock heading to where the grass is greener,or the odd wild pig charging out of the bush at you and then the boy racers!!!
Still,a bloody good ride.

[george formby]

Or the back road to Russell,but here,along with fully laden logging trucks with trailers, it is tourists gazing at the scenery while they move to your side,or livestock heading to where the grass is greener,or the odd wild pig charging out of the bush at you and then the boy racers!!!
Still,a bloody good ride.

Yeah, that sums up most of our local roads. The white line is an optional guide and on the twisty gravel (Waikare / Karetu etc) some drivers have gone beyond one way system to my way system, using the whole bloody road and failing to move. I had to ride off the road side twice on Monday to avoid 4wd's being driven to fast on the right hand side of the road on left hand bends (for them). Would have been a much betterer vid if I had had the go pro
As somebody posted, crossing the centre line is average, to be expected. I don't have a lot of sympathy for the bloke in the vid, not exactly setting himself for success and no, I'm not stressed in the least. Something similar happens at least once every time I ride. I often see vehicles drifting over the center line on open stretches of road regardless of oncoming vehicles never mind something resembling a corner. Lights on, nobody in. It seems the centre line has a magnetic attraction for some.

Oh, you forgot milk tankers, house moving trucks, caravans and fish tailing trailers, my personal fav.

[leathel]

It amuses me when people seek out the tight twisty roads..... then proceed to try and straiten them out by cutting all the corners

[EJK]

https://www.facebook.com/24833050867...type=2&theater

[Tazz]

Fuckin morAn.

[Moi]

Fuckin morAn.

Sir, to whom do you refer?

[Tazz]

Sir, to whom do you refer?

Fine fellow, I of course refer to the downstanding genitalman wearing last nights dessert bowl on his scone while overtaking on an S bend that has clear visibility ahead and to the right, yet is still fucking it up by passing like a sheep behind his mate instead of using his owner peepers.

The sheep part is assumption, the moran part is definitely fact.

Toodle pip!

[Muftin_]

A bit more on the poor fellow

https://www.reddit.com/r/motorcycles...e_of_the_road/

[Moi]

Did I miss the announcement? [in response to 'Had a tractor on the wrong side of the road through a blind corner'

The announcement about no longer having to ride so you can stop within the distance you can see ahead?

Come on, if I missed the announcement someone would tell me... right??

[sil3nt]

A bit more on the poor fellow

https://www.reddit.com/r/motorcycles...e_of_the_road/

[Gremlin]

Did I miss the announcement? [in response to 'Had a tractor on the wrong side of the road through a blind corner'

The announcement about no longer having to ride so you can stop within the distance you can see ahead?

Is it the same guy again? Sheesh. I mean, I had a tractor in the back blocks yesterday, the road so narrow it was pretty much taking the whole thing. I found a handy section of shoulder and pulled over, let it pass and we gave each other a wave.

I mean, I should evidently have yelled, screamed and ridden into it? Yeah, doesn't sound like a plan for longevity...