Near miss log

[granstar]

I was on the northern motorway heading to city one evening and a car was in the right lane doing 95km with cars passing on the left. I came up a bit close to him following for awhile and he was completely oblivious to me and cars passing on the left. I put my high beam which lit up the entire interior of the car and he panicked and swerved out of his lane nearly swiping a car on his left. I thought shit and turned the high beam off and he regained composure and then just continued on his merry way doing 95km in the fast lane. I passed him along with all the other cars on the left. Makes you wonder where some people get their licences from.

I did this to an oncoming vehicle with it's light on full beam on a poor viz night, and riding tired so my mind wasn't that clear. Flashed my highbeam at em to enduce them to dip them, and what happened next was a bit of a surprise.
That vehicle I found was only on low beam and it flashed it's high beam back at me blinding me a wee bit,.... it was the friggin night train.

[granstar]

What's wrong with kicking the mirror off like the good old days?

maybe a new thread required here, let's call it " Vindictive Motorcyclist Tools"

Recall a story years ago where a guy got tailended at lights, was so pissed managed to get up, and use the broken off staunchion from his wreck to smash the car's panels and windows to bits

[bogan]

Its actually a "near hit". A near miss is a hit whereas a "near hit" is a miss. Stupid terminology when you think about it.

I had one a few days ago. Central otago gravel road, I was going down hill turning left and drifted wide into the path of a 4wd. Scared the crap out of the driver (sorry mate) but managed to avoid hitting him.

It's actually not, the term derives from artillery I believe. In which a near miss refers to almost hitting a target and inflicting damage but not actually doing so; ie, for those being shot at, a near miss is a wake up call.

[nodrog:Me]

http://www.northernontario.travel/im...log-jump-1.jpg

[granstar]

http://www.northernontario.travel/im...log-jump-1.jpg

I see what you did there ....

[RAYDEO]

its kind of a near miss, kind of an arrogant driver story...



I ride a motorcycle Paraparaumu to Wellington return every day, and on the way home tonight I have literally been shoved off the road by an arrogant male driver, in a white 2013ish Ford XR6 ute, who believes lane splitting is wrong and I shouldn't be able to pass him, even though he was doing 30 kph in traffic.
Unfortunately I didn't have my camera on my helmet or I would post the video.


When land splitting i always try to be as respectful as I can, and give the car as much room as possible, and most drivers are also respectful, moving over to allow me through, but as I came up behind this guy, I tried to go up the right, and he pulled over right up on the right hand side painted line, so I hit the anchors and fell back. I then tried to go up the left, but he swerved right out left so his ute was literally straddling the left hand line.
I then tried to go right again only to have him right beside me and coming closer pushing me out of the lane.

Now it doesn't really matter which way you look at it, my life was at stake here, So I believe I'm aloud to be a little pissed off.

I then fell back and say behind him as he repeatedly hit the breaks, pulled the fingers at me and generally tried to make like difficult for me on my bike.
I followed him until we got to Kapiti lights where I pulled up beside him and asked him what his issue was and was met with a wall of abuse...

He was driving a late-ish model white Ford XR6 ute with a hard lid covering the tray, and a logo in green type on the side near the bottom, think it said something like gasworks or earthworks.
Driver was male, mid to late 50s, white/grey bushy hair.
I'd love his number plate if anyone spots him,



so thats my near miss story, I've learnt now to always have my camera on....

[OddDuck]

About a year back I found a car coming head-on to me, wrong side of the road, in the middle of a roundabout. Relatively slow driving from him and slow riding from me, it looked like he realised the mistake and we managed to dodge each other.

It's a Y-shaped roundabout, with some odd sight lines. From the way he was coming, it's possible to look straight down the two lanes I came from and assume that's the road to go to - if you completely ignore all the signs and the big round thing in the middle of course.

I didn't go back to have a chat (wish I had, wasn't angry, would've liked to hear his story), but he had his missus and the kids in the car with him and she was freaking out. Reckon someone was in for an earful later on...

[oldrider]

its kind of a near miss, kind of an arrogant driver story...



I ride a motorcycle Paraparaumu to Wellington return every day, and on the way home tonight I have literally been shoved off the road by an arrogant male driver, in a white 2013ish Ford XR6 ute, who believes lane splitting is wrong and I shouldn't be able to pass him, even though he was doing 30 kph in traffic.
Unfortunately I didn't have my camera on my helmet or I would post the video.


When land splitting i always try to be as respectful as I can, and give the car as much room as possible, and most drivers are also respectful, moving over to allow me through, but as I came up behind this guy, I tried to go up the right, and he pulled over right up on the right hand side painted line, so I hit the anchors and fell back. I then tried to go up the left, but he swerved right out left so his ute was literally straddling the left hand line.
I then tried to go right again only to have him right beside me and coming closer pushing me out of the lane.

Now it doesn't really matter which way you look at it, my life was at stake here, So I believe I'm aloud to be a little pissed off.

I then fell back and say behind him as he repeatedly hit the breaks, pulled the fingers at me and generally tried to make like difficult for me on my bike.
I followed him until we got to Kapiti lights where I pulled up beside him and asked him what his issue was and was met with a wall of abuse...

He was driving a late-ish model white Ford XR6 ute with a hard lid covering the tray, and a logo in green type on the side near the bottom, think it said something like gasworks or earthworks.
Driver was male, mid to late 50s, white/grey bushy hair.
I'd love his number plate if anyone spots him,



so thats my near miss story, I've learnt now to always have my camera on....

I don't think the traffic "authorities"? really have any idea how much that behaviour occurs on our roads toward motorcyclists!

Bit like taking a knife to a gun fight - best action to take is avoidance until you can square up the odds in your favour then sort their shit out!

[Drew]

I love the way everyone seems to think that it's car drivers just not seeing bikes.

People cut off cars and near hit shit all the time. Oblivious drivers are not targeting bikes, and we have it no worse than anyone else on the roads. Flashing your high beam or tooting after the fact is just begging to fuck things up further.

[BuzzardNZ]

My near miss was due to my own stupidity and involved no one but me...

I stopped at the lights at an intersection and when it went green, I proceeded to speed up and take a corner. That's when I knew something was wrong as the steering didn't seem to want to turn and something felt very off. I backed off the throttle and headed for the foot path in a semi controlled stop to get off and inspect the bike.

I checked the steering, which seemed ok. Brakes ( wondered if one had kind of locked ) and the front forks. Couldn't see a problem anywhere, so I gingerly rode back home. Anyway, when I got home, I was kind of happy to see that a key on my key ring was bent way out of shape, it had got jammed somewhere in the steering as I made my turn. This also explains previous similar cases which I've had in the past.

Anyway, moral of the story, don't ride your bike with long dangly keys on your key ring.

[EJK]

This morning while reading the papers I reached for my coffee but accidentally hit my toast, almost knocking it off the table. I caught it just in time.

That was a close one.

[RAYDEO]

This morning while reading the papers I reached for my coffee but accidentally hit my toast, almost knocking it off the table. I caught it just in time.

That was a close one.

Baaahhhhhhahahahahahahahahabahaha

[swarfie]

I used to mark out and run trail rides at Atiamuri and was on the road most weekends from Hamilton. Was towing the dirtbike on my trailer and following a B train just south of Putaruru when one of his left rear wheels came off (yep a whole truck wheel, big rolly heavy thing), rolled down into the ditch on the left side of the road until it came to an entrance to a paddock with a pipe culvert under the driveway. Said heavy rolly thing hit the pipe and bounced up about 10 metres in the air, hit the road about 3 metres in front of my bonnet and bounced back over the car and trailer back behind me and continued bouncing back down the road. It came to a rest in the ditch on the other side of the road a couple of hundred metres back , thankfully not hitting any other traffic on its possibly destructive path. The truck driver pulled over and I gave him and his buggered wheel (couldn't believe the weight of the bloody thing when we were lifting it onto my trailer) a ride back to a tyre place in Putaruru and left on my merry way. THAT was a close call, near hit or miss....call it what you will.... Shaking much?

[Grumph]

Many years back, I'd been at levels for a days racing. Guy I knew had fallen and broken a collarbone so as he lived round the corner from me I said i'd drive him home in his transit. By the time timaru hospital released him it was around 9pm and full dark.
Coming back up SH1, got the shock of my life when north of Winchester, I had to do a phenomenal avoidance to miss a 3piece lounge suite sat in the LH lane...We just looked at each other, nothing said...
North of Hinds, I had to do another to dodge a complete truck wheel, again, in the LH lane....We looked at each other again and i said did you see that ?
His answer was "I thought it was the drugs they gave me".....

[5150]

I once pulled out to avoid a child, fell off the bed and hit my head on the window sill. That was a very close call.....