Cages underpassing trend?

[Troll]

visited nz last year

driving standards are appalling, worse than most third world countries

it was £$%%ing scary

[myvice]

Give the drivers window a good smack, no damage and they pull their heads in after that.
If the windows down, smack the driver!

[Nicksta]

yup, i have witnessed this in Auckland too... hogging the lane is what i have got into the habit of in 50km areas around town... kinda scary though, you start to wonder where on earth they are going.... but then my mum witnessed a cage open their door right infront of a bike to stop it filtering in m/way traffic one day.. almost hit the stupid door... she couldn't believe it.

[Leong]

Slightly different point of view. I usually try to dominate the road, but if someone is aggressive behind me, whatever speed I'm doing, if theres room I'll move left and let them past. I'll still get to where I'm going at the same time, and I don't have to worry about aggressive drivers behind me.

Doesn't matter what speed I'm doing.... if they want to exceed the speed limit by more, then it's their choice.

[thehollowmen]

and to think Iwas going to post about this when I got home!

three times to me today, pushing me into the oncoming lane...

[JWALKER]

yeah, that kind of sucks. i have had that happen to me. especially cages riding right up your backside while driving, it x=sucks

[Nicksta]

yeah, that kind of sucks. i have had that happen to me. especially cages riding right up your backside while driving, it x=sucks

for sure, i was riding the other night in a que of traffic with a mate of mine in front on a bigger bike, the car behind me kept on coming up real close so i could see his headlight beams around the bike.. my mirrors aren't that good (typical FXR) so i would turn my head and touch my brakes to make them flicker... but its definately off putting... esp in a line of traffic...

[Will]

Several have tried it with me.

Can't figure out the resoning but I guess there isn't much logic around at times.

But I "sensed" what they were about to do and just happened to warm up my tyres or flick around a pothole. That kept them behind me though they were close enough to read my speedo.

[myvice]

Keep an eye on your mirrors too!
Managed to move over far enough so that some wanker in a 4WD didn’t squash me! Pays to leave a bit of a gap when following, and watching brake lights also helps.

[Meathorse]

Sounds to me like all these cage-monkey's are just jealous and attempting to get one back on bikers for lane splitting them while they're stuck in traffic

It's a wonder they haven't outlawed bikes for being too dangerous to the owners due to the fact that 95% of NZ can't bloody drive! I'm waiting for it - Aunty Helen still has the reins.

[nodrog:Me]

i have had it happen twice, both times i kicked their wing mirrors off!

[myvice]

i have had it happen twice, both times i kicked their wing mirrors off!

If you are going to do this antisocial "It'll make us all look bad" sort of dangerous thing, remember to hit them down as otherwise some of them just pivot back out of harms way.

[KLOWN]

visited nz last year

driving standards are appalling, worse than most third world countries

it was £$%%ing scary

It's amazing how many tourist say that about our roads, or people who live in nz and go to other countries and say how much nicer it is to drive overseas.

my mum witnessed a cage open their door right infront of a bike to stop it filtering in m/way traffic one day.. almost hit the stupid door... she couldn't believe it.

If the traffic was stopped i would have stopped right there and beaten the shit out of car or driver. or followed them home and started some serious shit.

[zooter]

If I'm doing the speed limit following traffic I'll down shift then give the one fingered salute to the arsehole investigating mine, with my throttle hand. Then catch up and do it all again if necessary until they get the idea.

[Dadpole]

but then my mum witnessed a cage open their door right infront of a bike to stop it filtering in m/way traffic one day.. almost hit the stupid door... she couldn't believe it.

The answer to this is to roll forward slowly and give the door a "gentle" nudge against the stop. Means it will not work properly again. Only did this once in Wellytown. Did the deed and sat there just looking at the dickhead, who sat there looking straight ahead and pretending it hadn't happened.