What to do?

[FilthyLuka]

Since then I've come up with some great tricks (and been taught a few too) for dealing with ass hats in the traffic.

heehee, my brother use to have a kawasaki z750 (old twin jobbie) with a dodgy ignition key barrel lock . You could take out the key whilst the bike was on... Funny how the amounts of tin tops that got keyed increased after he discovered this
From this we gather: dodgy ignition barrel = a whole new class of motorized anarchy...

[diggydog]

i drive a cage, and i always observe a motorcyclist when driving i pull to the left to let them by.
I don't know about people like myself letting bikes pass, is wheather they have a motorbike like me or just good manners or pracatice.

[sunhuntin]

heehee, my brother use to have a kawasaki z750 (old twin jobbie) with a dodgy ignition key barrel lock . You could take out the key whilst the bike was on... Funny how the amounts of tin tops that got keyed increased after he discovered this
From this we gather: dodgy ignition barrel = a whole new class of motorized anarchy...

my old gn used to be like that. i chained the key to the indicator to stop it jumping out.

[andrea]

Wow you must be stoked on ya first bike aye, good on ya gurl! Anyways ive had alot of wankers causing abit of trouble en stuff, i usually give em the fingers, or ride up to their window and swear at them.
but yeah i find the best way is to zip through traffic and leave them behind following the other cars lol.
Just take your time and pull over and let the wankers pass, you'll get alot of them, hmm especially up here in jaffaland it sux. my friend whose a student pilot at ardmore says that one of the instructors who lives over west side would ride up to the driver or passenger side door and knock off the side mirrors and then take off lol. but i wouldnt recommend that ahem hehe.

[FilthyLuka]

my friend whose a student pilot at ardmore says that one of the instructors who lives over west side would ride up to the driver or passenger side door and knock off the side mirrors and then take off lol. but i wouldnt recommend that ahem hehe.

Apparanly there was a dude who tried to kick of a wing mirror and ended up putting his boot through the passenger side window! That's gotta be a wake up call to the driver...

pfff! minor laserations! its the coolness thats important

seriously now, lots of wankers on the road. Sadly we have to live with it .
who was the genious that accepted the "i didn't see you" excuse anyway?

Denis

[Rincewind]

yeah same happens to me.

after my accident i slowed down at corners a lot more and got cars up my arse and its like they expect you to go fast/speed cause your on a bike.

cars overtaking me is what i hate cause they seem to pass so close

dont go more than your comfortable with.

I remember a car overtook me once,don't think I was concentrating,probably fidling with the carb or doing up a boot strap Ha Ha

[Drum]

Hope to see you on the hutt to city commute real soon apteryx_haasti.

Oh, and as for the cagers - theyre just jealous! Have a good laugh, stay chilled, and split right past em at the lights - they really hate that!

I like to give a nod to any cagers that move over out of your way. I suspect theyre bikers forced to drive to work (coz thats me some days!).

[apteryx_haasti]

Hope to see you on the hutt to city commute real soon apteryx_haasti.

Thanks! I've been once so far - then I got this effin bug that's going round and suddenly it's been two weeks with no riding! I figured that uncontrollable coughing fits and motorcycling (on a learners, anyway!) probably don't go together all that well...

But look at that day today! I am off for a big ride - back on the (petrol) horse!

I have also become one of those cagers that moves over for bikes...didn't take long either after getting the bike before I started to do that. One of my other bikie friends told me that getting a bike license would make me a much better driver, more aware of what all's going on around me, and more aware of bikes. Definitely seems to be true.

Anyway - hope to be doing the commute most days real soon - gotta learn by doing, after all!

Take care.

edit: been for a 2 hour / 60 km ride from the mighty Eastbourne out to Silverstream/Upper Hutt the back way, past Wallaceville, through Mangaroa Valley, back to Lower Hutt on the Motorway and then (sadly) back to Eastbourne where I was meant to be this whole time...since I should be studying. Damn nice ride tho....damn nice....

[Kendog]

That wasn't you we saw cruising along behind a bus load of rugby? players at about 1:30ish coming up to the lights at the bottom of the Haywards was it? We'd all just been undertaken by someone on a small green bike
I beeped to say hi anyhow.
Mrs KD

[apteryx_haasti]

That wasn't you we saw cruising along behind a bus load of rugby? players at about 1:30ish coming up to the lights at the bottom of the Haywards was it? We'd all just been undertaken by someone on a small green bike
I beeped to say hi anyhow.
Mrs KD

That was me! The L-plate GN 250 (the red (goes faster) one going more than 70... ). I heard ya beep. That's one thing I like about bikers, I've been waved at, nodded at and beeped at. It's cool.

I've pretty much decided to ignore the 70 thing - seems like a primo recipe for road paste to me. I will keep under 100 but with the traffic as much as possible... I did slow down to 70 for a wee while - went past a traffic cop who had pulled someone over, but after that, back up to blat!

Great ride today - hopefully I will get out for a while tomorrow. Hope y'all also had a good ride!

Cheers!

[Drum]

Yesterday was as nice a day for riding in Wellington as I can remember.

Good thing is that there will be thousands more days just like it!

[grandpa_dave]

Being passed by a car when you are doing 70 isn't that much fun....but one of my most sphincter contracting moments would have to have been on a ride from Hamilton to raglan one day.
Riding along passing all the cars doing about 12-130 or so, got near the end of the straight (or as near as I was comfortable overtaking in anyway), was still doing about 120 as I was pulling in behind a car. As you are still speeding the last thing you expect is someone to overtake you and so I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention to what was behind me, rather concentrating on the cars ahead when all of a sudden 2 wickedly loud sports bikes (one R1 and a ducatti of some description) blitzed past me and the 3 cars ahead of me doing what I would estimate at no less than 160!
The first time this happens to you you will have a new respect for the tintoppers who claim they didn't see you and probably make you much more alert on your bike, coz even though you are going a bit quick there are those still going quicker.
Be particularly careful in passing situations if you are doing much over 100 and overtaking a line of cars, because one of them might decide to pull out and overtake aswell!