Are you an urban hoon?

**SpankMe** · 4th June 2006, 15:09

I have to admit I ride like a total hoon on my GB. I don’t know what it is about small bikes that make me tear up the streets and treat cages like mobile chicanes. For my SV, I would have to choose option 2, but my GB is a café “racer” and that’s how I ride it around Auckland, to the sounds of horns and hand gestures from cagers.

A transformation happens when I jump from the SV to the GB. Speed limits, passing procedures (left or right side, whatever presents itself), following distance and cornering speeds become mere suggestions.

Have you ever had this happen? You’re stopped at the lights or shopping center and a cager you passed awhile ago gets out of his cage, walks up to you on your bike, and tells you that “you will die soon if you keep riding like that”. “Well shit dude, I’m almost 40 and have been riding like this all my life. When is this event supposed to happen?”

**GR81** · 4th June 2006, 15:14

i get the "you bloody idiot" look from older people sometimes, mainly due to the exhaust.
i just shut the dark visor and head back on my way

**kiwifruit** · 4th June 2006, 15:27

I ride like a nana

**Madness** · 4th June 2006, 15:29

I try to teach fellow road users the basics of etiquette as I see it where possible. This can involve putting myself at risk of prosecution as a result, but someone's gotta do it.

Givin' cagers the learn on an urban road near you.

**N4CR** · 4th June 2006, 15:30

Went past you yesterday heading from st helliers... you are a fellow hoon too

Hehehe.

Edit: sorta stuck between the two.. depends really.

And 1 636 POSTS muahah.

**madboy** · 4th June 2006, 15:36

I ride however I please. I went for 2 as it's more how I see it. But others probably think my "commuting" is their "nuts", and we don't even want to get started on how I ride when the cops are chasing me...

**texmo** · 4th June 2006, 15:37

I would have to choose the first option according to HTDboy im "fucking insane" well on k'rd anyway.

**Madness** · 4th June 2006, 15:43

Originally Posted by madboy

I went for 2 as it's more how I see it.

SpankMe, please change Madboy's vote to option 3 in the pursuit of accuracy. He rides like a Nana unless He's being chased by the Cops.

**Skyryder** · 4th June 2006, 15:53

Now I ride like a pussy. That fucking clause in the Land Transport Act that can leave me stranded on the side of the road

has curtailed my hooning about. Well that's my excuse now.....................

Skyryder

**Mr. Peanut** · 4th June 2006, 15:54

I've got da md skillz, check my video yeo

no shit 400km/h

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BabAAAAAAAAAAAAWP!!!

**The Flux Capacita** · 4th June 2006, 16:01

new to biking so try to take it easy and learn as much as i can...open road i just don't go there but in town i have to admit it's alot more fun weaving through cars at a less then legal speed...have been called a few things by boy racers when they can't get past me either which puts a grin on the face

**Edbear** · 4th June 2006, 16:07

Mmmmm! Mebbe I needs ta get me a GB! I do like the GB500...

**diggydog** · 4th June 2006, 16:24

start off taking it ease, then you can find yourself at times getting faster and faster, you think to yourself what the hell are you doing and pull it back.

**James Deuce** · 4th June 2006, 16:48

Got that in the carpark at work one day.

I said, "You'll die sooner if you keep talking to randomly selected psychotic motorcyclists."

It was one of those moments like in Spongebob when Mr Krabs jaw hits the floor.