Same roundabout, different moron!

[Wolf]

Here is an excellent article you should read:

http://www.chuckhawks.com/motorcycle_firearms.htm

You should get a walking stick and mount it on the bike like on "house", make it a metal one with weight at the tip for the extra Ooomph

I'm familiar with Chuck Hawks - read his treatises on both motorcycles and firearms and even exchanged emails with him on his assertion that .243 should be the standard military calibre rather than the toy .223 or the heavy, expensive 7.62mm.

What I'd like is a forward-facing fixed paintball gun loaded with pellets containing bright fluoro pink automotive enamel to tag vehicles that pull out in front of me. Proof positive that the bastard's car/truck was where it shouldn't be and once the word gets 'round other road users can note the bright pink tag marks and have fair warning the driver's a tosser.

I get really annoyed with Hamilton drivers and roundabouts - we've got so many of them and have had them for a long time yet so many people do not know how to use them. Driving straight through without looking, checking the wrong direction before proceding, not indicating, all manner of insanity.

You'd think, since in Hamilton you can scarcely visit your neighbour without going through a roundabout, people would have sussed it out by now.

[Karma]

despite you being a long lean streak of weasel piss

Huh?

[RT527]

You seem to be sensitive about people getting pissed off with truckies.

Nope...more pissed off with the truckies who cause people to have a go at us.......one point I`d like to make .....even with my I.Q of 5.5 and my cloths which incidently only have 3 holes today, is that I dont tar all bike riders with the same brush if i see one of them doing a hairbrained thing.just think you could have ranted at just him not all of us, and yeah Sorry i didn`t see the bit about

Originally Posted by Wolf
Yeah, I know a lot of KBers drive trucks and are very much "biker aware" so this rant does not intend to besmirch them.

Actually i get real pissed at the drivers, cars trucks bikes busses etc etc that drive into a roundabout as if their life depended on them getting onto it first,if every one slowed down a little if they see a bigger vehicle or someone having trouble getting onto the roundabout and let them out then there wouldnt be a problem.
I aint perfect and I make mistakes, we all do!.

[Wolf]

.....even with my I.Q of 5.5 and my cloths which incidently only have 3 holes today,

My comment was on what I perceived the bottom entry criteria to be - based on those I had encountered doing hair-brained manouevres. Nowhere in my rant did I state that all truckies have an IQ of 3, wear scruffy clothes or listen to Country.

Please re-read my original rant and you will see that I was referring to specific truckies - those two and a few other arrogant sons of bitches (like the one who shot the Greenwood St/Massey St lights in excess of 60km/h and sped by us (parked at said red lights) close enough to shake the car), not all truckies.

There are, as you have acknowledged, arrogant truckies who use the fact they are in something huge to do what they please, as there are arrogant or inorant car drivers and bikers. I've known more than a few "squids" in my time ("Temporary New Zealanders" dad used to call them) and like you I am angered by their stupidity and carelessness.

Dad and mum both drove trucks, taxis, buses and motorcycles so I figure I have more of an idea of most what courteous drivers/riders should behave like.

Had it been a car that had pulled the same manouevre I would have still been pissed off - even though the car is less of a threat and would not have taken so long to get through. Some bloody squid pulling a similar boneheaded manouevre would have had me really fucked off because he should know better.

Had the truck commenced his manouevre before I started onto the roundabout while I was still blocked by cars and was not yet fully clear of my route out of the roundabout by the time I made my move I would have noted his presence, made allowances for the physics of getting a large rig off the line and adjusted my speed so that he would be clear by the time I came to turn off. it was the fact that he waited until there was traffic coming and then started, forcing me to stop suddenly that annoyed me.

He was indeed scruffy - I didn't get the truck details, but I have his image etched on my mind as his driver's door came out into the lane into my path - and I did not see any evidence of even basic intellect in his driving.

The Country music I surmised based on other truckies I've known who're big on checked cotton shirts and baseball caps.

[RT527]

my comment was aimed more at dry humour not at all serious......Ya know-Tounge in cheek.

[Squeak the Rat]

That twirly wirly roundabouty thing seems to be quite dangerous for you.

I've heard a rumour that the cops target black spots for traffic violations to prevent further accidents - not for revenue gathering at all apparently.

Write the coppas a letter, see if they come and stake it out one morning, then bait people to pull out in front of you by riding your bike around the roundabout.



Bloody truckies on party pills! (p/t)

[Lias]

Last night I took my old bike (lil Gn250) out for only my second ride since my big bin. I was driving like a total nana (as you do after a bin) and I still nearly got taken out at this roundabout.

Was heading south into the round about then right onto Killarney. There was a northbound car sitting waiting for me to go past as I had right of way, when some fuckhead boy racer came flying north at 90-100k, past the other stationary car and through the round about about 4 feet in front of me. I planted foot on the brakes (not fun to do when you have a sore ankle), and then sat in the middle of the roundabout for a good 10 seconds thinking "holy fuck I'm alive" before trundling off home, only shaking ever so slightly.

[Wolf]

That twirly wirly roundabouty thing seems to be quite dangerous for you.

Face it, roundabouts and Hamiltonians don't mix. They chose the wrong town to populate with roundabouts given the distressingly high percentage of the population who lack the intellect to use them.

Rip out that roundabout and the seriously fucked-up one at Dinsdale and replace 'em with traffic lights - it's obvious that too much of Hamilton's population is incapable of making rational decisions and needs to be told what to do at every intersection.

It's almost at the point that when I see a person signal correctly and use the roundabout properly I nearly fall off the bike in sheer shock at the novelty of it. I certainly feel like going and having a lie-down to compose myself and contemplate the sheer "alieness" of it.