you tend to get the idea after seeing hordes of cars starting to pile up behind you..Originally Posted by Fatjim
Hardcore Biker
you tend to get the idea after seeing hordes of cars starting to pile up behind you..
needs to work harder
Nobody does, this is the point of scooters. You can do down the shops, pay yer cash, and zoom off round town treating it like a bike with a hairdryer in it. I can't start to tell you how horrified I was, learning to ride a proper bike and thinking back to how I had ridden my scooter....
Dave
pɐǝɥ sıɥ uo ƃuıpuɐʇs
yes and no, if traffic can't get past you then pull over and stop - i agree. I was trying to say there is no way that I would want a car trying to squeese past me when there isn't room for them to do so because your the one that will come off worst everytime if it turns pear shaped
Forum whore
Wasn't giving advice on what to do, was giving advice on what is considered correct legally.
I travel in the right hand wheel track if it is appropriate to do so and will not be modifying my behaviour.
You're completely incorrect in a practical sense about what to do if you are travelling slower than the flow of traffic. Long experience has taught me that it must be correct form to hold as many people up as long as possible. Kiwis don't drive to earn respect, they drive to teach everybody else how to drive and will impose their interpretation of the speed limit at will.
Don't forget to drive your truck at 90km/hr in the right hand lane of the motorway people. You can do what you want after all.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Keep out of Direct Sunlight
Well here goes.
I have a 50cc scooter and weigh over 100KG.
as such it takes quite some time to get up to 50kph on the flat.
Taking the above into account and the issue that no cages drive at 50 in a 50 (most travel at 60) it's safer for me to be over to the left hand side until I get the scooter up to speed. Once im at 55-60 I'll move out into the centre as I'm no longer holding up traffic.
Biggest problem I find is that it's hard to find a flat road, most have a slight incline, which on a 50cc slows you down. (going the other direction is another matter; and much more fun)
On the plus side I have found that the scooter will stop VERY well in an emergency. (front disc)
I only use my scooter to pop down to the shops and other short trips.
Easily ammused
Dodger it's time for a turbo, or a diet till you can get a thou. Everybody knows fat people ride thou's.
Some things are worth dying for, living is one of them.
Forum whore
You're a prince among men FJ. See? I'm NOT fat.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Keep out of Direct Sunlight
I've brought a Hyosung GT250 for starters
Moped rider
Since going on a rider safety course and as I do ride a scooter capable of 100km/h, I always ride the right-hand wheel track. It is clearly the best place to be. I got caught out a week ago when I went for a ride on my pushbike (for the first time in ages) and was holding up traffic doing 30km/h and hogging the RH wheel track! Habit!!
Obey the hosebeast
if 1000cc is +1 fat, then you must be 75% fat.
Forum whore
Said yet another +1 fat bloke.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
The desert creature
As one who just passed the scratch test, I say you are wrong. You are supposed to keep as left as practiceable on unmarked roads. Otherwise you are supposed to ride in the right hand wheel track and there is a question in the scratch tast regarding that. So ride worry-free - you are not breaking any rules here.
"People are stupid ... almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true ... they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so all are easier to fool." -- Wizard's First Rule
Forum whore
You must have missed hte stink about it about 8 months ago when they threatened to start enforcing the keep left rule and the roundabout indicating rule, Street Gerbil.
I'm off to dig out the traffic regs because I think you'll find the scratchy test is actually wrong.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Forum whore
No. The Road Code says to ride in the right wheel track. Which is blatently contradictory to the law which says to keep to the left of the lane. I rang the LTSA and asked "how come". They said "wibble wibble wibble".
Forum whore
That's it Ixion. if I remember rightly we had the same brain fart about this issue and got the same response.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
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