I (and the Missus) survived the weekend - just

[Da Bird]

Took my girlfriend for a ride to Pokeno on Saturday and just about got taken out on the Bombay Hills by a large truck and trailer unit, travelling at about 115km/hr who decided to pull into the left lane (where I was) without indicating!

I promptly went into the right lane, rode right up to the drivers door and in unison, both me and my partner gave him a big wave

Today we went for a ride out to Kawakawa Bay and got tail-gaited by some young dickhead in his "oh so cool" Mazda Familia with his 4 mates for a few kms before he decides to try and kill about 8 people at once by overtaking me (and my partner) and almost having a head-on collision with a 4x4 who almost ended up in the ditch trying to avoid him.

No 2 is getting a visit when I go back to work - GOD HELP HIM!

That's my vent for the day - could have been a lot worse... still here to vent.

[Antallica]

Benefits of being a cop eh.

Good on ya I say!

[scumdog]

Today we went for a ride out to Kawakawa Bay and got tail-gaited by some young dickhead in his "oh so cool" Mazda Familia with his 4 mates for a few kms before he decides to try and kill about 8 people at once by overtaking me (and my partner) and almost having a head-on collision with a 4x4 who almost ended up in the ditch trying to avoid him. WA#$%ER No 2 !

No 2 is getting a visit when I go back to work - GOD HELP HIM!

That's my vent for the day - could have been a lot worse... still here to vent.

Good on you, too many just vent and that's it. Go and nail the bastard,if you saw him screw up like that I doubt it was the only screw up he has had in his "driving' career.

[Ms Piggy]

Scary stuff mate! I hate that whole changing lanes with out indicatiing! Glad you & your g/f are ok though & I hope it hasn't put her off riding with ya!

[riffer]

Sometimes I am so bloody jealous of cops.

Imagine actually being able to do something about the idiots we see every day.

Good on ya Bykey Cop.

[6Chris6]

I know the feeling.
On yesterdays KB ride, not once but twice when overtakin i had the vehicle i was overtakin pull out without indication and try to overtake another cage.
First time i had to slam on the anchors or end up in the ditch and 2nd time i was lucky, there was enough room for 3 wide
Certainly gets the heart workin though!

[Deano]

Good to see you and your g/f made it through the weekend in one piece BC.

Yesterday as I was undertaking a car on the motorway, he simultaneously indicated and moved left into my lane - 3 seconds indication? More like 0.3s.

Then as we were heading through Kaitoke up to the Taka's, some young prat with his mates in the car in front decides it would be fun to move across towards us as we were overtaking - he got the finger and would have got more if he had carried on up the hill past the carpark, but alas he must have turned off somewhere. I was going to signal him into the carpark and have a few words.

There is an idiot born every day.....

[Eddieb]

Must have been a weekend for it, we got overtaken on the haywards hill road while in a single lane section with double yellow line markings by some idiot, not a young hoon though who once past us tailgated the van in front of us for several km before turning off.

[Mongoose]

No 2 is getting a visit when I go back to work - GOD HELP HIM!

That's my vent for the day - could have been a lot worse... still here to vent.

That is sure some excitement you can do with out BC, some people just shouild not be allowed unsupervised on our roads.
As for the rest of you, you can do the same as BC. If only more people took the time to make a formal complaint these dick-heads would spend less time on the road and/or be paying a lot more towards their learning all about it.

[Paul in NZ]

I've been noticing this of late... Or maybe I'm just getting older and wiser (ie slower)

As the speed limits are being more 'rigidly' enforced, there seems to be a hell of a lot more mindless agression out there on the road. Tailgating and rapid lane changing are 2 things that spring to mind.....

If you ride an older bike, the fact is that you can't easily outrun a lot of the really fast cars on the road these days and you seem to get morons happily gambling with your life.... Why?

I commute in a 1989 Toyota Starlet.... No body looks twice at it... On the bike, there is always some moron ready to give you a go...

Cheers

[750Y]

nail that ass!

[James Deuce]

Had similar experiences yesterday. On the way up the Takas I had a Mercedes Benz 300E drift into my lane while I was overtaking him in the first set of overtaking lanes north of Kaitoke. Then I had a Toyota Corolla cross into my lane while I was alongside heading up the hill from "Jim's Corner". Just laziness. The ones that tick me off are the oncoming traffic that crosses the centreline and deosn't even try to get back into their lane because it's "only" a bike coming the other way. Had two cars do that just before the top heading north.

[Milky]

Yesterday as I was undertaking a car on the motorway, he simultaneously indicated and moved left into my lane - 3 seconds indication? More like 0.3s.

when riding in auckland, those orange things on cages are known as 'confirminators' and are seen to be used accordingly

[merv]

when riding in auckland, those orange things on cages are known as 'confirminators' and are seen to be used accordingly

.. and I guess just like in Wellington one blink is enough confirmation.

Bykey Cop do you and your brothers pay attention to these things as it seems to us Joes that speed is such a target that bad driving is just ignored? Lack of indication and lack of keeping left when not passing on multilane roads are probably a couple of the biggest agression raisers there are let alone the crossing of the centreline stuff as mentioned by Jim.

Yet do we see these people being pulled up? Rarely.

[Paul in NZ]

when riding in auckland, those orange things on cages are known as 'confirminators' and are seen to be used accordingly

What?

I thought the switch was for the cloak of invunerability.. Surely nothing bad can happen if I turn on the orage blinky light that warns others my cloaking device is working??

Just a thought....

But as you are passing a car (in extremis) the chances are you will be in the cars blind spot and most folk don't turn their heads to check this so be careful!! It IS possible (but unlikely) that they are not actually tring to kill you...

Paul N

I was dead once, but I got better...