What is up with Onewa Road?

**surfer** · 2nd March 2007, 00:36

I cannot believe the spate of morons that have crossed my path in one week on Onewa Road. What is wrong with this stretch of tarmac, is it full of arseholes or is it just bad luck?

First up, I'm cruising at a reasonable speed not overly fast. I see a four wheel truck looking like it's ready to pull out of a side road and turn across the traffic. I am the only vehicle on the road. I have my lights on, don't know why as i usually don't bother with this except when it is dark. Brake is covered just in case. Just as I get to the turning almost level with the truck the plonker pulls out, clouds of white smoke pouring off the wheels where they are spinning so fast for tranction. Best emergency stop ever is pulled off inches from a side-on impact with this truck. I even have time to spew my vengeance after this moron and call him a f***ing c**t, one of the benefits of an open face helmet. I think the old lady at the bus stop was a bit put out, hope it was not your mum.

Next up, same piece of road same week. Check mirror and see another truck so close to my back wheel I think the driver wants to be riding on the pillion seat. It must have been inches away. I swop lanes, so does he. I ride a tad aggressively and push between a few cars. Think I lost him, nope, there he is driving furiously up my rear. How he did this I do not know or why. I speed up so does he. I cannot believe how close he was. Finally managed to shoot up the middle between the lanes of cars and lose him. Not interested in being shunted from behind just want to go home and chill at the end of the day.

Lastly same piece of road same week also. Going the other way now. I have a good road poistion out on the right following the queue of cars in front. Next thing some dude in his car undertakes me on a single lane and squeeze only just inbetween me and the car in front. To get where, in front of me only because there is a queue so he can't go anywhere else. God only knows how he got past, I think he put his wheels up on the curb. I was doing 50kmph keeping up with the traffic. I shake my head in disbelief at this one, who ever gave him his license and said he could drive must have been pissed that day.

The rest of my travels across town seem to go without incident. Is it just this one piece of road? Are other roads full of morons on a mission? Or was it a bad week for me that maybe could have been much worse? Or worse still I am blessed with good fortune on other roads and unfortuntely got a sample of what everyone else faces on a daily basis?

**hurricane_r** · 2nd March 2007, 01:31

i dont know the road, but im guessing its just bad luck, or the road might be ruthless, hehe love that adrenaline, well dodging it every will make anyone a better rider,

**Finn** · 2nd March 2007, 06:39

It's just Shore people. They're just westies with a little bit of money and a smidgen of inbreeding.

**bobsmith** · 2nd March 2007, 07:37

It's because most people that use Onewa road are from Birkenhead or Birkdale or other western parts of the Shore..... Too close to the west auckland if you ask me. I keep to the East coast bays...

**placidfemme** · 2nd March 2007, 07:40

Originally Posted by Finn

It's just Shore people. They're just westies with a little bit of money and a smidgen of inbreeding.

He's right... Westies with a bit of money...

I live on Onewa Rd and so ride up and down it daily. The cagers are fucking morons. Exspecially in the mornings when the traffic is bumper to bumper from Highbury Shops down to the motorway. You get cages trying to turn down side roads to skip the que and cut in, and the same assholes trying to dodge the Transit guys that monitor the bus/express lane. I've seen a biker being taken out, and the aftermath of another 2 bikers taken out riding in the express lane heading to the motorway, when a cagers coming from the other direction turns to go down the side road and "assumes" that because the first lane is bumper to bumper that the second lane is empty... they even pull out infront of buses... the dumb fucks... With the amount of "hard on the brakes" I've been through I now ride towards the motorway in the mornings at between 30-40kph and make a point to slow down when approaching any side streets on my side of the road just incase... has saved me emergency braking a few times...

Also keep an eye out for an older-ish lady in a white VW golf, she deliberatly pulls over to the middle of the lane to stop bikers splitting, she's done this to me numerous times over the last year... one day she'll loose a mirror.

And riding home in the evenings isn't much better... exspecially when you go past the gas station and just as your passing the old age home, the two lanes merge into one... if you can stay in the middle of the lane otherwise the cagers try to get up beside you...

**Indiana_Jones** · 2nd March 2007, 07:51

wait until the road works start lol

-Indy

**Griff** · 2nd March 2007, 07:53

I remember seeing a program on TV in Europe which explained why car drivers can not judge the speed or even existence of a bike. Because we travel generally in a straight line, have a low front profile & single lights (or closely spaced lights), our distance and speed does not get registered to them until we are very close. The program suggested that if we gently zig-zag with out lights on, the car drivers have more of a chance of registering our prescence and speed. (If they still pull out, then you can safely assume they are indeed twats). When I come up to side roads with someone waiting, I will zig-zag as if I am having a Mini-Tank-Slapper. They usually just stay there and wait for me to collide with something. Then when you get closer to them, stop zig-zagging and smile.

**placidfemme** · 2nd March 2007, 08:09

Originally Posted by Griff

I remember seeing a program on TV in Europe which explained why car drivers can not judge the speed or even existence of a bike. Because we travel generally in a straight line, have a low front profile & single lights (or closely spaced lights), our distance and speed does not get registered to them until we are very close. The program suggested that if we gently zig-zag with out lights on, the car drivers have more of a chance of registering our prescence and speed. (If they still pull out, then you can safely assume they are indeed twats). When I come up to side roads with someone waiting, I will zig-zag as if I am having a Mini-Tank-Slapper. They usually just stay there and wait for me to collide with something. Then when you get closer to them, stop zig-zagging and smile.

lol that would work... scare them into noticing you...

*makes mental note not to zig zag like I'm drunk when cops are around*

**Devil** · 2nd March 2007, 08:20

Yeah, onewa is a bit of a shocker. Come down there every morning and go home there occasionally. Going up is normally the worst, the wide single lane, all the cars drive on the center line! Get tailgated up there often and people try to undertake.

Gotta watch out in the morning coming down the transit lane that you dont get taken out around the side streets.

**Indiana_Jones** · 2nd March 2007, 08:32

Originally Posted by Devil

Gotta watch out in the morning coming down the transit lane that you dont get taken out around the side streets.

Yea I second that, I always slow down when I come upto one, gotta watch out not only people pulling out, but more so the ones turning in. Can't see them behind the cars and they can't see you.

Also like I said, the roadworks at the bottom will be starting soon, we're gonna be making it wider.

-Indy

**Swoop** · 2nd March 2007, 08:34

Originally Posted by placidfemme

He's right... Westies with a bit of money.

Not too sure on that one.
The westies are getting far more affluent. Must be all the tinny and P houses doing a good trade...

Originally Posted by placidfemme

Also keep an eye out for an older-ish lady in a white VW golf, she deliberatly pulls over to the middle of the lane to stop bikers splitting, she's done this to me numerous times over the last year... one day she'll loose a mirror...

I'm seriously unimpressed that you haven't applied the mirrorectomy treatment already.

If ever there was a suitable candidate, sounds like she would be it...

**vifferman** · 2nd March 2007, 08:39

Originally Posted by placidfemme

He's right... Westies with a bit of money...
Also keep an eye out for an older-ish lady in a white VW golf, she deliberatly pulls over to the middle of the lane to stop bikers splitting, she's done this to me numerous times over the last year... one day she'll loose a mirror.

Damn!
Now that I'm working in Albania, I don't travel down Onewaaaah! much (only once in the last few munce). I might have to make a point of it, just so's I can collect me a MirrorTrophy™.

What time does this cow communte down Onewa usually?

EDIT:
Heheh... just had this insane video run through my head, of cruising down Onewa, stopping beside a white Golf mired in traffic, whipping my cordless drill outta my tank bag, and unscrewing bits of the car while sitting beside it....

**placidfemme** · 2nd March 2007, 09:03

I usually leave home between 7.55am and 8.05am. And I see her 3 days out of 5 most times. Its an older model VW Golf, the square-ish looking ones...

I've got to the lights near the gas station, and spotted her ahead, driving normally in her lane, as soon as she spots me (or another biker) she moves right to the line so its hard to pass unless the cage on the other side moves over (which they usually do), I've even tried holding the clutch in and drifting up towards her thinking "she won't hear me" but she always see's me... really pisses me off, exspecially when she's a bit slow and starts to move over when your already dirrectly opposite her, she nearly pushed me into another cager the other day... really makes me wanna kick her mirror off... but I'm a chicken shit in the sense that knowing my luck I'll hit/kick it and do nothing but either hurt myself or cause myself to drop the bike...