The thing you hate most when riding

[slowpoke]

So I'm guessing here that you people are actually riding these motorbikeycycley things? They don't just sit in someone elses workshop for months at a time? Goddamn, I knew there was another way to play this game....

[The Pastor]

I hate losing my licence, ive lost it more times that years that ive had it!

[blue eyed savage]

i hate it when you melt your wetwhather pants to the muffler when you full up.

[sunhuntin]

dickheads who think its funny to leave stopping behind you to literally the last second [saw the car shoot forwards on its on suspension when they slammed the brakes on]

dickheads who ride your ass but refuse to overtake on passing lanes even when you slow down from 110k to 80k.

battery on the ipod running out

people who think they will save 5 seconds by running stop signs

NON RELATED people at work who call me love, dear, and darling when i am none of those. people at work who call me lad and young man when im wearing a fairly tight t shirt.

un marked road hazards.

[boomer]

Ditto... have had cigarettes, food, cans... you name it thrown out cage windows at me.... grr!

it's not like Dover and Finn to throw food and drink away

i hate the disconnect between my brain and reality; my brain tells me i'm a gp racer and teh reality is that i'd be better suited on a cruiser

[idb]

Don't ever come to Korea then.... really horrendous driving (I use that term very loosely) everywhere.

Aw yeah...I've heard that there are Asians everywhere there!!!

[90s]

Parking it.
I pull into a very crowded bay of bikes, often on a slope, and need to stick my bike usually between two scooters with about 5cms on each side. Getting of without dropping the bike or other bikes around me is a real annoyance.

[scumdog]

Had a stupid cow driving a Commodore pull out from behind a bus on the north side of the Lindis on Saturday and try for a head-on.

She was coming towards me and I could see her for 1/2km or more as she followed the bus (she should have been able to see me what with my headlight being on and the two 'melt-your-retina' brightness spotlights I have on the bike).

But no, she waits until we're only about 400metres apart and decides to pass the bus in what I would have to guess was still 5th gear by the lack of acceleration, it got to the stage where she was half-way past the bus and I was aiming for the narrow gap between her and the edge of the seal when she woke up and pulled back in behind the bus

I guess my two fingure salute and body language (and I believe CB contributed her thoughts too) gave her the message as we squeaked past, I got that impression because she put her hand over her face as we passed.

Now THAT is something I hate when I'm riding.

[Jantar]

Having to stop for fuel every 2 - 3 hours.

[sAsLEX]

But no, she waits until we're only about 400metres apart and decides to pass the bus in what I would have to guess was still 5th gear by the lack of acceleration, it got to the stage where she was half-way past the bus and I was aiming for the narrow gap between her and the edge of the seal when she woke up and pulled back in behind the bus

I think what it was was that the bus was travelling close to the speed limit and she did not want to break that in your presence so attempted the pass below 100....





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[duckonin]

Car occupants throwing out rubbish and (lit) cigarette butts out their windows at me...

yep mine to need to have a pocket full of marbels flick a few sideways as you go past...

[scumdog]

I think what it was was that the bus was travelling close to the speed limit and she did not want to break that in your presence so attempted the pass below 100....





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The bus was heading uphill at the speed limit.




For a rickshaw.

[Chocky]

In the city, in no particular order:

• Cagers for whom mirrors are just devices in which to do make-up
• Cagers who think that driving and texting is clever
• Cagers who don't even glance in your direction before pulling out of a junction
• Cagers who are incapable of keeping an even speed on a perfectly flat and straight road
• Cagers who ... actually, all cagers, period.
• Bus drivers
• Cops
• Diesel on wet roads

Out on the fun roads:

• Transit NZ and all other authorities charged with 'maintaining' our roads
• Chipseal
• Cow shit on corners
• Gravel on corners
• Temporary 30k limits when there is not the slightest hint of any work going on
• New seal - usually on corners, of course - covered with an inch of gravel without any form of warning
• Cops

esp no warning on roadworks. last year (maybe the year before) thay put pea gravel on about 10k of scenic dr and the only reason I could come up with is "this will slow them down whaaahahaha"

[sunhuntin]

yep mine to need to have a pocket full of marbels flick a few sideways as you go past...

you dont even need actual marbles! i was being gated yesterday by a 4wd. took my left hand off the bar to try and ease the cramps. held it on my lap for a second, and then dropped it down to my side. 4wd backed off so fast, lmfao. unfortunatly, it only works once per vehicle.
done that same action a few times now, and its worked every single time.

[NordieBoy]

you dont even need actual marbles! i was being gated yesterday by a 4wd. took my left hand off the bar to try and ease the cramps. held it on my lap for a second, and then dropped it down to my side. 4wd backed off so fast, lmfao. unfortunatly, it only works once per vehicle.
done that same action a few times now, and its worked every single time.

Sounds like they've experienced the real thing then