The thing you hate most when riding

[jcupit69]

Bugs, gravel, stones and anything in front of me

[tri boy]

Wet Farts.

[Podo]

I hate boy racers these days, just dicks that drive around in there $1000 car with a $2000 stereo system. Whats with that?

Based on personal experience I just cannot agree on this one, perhaps I'm biased because I was a boy racer in the 1960's and most of the antics were harmless, lots of burned rubber, noise and hilarity but no rape, pillage or personal harm to anyone. This was brought back home to me late last year when me and 2 mates did a 800km night ride as training for the Grand Challenge. At Hamilton we were treated to the Boys Racers Friday night show lots rubber burning and noise. Further down the line we came across a bunch of pissed yobbos exiting a closing Bar flanked by a paddy wagon ready to nail them at short notice, trust me that was not a safe place to be. The Boy racers were a bunch of pussy cats compared to that lot, just a bunch of posers. Who cares if they got $2,000 stereos, they are harmless compared to a bunch of out of control piss heads with knives and broken bottles at the ready.

[n0regret5]

fuckers on cellphones..getting cut off..some moron in a subaru thinking i'm trying to race him when i just wanna get in front of him cos he's driving like a wanker while talking to his boyfriend on the phone..opening my visor to adjust my glasses and getting bloody effluent inside my helmet from the truck going in the other direction..haha. in hindsight its funny..but it was fuckin awful at the time!

[Mort]

• Fuckers on cellphones
• People who drive at 49kph in a 50 zone - bastards
• people who never use their mirrors
• People who hog the outside lane like they own it - twats
• Drivers who resent being passed by a bike so they block you off.
• Diesel on the road
• Supermotards on a Track day
• Bank managers and accountants who ride Harleys - some people should be barred.
• Auckland CBD
• Rain
• Rain and Wind
• Rain and Wind at Night
• Rain and Wind at night when its 2 degrees C

Apart from that lot.... I'm always happy when I ride.

[heyjoe]

idiots using their cell phones (texting or talking - I don't care) when they should be focussed on road use only.

[BiK3RChiK]

• Fuckers on cellphones
• People who drive at 49kph in a 50 zone - bastards
• people who never use their mirrors
• People who hog the outside lane like they own it - twats
• Drivers who resent being passed by a bike so they block you off.
• Diesel on the road
• Supermotards on a Track day
• Bank managers and accountants who ride Harleys - some people should be barred.
• Auckland CBD
• Rain
• Rain and Wind
• Rain and Wind at Night
• Rain and Wind at night when its 2 degrees C

Apart from that lot.... I'm always happy when I ride.

Yeah, this list! Oh, and tailgaters!

M

[Goblin]

• Fuckers on cellphones
• People who drive at 49kph in a 50 zone - bastards
• people who never use their mirrors
• People who hog the outside lane like they own it - twats
• Drivers who resent being passed by a bike so they block you off.
• Diesel on the road
• Supermotards on a Track day
• Bank managers and accountants who ride Harleys - some people should be barred.
• Auckland CBD
• Rain
• Rain and Wind
• Rain and Wind at Night
• Rain and Wind at night when its 2 degrees C

Apart from that lot.... I'm always happy when I ride.

Geeez you must really hate riding.

[megageoff76]

Getting out for a ride, then realising I should have taken a piss/dump before I left.

[Griff]

The thing I hate most about riding bikes, is that I have to conform to the laws of physics. Bastard Scientists!!!!

[Daffyd]

Riding 300km in the rain and wind, getting soaked through and finding a metre of water over the road within 5km of home.

[madbikeboy]

It's all been said before, but I hate:
1. Country music.
2. Never winning lotto
3. Having the budget to own a bike (or two), having the budget to eat food, and having the budget to buy rear tires. But really only having the budget to do two of the things at once.
4. The prick who keeps raising the interest rates.
5. Rap music, and that M&M pratt.

While riding:
* Itches in your boots.
* Cop lights appearing over the crest of the hill when the front wheel is pointed skyward
* People who are too slow, and any crazy bastard who is faster than me and clearly out of control
* Worn rears and diesel spills in the wet
* Riding up to a servo / cafe / wife swap meet and getting the eye from all the bikers there before me (I'm shy, what can I say)
* Having to do the math on how fast I'm riding with non-stock gearing



But most of all, CAGERS.

[swbarnett]

Not being able to ride because the bike is in the workshop. It may only be a GN but it's been almost a week now and I'm really missing it.