The thing you hate most when riding

[Sanx]

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

[peasea]

Gooks. Everything else I can cope with.

[mark247]

Another thing i hate when riding is the boyracer fags in there honda civics who think that just because im able to pass them safely in a 70k area when they are cruising at around 50km instantly means that i want to race them and they try to pass me. FARK! Had that happened the other day out of nowhere, nearly knocked me off the road.

[skidMark]

apart from what has already been mentioned, especially having bees in the helmet.

Following behind dirty vehicles or trucks hauling grass/dirt/gravel where you keep being hit by small particles, so have to put the visor down.

my visor always stays down...even in 50 kph zones.....then you don't have to worry about bugs etc,

and on motorway i have to or i can't breath, my lungs don't like ram air/ turbo

[skidMark]

Gooks. Everything else I can cope with.

you can cope with old lady's?, that takes patience.

i used to just pass everybody, now i behave.

[Toaster]

traffic. a day without traffic would be bliss.

Dude, are you saying you have traffic in Northland? Come down here and let me show you something.... (but yes I hate traffic too)

[Joni]

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

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

[Toaster]

I equally hate:
1. high speed bumble bees becoming one with the back of my throat at 100km/h.
2. hoons who rate themselves as good drivers.
3. texting drivers.
4. drivers who don't see bikes, or those that do and still don't care.
5. expensive petrol.
6. going up the rise on Kahikatea Flat Rd beofre Pine Valley - visor always fogs up in the morning.
7. getting off my bike.

[Toaster]

I forgot to mention cow poo on the road.... which ends up all over my crome.

[idb]

Just being alone with my thoughts...............that's when I realise what a boring bastard I really am.

[stify]

What do you hate the most when you go for a ride

squashed nuts

rev limiters

too few corners on the way to work

knowing that i'm squaring off me rear tyre...cause of too few corners on the way to work

feeling like i want to ride as fast as fuck, but knowing i can't ride for shit and can't afford to pay for how fast i can ride

the fun's over when i'm done riding

[MidnightMike]

I just went for a ride over the kaimais, ive got some new ones:

Cagers,

Trucks,

Cagers trying to overtake trucks when their equally as slow,

Cagers in the overtaking lane when there not overtaking,

And tyres that arent sticky.

Cagers cutting me off.

One more time....

Cagers.

[peasea]

you can cope with old lady's?, that takes patience.

Yeah, old ladies are cool. We actually took the time Easter Monday to go to Whangarei to see my other half's nana. She made us a blanket (it's warm-as) and we thought a personal thank-you was far better than some lame card in the mail. Or was that just an excuse for a ride?

[Oakie]

In no particular order:
> that single drop of cold rain water that finds it's way past the helmet and wet weather gear to dribble slowly down the back of your neck.
> people who won't go at a Give Way or Stop sign because there's a vehicle 400 metres down the road and you know you could get over and back 4 times and still be safe.
> clean the visor for a big road trip and then 5 minutes down the road you hit a huge bug that splatters guts, wings and legs all over the previously sparkly clean visor
> Finding yourself riding behind a cop when you need to get somewhere in a hurry
> finding a new pothole on your favourite line through a curve / corner
> watching idiot bikers/scooter riders doing dumb stuff and getting us all a bad name (like the scooter rider doing wheelies up the footpath at a wee shopping centre I saw the other day)

[GSX-RJIM]

On a long ride in the wet and having to stop for a piss real bad and having to get throgh heaps of layers to get the custard chucker out.

Sitting on a 168 KMPH and looking in mirror to see a cop car up ya arse, OH No!!