One simple step to survival

[P38]

Ride like everyone is out to get you


Cos they ARE!!!!!!

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[Zapf]

Ride like everyone is out to get you


Cos they ARE!!!!!!

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yourself included.... so make sure you double check if ur brain is making good choices too.

[cbr guy]

i follow this, it's saved me a couple times too, never thought about myself actuallly

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

yourself included.... so make sure you double check if ur brain is making good choices too.

Very true... well said

[NiggleC]

I always thought a bumper sticker saying: DANGER - I DRIVE LIKE YOU DO would sell rather well anywhere but NZ as we don't do irony very well.

[Roj]

Ride like everyone is out to get you


Cos they ARE!!!!!!

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Too true, have alomst squashed a motor cyclist myself, and I do watch for bikes when driving a cage... but he was a courier rider on a little bike racing a long on the left of the road, making himself very hard to see

[steveb64]

Ride like everyone is out to get you


Cos they ARE!!!!!!

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Actually there's a better one - my grandfather passed it on to me:

Ride like no one else out there can see you - and imagine that if they can, they're trying to get you...

[P38]

Actually there's a better one - my grandfather passed it on to me:

Ride like no one else out there can see you - and imagine that if they can, they're trying to get you...

Steveb64
Thats very good advise. Good on ya Grandad for passing that along.

Cheers
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[Angusdog]

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you...

I like the phrase "Drive it like you're paying it off" but then again I'm not 19.

[steveb64]

Steveb64
Thats very good advise. Good on ya Grandad for passing that along.

Cheers
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Ta. He was a pretty cool dude, rode an Indian (Grandma had a BSA Bantam - was a founding member of AKL Ladies M/C club) during war era (WWII) - drove fire engines at the time. Told me a couple of tales - nearly losing a (ladder unit I think?) going down a street in Auckland - thing had solid rubber tyres, and wooden brakes! It all got away on him - but he hung in there, and got it 'round the bend at the bottom...
Another about wheelstanding an engine over a bridge somewhere around Thames or Paeroa - he was a relieving driver, this thing had a big water tank on the back behind the rear axle, and the bridge was one of those arched/humpback ones... Apparently it was quite spectacular - scared the crap out of the guys on the engine - but they ALL knew it did exactly that over that bridge - just hadn't told him, 'cos they thought it'd be funny! Problem was, 'cos he didn't know about it in advance, he'd been going somewhat faster than the usual driver did...

[motorbyclist]

Ride like everyone is out to get you

Cos they ARE!!!!!!

when i got my learners my dad told me the exact same thing


"assume everyone else is blind, stupid, uninsured and don't know the road rules"

kept me out of trouble sofar....

my brother ignored the uninsured bit and only had 3rd party. the driver was unlicenced, unsupervised 15 year old girl, doing a u turn in a 4wd, who pretty much fitted all of the above criteria. parents told the cops "oh no it's ok, she's learning!", and then gave the cop a false details even though it was outside their house, and he talked to them inside their house! 3 successful court rulings later we still got nothing to cover the bike