Some people have the nerve.

[aff-man]

Right i am on my way home after a long session at tech staring at a computer trying to make sense of my project, I havn'e had anything to eat in over 4 hours and just want to get home and kick back. Turn into my street and as i approach my house this lady on the side of the road starts yelling at me to slow down .

Now i have a slighly less than normally baffled exhaust. I.e. it is a stumpy (i think 250) probably staight through exhaust, so is a little less than quiet. But honestly if you are going to stand on the side of the road and yell at me you might get surprised one day if i don't ignore you and pull over and ask just what the hell you think you are doing. This is the first time this has happend to me (well second but the other time the old guy just motioned me to slow down) and if it happens again i might have words with this woman. I don't yell at her for what ever transgressions she might have pissed me off with (like the way they park thier vehices on a blind corner which leaves me no room if something is coming the other way). I dunno i just find it incrediablily rude to just stand there and yell at someone

[Mr Skid]

Right i am on my way home after a long session at tech staring at a computer trying to make sense of my project, I havn'e had anything to eat in over 4 hours and just want to get home and kick back. Turn into my street and as i approach my house this lady on the side of the road starts yelling at me to slow down .

Try riding past your neighbours sitting on the tank, that got me a funny look from one of my neigbours last night. :spudwave:

Next time she bitches about speed, pop a mono in front of her.

[Devil]

Right i am on my way home after a long session at tech staring at a computer trying to make sense of my project, I havn'e had anything to eat in over 4 hours and just want to get home and kick back. Turn into my street and as i approach my house this lady on the side of the road starts yelling at me to slow down .

Ive had the same thing down my own street, a guy motioning me to slow down and yelling while I was only doing 55km/h admittedly in first gear (ZXR250 engine).

[vifferman]

Yeah, there are some real tw@ts around, thats fer sure.
On my way to work this morning, some dick in a BMW backs out in front of me, so I slow way down, he keeps backing, so I stop right next to him, to make sure he's not going to keep backing up and slam into me. So he goes, "Cool I can go!" just as I start to go around him. F*ckin f*ckwit.

[Riff Raff]

Maybe she wanted a ride so she could get her jollies. I had an old boy regularly waving at me to (I thought) slow down. Eventually I stopped to have a polite word with him and it turned out he really liked my bike and had been trying to get me to stop so he could have a look at it.

[Quasievil]

I know that a biker has to maintain his/her modern image and come across as a responsible and caring road user BUT there are times when we need to remind the arseholes of this world how we used to be ie loud ,violent, "Im going to get your daughter high on drugs and booze"
I think in situations like described above we need to show a bit of BALLS and stick it to em.

One of the funniest things I ve seen all year was on Waikato ride part 1 a few of us turned up in the pouring rain, we flagged the ride in interests of safety but decided to go to a local cafe so we went to town , no parking spots to be had so we opted to ride carefully on the VERY WIDE foot path to park our 5 bikes ensuring plenty of room for pedestrains. As we walked into the cafe a bloke ranted and raved as to how footpaths were for walking not bikes. IT WAS ONE OF THOSE MOMENTS, Firefight as you know a top bloke and one who you wouldnt want to get on the wrong side of, chose this as a moment to remind the bloke how we used to be and what we are capable of if treated poorly. Firefight sinking in to the depths of his linguistical talent shouted "FUCK OFF" and in doing so put the silly bloke right back in his place.

Affman ,I believe you have a duty to us bikers in general to do the same my friend, I propose that every KIWIBIKER event based out of auckland change the meeting spot from the auto barn to your road for at least 6 months, from this the lady will realise how good she had it

I think that would be awesome

[Motu]

Had a guy once run over and try to push me off my bike! That was bloody scary - mind you I was riding over a road block trench and mound on a new road construction,had been riding through there before the road was even started when it was only a clay track...just part of my city morning commute.(Clemow Drive)

[Paul in NZ]

One guy threw some hedgeclippers at me once...

Mind you I was testing my open piped 500cc Norton Dominator engined dirt bike up and down the street at the time...

Fair enough!

Paul N

[vifferman]

One guy they some hedgeclippers at me once...

Mind you I was testing my open piped 500cc Norton Dominator engined dirt bike up and down the street at the time...

Fair enough!

What - throwing hedgeclippers at you, or testing the Dommie?
(I vote for the latter )

[TonyB]

Were you actually speeding? If you were just remember- NEVER SPEED IN YOUR OWN STREET! Why? Cause the neighbours will get pissed off and they might just get annoyed enough to have a cop come and have a word with you. This happened to me when I was young and stupid enough to think it was OK to speed in a built up area.

[Quasievil]

Were you actually speeding? If you were just remember- NEVER SPEED IN YOUR OWN STREET! Why? Cause the neighbours will get pissed off and they might just get annoyed enough to have a cop come and have a word with you. This happened to me when I was young and stupid enough to think it was OK to speed in a built up area.

And what can the cop do ? besides have a word, he couldnt prove or do you on anything could he?

[Omega1]

Were you actually speeding? If you were just remember- NEVER SPEED IN YOUR OWN STREET! Why? Cause the neighbours will get pissed off and they might just get annoyed enough to have a cop come and have a word with you. This happened to me when I was young and stupid enough to think it was OK to speed in a built up area.

Yep,remember that ole saying "Don't shit in your own nest"

[DebK]

Hmmm, that reminds me of the wee letter I got in the mail earlier this year from the "NZ Police Community Roadwatch Programme".

To directly quote the letter:
"A member of the public has utilised the Community Roadwatch Programme to bring a matter to the attention of Police, they feel they should be aware of.
Yadda, yadda.. and continues...
"The vehicle concerned is reported to have been on Cuba Street, Wellington on the 30th of March 2004 at about 5:15pm

The report reads:

"The registration plate is horizontal to the road and cannot be read when being followed."

What the...?! What a waste of freekin' time and effort by Senior Sargeant Paid-Too-Much-To-Sit-on-My-Arse-&-Write-Stoopid-Letters!

The really ridiculous part is that a cop was the previous owner of my scoot.

Anyways, I have digressed off topic.

[Paul in NZ]

Yep,remember that ole saying "Don't shit in your own nest"

Or even close to it...

My dad used to tell me off if I was making too much noise if the people next doors kids were in bed (fair enough) so coming home of an evening I used to wind the bike up to speed up the road, flick off the ignition and coast the last few hundred meters. The old fella with the hedgeclippers lived about where I used to shut down for the coast home..... No wonder he didn't like me much....

Oh well... I thought it sounded kinda cool!

Cheers

[TonyB]

And what can the cop do ? besides have a word, he couldnt prove or do you on anything could he?

Actually, I have no idea what he would have said, because the day he came looking for me everyone in my flat was moving to a new flat across town. When he popped around I was away with the second to last trailer load of stuff, so we quickly did the last trailer and buggered off before he got back. The one part I still feel bad about is that someone had a bike that looked like mine parked outside one of the other flats when we were leaving (I had an FZ400R and the other bike was a TZR250 with roughly the same colour scheme). No one answered when I knocked on the door to warn them- he/she no doubt received the affore mentioned visitation. If the cop had caught up with me, it would have been obvious to him that I'd been a naughty boy, as I am a crap liar...

A guy I used to work with had some difficulties with the law after someone accused him of 'driving erratically and running a red light'. Don't remember exactly what the outcome was, but I think he had to go to court. Made him sweat anyway.