Cage drivers' behaviour

[Insanity_rules]

I hear what your all saying but the plain truth is that a good half of these situations are caused but cage drivers asserting a good spoonful of moronic behaviour on us bikers.

I can cop to pulling out a little short in front of a bike or two but I'd NEVER try and monster a fellow biker in my cage cause i know what its like on the receiving end. I've had some situations that would curl ya hair and straighten your pubes with really dumb cagers in my time and I don't blame most of us who lash out.

[madandy]

*555 the assholes.
A nice letter from the Police explaining that bullying Motorcyclists is a dangerous and punishable past time will go some way to improving the education many motorists require - in time.
In the past I have stopped and removed peoples' keys and thrown them into oncoming traffic lanes, torn wing mirrors off, kicked in doors...All of which helped me vent my anger but did nothing positive for peoples' opinion of bikers and could have gotten me arrested.
So dob the cunts in to the cops.

[suckingair]

My .02 worth..
Two stories..
1. I'm at the control lights waiting to go south on the motorway in Auckland (Takanini to be precise..) The lights are in effect, I'm stopped waiting for the green, when from behind I hear the squeal of car tyres, next thing I'm on my back and my bike is about 15 meters ahead of me. Rear-ended while at a red light, there is nothing that I could have done (except to run a red light) that would have stopped me from getting hit.

2. 3 months after that I get my bike back and I'm riding to work on the motorway, when I come across a hugeeee line of traffic. What could be holding up everyone ? 2 bikers one in the left lane an other in the right, both doing the same speed, less than 70 km.. Come on guys, use your mirrors.

Guess what happened when the rider in the right lane moved to the left ? The car that was directly behind the rider was so close he should have got out an introduced himself.

Some doors swing both ways.

[Swoop]

... I had to use all the humanity left in me not to smash her mirror or brake her damn window.

Come over to the dark side. You know you really want to...
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My .02 worth..
Two stories..
1. I'm at the control lights waiting to go south on the motorway in Auckland (Takanini to be precise..) The lights are in effect, I'm stopped waiting for the green,

Why?
Bikes do not stop at those.

[PrincessBandit]

I have been reading a fair bit about bad cagedriving behavior on KB, but I have found so far that the majority of car drivers have been quite courteous towards me. There are always bad drivers everywhere, people are people...
But I believe a lot has to do with your own riding style, assertive,mildly aggressive, and above all in their face: BE SEEN....
If somebody tailgates you, you are only a flick off the wrist away from putting another vehicle behind you.....
I know that I probably gonna get both barrels, but : "better the world! start with yourself...."

Well, you are lucky to be living down that end of the country (have rellies in Woodend, so I know where you are........oooooooo). Here in Manure-wa (Sth Auckland) we seem to have an over-representation of dickhead car drivers. In the last 3 weeks I have been: (i) tailgated and overtaken by a prize dork who had to force his car up onto the grass median strip up the carriageway to get past me along Druces rd (when there wasn't even a gap to push into between me and the car I was following) oh, I was in my car for that one; (ii) both my husband and I had the same tailgating treatment from a Rav4 driver while we were on our bikes going along the Takanini straight (both of us gave him the big finger, then his girlfriend also gave him an earful ); (iii) back in my cynos again, taking daughter to work same thing happened again along Russell Rd and this idiot still forced his way past me into oncoming traffic!!! (both him and his delightful passenger gave me the royal finger when I blasted my horn at them) then.....wait for it......wait for it.....I passed him as he then proceeded to wait to turn left just a hundred metres up the road...... OMG where do these people come from? All these tailgaters were ones who weaved left/right/left looking to push round either side despite only being single lanes in every instance. In all these cases I was doing more than the legal speed limit (not by much mind), and travelling with the flow of the traffic. Have lived in South Auckland nearly all my life and now can't wait to get out of Auckland and leave the madhouse behind.