Jerks on bikes

[dpex]

Jerks on bikes give the rest of us a bad name.

Sure, there are bound to be a few aggrieved drivers seeing bikers wander past between cars stacked end-to-end in rush hour traffic (why do we call stationery traffic Rush-Hour)? And a few more who see us wizz past at 123%/140% of the prevailing limit, but mostly in reasonable safety.

But I see quite a number of yobos overtaking on double-yellow lines (having crossed them), racing past lines of cars at lights. I don't mean carefully negotiating one's way past. Like today. Some prick (on a bike) jumped out from a gas station, in front of me! Then looked at me and relative size and thought better of continuing. Next minute the prick roared down the median strip at well over 60 to a very congested, difficult sight-line intersection, zipped between two cars, then ended up behind the first car at the lights. I pootled up alongside and said, 'Mate. We get enough bad press without you doing that sort of shit.' He'd done some utterly stupid shit and gained absolutely zero advantage over me, pootling up to the lights.

His answer, 'Fuck you! Grandpa!' Luckily for him the lights turned and he took off.

A while ago I had some young gun overtake me...and god knows I was pushing fairly hard. Then he overtook two cars on a blind bend, then another on the next. I watched as he rolled his arse from side to side like a regular racer. I followed him for about five Ks (him getting ever further ahead) till he arrived at a major intersection of two open roads. When he finally took off...once again pushing his luck in front of a RH approaching car, there were but two cars between us. Oh yeah, he gained heaps of time from his stupid riding.

But I'll lay odds that every car driver this prick overtook in such a dangerous fashion would have wanted to report him. But mostly, I'll lay odds that his behaviour made the drivers think, 'Fucking idiot bikers. They should be banned or something.'

So it's these pricks who give the rest a bad name

Shoot the bastards, I say!

[mattian]

well.......... There are alot of morons on the roads. Some of them ride bikes and some of them have questionable decision making abilities when it comes to overtaking. Most of those riders usually end up injured or killed. In my limited experience on a bike (had my licence for about a year now) I have mostly encountered dangerous behaviour by car drivers. Most bikers know how easy it is to lose it..... and, therefore behave themselves (most of them) I have seldom seen a crazy manouvre by a biker........ I witness crazy manouvers by cagers everyday.
oh....... and, I am sorry he called you Grandad

[Drum]

I'll save you the trouble Mr Deuce.

Burn em, burn em all!

[MadDuck]

What no wheelies or stoppies? Whats the world coming to

[FJRider]

In Auckland city, I guess there must be a few (and a few more) idiot bikers. Sadly, thats life. And a few more moan about high ACC "additions" to rego etc....and wonder why.
I'm glad I live in Central Otago...the idiots are here too, but they are usually from Auckland...or at least norf islanders (same thing) and we know they'll leave...eventually...we hope...

[98tls]

Dont sweat it,the law of averages suggests that he has a slim chance of living through a few big offs gaining some wisdom and who knows maybe venting his frustration at such antics on KB someday.....or not.

[Ixion]

Get a gun and shoot the fuck

[carver]

waaaaaa......
good on him, at least he was having fun, he is right, he can ride how he wants, its his ass.

mormon few!

[dpex]

The point is, we all do stupid shit. But I try to confine mine to places where I'm the only one destined to become hamburger. It follows that the cagers don't get a hard on to dial *555 and report yet another bastard, freedom loving, freedom living biker gets his rocks off while he sits there next to his carping wife, in his cage...the HP on which is killing him. And he can't remember why he agreed to have the screaming kids which are now planted in the back seats.

And as for the little shit who called me grandpa....He's real lucky he's not now suffering a serious dose of dysphagia. I see him again. I'll get my fingers around his scrawny throat, and teach him the meaning of the word as his eyes turn up. Dpex mumbles about youth. It's totally wasted on the young. Ba! Humbug!

[98tls]

The point is, we all do stupid shit. But I try to confine mine to places where I'm the only one destined to become hamburger. It follows that the cagers don't get a hard on to dial *555 and report yet another bastard, freedom loving, freedom living biker gets his rocks off while he sits there next to his carping wife, in his cage...the HP on which is killing him. And he can't remember why he agreed to have the screaming kids which are now planted in the back seats.

And as for the little shit who called me grandpa....He's real lucky he's not now suffering a serious dose of dysphagia. I see him again. I'll get my fingers around his scrawny throat, and teach him the meaning of the word as his eyes turn up. Dpex mumbles about youth. It's totally wasted on the young. Ba! Humbug!

Careful old fella you will give yourself a turn...from another old fella.

[McJim]

Jerks on bikes give the rest of us a bad name.
So it's these pricks who give the rest a bad name
Shoot the bastards, I say!

This is excellent news - cloning works! Katman - is that you in there?

So, lemme get this straight.

If a car driver hoons around like a loony all car drivers are loonies?
If a Truck driver cuts you up on the mototrway all truckies must be fuckwits?
If a polynesian breaks into your house all polynesians are burglers?
If a Glaswegian breaks your nose with his forehead all Glaswegians are unstable (okay - you prolly got a point with this one!)
If your wife runs off with a professional rugby player then all professional rugby players are wife stealers?
If one motorist makes a sweeping stereotypical assumption based on the actions of one biker then all motorists will jump to the same conclusion?

I think not. You're problably over reacting because he overtook you..I've noticed this a lot in New Zealand...people seem to get very aggreived about being overtaken. I need this response explained to me as it doesn't happen in the UK.

Hope your vent helped though! Think happy thoughts.

[alanzs]

You're problably over reacting because he overtook you..I've noticed this a lot in New Zealand...people seem to get very aggreived about being overtaken. I need this response explained to me as it doesn't happen in the UK.

I think you hit it on the head. When they overtake someone, they are cool and tell all their mates. When it happens to them, the other person is a jerk, they whine about unsafe riders, etc., and get all tweaked emotionally. "Mummy, that bad boy was riding so bad I was afraid. Mummy, tell 'em to stop!" Too funny really!

[CookMySock]

1. Its not your problem

2. you cant change the world

3. not so long ago it was you

4. they are having fun

5. you have much more interesting things do to than this

As you were.

[Swoop]

Sure, there are bound to be a few aggrieved drivers seeing bikers wander past between cars stacked end-to-end in rush hour traffic


And a few more who see us wizz past at 123%/140% of the prevailing limit, but mostly in reasonable safety.

How disgusting. A decent biker would maximise his time and do both at the same time. Filtering at 150kph is the bare minimum required.

Who teaches these kids these days?

[PZR]

Why is it that everyone slower than me is a pain in the arse and everyone faster than me is a effing maniac???