The BMW contract

[98tls]

Would love a BMW rant but sadly in 30 odd years of riding a BMW driver has never tried to kill me.

[slofox]

Sell it? But then some madman will have it and they'll run down slofox, it's safer in my garage

Thanks K34 - your concern is touching and gratefully noted........

[slofox]

Would love a BMW rant but sadly in 30 odd years of riding a BMW driver has never tried to kill me.

Tell ya what 98tls - I will look out for the offender who started this rant and send her your way......

[vifferman]

Another Rav 4, a year ago on Queen St, I'm sitting behind -- right rear tyre dead flat, on the rim, still driving merrily along though. Traffic stops, I put bike on stand, walk over, knock on window. Lady nearly shits herself, but eventually winds down window. I ask her if she knows her tyre is flat, she says it's not. I eventually persuade her to have a look, she gets out, says `Oh, I see, I'll ask my husband when I get home,' gets back in the car and drives down and left towards Victoria Park -- not the Harbour Bridge eventually I hoped...?

LOLzer.
You must be like me - I like to (helpfully) point out if people have significantly flat tyres. A few years back, I was going down Onewa Road towards the motorway, and noticed the BMW saloon ahead of me had a very flat right rear tyre. So, I pointed it out to the driver, she nodded dumbly (in hindsight, like she was acknowledging me but the whole concept baffled her), then carried on driving. I thought, "Oh - she's stuck in traffic, and so she's carrying on to where she can safely pull over!"
I then followed her all the way into the CBD. I was VERY disappointed that the tyre didn't roll off the rim going over the bridge at 80km/h. I was looking forward to seeing her car crash/roll/explode into flames/fall into the Waitemata.
I think that perhaps like many immigrants, she was one of those who just get in the car, fill it with gas when it needs it, and anything else is just put in the "too hard" basket. I've seen so many cars parked up on the side of the road with flat tyres. Maybe they just buy a new one...

[more_fasterer]

A Rav 4 is more likely to be driven by a traffic idiot in my hexperience.

Agreed... unless the BMW in question is an X5. I suspect the richer RAV4 drivers upgrade to X5's once they've honed their road-owning skillz

[Swoop]

It has been proven that bmw's have excessively weak wing mirrors...

[xwhatsit]

Agreed... unless the BMW in question is an X5. I suspect the richer RAV4 drivers upgrade to X5's once they've honed their road-owning skillz

Yeah -- Mr Twunt Mk. I (fuckwit who backed over my bike) was driving an X5.

Burn them all. Or ban Rav 4 and X5 imports

[slowpoke]

Brilliant, we as motorcyclists hate to be stereotyped and here we are doing exactly the same to drivers of certain vehicles.
Treat everyone as an individual in their own right, take them at face value and treat them as you'd like to be treated.........otherwise don't complain when you get lumped in as just another soon to be organ donor.

[idb]

Brilliant, we as motorcyclists hate to be stereotyped and here we are doing exactly the same to drivers of certain vehicles.
Treat everyone as an individual in their own right, take them at face value and treat them as you'd like to be treated.........otherwise don't complain when you get lumped in as just another soon to be organ donor.

I hate people like you!

[scumdog]

Agreed... unless the BMW in question is an X5. I suspect the richer RAV4 drivers upgrade to X5's once they've honed their road-owning skillz

They were placed on this earth post-'85 so are waaaay too new for me to acknowledge..

[slofox]

Brilliant, we as motorcyclists hate to be stereotyped and here we are doing exactly the same to drivers of certain vehicles.
Treat everyone as an individual in their own right, take them at face value and treat them as you'd like to be treated.........otherwise don't complain when you get lumped in as just another soon to be organ donor.

If you read my original post, you should realise that it is a heat of the moment reaction to a particular driver who just happened to be driving a Beemer....the assignment of the contract idea is a frivilous extension of the annoyance resulting from nearly being run over by this driver. It is not meant to be taken seriously slowpoke - I thought the humourous intention was obvious.....but then I always did have a warped sense of same.......

[Big Dave]

otherwise don't complain when you get lumped in as just another soon to be organ donor.

I don't anyway nor do I care about 'our reputation'.

[slofox]

i don't anyway nor do i care about 'our reputation'.

+1 bd........

[Big Dave]

+1 bd........

Only sweat on what you control huh.
Teenagers on sprotsbikes, gangsters, patches etc etc are beyond mine.
kay sarah sarah and concentrate on how *I* behave.