When and where do you overtake

**Ranzer** · 1st February 2005, 15:51

Originally Posted by TonyB

Use momentum to slingshot you past.

Hmm yeah this method rings a bell or two... but like you say you really need to know the road you're on to use it. :disapint: Would be nice to be able to pass on less familiar roads too so those new rides don't wind up too boring. :P

**Biff** · 1st February 2005, 16:06

Originally Posted by Ranzer

Hmm yeah this method rings a bell or two... but like you say you really need to know the road you're on to use it. :disapint: Would be nice to be able to pass on less familiar roads too so those new rides don't wind up too boring. :P

Softly, softly catchie monkey my friend. Take your time. Stay alive and well. Live and learn. Then buy a huge powerful motorbike and scare the shiiite out of cage drivers - safely.

**Rainbow Wizard** · 1st February 2005, 19:26

Originally Posted by TonyB

'Oncoming traffic' means a car going the other way will go past while you are overtaking[/B]

Should have read this before I voted, maybe you could be more explicit in your title or options in the future. "Oncoming traffic" means exactly that, it would be more exacting in your case to state the option as "oncoming passing" or "oncoming and adjacent at some time during the manouevre". I ain't bitchin at you though, a good post/poll in essence. I'm like you, I will not knowingly compromise my safety.

**Rainbow Wizard** · 1st February 2005, 19:29

Originally Posted by Mongoose

then you wake up, move out of the wet patch and go back to sleep, right?

HAHAHAHAHA

**TonyB** · 1st February 2005, 19:38

Originally Posted by Rainbow Wizard

Should have read this before I voted, maybe you could be more explicit in your title or options in the future. "Oncoming traffic" means exactly that, it would be more exacting in your case to state the option as "oncoming passing" or "oncoming and adjacent at some time during the manouevre". I ain't bitchin at you though, a good post/poll in essence. I'm like you, I will not knowingly compromise my safety.

My humble appologies. Not sure if I can alter the poll. I would think not. There's not alot of room in the question line to type, plus I couldn't remember how to add the poll- the only way I know how to do it is to add a new thread and then use the 'thread tools' to add a poll (though no doubt they are there when you go to add the new thread in the first place). By the time I remembered how to do it, at least one person had already replied...so I was kinda in a hurry.

Broke my own rules tonight- gave an oncoming cager a fright by overtaking in a confined space. Got in with 100m or so to spare, but with a closing speed of maybe 65 metres per second 100m gets chewed up pretty quick.

**Rainbow Wizard** · 1st February 2005, 19:49

Originally Posted by TonyB

Broke my own rules tonight- gave an oncoming cager a fright by overtaking in a confined space. Got in with 100m or so to spare, but with a closing speed of maybe 65 metres per second 100m gets chewed up pretty quick.

Good thing your rule was the only thing broke eh. That sounds too scary for me but I've done some dumb things this last week or two, and fortunately survived them AND stayed on the bike. I often wonder how sub my conscious is!

Did you get the adrenalin taste?

**RiderInBlack** · 1st February 2005, 19:56

OK, need to rant here. Please if you are on a group ride and you wish the following bike to pass ether:

Wave them on and pull as far as it is safe to the left.
Or indicate to the Left and pull as far as it is safe to the left.

Do not indicate to the right and slow down while still staying in the middle/right yor lane. I will (for my own safety) assume that you are goimg to pull farther over to your right if you are indicating to your right, making you unsafe to pass on that side. This happen to me on the MR's Sunday ride. Can not remember which one of you it was, but please do not do this. You will just confuse an annoy the following riders.

I do, by the way, appeciate drivers/truckies/riders indicating the way ahead is clear. But if I can not see that myself, I don't like to take the risk.

**inlinefour** · 1st February 2005, 20:01

You are along time dead

**crazylittleshit** · 1st February 2005, 20:13

Originally Posted by Honda

You are along time dead

so why take your time know? :unsure:

**madboy** · 1st February 2005, 22:07

I pass anytime anywhere that I feel I can do it safely... if I've split cars down the rush hour mway bouncing off the governor making sure that scumdog's workmate doesn't catch up I can hardly criticise someone for passing on a blind corner (which hypocritically I don't engage in).

Ranzer - I can understand where you're coming from. My partner had a GSX250. First time I rode it, I split the queue up to the front of the lights, pinned it at the green... and just about got run over! Shudder to think how slow it would be to pass cars at open road speeds. The lack of horsepower won't help the confidence. Great town bike, but not an open road weapon.

**TonyB** · 2nd February 2005, 07:06

Originally Posted by Rainbow Wizard

Did you get the adrenalin taste?

Nahh, I new I was going to get in with plenty to spare- things happen quickly when wide open in second, even if the bike is 16 years old- but I suspect the driver coming the other way was getting pretty worried. Ooops.
Just noticed the title for your post. The closing speed included 100kph for the on coming car, so I wasn't doing 230+- that would be wrong...

**mikey** · 2nd February 2005, 11:57

as some few of gys saw going down takas (rapa side) two guys on sv650s? on sunday i overtake everywhere,

blind corners but on the white line not other lane (or not much), an as on sunday there was another stream of cars coming the other way but its pretty safe unless i meet someone like myself who is overtaking on blind corners coming up the way, but then can still move a little an run cars off road a little

unlessi ts real wet, cause it gets tad slippery on paint with tires the same size as my mountain bike.

**Biff** · 2nd February 2005, 12:34

Originally Posted by mikey

as some few of gys saw going down takas (rapa side) two guys on sv650s? on sunday i overtake everywhere,

blind corners but on the white line not other lane (or not much), an as on sunday there was another stream of cars coming the other way but its pretty safe unless i meet someone like myself who is overtaking on blind corners coming up the way, but then can still move a little an run cars off road a little

unlessi ts real wet, cause it gets tad slippery on paint with tires the same size as my mountain bike.

I hope you're joking mate. Otherwise you're headed for an early grave or permanent disability. Don't be daft dude, take your time.

I've a mate who had the same attitude as you, that was until he hit an oncoming van who had cut the corner slightly on a blind bend, a bend that my mate was overtaking a car on. He broke the top of his spine and is now paralysed from the neck down. He can't even get a hard on any more, let alone wipe his own arse or control his bowel movements etc.