This guy has a point - I think

[nodrog:Me]

TM has forums?

news to me too!

do they have bling as well?

[vifferman]

What are they trading on these forums? Stupidity?
Or is this where the "tard" part of TardMe really comes into its own?

[imdying]

3 times faster than the surrounding traffic? No sympathy for anyone that kills themselves in that manner. That's just Darwin in action, cagers not checking mirrors properly or not.

[Slyer]

I usually split at 40-50kph or less if it's not safe.
And only if the traffic is sub-20kph

Speeding is just really really stupid..

[FROSTY:Me]

I thiink you guys are missing the point really. The guy concerned is ONE dude that piped up. Theres a lot of others that think that way.
I'm NOT saying they are right --just that you need to be aware of the mindset

[Insanity_rules]

I thiink you guys are missing the point really. The guy concerned is ONE dude that piped up. Theres a lot of others that think that way.
I'm NOT saying they are right --just that you need to be aware of the mindset

Give this man a cigar! The mindset seems to be why don't motorcyclists (us) wait their turn in the traffic. Even though the trade me poster had no credibility to me regarding the facts of the circumstance (see my earlier post) cagers do get pissed that we get to where we're going quicker and some get so steamed that they don't think of their own actions, try to stop us and end up causing accidents.

[Morcs]

Sounds like the rider in question just hadn't learned to play the game properly yet. Good filtering should happen without scaring the hell out of any car drivers.

Took me a few years to learn how to do that, mind you.

Scaring the shit out of them when they have suddenly turned, then put the indicator on as an afterthought is an art.

Ive driven my cage to work in the morning a few times. I make one lane change just after te atatu to ensure i am in the correct lane to get off at pt chev. I have no idea why cages dont plan like that and they all seem to change lanes for no reason - ''oooh look a gap im going to move into it in the hope that my 2 hour drive home is made 15 seconds quicker''

Anyway, they have no excuses not seeing me, when all they hear is:
brraaap braaap baaaaaaaaaaahp neeeeoowwww

[Kiwi Graham:Me]

Someone splitting at 90k is going to freek out a near stationary cage driver. Yes cage drivers should plan ahead but they dont we all know that and should be prepared for it.

Like it or not a lot cage drivers do get pissed off sitting in traffic and will do what ever there little minds can think of to get ahead, even if it is to gain a measly couple of metres. When they see a biker 'making progress' it piss's them of even more, do it at 90k and they have a point!

[FROSTY:Me]

ACTUALLY--funny you should mention that KG> I took Le van to hammyhole yesterday to pick up a couple of lil quads. On the way back on the motorway I was "racing" a Pooch 911.By racing I mean I sat in the "fast lane" at the traffics speed whilst mr/mss pooch franticly zipped from one side of the 3 laner to the other. By a heck of a coincidence it turned out we were going to the same offramp about 50km down the road. Yep the pooch beat me there.--Hmm by 2 carlenths.

[xwhatsit]

Give this man a cigar! The mindset seems to be why don't motorcyclists (us) wait their turn in the traffic. Even though the trade me poster had no credibility to me regarding the facts of the circumstance (see my earlier post) cagers do get pissed that we get to where we're going quicker and some get so steamed that they don't think of their own actions, try to stop us and end up causing accidents.

I dunno that he's [the car driver] that much of an idiot -- he may well be, but I see the occasional numbnuts on the Southern doing (what looks to me like) excessive speeds lanesplitting relative to the cars around him. 90kph vs 20-30kph is a massive speed difference, and although to many of us who try to split sensibly it sounds improbable, one does see this sort of lunacy from time to time.

There are car driving twats who probably get bitter and twisted about us rolling past them even at walking speed, but this guy sounds sort of genuine and I think he has a genuine complaint. Although we can't put ourselves in the biker's boots, he may have felt completely safe doing such a thing and already noticed the imminent lanechange a hundred metres back. Still, scaring car drivers is always considered harmful.

[Waxxa]

I've seen mbikes lanesplitting at ridiculous speeds and it will be inevitable that these riders will have cagers turn into them one day, sooner or later.

'splitting can be hazardous at the best of times and we bikers need to be patient. Were gonna get to where ever were going faster than a cage without being crazy about it, no doubt.

[alanzs]

It's fun ripping up on cars. Scaring the shit out of them is even better.

[MadDuck]

do they have bling as well?

Oh dear! Report back when you find out ah?

[FROSTY:Me]

conversation must have got heated--threads gone
Pity really cos its nice to talk in a reasoned manner with cagers -

[toycollector10]

Don't lane split and speed past slow moving cagers! Go carefully and assess each car on its behaviour and what it might do or is capable of doing

The wife/son/daughter in the passenger seat might think it's a good time to bail out to get to school/work, the sale at Farmers. Wherever. Why would they check for traffic behind them? They don't live in your lane-splitting world.

Don't startle the cagers, road rage and injury ensues.

Don't be a smart-arse when you lane split.

As Jules Winnfield (Samuel L Jackson) says in Pulp Fiction, "Be cool, m*therfucker" It will get you further and in less time without injury. And Jules really was one cool mother so take your lead from him!

Ahhhh Jeezzz I'm a NANA

Anyway, who wants to be the first one to the scene of the accident!