What is it about buses?

[madbikeboy]

Follow it up formally - not 'informally'

Yeah, I'm letting the process work itself through. I almost got taken out by a bus about 4 or 5 months ago, and the bus company basically told me to piss off... Surely, stagecoach is more professional than that...

Good advice.

[imne1]

Rubbish.
They are retarded, inbred, mouth-breathing, arrogant fuckwits....
Edit: Or am I just describing Auckland bus drivers?

some/most Welly bus drivers are better than that, maybe cos they're all commies or something :-P

...
Did hear one story I liked from an Auckland driver. On the run down off the harbour bridge he used to look in the inside mirror and say,
"Bow to me you bastards."
Then he'd put his foot on the brake and just like magic everyone on the bus would bow to him..

Brilliant !!!

[martybabe]

Well it seems like a problem all over the world, not the intent to kill or Mame, I hope, just arrogant bigoted bus drivers.

It wasn't this twat was it?

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...0&postcount=48

[madbikeboy]

Well it seems like a problem all over the world, not the intent to kill or Mame, I hope, just arrogant bigoted bus drivers.

It wasn't this twat was it?

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...0&postcount=48

Hilarious, tried blinging you, but I've got to spread it around (the Rotorua Cop party thing, again)...

[gijoe1313]

Between Fatt Max and MBB, I think just about every situation confronting urban riding is explored, garnished with spectacular verbiage and commensurate with the depth of humour, insight to human foibles and the wealth of commonsensical allegories that is in so fecund abundance here on KB!

[madbikeboy]

Between Fatt Max and MBB, I think just about every situation confronting urban riding is explored, garnished with spectacular verbiage and commensurate with the depth of humour, insight to human foibles and the wealth of commonsensical allegories that is in so fecund abundance here on KB!

I think you and FatMax are both waaaayyy funnier than I. I am a Shaolin Monk, humble in comparison, unworthy of praise. You are the master of wit, charm, intelligence.

[nevets]

... park the scoot and walk around to the door just as it closes...

Don't they put dem nice emergency-door-open buttons on anymore? I used to like pressing those

[toycollector10]

I had a bad bus ride down here in Christchurch last week. The driver was using his bus like a weapon. He tailgated some dude on a blue late model BMW around Hagley Park. The old "half second following rule". IF BMW boy had gone down for any reason, and I thought the bus driver was going to give him a shunt, the bus would have just rolled right over the top of them both, bike and man, before stopping. We was going about 45 miles per hour.

I thought about reporting him to Stagecoach but I have to leave some of this stuff behind or I just get overloaded. As Jules Winfield says in Pulp Ficton, "I'm tryin', I'm trying real hard..." etc

[MsKABC]

I'd forgotten about this one....

I was on a bus on the way to work one morning when the side of our bus got rammed by this big islander dude in his 4WD!

He had pulled into the middle of the road (onto a median strip perhaps, not sure) and was waiting for the bus to go past before merging. The bus caught his front bumper as it went by and pulled it away from the vehicle. The driver was so incensed that he rammed the side of the bus, about 2m in front of where I was sitting. A nasty argument between the 2 drivers followed, meanwhile we all sat there on the bus being late for work. Scary!

[swbarnett]

He always bemoaned the fact that the buses were governed, reckoning that without the governor, they were capable of over 100mph....now THAT would have been a bus ride!!!

Best ride I've ever had in a bus was on a Swiss post bus after a track closure. They were rushing to get us from one train station to the next in time to catch the next train over some VERY windy roads - foot to the floor the whole way.

I rode buses and trains all the time over there and can't fault the drivers for anything. Our guys could learn a lot from them.

[Racer X]

Hilarious, tried blinging you, but I've got to spread it around (the Rotorua Cop party thing, again)...

LOL just got the same spread round message doing you

Oh yeah and busses are the bane of my life riding in auckland.

[Swoop]

I rode buses and trains all the time over there and can't fault the drivers for anything. Our guys could learn a lot from them.

Our bus drivers could learn a lot from a two year old kid on a new pushbike...

AK busdrivers

[ital916]

how come every other day there is a thread from you saying how some driver nearly kills you followed by a rant on whats wrong with the world. Now I am not protecting the faults of other drivers but with so many close calls maybe just maybe you might have to step back and go.."woah maybe it might in some cases be me". Not specifically talking about this thread but just in general. Good to see you werent squashed by the bus.

[vifferman]

I was on a bus on the way to work one morning when the side of our bus got rammed by this big islander dude in his 4WD!

My wife had the exact opposite happen!
She was on a bus driven by a big, friendly Samoan, and he went round a left-hand corner in town, swinging wide as you have to in buses to avoid running over the curb and/or taking out the lamp post. Some dude in a Falcadore ute tried cutting up the inside, then got incensed when the bus "cut him off", so he was tooting and gesticulating till the bus stopped. Then he launched into this loud tirade at the bus driver, who got out of the bus to talk to him. When the ute driver reached into the ute for what was either an axe or axe handle, the bus driver walked up to him and said, "Don't try that fkn shit with me, Mate!" SkinnyWhiteUteDriver leaps back in his ute quicksmart, then everyone continues on their way. Next thing, SkinnyWhiteUteDriver is smashing his ute into the side of the bus repeatedly as they're driving along, before driving through two red lights and pissing off into the distance.

"Well... that was interesting!" says the bus driver.
says the vifferbabe.

[madbikeboy]

how come every other day there is a thread from you saying how some driver nearly kills you followed by a rant on whats wrong with the world. Now I am not protecting the faults of other drivers but with so many close calls maybe just maybe you might have to step back and go.."woah maybe it might in some cases be me". Not specifically talking about this thread but just in general. Good to see you werent squashed by the bus.

Every other day? Huh? Read through my posts and start counting. I'm pretty sure I'm contributing to the problem by not getting killed, just add me to your ban list if you can't stand to read the shite that I write.