Our own worst enemy

[scumdog]

Here's a comment from a cage forum:

"On the way back to Whiritoa from Whanga on Sunday arvo,some dick on a jap bike decided to jam himself between us and Waikato willies r/p,coming down the 35 km/h curly bits to the one way bridge just before Whiritoa,braking for the curves and have some flogger stuff a bike in the hole,also braking,does not make a pretty sight,if I had taken him out,it would have been messy,front bumper on the truck is near 3mm thick.And they say we give bike riders a raw deal? insert Tui ad here... "

These guys were hot-rodder types heading back from the Beach Hop at Whangamata, it shows the public DO notice dicks on bikes...

[Candle]

most bikers notice other bikers being dicks on the road i go for the occasional long ride and rely notice when i get passed but a guy on a Harley doing 160 around a corner and then have to get out of his way as if just cuz im on a smaller bike i have to get of the road to let him pass.
And i haven't been riding for all that long but i defiantly believe something needs to be done about people being idiots on he road, not to say you cant and shouldn't go fast and overtake cages and all that but for gods sake do it on the straight not the corners that's just suicide and it tells all the newbees that its acceptable and its really not

[dangerous]

a guy on a Harley doing 160 around a corner and then have to get out of his way as if just cuz im on a smaller bike i have to get of the road to let him pass.
And i haven't been riding for all that long but i defiantly believe something needs to be done about people being idiots on he road, not to say you cant and shouldn't go fast and overtake cages and all that but for gods sake do it on the straight not the corners that's just suicide and it tells all the newbees that its acceptable and its really not

well said, and zakery my point... and its fast becomming an aceptable bad habbit.

[carver]

Here's a comment from a cage forum:

"On the way back to Whiritoa from Whanga on Sunday arvo,some dick on a jap bike decided to jam himself between us and Waikato willies r/p,coming down the 35 km/h curly bits to the one way bridge just before Whiritoa,braking for the curves and have some flogger stuff a bike in the hole,also braking,does not make a pretty sight,if I had taken him out,it would have been messy,front bumper on the truck is near 3mm thick.And they say we give bike riders a raw deal? insert Tui ad here... "

These guys were hot-rodder types heading back from the Beach Hop at Whangamata, it shows the public DO notice dicks on bikes...

that was probably me
i was there about mid day and owned lots of cars

and im not sorry

[Ixion]

I doubt it. The complaining cager would surely have commented about the bike being on only one wheel the whole time?

[Patch]

Idiots will always be idiots whether they be on two, four, six or eight wheels - Get over it.

The only person You can ever change is You. It starts with You and it ends with You.

Pretty simple when You actually think it - shame is, most people don't.

[carver]

I doubt it. The complaining cager would surely have commented about the bike being on only one wheel the whole time?

well, i aint good enough to ride around 25k corners on the back wheel.
a nice open sweeper is fun though.
risky though.....most bins wins

[dangerous]

Idiots will always be idiots whether they be on two, four, six or eight wheels - Get over it.

The only person You can ever change is You. It starts with You and it ends with You.

Pretty simple when You actually think it - shame is, most people don't.

'Get over it' I will NOT.
simple it aint... so in your way of thinking as I 'get over it' and ride a nice tidy legal corner to be hit head on and killed by a fuck wit crossing into my side of the road... well you explain that to my son when hes older nuff and you suport my missus, do you under stand that? ( doubt that you wil as you ride a moped and live in a musume)
If people dont get pro active shit just compounds and more people loose partners, siblings, parents etc.

[JMemonic]

I very nearly collected a Harley this afternoon as he cut in on me at the lights, fortunately I was slowing and was able to stop, inches from his back wheel with his bike about 40 degrees jammed between the car in front and myself, this fool then made me think his indicators were broken by failing to indicate, failing to give way due to no indication, and generally being a bit of a dick.

I did approach him and suggest that he take his bike in for a service as obviously the indicators were not functioning and I honestly believe that given the response, he failed to understand the concept and was perhaps bewildered with riding the bike.

He had no awareness of the road and how close he got to being knocked off.

[swbarnett]

If people dont get pro active shit just compounds and more people loose partners, siblings, parents etc.

And if people get too proactive shit still compounds but now you're living in a police state.

While I do take your point I don't want my personal freedoms destroyed by people going after a percieved problem that's nothing more than people being human. There will always be fucktards that take things too far. Personally, I'm willing to accept this and look after my own safety as much as I can. It's the price we pay for the priviledge of governing our own destiny. Read my sig.

There is no easy answer.

[dangerous]

And if people get too proactive shit still compounds but now you're living in a police state.

While I do take your point I don't want my personal freedoms destroyed by people going after a percieved problem that's nothing more than people being human. There will always be fucktards that take things too far. Personally, I'm willing to accept this and look after my own safety as much as I can. It's the price we pay for the priviledge of governing our own destiny. Read my sig.

There is no easy answer.

No you are thinking to hard here...
Bikeing in NZ will never become a police state yes ther will always be 'fucktards that take things too far' however I am winging about the riders that are becomming to compliant in there BAD riding habbits and in fact these habbits they are doing with out relising... thay are NOT bad people but do need to think about the conserquences of there actions... its like running red lights these days, people do it with out relising, I just think the average Jo biker needs to look at them selves... sorry but nothing will help the fucktards that take things too far.

[scumdog]

I doubt it. The complaining cager would surely have commented about the bike being on only one wheel the whole time?

Idiot rider cut on front of an old type hot rod just before a one-lane bridge.

Only said old type car only had drum brakes.

And idiot nearly ended up as a hot rod bonnet emblem...

[_Shrek_]

guy on a Harley doing 160 around a corner

how big was the corner!!! (sorry scummy)

but all jokes aside good point Candle, I was coming through Weka Pass like I do most days when I was passed by an sv1000 through the s's with traffic & if he waited about 30 seconds he could have gone past us all with a clear veiw

[swbarnett]

I am winging about the riders that are becomming tocomplience in there BAD riding habbits and in fact these habbits they are doing with out relising...

Thanks for the clarification. I totally agree. A bit more education in a rider's early days would probably sort out a lot of this. I know I would have a lot of bad habits had I not done the course at Western Springs when I started riding.

[Patch]

'Get over it' I will NOT.
simple it aint... so in your way of thinking as I 'get over it' and ride a nice tidy legal corner to be hit head on and killed by a fuck wit crossing into my side of the road... well you explain that to my son when hes older nuff and you suport my missus, do you under stand that? ( doubt that you wil as you ride a moped and live in a musume)
If people dont get pro active shit just compounds and more people loose partners, siblings, parents etc.

No you are thinking to hard here...
Bikeing in NZ will never become a police state yes ther will always be 'fucktards that take things too far' however I am winging about the riders that are becomming tocomplience in there BAD riding habbits and in fact these habbits they are doing with out relising... thay are NOT bad people but do need to think about the conserquences of there actions... its like running red lights these days, people do it with out relising, I just think the average Jo biker needs to look at them selves... sorry but nothing will help the fucktards that take things too far.

Get off ur soapbox fool - u ain't got all the answers.