Minor Filtering Rant

[Wolf]

( ps u know pajero translates to "wanker" hehe (oh and dont ask me the language... )

Spanish. Approxiimate pronunciation = Pa HEro, with a sort of throaty sound to the "H" sound, and roll the "R" - just don't get caught rolling your r's in public (unless you're a sexy chick then it's OK)

[Devil]

Had a mint ride out to Oxford(130km round trip from home) with the wife yesterday, was fantastic aside from a girl in a white honda civic dead set on squashing us.

We were filtering up to a set of red lights, and were behind said civic for a minute, everytime we went to move past her, she'd pull right over onto the centerline of the left lane, after this happened about 5 times I figured it wasn't a co-incidence, since she was staring into her wing mirror the whole time! When we got closer to the redlight and traffic slowed down from the hair-raising 25kph that it was, we got past her since the truck in front of her had to slow down sooner than the cars in the right lane, as we go past the civic, she veers hard across the line to try and hit us! thankfully we were past her promptly.

In conclusion - what the hell are people thinking when they do this? With us at the front of the traffic, we take off quicker, and leave the cars to do as they please without having to worry about having us in their blindspots, and the reward for this is some Girl who's willing to get done for GBH or worse, for reasons of what, Self-Importance?

Aside from that, it was a amazing ride :-)

You should have got off at the lights and punched her in the cunt.
Thats what the Dalai lama would do, he dont take shit from anybody.

[jrandom]

Thats what the Dalai lama would do, he dont take no shit from anybody.

I don't know why that made me laugh so hard, though.

[Devil]

'What would Brian Boitano do if he were here today? Why, he would kick an ass or two, thats what Brian Boitano'd do.'

[Ms Piggy]

Am I unreasonable in being pissed off by this?

No you're not. As riders we are often whinging, moaning and cursing cagers for their stupidity and then sometimes we can be just as inconsiderate and dangerous.

In saying that I know there are some incredibly stoopid cagers out there and I think Monsterbishi had the right idea by not letting the ditz that he encountered ruin a perfect days riding.

[loosebruce]

Never have too many problems around shit like that, has happened to me though, my temper is well not good when it comes to that kinda crap though, the carbon knuckles on me gloves make for a good rap on their window.

But mostly when open road riding peepes tend to pull to the side and give you room to pass, even enough to pass saftley with oncoming traffic, 9 outta 10 when passing em i'll always giv em a nice wave or thumbs up to say thanks, as they don't have to do it in the first place.

[SPman]

....(like vans are favoured by timid people who don't like exceeding 70km/h ...

Aaah - you've obviously never seen me driving my van!

But mostly when open road riding peepes tend to pull to the side and give you room to pass, even enough to pass safely with oncoming traffic, 9 outta 10 when passing em i'll always giv em a nice wave or thumbs up to say thanks, as they don't have to do it in the first place.

Me too. Going down to Paeroa, my arm was gettin tired with all the waving....

[sAsLEX]

Aaah - you've obviously never seen me driving my van!

the van i was driving the other week was lighting up the inside wheel going round some corners heading to Whangaruru(north of whakatane) and had enough poke for over 150! Had to keep up with the boss in case I got lost you see!

Now I know someone on this site who gets there van drifting and maybe even the odd knee down

[Skyryder]

If they don't let me pass i just wait untill I can. Then it's the finger upright wave, I know that pisses them off

Skyryder

[TonyB]

No you're not. As riders we are often whinging, moaning and cursing cagers for their stupidity and then sometimes we can be just as inconsiderate and dangerous.

In saying that I know there are some incredibly stoopid cagers out there and I think Monsterbishi had the right idea by not letting the ditz that he encountered ruin a perfect days riding.

Thanks CSL. There are dickheads on both side of the fence (car doors?) The rider on the BMW took a hell of a risk assuming I even knew they were there...why do it? The bike will nearly always come second best in a cage/bike encounter. Plus I had my wife an wee kids in the car, I'm normally a fairly placid bloke, but if you do something to endanger/hurt my family I get very f^cked off. I guess most people do.