Don'cha just hate it when...

[slofox]

When you riding at a fairly good speed of [insert number here]kph and that car still has to try and pass you.....

Yep yep - had that happen a couple weeks ago. Young loon and his mates just had to pass everything...me and a line of cars...into the face of an oncoming car...on a double yellow line...into a dip you can't see into...and into a blind right hander...very sensible...

[skidMark]

Pet hate, 2 in one...

Speed limits, and cops.

[newbould]

Hey, who here puts their keys in the helmet whenever they will dismount their bike and walk away from it?
It's tricky sometimes when you go to put down your helmet, but if you stuff your gloves into the lid hard enough, the keys stay at the top! (bottom)
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THIS THREAD IS NOW ABOUT SHARING THOSE LITTLE TIPS
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Yip learned that one. After going round the supermarket getting to the checkout and not finding keys. Panic. Got to bike and found them in the ignition. Only in Dunnners!

[peasea]

I have the odd pet hate when riding...and I wondered what other people have as their pet hates....

Current No 1. One of the routes I ride regularly has a wonderful corner just before the end of the ride. I look forward to hitting this one every time I take that ride. Lovely smooth seal, not usually much traffic, a chance to get the bike over and power through......the hate? When I anticipate this corner all through the ride, only to get to it and discover my way blocked by other traffic...and I have to putter round it like an old grampa...frustration that lasts most of the day...

So what's yours?

I hate pets.

[peasea]

Pet hate, 2 in one...

Speed limits, and cops.

The first doesn't matter if you lack the second.

[Blackshear]

Yip learned that one. After going round the supermarket getting to the checkout and not finding keys. Panic. Got to bike and found them in the ignition. Only in Dunnners!

I did this once too, scared the living shit out of me...
Walking around the store after browsing for a good hour... OH GAWD, WHERE'S MAH KEYS!!!! Got the whole shop looking... Two minutes till some guy came in dangling my keys
FROM THAT DAY ONWARDS! Helmet.

[peasea]

Yep yep - had that happen a couple weeks ago. Young loon and his mates just had to pass everything...me and a line of cars...into the face of an oncoming car...on a double yellow line...into a dip you can't see into...and into a blind right hander...very sensible...

I happens in automobiles too. Just recently a buddy of mine picked me up in his Subaru. It's turbo'd etc, pretty fast etc and he says "you wouldn't believe the number of cocks who want to race you while you're puddling along in this thing". I thought "yeah right". Ten minutes into the journey, we're pulling about 110-115 and bam, this turkey with his hat on backwards (driving some equally fast Nippon-dense-oh fart bucket) races up to our right, on and off the gas and then nails it!

We were laughing so hard it would heve been impossible to race him. What's up with that? Take it to the track dude.

[Blackshear]

I happens in automobiles too. Just recently a buddy of mine picked me up in his Subaru. It's turbo'd etc, pretty fast etc and he says "you wouldn't believe the number of cocks who want to race you while you're puddling along in this thing". I thought "yeah right". Ten minutes into the journey, we're pulling about 110-115 and bam, this turkey with his hat on backwards (driving some equally fast Nippon-dense-oh fart bucket) races up to our right, on and off the gas and then nails it!

We were laughing so hard it would heve been impossible to race him. What's up with that? Take it to the track dude.

MANG MY GIZR ON 18 INCH CHROMIES, POD FILTA, BIG BORE ZORST AND 18 POUNDS OF BOOST WILL WIPE THE SMIRK OFF YOUR OLD MAN FACE!

I seriously don't know.
I always get dicks in their $500 cars egging me on at the lights and what not. Very frustrating when they try to MAKE you play the game.

[peasea]

MANG MY GIZR ON 18 INCH CHROMIES, POD FILTA, BIG BORE ZORST AND 18 POUNDS OF BOOST WILL WIPE THE SMIRK OFF YOUR OLD MAN FACE!

I seriously don't know.
I always get dicks in their $500 cars egging me on at the lights and what not. Very frustrating when they try to MAKE you play the game.

I'm not quite sure what you just said but yes, the do try to MAKE you 'play the game', race that is. I get it on the bike with cars and bikes, but fuck it. If I'm not commuting I'm out there for fun and nobody (cept for a plod perhaps) is going to ruin for me. If I want to puddle along at 115 then so be it, I'll move left for those who want to 'prove' themselves.

18lbs I understand. I built a 355 SBC with 22 or more, on alcohol and there's no way I'd drive it.

Yup, I gots da old man face.

[Blackshear]

I'm not quite sure what you just said but yes, the do try to MAKE you 'play the game', race that is. I get it on the bike with cars and bikes, but fuck it. If I'm not commuting I'm out there for fun and nobody (cept for a plod perhaps) is going to ruin for me. If I want to puddle along at 115 then so be it, I'll move left for those who want to 'prove' themselves.

18lbs I understand. I built a 355 SBC with 22 or more, on alcohol and there's no way I'd drive it.

Yup, I gots da old man face.

I was trying to speak tough-rev-head talk. Not very fluent it seems
You cheated with cubics. Anything on alcohol is usually running decent compression, AND gets air shoved down its gob.
How to squeeze a couple more ponies out of my dearest Bobbie... Hmmmm

Just a bit of harmless fun when you're in the mood

[Shadows]

Bus drivers.

Taxi drivers.

SUVs.

White vans.

Volvos (with or without soccer mums).

HSVs, FPVs, and BMWs with 50+ fat balding fuckwits behind the wheel who think the car they are driving automatically qualifies them as somebody who can actually handle a car at speed.

GSXR riders passing within half the diameter of a gnat's testicle of one's leg at 160+ because, well, fuck only knows really. Maybe because they actually have testicles half the diameter of a gnat's.

Cars that inch out of intersections as one approaches as if they're about to pull out on you.

Well meaning but misguided drivers who pull over to the left and shower rocks, lumps of wood, broken glass and shit all over you.

Boy ricers in their blinged up cars that go pfffft? Well, they always provide a laugh when they get blown into the weeds but I still hate them.

In fact I think I hate everybody with the outright cheek to use MY FUCKING ROAD.

[peasea]

I was trying to speak tough-rev-head talk. Not very fluent it seems
You cheated with cubics. Anything on alcohol is usually running decent compression, AND gets air shoved down its gob.
How to squeeze a couple more ponies out of my dearest Bobbie... Hmmmm

Just a bit of harmless fun when you're in the mood

Decent compression? That engine I was referring to ran about 7.4:1 with a slightly overdriven 6/71 GMC supercharger. When I say 'slightly' I think it was about 5-7% but I really can't recall. Also, when I say 20lbs boost I'm guessing coz the guage went to 18psi and it went round to the stop. It could have been more, maybe 24. We played with blower drive pulleys and found that the ports couldn't sustain the intake manifold pressure, valve size was an issue as was the 'soft' camshaft. The combo still exists and still runs mid-sevens in the 1/4. Personally I think it's good for low 7's with the high-speed lean-out functional but it's all about money.

[Kemet]

Yip learned that one. After going round the supermarket getting to the checkout and not finding keys. Panic. Got to bike and found them in the ignition. Only in Dunnners!

Hell, half the thieves down here probably wouldn't even think to look in the ignition.....

And I have also made a successful burst around the supermarket with my keys left in the ignition

HSVs, FPVs, and BMWs with 50+ fat balding fuckwits behind the wheel who think the car they are driving automatically qualifies them as somebody who can actually handle a car at speed.

In fact I think I hate everybody with the outright cheek to use MY FUCKING ROAD.

Maybe it's just a Dunedin thing then but down here if you get stuck behind a V6 model - Holden or Ford - and it's going as slow as fuck, esp on corners going uphill, when you do finally pass (or even just see their face in their rearview mirror) they're 65+ retirees in their very shiny, probably-just-purchased-off-some-pimply-faced-twat-of-a-sales-person-who-has-somehow-convinced-them-they-need-to-buy-it new car!!

Fuck off and buy a car you can actually handle!!!

There... I feel a little better now.... just a little....

Decent compression? That engine I was referring to ran about 7.4:1 with a slightly overdriven 6/71 GMC supercharger. When I say 'slightly' I think it was about 5-7% but I really can't recall. Also, when I say 20lbs boost I'm guessing coz the guage went to 18psi and it went round to the stop. It could have been more, maybe 24. We played with blower drive pulleys and found that the ports couldn't sustain the intake manifold pressure, valve size was an issue as was the 'soft' camshaft. The combo still exists and still runs mid-sevens in the 1/4. Personally I think it's good for low 7's with the high-speed lean-out functional but it's all about money.

Is it a bird?? Is it a plane???

Nope... it's just that post going way, way, way over my head...

I really need to get off my arse and learn more about engines and maintanance etc.....

BTW I did recognise some of the terms and what they are sort off but still...

[Hiflyer]

people that inch out at intersections when its a green arrow but people are still ceossing. . . just frickin wait, what is 2seconds gunna help? fuck sakes

[Blackshear]

people that inch out at intersections when its a green arrow but people are still ceossing. . . just frickin wait, what is 2seconds gunna help? fuck sakes

Can I still give the throttle a twang?