Recently I was going up Kent Terrace Wtn one night when a BR overtook. I drew up alongside at the next reds. I used enough acceleration to leave him at the lights but back right off keeping reasonably within the law and dropped left in to the Basin Reserve in the middle lane. Much to my surprise this BR overtook on the outside, real close - he must have been pushing it. Now it's been raining and just drying up, plus all sorts of things like it's a blind corner, cold tyres, pedestrians, police, diesel potential, too old, close to my safety wedge, etc so I let him through and then we peeled off, him through the tunnel and me up Ad road keeping very legal.
Next incident. I'm going round the bays and through the airport following another BR. We kept it real legal but through but those mini roundabouts I notice he pushes it a bit. I overtake by coming into the airport system but again he waits until those right angled corners and small roundabouts, trying to close up. I might add all this is a bit gentlified. keeping within the road code and 10% of of the speed limit. It's more of a psychological game.
Thus is interesting. These BR's keep within a tolerable speed overage, ie no more than 60ish in a 50 kph limit but know the weak/strong points on a bike compared to a car. They won't challenge straight line acceleration but will the right angled corners. It's as if they have developed a strategy for dealing with us.
Now I'm way past the age having used up all my nine lives for this sort of stuff, so I now back off and become boringly mature etc, BUT - Bikes should still Rule over any tarted up cage.
Experiences anyone?
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Originally Posted by Fatt Max
Retard.
Karma ... Justice catches up eventually !! 
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