Luck and biker instincts

[Headbanger]

Okay, the Mini is the best kept secret. You can drive using almost the same lines and braking points as a bike, it's small, you can fit it anywhere, (I work in town), it doesn't use gas or tires - I've owned all sorts of shit over the years, from fast Audi's to Alfas, Holdens to MR2's. The Mini's are good fun, this is the second one I've owned.

Yeah mate, I wasn't knocking your car, Just figured I'd ask ya about getting me hair cut.

[madbikeboy]

Yeah mate, I wasn't knocking your car, Just figured I'd ask ya about getting me hair cut.

My friends are watching me closely, if I start wearing pink shirts, or if I start being able to tell differences between shades of pink, then I'll be going on a man course, complete with a V8, beer drinking, woman chasing, and hours of rugby watching.

Mini + blower + mods = fun. Like owning a GSXR600, except much slower, and less wet during rain.

[jaymzw]

My friends are watching me closely, if I start wearing pink shirts, or if I start being able to tell differences between shades of pink,

My personal fav is coral,

It looks just delicious with my great leather pants

[madbikeboy]

My personal fav is coral,

It looks just delicious with my great leather pants

Son, you're now enrolled in the Man Course.

Meet at the Tui Glen, make sure you prepared by bring a dead sheep or deer and drape it over your shoulders.

[Mikkel]

Real men don't do courses ffs. We know all there is to know already!

(sometimes we forget though... e.g. that if you haven't headbanged for a few years you should probably ease into it )

[Brett]

I had a horrible experience this afternoon, or more accurately, this evening as I was coming home. I was heading home from Parnell, and I went straight through a roundabout instead of turning left to head up my street so I could turn into the gas station and check tire pressures.

There was a jogger, a woman, fit, slim, and she was heading across the road, obliquely, facing me. I had my lights on, but as I approached her, I suddenly got a bad feeling and hit the brakes, biker instinct and nothing else.

So, instead of looking back to her right to see the road was clear, she ran even harder, and looked down at her feet. So, she stepped out right in front of me, with about 6-8 feet to go. I was already braking, and she looked up, and – this is the truly awful bit, she tripped and fell directly in front of the Mini. I came to a stop, I didn’t feel an impact, and the car behind me ended up screeching to a stop, luckily he managed to avoid hitting me... I pulled off my belt, and did the mental preparation, and as I opened the door, she put her hand on the bonnet, and started to get up.

Turns out I didn’t hit her, but stopped about a foot from her.

She was cut up and grazed, and she was shaking like you wouldn’t believe, and she burst into tears, and started to apologise. I ended up sitting on the side of the road with her for a few minutes, and some other people who had witnessed it couldn’t believe her luck, or that I had managed to stop in time.


Such a close call – I think that was the best piece of driving I have ever done, and I’m sure that it was only the biker instinct that saved her from me running her over…

I have to spread more bling around before I can give you some, but good work! You undoubtedly saved that women a lot of time in the hostpital or worse.

[Brett]

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Usually, I drive when we're in the car together, and have had 'lots of fun' with me noticing potential hazards, assessing and dismissing them, only to seconds later have the vifferbabe notice, react, and freak me out because her reaction led me to believe there was some new unnoticed hazard.
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Shit, so I am not the only one who gets that...the sudden 'watch out' makes me freak out like I missed something and am about to kill us both when it is merely something I noticed a bit before her and have assessed and judged to be fine. puts the shits up me.

[Swoop]

Nah mate, bus drivers do....

The Taxi driver should be considered in this statement...

[MsKABC]

The Taxi driver should be considered in this statement...

Yep, taxi drivers are right up there too. A Welly one nearly killed me one day by running a red light. Then he got shit-faced because I refused to pay him!