Cops ticketing at stop sign before carpark

[Ragingrob]

about bloody fucking time they policed it...sorry you got the fine though mate.

People tear through that stop sign all the time, a lot dont even see the traffic coming from the symonds street overbridge.

I reckon if they sat out there for a week they could make their quota faster than ever.

A lot of students cross there, drivers and riders have to take a lot more responsibility there.

As Squiggles said, they've been there almost once a week for the past few months! I always thought they were just doing random license and rego checks and that was gay, but now it's all good lol.

I've never had anyone not give way to me at that stop sign. Last week was a goody though with a lady pulling out right in front of me while I was sitting at 70kph, with the sun shining on me, and the only vehicle in sight, no idea how she couldn't see me. And then one day I'd just left uni, sitting on motorway, when a friendly truck decided to share my lane and pulled straight across, that was fun for sure lol!

Anyway it had me thinking... If I'd followed the RRRS course when that lady pulled out, and swerved to the right, I would be dead meat! I always thought it was a bit dodgy giving advice on how to handle a situation like that when each situation is different.

[motorbyclist]

Anyway it had me thinking... If I'd followed the RRRS course when that lady pulled out, and swerved to the right, I would be dead meat! I always thought it was a bit dodgy giving advice on how to handle a situation like that when each situation is different.

my only cage collision was when a swerved to the right (special case), and a had a very near one too while swerving right (due to the retard doing everything wrong), but then again i've dodged MANY accidents while swerving to the right (or equivalent)

if you swerve left you'll go straight into the kerb or the island (trying to brake downhill etc), and as RRRS said, the idiot behind the first one might go for it too.

imo a blast of the horn usually gets their attention and i've got plenty of available traction to either slow and tuck in behind or swing right and pass deliberately close to their driver door with the horn blaring. never had to test this yet on that particular intersection.


just keep your wits and use common sense

[Real_Wolf]

Yeah, i've had to swerve to the right, into a 'stopped' lane of traffic. Was travelling down the transit lane on onewa when there was a gap in the 'stopped' lane on onewa, so the person from a sideroad thought 'sweet, i'll turn right now (not the direction i was travelling)', started pulling out, then slammed on the brakes when DIRECTLY in the middle of my lane. Had I been a bus woulda T-boned into her door, instead I just braked, rather than continue on my slightly slippery new front tyre, i just slalomed round her through the gap she was using, then blared my horn

[motorbyclist]

Had I been a bus woulda T-boned into her door, instead I just braked, rather than continue on my slightly slippery new front tyre, i just slalomed round her through the gap she was using, then blared my horn

what the rrrs was saying is that if you go left, they might stop and you'll go straight into them, and if they don't, another cage might follow them anyway, and if you do miss them, you're now headed for a ditch/kerb/pedestrains.

however, if you go right, you're potentially going into oncoming traffic, or if the cager doesn't brake (or otherwise continues across your path), you may have to continue swinging right.
In my case, a 4WD on muriwai that i was passing on their right, swung 90 degrees right without any indication. i tracked right and ended up hitting at about 40 degrees doing about 80kph. Had i braked there was a chance i could have slipped around the back of them. they didn't indicate, and gave false details having done a considerable amount of damage to my dirtbike.

Another near miss involved an idiot doing a u turn over a crest, and me on a topped out fxr150:
they move right across my lane
i hit brakes + horn
they stop in my lane
i come off brakes to sail past in right hand lane (no oncoming traffic)
they then nail it again, so we're looking at a head on collision (which in retrospect probably would've been blamed entirely on me)
I, now without enough room to tack left, go further right and on the brakes.
they realise that they're fucking idiots and stop again
I sail into the gravel shoulder on the complete right side of the road, doing about 40kph, lose another 10kph, swing back onto the road and lock the rear to do a 180 and stop, facing the way i came.
They floor it and disappear over the crest.
I consider my options (being on an fxr150) and decide to leave it.

[Danae]

Scary shit...I need to do that RRRS course at some point...

[PirateJafa]

Danae... just remember that while it was "scary" for him... he was also topped out on his FXR at around about 150km/h... going over a blind crest...

What is it they say about throwing stones and glass houses?

Also Andrew, regarding the swerving into oncoming traffic etc... bear in mind what happened to James.

[Danae]

I heard something about a biker who purposely plowed into the driver's door of a lady's car who failed to give way (apparently she was notorious for never giving way to bikes). Her cage was written off (as was his bike) but she got the full blame and everything. Not saying this is a good idea tho...

[motorbyclist]

Danae... just remember that while it was "scary" for him... he was also topped out on his FXR at around about 150km/h... going over a blind crest...

What is it they say about throwing stones and glass houses?

Also Andrew, regarding the swerving into oncoming traffic etc... bear in mind what happened to James.

which james? swerving right it was the rrrs advocates. i reckon it's far too situation specific, and some times there's not much you can do to avoid an accident apart from travelling slower before the hazard presents itself

on that note topped out was an indicated 120 (had to go uphill for tehre to be a crest ), so about 100kph

and yes, it was back in my idiot days, on the smc 250 kiaua ride where i led most the ride on a 150

[motorbyclist]

I heard something about a biker who purposely plowed into the driver's door of a lady's car who failed to give way (apparently she was notorious for never giving way to bikes). Her cage was written off (as was his bike) but she got the full blame and everything. Not saying this is a good idea tho...

hey, they can't say there weren't involved if their door is smashed in

they then nail it again, so we're looking at a head on collision (which in retrospect probably would've been blamed entirely on me)

i can just imagine it now:
them - "honest officer, he just came over the crest in our lane!!!"
me - "gurgle *wheeze* gasp *wheeze*"

[Danae]

hey, they can't say there weren't involved if their door is smashed in

That's the reasoning behind it

SMC 250 ride...why does that deliver a chill down my spine?

[Ixion]

I heard something about a biker who purposely plowed into the driver's door of a lady's car who failed to give way (apparently she was notorious for never giving way to bikes). Her cage was written off (as was his bike) but she got the full blame and everything. Not saying this is a good idea tho...

That done was me. Or at any rate , I done did that. But the old A10 wasn't written off, but. Only a scrath on the front mudguard. Her Austin A30 was written off. And yes, she was notorious for refusing to give way to motorcycles- took a mate out a month or so before. And the snakes (was snakes then, not cops), charged her. No comeback on me "Yes orificier , ALMOST managed to stop" - actually I could have, I slowed right down, changed down into first and gunned it so I hit her with the suspenders rising.

But you wouldn't find a bike as tough as the A10 nowadays- best Briddish scrap iron that was.

[Real_Wolf]

I dunno, I think I know a bike that would beat it.

Of course this bike was already scrap metal, but it weighed enough it'd to plenty of damage

[FJRider]

Nah not at all, I fully know what i did was wrong, just feel the sting thats all, I just wanted to put it out there so poeple have more care at that intersection, and realise it is a stop sign after all.

More care should be taken at ALL stop signs ... not just that one.

How many demerits ???