You HAVE to be alert when sharing the road with DICKHEADS!

[Duke girl]

Glad you are ok Hels, got to have your wits about you all the time when your out on the road.
Arn't you glad they arn't on the Race track with you?.

[Str8 Jacket]

I commute on my bike, I don't know if you do, and things like that happen on an almost daily basis. I have often thought that it would be good to install a helmet cam' and record an average day on the bike then take the video to ACC to show them where the problems stem from.

Yep, I commute daily and get arond everywhere on my bike as I do not have a car licence and public transport too expensive blah blah blah.... I have to admit to having to avoid an accident on an almost daily basis as I commute on the motorway and through the city. The reason I start work early and leave early is to avoid heavy traffic!
I was just talking with my man last night about how I will save my money to invest in a decent race bike but I am not keen on getting anyting bigger than a 150 as a road bike. The 150's are alot easier to stop in a short amount of time and easier to manouvere around the obstacles that are other road users. I have had my full licence for years now but just cant see myself getting a "big" bike for the road. Not with my luck!!
Next step, AIR HORNS!!

[sinfull]

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It's about time some TV types took the time to make a program looking at things from our perspective in an effort to wake up a very dozy public. The LTNZ boffins spend enough money on ad's about drink driving and speeding, where are the ad's relating to watching for bikes, indicating at roundabouts and getting to grips with such basics as the right-hand rule?

Bloody good idea, wouldn't be hard for some with the helmet cams to get together with all their clips and make a doco !! Earth calling Carver !

Not really the threads point but that bloody right hand rule haha how friggin hard is that to understand ? Not very and yet the general public all seem to sit at the give way wondering who has right of way, scared to move ! Unless it's a big fuck off roundabout they're a waist of time in my book !

Next step, AIR HORNS!!

And a riding suit with great hori flashing neons all over it !

[Her_C4]

Jeepers Hels! Glad you are relatively ok (I am with ya' on the knee thing ) - Good reflexes eh? Thank goodness

Bet those beers went down well!

[MSTRS:Me]

That's the bit that pisses me off. Their indifferance to their bad driving.

Worse than that is the fuckers that 'have a go' when you express your displeasure about (nearly) being taken out by their crap driving...

[peasea]

Yep, I commute daily and get arond everywhere on my bike as I do not have a car licence and public transport too expensive blah blah blah.... I have to admit to having to avoid an accident on an almost daily basis as I commute on the motorway and through the city. The reason I start work early and leave early is to avoid heavy traffic!

Ditto. I used to live in Newlands and rode to Abel Smith St every day, then I moved to Island Bay and rode from there too. After that I 'progressed' to the North Shore and did a lot of work in Manakau. That Southern Motorway sure is an education!

Now I live in the Nelson area and the locals complain about the traffic here, hardy-har. Some of them are dozy, yeah, but the volume? nah, it's just not there.

Had to ride around the waterfront about an hour ago and an oncoming campervan ventured into my lane. A quick glance at the driver and all I could see was the side of his head. He was checking out the scenery, of course.

One of the perils of living in a gorgeous place I guess.

[scissorhands]

If every vehicle had a front facing camera running all the time, those at fault who turn on you will look like real scumbags.

Make it easy for police, people just send in their video's...

[Insanity_rules]

Next step, AIR HORNS!!

Do it, its great fun. My XZ 400 had air horns. Much to my delight you could make Tin pilots with occular deficit really jump. P.S. Glad your OK.

[ajturbo]

Yep, and then I looked at her car. My handlebars had badly scraped her drivers door and ripped of the wing mirror. My bike is sweet!


I do get some bad luck but in a weird way I am also lucky. Things could have been much worse with all three of those incidents. They all happened within 20mins of each other as well!!
I will have a couple for you!

I am off to buy some airhorns ASAP!

can you show me where i am going wrong..... my riding is never as much fun as yours.....

[Ratti]

I quite liike the idea of airhorns. Come tothink of it, befoew Hubby died we bought an arhorn to fit into the work van..its has animal noises as well as the usual sounds....Maybe I could get it fittted to Ratti ( the bike not me ) Seriously, Can someone pm me with contact details of a local KB'r who has a high level of electrical competence and could do the job?

I do like the idea of blasting out high volume cow bellow, pig grunts or rooster crow at the appropriate time.
What a hoot
(sorry about the pun)

[Str8 Jacket]

Do it, its great fun. My XZ 400 had air horns. Much to my delight you could make Tin pilots with occular deficit really jump. P.S. Glad your OK.

Yep, I had a couple on my old KR with eah one facing outwards, different way's. Everyone stopped dead when I blasted them and were always to see a tiny bike!

can you show me where i am going wrong..... my riding is never as much fun as yours.....

Nah mate, all these incidents have actually put me off riding on the road. I dont have a car licence and for $$ reasons will stick to the bike on the road for commuting and getting around town but that's it. Though in saying that, I think that racing has really helped my reactions and I am happy to stay alert and cautious on the road but I dont really enjoy it!

[centaurus]

Yep, I commute daily and get arond everywhere on my bike as I do not have a car licence and public transport too expensive blah blah blah.... I have to admit to having to avoid an accident on an almost daily basis as I commute on the motorway and through the city. The reason I start work early and leave early is to avoid heavy traffic!
I was just talking with my man last night about how I will save my money to invest in a decent race bike but I am not keen on getting anyting bigger than a 150 as a road bike. The 150's are alot easier to stop in a short amount of time and easier to manouvere around the obstacles that are other road users. I have had my full licence for years now but just cant see myself getting a "big" bike for the road. Not with my luck!!
Next step, AIR HORNS!!

Glad you're ok str8 jacket. I've been through the same dillema at the end of 2008 when an idiot pulled in front of me after me tooting my horn and everything. Even though I saw him and did everything short of stopping completely, he never saw or heard me until my bike hit his car and I flew over his bonnet.

I ended up putting a bigger horn on my bike which helped but was not enough. The thing that helped the most was getting a bigger, LOUDER and green bike (the bike at the accident time was black). Do not underestimate the importance of a big loud bike, visibility wise. Somehow, the car drivers don't seem to be ignoring me anymore on the loud bike. After buying the new bike, I went back to my old bike a few times and suddenly I was invisible again - people were pulling in front of me or squashing me in my lane and I had to continuously use the horn.

I've been commuting daily on a bike for almost two years now. My conclusions:
1. my zx6r is more stable and better at filtering through crawling traffic or lane splitting on the m-way than my old gpx250.
2. It I would want to really have A LOT of manueverability, a 250cc-400cc dual sport (XR, DR, etc...) would be my choice:good acceleration from a standstill because they have the powerband very low in the rev range(will get you out of trouble), there's nothing lighter on it's feet than a dual sport/motard when filtering and being quite loud people won't ignore you.

[Str8 Jacket]

Trust me, they will do it whatever you ride. People just dont look for us. I have had a few bikes 250's and 400 being a few of them and have been riding on the road for at least 4 years now and I have to say I get so much more enjoyment out of a race track!!

[scumdog]

That's the bit that pisses me off. Their indifferance to their bad driving.

Skyyrder

Hell S/R, first they have got to realise they are bad drivers before they have the ability to realise they have an indifference to it!

[bogan]

had a funny one up at massey the other day, was going 30kmhr round the ring road (so not like I came outa nowhere) lady just walks acroos the road looking to her right (opposite way that I was coming from) hmmm methinks maybe she will look to the left once she gets to half way... nope, just keeps walking, i rumble up rather close (after checking she wasn't carrying anything) clutch in, let rip, lets just say she will be looking both ways next time