Who's Dis Guy (the motorbike video one) - go on fess up

**Ronin** · 19th March 2010, 17:47

Originally Posted by Toaster

Ignoring the oncoming traffic issue, the broken yellow no-passing is there to require that you complete your overtaking move BEFORE the continuous double yellow line that inevitably follows.

Appears fine from that regard.

I stand (well, lounge on sofa with beer) corrected.

**Headbanger** · 19th March 2010, 17:47

Originally Posted by paturoa

You gotta be trolling....

Have a close look at Ronin's frame grab and tell me about the avoiding action the 4wd cager is doing coming the other way.

He is over-reacting, The bike has passed the truck and well out of the line of fire before the car closes the gap.

**paturoa** · 19th March 2010, 17:49

Originally Posted by sosman

man there are some poofters on here!

If riding to survive is being a poofa, then I'm proud of that. I'm sure my wife and children will be quite happy that I'm a poofta too.

.... so just to complete the logic of that, the dead peeps who don't post any more, or never got a chance to even join, aren't pooftas then??????

**Ronin** · 19th March 2010, 17:52

Originally Posted by paturoa

You gotta be trolling....

Have a close look at Ronin's frame grab and tell me about the avoiding action the 4wd cager is doing coming the other way.

Now lets do a imagine.... lets imagine that you are the cager coming the other way, but you are on your bike and have to swerve to the left, over the shoulder marking, cos some retard in a cage is doing what the retard on the bike is doing? Is your opinion the same?

Mr Toaster is right, we were only talking about the yellow line and, well, to be honest I was wrong.

You are right and wrong, in regards to the traffic he is in my opinion being a bit of a cock (are we allowed to say cock now if we use opinion?, Don't want to go international) and I wouldn't do that pass.

Nothing in Toasters post even remotely troll like.

**Ronin** · 19th March 2010, 17:53

Originally Posted by Deano

Yellow lines are just yellow lines. They indicate a legal compliance, and are not necessarily a good indicator of safety. The video looks a bit on the close side for me, but it's hard tell - might be my internet speed or the video quality.

There are plenty of places with yellow lines that are still very safe for a bike to overtake on.

The Takas have been pretty much ruined for bikes because of them.

Yup, they are painful indeed now.

**paturoa** · 19th March 2010, 17:53

Originally Posted by Toaster

Ignoring the oncoming traffic issue, .....

Originally Posted by Toaster

Read my post properly. I was talking only about his position in relation to the broken yellow line, not the vehicles around him. I dont troll.

Ah, yes, I stand corrected and retract.

However, not ignoring the on-coming traffic...

**Ender EnZed** · 19th March 2010, 17:54

Originally Posted by centaurus

Putting cameras on rubbish trucks to catch drivers misbehaving is the biggest hypocrisy ever.

The cameras are there so the company can keep an eye on how their drivers are behaving. Filming other drivers misbehaving is incidental.

**paturoa** · 19th March 2010, 17:58

Originally Posted by Ronin

Mr Toaster is right, we were only talking about the yellow line and, well, to be honest I was wrong.

You are right and wrong, in regards to the traffic he is in my opinion being a bit of a cock (are we allowed to say cock now if we use opinion?, Don't want to go international) and I wouldn't do that pass.

Nothing in Toasters post even remotely troll like.

Agree, I was reading more then was typed.

I'm using the term "retard" instead of "cock". Is that OK? That cock on the morning TV show got a bollocking for saying that the singer woman looked like a retard. So I guess either was I'm a cock.

**Toaster** · 19th March 2010, 18:00

Originally Posted by Ronin

I stand (well, lounge on sofa with beer) corrected.

Funny you should say that. Doing the same thing! Time for beer #2.... cheers!

**bogan** · 19th March 2010, 18:02

I wonder why the bike incident was even recorded, truck didnt need to swerve or brake. While it looks legal-ish, I reckon a cop would have found something to ticket hime for if there was one round, dangerous driving most like

**paturoa** · 19th March 2010, 18:03

Originally Posted by Headbanger

He is over-reacting, The bike has passed the truck and well out of the line of fire before the car closes the gap.

Run the vid again and pause it at 6 seconds (use the slider along the botton if you have to) now slide it along 1 second later and see how far past the bike is from the first cage.

At 6 secs the bike is on the wrong side of the road just in front of the truck, and the cager is taking avoiding action, at 7 secs the bike is now well past the first cage and is near past the white van.

So if your definition of "well out of the line" is less than 0.5 secs then yeah OK, however mine isn't.

**Toaster** · 19th March 2010, 18:05

Another road they ruined was around the Pauatahanui Inlet on the Whitby side (south). Double yellow all the way and a waste of a good winding biker road.

**bogan** · 19th March 2010, 18:07

Originally Posted by paturoa

Run the vid again and pause it at 6 seconds (use the slider along the botton if you have to) now slide it alone 1 second later and see how far past the bike is from the first cage.

actually looking again, his wheels are on the yellow line there, so no way his bars/elbows are on his side of the road, so not legal imo