The right to choose your own line - what do you think?

[Banditbandit]

Fuck your a clever buggar to be able to assess a persons 'COMPETENCE & PREDICTABILITY' in a matter of seconds...you may be in the wrong vocation..

It's not that hard to judge the competency of riders as you come up to them ... and if there's any doubt I tend to sit back and watch before I decide where and when I'm going to pass ...

If it's on a straight I'll just leave it open and go passed ... "Here I co/go .. ready or not ..." in corners I will watch until I can judge their lines ... and how tight I have to go inside them ... and yes, sometimes that can be a matter of seconds.

For instance a sports or sports tourer will always turn inside a Harley ... so the only thing to watch for is them cutting the corner (seen the dopey buggas do that too ..) ... A learner will tend to take wider and slower lines - scrap the right footpeg on the white line on the right-hand side of the road and you'll always be well off their line ... and just to be clear for Katman ONLY if there is nothing coming the other way ..

[beyond]

Couldn't say i saw too much wrong with that (like i would know), looks much different when you're on a bike to watching on a camera.
Only thing i could think of is on some of those corners after KK bay is if you meet a car coming the other way like that white Swagon at the begining, but then being on your side of the road wouldn't help much either.

on a side note what editing sofware do you use as i have just got one of the new hd170 cameras. also was that on your head or on the bike? (the cam that is).

Hiya mate... Cyberlink Power Director. It's good software and therer is a version for HD.
Camera was on the bike, fixed to a bracket, hence the bouncing. A later camera with image stabilisation would help. Watch hard drive models as the vibration can knock them around a bit and cause them to switch off.

Cheers

[neels]

Holy crap, so much pissing and moaning and mounting of high horses in one thread

Some people need to get back to basics and read the road code. All it says is 100m of clear road before you overtake, no mention of the road being straight, or not a bridge as a friend of mine was told by his passenger recently (where the fuck did they get that one from).

There are plenty of places where there is perfect visibility around bends,these are the perfect place to pass as the majority of drivers and riders won't pass on anything but a straight road so you don't have to fight with anybody else overtaking, as long as you stay clear of their lane they have no reason to give you the finger as they quite often do. I just keep close to the horn button for the dickheads pootling along at 85k that drift into the other lane as you pass because they're oblivious of the traffic behind, and for that matter everybody else on the road.

[Ocean1]

Fuck your a clever buggar to be able to assess a persons 'COMPETENCE & PREDICTABILITY' in a matter of seconds...you may be in the wrong vocation..

What can I say, it's a gift.

Detecting incompetence since fookin' yonks.

or not a bridge as a friend of mine was told by his passenger recently (where the fuck did they get that one from).

Me dear old uncle Dave agrees with the passenger.

[Old Steve]

I've only got a couple of questions:

What is this "passing" thing? Is it something I'll ever experience?

Old Steve, - newly qualified 6R rider of a Hyosung GV250

[Smifffy]

Anyone else wondering if its that cock from Wellington with the green Kwaka?

Y'all have permission to pass me wherever you please, since I'm such a nanna, just move over into the other lane. If I'm not feeling particularly magnanimous on a given day, and I feel you're too close, I may just do something unpredictably dangerous

[scumdog]

and just to be clear for Katman ONLY if there is nothing coming the other way ..

That would be good - 'cos head-on crashes only happen when there is a car/bike/whatever coming the other way.

Of course first you have to have seen the car/bike/whatever coming the other way.


I bet that the head-ons are invariably caused by somebody screwing up by NOT seeing a car/bike/whatever coming the other way..I also bet none of them thought "ah, what the hell, I can see I'll have a head-on if I pass now - but hey, I'll give it a go anyway.."

[Banditbandit]

That would be good - 'cos head-on crashes only happen when there is a car/bike/whatever coming the other way.

Of course first you have to have seen the car/bike/whatever coming the other way.


I bet that the head-ons are invariably caused by somebody screwing up by NOT seeing a car/bike/whatever coming the other way..I also bet none of them thought "ah, what the hell, I can see I'll have a head-on if I pass now - but hey, I'll give it a go anyway.."

You're getting to be as bad as he is .. Oh ... yeah ... right ... you drive one of those white cars with blue and yellow stripes ? And the flashing lights on the roof ?

Atually I don't evny your job when you're picking up dumb-arse bikers off the road in little bits and pieces ...