Filtering rage!

[Virago]

The thing is, these people who get pissed off because we filter to the front just haven't thought it out. Unless you're on such a crap-arse bike that it holds them up when the lights turn green (or you stall it, which I've done a couple of times), the nett affect on them is zip. It's Eggs Zachary as if you'd done nothing: you haven't slowed them down, or cost them a place in the queue, because (a) you've gone around the queue, and (b) by the time they've reacted to the light change, you're on the other side of the intersection.

Spot on. But some bikers need to differentiate between filtering and queue jumping - and there is a difference.

If you can filter to the front at the lights and get the jump on the queue, you're not holding anyone up. Those drivers who object to it are just being childishly petulant.

I recently had a situation in the car where a biker roared up alongside the line of cars moving through the lights, by (illegally) using the empty turn-only lane. He then forced his way in between me and the car in front, and instantly started aggressively gesticulating for me to back off and give him room. He was quite obviously rather indignant when I chose not to do so - he's probably still raging about the ignorant cager...

[davereid]

I have had a few people get upset while filtering. Its mostly people who have paid $90,000 for a fast car, but get to spend hours every day parked on what we jokingly call highways.

But for everyone who has been upset, there have been
~ a hundred cars pull to the left to let me past, kids and mums on the footpath giving me thumbs up and gesturing me to honk my horn,
~old guys in ancient Mitsubishi's flashing indicators to help me past, old riders no doubt
~chicks in tourist buses flashing their tits until they realise I'm (a) enjoying it too much and (b) grandad
~ Normal kiwis smiling and being nice

[huff3r]

~ Normal kiwis

Where the hell do you find them?

[nzspokes]

I had filter rage yesterday.



Honda told me how much and air filter is for my bike.

[supa.m]

I have had a few people get upset while filtering. Its mostly people who have paid $90,000 for a fast car, but get to spend hours every day parked on what we jokingly call highways.

But for everyone who has been upset, there have been
~ a hundred cars pull to the left to let me past, kids and mums on the footpath giving me thumbs up and gesturing me to honk my horn,
~old guys in ancient Mitsubishi's flashing indicators to help me past, old riders no doubt
~chicks in tourist buses flashing their tits until they realise I'm (a) enjoying it too much and (b) grandad
~ Normal kiwis smiling and being nice

Yeah!!! tit flashing........ oh and as for the cage rage..... who actually gives a fuck?

[98tls]

Your lucky the guy in the Beemer was full of shit i guess.If every dickhead in a car pisses you off and your willing to park up and confront them sooner or later someones going to get out and give you a hiding.simple really.Good luck.

[supa.m]

Your lucky the guy in the Beemer was full of shit i guess.If every dickhead in a car pisses you off and your willing to park up and confront them sooner or later someones going to get out and give you a hiding.simple really.Good luck.

My guess is it wont take long.....

[98tls]

My guess is it wont take long.....

About it.Wonder if there will be a thread about that incident.

[Furyos J]

Your lucky the guy in the Beemer was full of shit i guess.If every dickhead in a car pisses you off and your willing to park up and confront them sooner or later someones going to get out and give you a hiding.simple really.Good luck.

I hear what you are saying, i even said a page or two back that i will probably get my beats if i go off at everyone, im definatly not a tuff guy, and i dont see myself as one. It took a lot of provoking to get me to stop and have "words". In hindsight i should have *555 the guy, but i had to tell that guy whats up, i mean, slaming the brakes 10cm off my back wheel while going down hill in the rain is quite dangerous towards me. I do admire you guys that can just let it go, i would like to get to that stage, and i am trying to improve my quick fuse.

My guess is it wont take long.....

Cheers dude. Yep, im gonna get my face smashed in one of these days by someone, be it on my bike and losing my temper, or doing part time document serving (that can get a bit sticky sometimes).

I just hope the bimmer driver thinks twice before harrasing bikers next time

[PrincessBandit]

Guess you have to be a rider to really understand and appreciate filtering. I've found most drivers quite good when I've done that, and lane splitting; never had anyone abuse me. In fact most dickheads I've met on the road have been moving along in "normal" traffic.

Post 7 does point out though that there truly is a mentality alive and well in NZ that if a bike rider pisses a driver off then the next rider they encounter is likely to be the target of their anger. Rational behaviour just doesn't seem to be in these people's vocabulary; their grievance (imagined, or otherwise) sees other riders bear the brunt.

[jonbuoy]

Your lucky the guy in the Beemer was full of shit i guess.If every dickhead in a car pisses you off and your willing to park up and confront them sooner or later someones going to get out and give you a hiding.simple really.Good luck.

I guess the guy in the beemer was also lucky he didn´t mis-judge and knock the guy off his bike, equally lucky the guy on the bike was fairly reasonable about it. Would he do the same to a patched up gang member?

No excuses for what he did, its not the same thing as a car accidentally cutting him off or pulling out in front of him without looking properly. If the cops had seen it would have been dangerous driving charge.

[Blackshear]

Knocked an old guy to the ground a year because he threw a fucking LOG right in front of me from the footpath.

Dunno where his alpha as fuck attitude went when I brought attempted manslaughter to air. Kinda got a short tolerance for that shit, I might be a grumpy cunt but fist to face is last resort, in my books.

[mattian]

Reading this story brings back my own memories of a very similar incident with an asshole in a BMW. After filtering to the front he overtakes me after we take off again and stops dead in the middle of the road. I stop and cautiously manouvre around him and he guns it and swerves towards me. I wasnt hanging around to find out what his problem was. Was still quite new to riding at that stage and was my very first sort of "they are really out to kill you" moment. Cursed myself for the rest of the day for not having the presence of mind to get his licence plate and go to the cop shop.