Road rage fail: Aggressive NZ driver who hates cyclists

[TheDemonLord]

This guy and his 40+ rage against motorists is fun to wind up.

This is what I am talking about - he was smack bang in the middle of the road, making no attempt to keep left and then wonders when a driver gets annoyed and does a dangerous pass....

[mossy1200]

This is what I am talking about - he was smack bang in the middle of the road, making no attempt to keep left and then wonders when a driver gets annoyed and does a dangerous pass....

I tried watching his others and its just endless near miss for this guy. Im thinking he needs find a new hobby if he cant ride very well.

[bluninja]

This is what I am talking about - he was smack bang in the middle of the road, making no attempt to keep left and then wonders when a driver gets annoyed and does a dangerous pass....

Nah! he's smack bang in the lane at traffic lights on red queuing behind other cars (rather than squeezing to the front and sitting in the middle) ...If he was over to the left he would be impeding the traffic going into the left lane and then you'd be bitching that he's taking up 2 lanes. As he sets off he moves over to the left in a smooth straight line taking account of the filter lane for cars turning into his lane. FFS he is already on the left .5 m from the curb when the car "squeezes" him, less than 30m from his starting point in traffic at the lights.

Funnily enough when you set off on a bicycle there is a little movement side to side until the gyroscopic effect of the spinning wheels steadies things. If he was to the left he would not be able to start safely due to some car squeezing him whilst stationary.

[bogan]

This is what I am talking about - he was smack bang in the middle of the road, making no attempt to keep left and then wonders when a driver gets annoyed and does a dangerous pass....

As he should be when queuing for lights with a left turn lane.

He could have let one pass when crossing the lights, but the lane narrows again quite abruptly after that, and being left for part of it would have ensured any pass that was started without sufficient room would have ended as dangerously as the one that was done anyway.

[BMWST?]

I still think that claiming the lane is a bad idea - even if you think its unsafe for someone else to pass it is arrogant, illegal and really gets on the tits of other drivers. You may not think it is safe for me to overtake, but I might think it is safe to overtake, and it is likely I know my car/bike better than you know it - so please don't be deciding for me when it is or isn't safe for me to do something

can you see the irony here?

[mossy1200]

Don't forget he shows you what he wants to show you.
Watch his other longer clips and you will see a pattern develop. Guys obsessed.

[BMWST?]

I agree - I think above I even said that I am just as guilty as those I rail against - the only real difference is that motorcyclists don't hold other drivers up

bullshit,not all motorcyclists are fast and not all car drivers are slow.

[R650R]

Therein, Your Honur, I submit, lies my problem...a very small penis

Its bad enough you've given us a mental picture of you riding with no underwear and having problems with hemmaroids from too much cycling that now you have revealed you suffer from penis envy.
I'm quite happy to lay mine out on the table if you want to have a measure up, man to man lol.....

[R650R]

I find this sort of comment interesting.

People love hating on cyclists wearing lycra, which is actually appropriate cycling clothing designed for the use of people engaged in the activity of cycling, and yet for some reason it has become some generic derisive term for cyclists appropriately attired for the activity they are currently engaged in.

Not all of them, its the wannabees that clearly cant go fast enough to justify the streamlined clothing and shaved legs. Its become a catch all phrase as much as biker or trucker has...
Its pretty much reserved for the posers holding up traffic cause their too cheap to go to the gym or buy a membership at the local velodrome. As opposed to normal people or schoolkids commuting to work on bicycles wearing normal real clothes.

I think with our aging society we will reach a tipping point soon. The critical mass will be the elderly in mobility scooters and they will demand their own lanes on footpaths and roads and that scarey cyclists must slow and give them 1.5m when passing least they trigger a stroke. There will be a new breed of more powerful long range mobility scooters and the elderly will go for rides in the country in packs and then cyclists will know what its like to be held up 'just for a few minutes'.....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...y-scooter.html

[Swoop]

People love hating on cyclists wearing lycra, which is actually appropriate cycling clothing designed for the use of people engaged in the activity of cycling, and yet for some reason it has become some generic derisive term for cyclists appropriately attired for the activity they are currently engaged in.

The appropriate underwear for psyclists is G-string.

Do you wear appropriate underwear when psycling?

[R650R]

BTW I wear normal underwear when cycling or mtb riding and no issues. Used to wear the black lycra pants from t7 as they were cheap but now progressed to mtb shorts with lycra liners.
Find without underwear my boys just move about too much, its a hazard.
Bit like wearing boxer underwear too much movement and stimulation happening.... sorry TMI lol

[mstriumph]

That's what sarcasm is petal, of course I know you're a woman as you play the gender card every opportunity you get; that's why it was followed by a roll of the eyes indicate it was sarcasm. Hence the first and last bits stand together quite nicely.

Here's a tip, the PM function is for one on one discussion; the forum however, is a discussion forum. You don't like that, feel free to go bitch about me on more people's visitor walls

yep - you're his dad

[bogan]

yep - you're his dad

Once gain you ignore the point in favor of piss weak ad-hominems; saying I've fathered a man of such distinguished tastes as HDC is certainly not an insult.

Still, I guess you've at least been spared the intellect to know you're a moron so it doesn't seem to be getting you down

[BuzzardNZ]

yep - you're his dad

Are you Ed's wife ?

[TheDemonLord]

Okay, lots to reply to

Trust me some do.

True, True - I forgot about Harley riders

But in all seriousness - if your motorbike can't do 50 kph on a residential road, then there is something seriously wrong with it

Nah! he's smack bang in the lane at traffic lights on red queuing behind other cars (rather than squeezing to the front and sitting in the middle) ...If he was over to the left he would be impeding the traffic going into the left lane and then you'd be bitching that he's taking up 2 lanes. As he sets off he moves over to the left in a smooth straight line taking account of the filter lane for cars turning into his lane. FFS he is already on the left .5 m from the curb when the car "squeezes" him, less than 30m from his starting point in traffic at the lights.

Funnily enough when you set off on a bicycle there is a little movement side to side until the gyroscopic effect of the spinning wheels steadies things. If he was to the left he would not be able to start safely due to some car squeezing him whilst stationary.

In his video - I got no problem with him starting in the middle, but once he is well and trully passed the left turn lane, and up to speed, he makes no attempt to keep left - and that is when the car squeezes him - The car driver is being a knob, but the cyclists is also being a knob and as we know - two knobs make a gay porn film.

He could have let one pass when crossing the lights, but the lane narrows again quite abruptly after that, and being left for part of it would have ensured any pass that was started without sufficient room would have ended as dangerously as the one that was done anyway.

and with that, the prosecution rests its case - he didn't keep left when he had the opportunity to, and then wonders why people get upset at him.

can you see the irony here?

it isn't lost on me - the difference is that when I break the law for a reason that I claim is to increase my safety, I don't hold other people up. But you get awarded 10 internets for pointing it out (cause it made me Laff)

bullshit,not all motorcyclists are fast and not all car drivers are slow.

See above for my Harley joke - I know not all car drivers are slow - but let me put it this way, if I take off normally on my bike from the lights - I am usually a good 50-100 meters in front of the traffic (depending on what the speed limit is) by the time I am up to the speed limit. Sure cars can keep up with me if they want to thrash their car, but in general, most cars simply slower cornering, slower changing speeds than motorbikes (except for Harleys )

(I'm sorry Harley riders, but I couldn't resist another dig)