Got side-swiped on the motorway

**WristTwister** · 20th January 2016, 17:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sWHJ_xFJLQ

*Not illegal
* splitting at speed is not good

**Blackbird** · 20th January 2016, 17:42

Errr.....didn't he make a post that long ago about binning it on a bend? Bit of a common thread developing here about situational awareness

**AllanB** · 20th January 2016, 17:50

Hmmmmm

Is it OK to start a post with 'Hmmm"?

Your bad IMO based on your post - looked just like the below vid?

**TheDemonLord** · 20th January 2016, 17:56

A few thoughts:

Were you progressing through the traffic (ie changing lanes and doing a legal overtake, utilizing space too small for cars) or were you actually in his lane? if you were in his lane at 90 Kph - then yeah, I'd say you were at fault (not that I have never done this myself...), if you were in the lane NEXT to him, progressing through traffic, then he's at fault.

Eitherway though, you are still the one that ended up in hospital.

Secondly were you paying attention as you moved through the traffic?

Thirdly You could try the Indian licence defence, but the onus would be on you to prove that the Indian licencing system is not sufficient to allow someone to drive on NZ roads - since our Government doesn't forbid someone with a full Indian licence from driving, I would guess that you would have a tough time convincing someone of that

Fourthly Get well soon, and learn from the experiance.

**FJRider** · 20th January 2016, 18:01

Originally Posted by Blackbird

Errr.....didn't he make a post that long ago about binning it on a bend? Bit of a common thread developing here about situational awareness

He made a post about how he folds his mirrors in whilst lane splitting ...

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...post1130918784

**J.A.W.** · 20th January 2016, 18:02

Originally Posted by AllanB

Hmmmmm

Is it OK to start a post with 'Hmmm"?

Your bad IMO based on your post - looked just like the below vid below

Yeah, well, that dozy bozo in the vid, did bring the prat-fall.. in & on cue.. useless prick..

That aint to paint the O.P. with the same brush, since - by his testimony, he got punted by the lane-changer.. not the converse..

Adit: & that Injun.. he's gotta pay.. by hook, or by crook.. do not let it.. ah, slide..

**Oakie** · 20th January 2016, 18:11

Originally Posted by nzspokes

I have no words.

Liar! You just used four!

**Tazz** · 20th January 2016, 18:14

Food for the righteous (is that too close to the beginning of the sentence?

), I bet almost every one of you over takes at over 100kph, therefore if the car you were over taking swerved into you while you were passing you would be in exactly the same boat as this guy, legally speaking.

Originally Posted by WristTwister

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sWHJ_xFJLQ

*Not illegal
* splitting at speed is not good

Hey, mate mate mate mate mate mate. That's not a knife, that's a spoon.

(Translation: Monica ses New Zealand laws are different to Australian laws au.)

**RGVforme** · 20th January 2016, 18:16

Originally Posted by Tazz

Bit shit no one gave you a hand, impatient mofo's

Fault wise you're both in the wrong from my understanding of the law.

Yeah I heard this somewhere also....

Brave man doing this at 70/80kmh.....Im not sure but the police may expect you to just go with the flow of traffic at this speed I guess you will find out soon enough.

Why I don't really lane split....Right or wrong if it comes to the 'Crunch' its going to hurt me more.

**nzspokes** · 20th January 2016, 18:23

Originally Posted by Blackbird

Errr.....didn't he make a post that long ago about binning it on a bend? Bit of a common thread developing here about situational awareness

There was even a video.

**nzspokes** · 20th January 2016, 18:23

Originally Posted by Oakie

Liar! You just used four!

Thats fair.

**Jin** · 20th January 2016, 18:52

Sorry to hear but be glad its only your ankle that hurts. A crash on the motorway could have been a lot worse.

Ignore the self righteous fuckwits who claim they never lanesplit, speed and drive like nanna's on the road.

**AllanB** · 20th January 2016, 18:53

Originally Posted by J.A.W.

by his testimony, he got punted by the lane-changer.. not the converse..

Adit: & that Injun.. he's gotta pay.. by hook, or by crook.. do not let it.. ah, slide..

Fatting along 15kms faster than the lanes of traffic, lane splitting and a vehicle in front makes a lane change - he was never going to see him, brain is not programmed for it in normal driving conditions - the rider was the one to make the decision to alter the standard accepted driving practice.

Race is irrelevant - chances are if Jesus Christ was driving he'd have not looked for the bike.

Years back at the horse racing a guy I know tells the tale of him standing next to this attractive woman in a tight top - he makes the sly glances at the curvaceous profiles present many times, even catches a smile from her if he story is correct. After about ten minutes he realizes her top is actually body paint (apparently the temperature had dropped a bit ....).

Point is he was programmed to see clothing.

Unless you have ridden a motorcycle for a reasonable period of time as a car driver you are expecting the motorcycle (if you see it) to behave like a car.

**jasonu** · 20th January 2016, 18:58

Originally Posted by Mike.Gayner

OP is obviously a bit of a cock with a big race problem.

Why? He didn't say curry muncher or chink. He pointed out that the driver obtained his license in India and the person who stopped has a speech impediment. You lot are quick to jump on 'shit foreign drivers in rental cars cause accident' stories in the Harold...