NOT GOOD, Worst deaths in 19 years

[FJRider]

So you think head on collisions can not happen on bends. Well you really are a muppet then.

The majority of head-on's occur on straight roads.

[FJRider]

Its not the media that hate us its ACC. While you dont believe the media why should anyone else for that matter consider you as a better authority than the media? I agree with you that the media are very limited in what facts they can report and for all you and I know there may be stories where they have wanted to report more but have been constrained for legal/political reasons.

The media LOVE motorcyclists. Reporting deaths and serious injury's ... with a photo of a motorcycle on its side in the middle of the road adds to the value. If parts of the motorcycle are strewn around ... extra value. As are shots of helmets with smashed visors ... bloodstains are an extra bonus.

Facts are for amateur reporters ... innuendo and hearsay mixed with a little dose speculation sell papers. Remember the old saying ... never let the truth stand in the way of a good story ... well it still holds true.

ACC love us too ... our large levy's help keep their cash figures in the black.

[AllanB]

You don't see the solid advertising for the 2 second rule anymore - there was a big push on this for years when I was younger (maybe 80's).


Try it now and you'll just find people passing you (regardless of your speed) and popping into your safety gap.


Hmm motorcyclists are one of the worst for tailgating (pre-pass) and popping into 'gaps'. Have you noticed when you pop into that gap most times the car behind backs wayyy off. Occasionally some knob rides your tail. I find this does not last long as I remove the stock shovels and use a tail tidy - that full tyre look is the bizz and also throws up a load of road shit for quite some distance!

[FJRider]

Try it now and you'll just find people passing you (regardless of your speed) and popping into your safety gap.

And 50 km's on ... they're still only 10 seconds ahead. But they are in front so all is good ...

[george formby]

- there was a big push on this for years when I was younger (maybe 80's).


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Crikey, young in your 80's. How old are you now?

[onearmedbandit]

If only people paid attention to the advice of Honda in 1962, half of this thread wouldn't exist...

[george formby]

Aha! The origin of the "Skid Demon"! Cheers.

[caspernz]

If only people paid attention to the advice of Honda in 1962, half of this thread wouldn't exist...

Please pay attention to #4. So much hurt could be avoided.

Strangely enough the type of Engrish used even seems familiar...

[old slider]

Great thread, certainly makes me think about how and when I go riding for pleasure, The other times are usually out of necessity.

Has been a few nasty bike crashes in my area, one was a HD going up a twisty steep road meeting a large 4x4 vehicle coming down, the hill has been used for Hill climbing trials, I am unsure how they met( heard the 4x4 was well over the center line but of course the 4x4 came out on top.
The other was in the same area, yet again another HD following a slow travelling car through some windy bits at a safe distance, on entering a straight section of country road the Bike indicated with blinkers it was going to pass and initiated the overtake, just as the motorcycle was quickly approaching the vehicle on the right side of the road the car suddenly turned right into a gateless driveway without indicating its intentions, same result.

[FJRider]

The riding you describe here is what I see group riders do when under pressure to keep up.

Nope ... they're trying to show everyone what skilled riders they are. But few of the others actually care ...

[FJRider]

If only people paid attention to the advice of Honda in 1962, half of this thread wouldn't exist...

Would I know if somebody obstacled my passage ... and can they do it without my permission .. ???

[caseye]

The riding you describe here is what I see group riders do when under pressure to keep up.

Wait a minute! You don't do group rides.
How then can you now claim to be prersent and see such behaviour?
Make up your mind.

[eldog]

Would I know if somebody obstacled my passage ... and can they do it without my permission .. ???

i would hope you would know.

Dont need your permission, willing or not. It's a free country, but most tend to do whatever they want.
if they are bigger than you look out.

Had to stop in Cannons Creek shopping mall during the break. Sure got outa there quick smart, the locals there didn't look like they cared whatever they did.

[rastuscat]

They don't count - fuckers don't pay rego and associated ACC fees to ride a bicycle. Indeed one could then argue that they may cost the taxpayer MORE than a motorcyclist as ignoring deaths (sadness), there are no doubt a shit load of cycle injuries and not one rider contributes directly to ACC .......

I'd like to see those wanky, Lycra clad group riders wearing number plates so I can report the ignorant fuckers.

I just don't get it - most of the fuckers are my age (early 50's) but pull on their vege and bean exposing (or lack of) lycra suits then ride their carbon cycles like ignorant dumb fucks .....

Hmmmm, maybe they are the ones doing the same on alternative weekends pulling on leathers and helmet .....

Here we go.

While I was out riding my bicycle this morning I was paying ACC levies on 2 cars, two motorcycles, a caravan and a trailer.

Remind me again how I'm not paying ACC levies?

[awayatc]

They don't count - fuckers don't pay rego and associated ACC fees to ride a bicycle. Indeed one could then argue that they may cost the taxpayer MORE than a motorcyclist as ignoring deaths (sadness), there are no doubt a shit load of cycle injuries and not one rider contributes directly to ACC .......

I'd like to see those wanky, Lycra clad group riders wearing number plates so I can report the ignorant fuckers.

I just don't get it - most of the fuckers are my age (early 50's) but pull on their vege and bean exposing (or lack of) lycra suits then ride their carbon cycles like ignorant dumb fucks .....

Hmmmm, maybe they are the ones doing the same on alternative weekends pulling on leathers and helmet .....

Being intolerant to an extremely vulnerable lot is unbecoming....

Grow up and get over yourself. ...