Lane splitting surprise.

[pritch]

If a rider can reach out to a car driver's mirror, they can easily pull their own mirrors in on their bike first!

I use CRG Lane Splitters, there's a detent so the mirror just clicks back to the correct adjustment afterward. They aren't cheap but they are better than the cheesy crap on sale here.


This isn't where I bought mine but you'll get the idea.

https://www.revzilla.com/motorcycle/...bar-end-mirror

[jafagsx250]

I use CRG Lane Splitters, there's a detent so the mirror just clicks back to the correct adjustment afterward. They aren't cheap but they are better than the cheesy crap on sale here.


This isn't where I bought mine but you'll get the idea.

https://www.revzilla.com/motorcycle/...bar-end-mirror

I had a set of them on my gsx250. They were quite good. Only issue I had was that after a couple of knocks they needed readjustment. But that only required some fiddling with Allen keys.

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[madbikeboy]

I had a guy with 'roid rage who took offence to my lane splitting; 2009 I think. He actually hit me with his car twice, I had injuries to my leg, and damage to my thou. Long story short, the cops didn't give a fuck, I tried pressing charges and they wouldn't have a bar of it. The guy assaulted me with a car and they "had a chat with him". Apparently, riding motorcycles means I have less rights and no protection. Useless cunts at the North Shore cop shop.

Completely lost faith in the police, left to go overseas and found police forces in Australia and the US to have much more professionalism and common sense.

I've started riding on the road here in NZ again recently, and so far I've had one person have a go. I didn't call police, and I sorted the issue out very diplomatically and successfully with the little bastard.

[rastuscat]

I had a guy with 'roid rage who took offence to my lane splitting; 2009 I think. He actually hit me with his car twice, I had injuries to my leg, and damage to my thou. Long story short, the cops didn't give a fuck, I tried pressing charges and they wouldn't have a bar of it. The guy assaulted me with a car and they "had a chat with him". Apparently, riding motorcycles means I have less rights and no protection. Useless cunts at the North Shore cop shop.

Completely lost faith in the police, left to go overseas and found police forces in Australia and the US to have much more professionalism and common sense.

I've started riding on the road here in NZ again recently, and so far I've had one person have a go. I didn't call police, and I sorted the issue out very diplomatically and successfully with the little bastard.

Wow. Whatever you are doing which causes people to try to hurt you........maybe you want to stop doing it.

Bit of a common theme by the sound of it.

[Scubbo]

I have people close the gap on purpose all the time on the short commute on south-western home in the afternoons --- usually BMW drivers, lots also make room which is nice/get a wave of appreciation

I just take it slow these days though, blow the cobwebs out on the weekends away from people, they can't be trusted, my loss i'm sure?

[pritch]

Wow. Whatever you are doing which causes people to try to hurt you........maybe you want to stop doing it.

Bit of a common theme by the sound of it.

Not necessarily. There's no psychometric testing component to getting a drivers licence. It's estimated that one in five people suffer from a personality or mental disorder. That means there's a lot of screwball bastards behind the wheel. It's not like you need to make an effort to remember this, you should see constant reminders if you are at all situationally aware. Living in a protective bubble on a cop bike may have minimised the evidence, but you don't have that anymore so the real situation should become apparent soon enough.

[jasonu]

Wow. Whatever you are doing which causes people to try to hurt you........maybe you want to stop doing it.

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Eh? 2 instances of cunt like behavior from cunts in cars since 2009. I'd say that was pretty good.

[madbikeboy]

Eh? 2 instances of cunt like behavior from cunts in cars since 2009. I'd say that was pretty good.

Yeah, I thought so too.

[madbikeboy]

Wow. Whatever you are doing which causes people to try to hurt you........maybe you want to stop doing it.

Bit of a common theme by the sound of it.

Is this some sort of meek inheriting the earth type thinking? Perhaps with the power of positive thinking no harm will come to me.

But, in the real world, if someone hits me, I hit back.

[awayatc]

Wow. Whatever you are doing which causes people to try to hurt you........maybe you want to stop doing it.

Bit of a common theme by the sound of it.

Sheltered life....

Life in uniform....

Same thing

[Berries]

It's estimated that one in five peope suffer from a personality or mental disorder. That means there's a lot of screwball bastards behind the wheel.

And presumably about the same rate riding bikes?

[awayatc]

And presumably about the same rate riding bikes?

Much higher in some area's. ...

[pritch]

And presumably about the same rate riding bikes?

And some posts on KB suggest they are here too.

[trufflebutter]

And some posts on KB suggest they are here too.

To be honest though, Rodeos are better suited for horses than motorcycles.

[rastuscat]

Sheltered life....

Life in uniform....

Same thing

A dude came on a course a while back wanting to get expert at emergency braking. Because 2 to 3 times each week he had to slam his brakes on when people pulled out in front if him.

It wasn't a braking problem. Problem was him riding around and not seeing things happening until they turned into an emergency.

If someone feels like the world is picking on them, a look in the mirror is a good place to start.