Indicating at roundabouts

[mazz1972]

Just checked the 2007 Road Code & this is correct.

Mazz1972, your instructor/tester wasn't one that was on Close Up & you hadn't paid the right amount of cuurency up front.

LOL....it's a sorry situation when the testers put you crook!

[sinned]

It can sometimes be a bit tricky hitting the left indicator on a motorcycle at the appropriate time. I find this hard to do on a tight and slow roundabout - while feathering the clutch it is hard to also thumb the indicator from right to left. Yes more skill is required to master this little thing.

Any one else find this difficult or is it just my old age?

[Max Preload]

Any one else find this difficult or is it just my old age?

I think the latter. I find it easier on the bike than in the car, but then the car self cancels far too easily and that drives me bonkers.

I'm not sure why you're feathering the clutch... you must be going awfully slow. Could you clarify?

[sinned]

I think the latter. I find it easier on the bike than in the car, but then the car self cancels far too easily and that drives me bonkers.

I'm not sure why you're feathering the clutch... you must be going awfully slow. Could you clarify?

Could be just me but - yes on a tight roundabout it can be slow and the last thing I want is the V engine to stall - idling speed is 12Km and revs less than 2000rpm (about 20kph) are too low.

[Max Preload]

Could be just me but - yes on a tight roundabout it can be slow and the last thing I want is the V engine to stall - idling speed is 12Km and revs less than 2000rpm (about 20kph) are too low.

More the bike then. I can literally crawl along in gear (standard gearing). Must be a mongrel in non-lane splitable traffic!

[McJim]

. I know it's illegal to drive with just your park lights on

I've never seen that law - I always drive through the day with just my park lights on in the cage for extra viz. I put the headlights on at night of course.

[Max Preload]

I've never seen that law - I always drive through the day with just my park lights on in the cage for extra viz. I put the headlights on at night of course.

It's not illegal to drive with only your position lamps on (often referred to as "park lights"), except during the legal hours of darkness.

[sinned]

More the bike then. I can literally crawl along in gear (standard gearing). Must be a mongrel in non-lane splitable traffic!

Its not too bad. Not as nice as the demo Moto Morini 9.5 that I have just returned from riding. No problems on roundabouts with this beautiful machine. I need one - just need to find $24k

[Pancakes]

What is worse (IMHO) at roundabouts is the tossers who change lanes within the roundabout....you know, start off in the outside lane, switch to the inside , then back to the outside again, all because it is too much hard work to actually drive around the thing, much easier to straighten it out! (Use an indicator - nah, don't be stupid!)

Thats me! You hate me! (everyone likes Pancakes?) Only the ones up here on Oteha Vally Rd tho. It's basically a straight two lanes each way rd with a grass median and a few round things chucked in to give it that Hamiltron feel. Fools me sometimes too, I start looking on the side of the road for a lake or passed out sluts in the gutter!

[Pancakes]

Fewer dweebs than those that drive around with one broken headlight, about the same as the ones that have (usually one) headlight so badly adjusted that it's pointing directly at your face, and more than the number of dweebs driving round with either no lights or park lights on at night.


Fuck this country needs some driver edumacation.

And all the lights heading for the sky like they're off possum spotlighting! Not in the rangie darling!

[Pancakes]

Could be just me but - yes on a tight roundabout it can be slow and the last thing I want is the V engine to stall - idling speed is 12Km and revs less than 2000rpm (about 20kph) are too low.

You need a Hyosung bro! Drives on and pulls from idle in most gears! I'll do ya a favour, pay me the gas to yours and give me dinner + beer and I'll make it a straight swap. I am a f*ckin' nice guy!

[Hitcher]

The result is you end up waiting for somebody indicating right only to find they're going straight.

Anybody else sick of this happening? Its driving me freeking nuts!

An extra two to three seconds to wait? Big deal. I like people to let me know what their turning intentions are and I'm happy to wait a bit longer to have this confirmed. Indicate in, indicate out. Wax on, wax off. It's an easy enough habit to get into.

[Goblin]

Indicate in, indicate out. Wax on, wax off. It's an easy enough habit to get into.

GAH!

[crash99]

From the NZ Road Code Web site (http://www.landtransport.govt.nz/roa...undabouts.html):

Cool, and thank god someone knows the rules!! I'm also pissed off with people iindicating a right turn and then going straight ahead! Arrggghhhh!!!!!

[peasea]

I agree that its annoying .. but its not as simple rule as you seem to think. The way it was sold in papers etc to the public was that you had to indicate ... and that is what people picked up on .... not that you had to indicate to get off.

I have a different way to get off.