Poetic justice...

[jrandom]

MV Agustas don't die in traffic.

[Oakie]

You gotta love karma!

[KATWYN]

I'm happy to give a nod or a wave to all our fellow rider.....(mopeds exempted, i usually wave or nod out of sympathy......) but some(which is a minority) just seem to think they are better than the rest us?.....I dont feel as bad for riding off now...

That was deserved.

I know someone that had that poetic justice happen to them years ago - he was hitchhiking miles outa town at about 3 in the morning this car pulled up and this guy asked him if "he needs a lift", he said "yes please" then the driver said "sorry no room" (even though he was the only one in the car) and he sped off laughing....it turns out that the car driver was a guy he had had issues with in the past. Bummer of all the people to be out in about that time of the morning

[Swoop]

You didn't realise that the god of karma and the god of Italian electronics, are twins?

[nudemetalz]

I'd like to say that this opinion of "Italian Electrics/Electronics" having issues is a lie,..........but I can't as my Guzzi broke down with electrical issues the day after I bought it !!

I stop and help anyone on a bike who has trouble. The guy I helped quite a while back who had a TS50 was surprised and very grateful when a fellah on a Guzzi helped him

[Devil]

Ahh yes, karma is great.

Just this past weekend for the KB trackday. 8am on the morning of the trackday we stop in at the BP nearest the track (Keystone and I, in a campervan with three bikes on a trailer) and pull up behind this bloody great American Desoto 60's classic. Guy fills the car (pretty full petrol station), then just leaves it where it is while he goes to pay. Taking his sweet time. He comes back out to the car, see's us waiting there then decides to go back into the shop again. For ages.
Keystone decides to go inside to give him a hurry up, by this time he's on his way out of the shop. Argument ensues. He says fine, say's he's going to go buy some more stuff from the shop (what a C*nt). We have to take the trailer off to back the camper up (fucker) to move to another pump.
Exchange a few words and hand gestures with said dickhead.
Start filling the bikes on the trailer, he goes back to his car... and guess what... it wont start. Not even turning over. Oh boy that brought a smile to my face!
Made sure I commented "karma's a bitch" loud enough for him to hear. No response, just silence while he's heading under the bonnet of the car.

He was still there after we'd paid up and left the station.

Prick. hah.

[Usarka]

He says he had plugs in and couldnt hear what you were saying and that if he was looking serious it was probably due to his mind being on his new bike playing up.

"tell him Im sorry for looking so unfriendly, and thanks very much for stopping to help"

[imdying]

Hmmmph, karma you think... hope you don't break down on the way home in the rain tonight

[gijoe1313]

Heh, some great stories here - might as well add mine in, was on a ride out pootling to nowhere in particular as you (well, okay, its just me!)

Heading up north and was just riding at the speed of other vehicles, when I noticed a mufti up front. So I drop back and content to just cruise along. I get this fellow in a souped up boi-racer car come speeding up behind me and going into some twisties, just decides to see how close he can sit behind me Turns up his music even louder "doof doof" and has his arm hanging out casual like from the window.

I do my crazy ivans to get him to back off. No dice. He just guns his engine and does that swerving thing as if to overtake sort of thing. On a small straight, I give him hand signals to back off and indicate that theres a rozzer ahead.

No dice.

He roars by, the twit, on double yellows into a blind corner and I just put the picks on because I don't want to be caught up in any carnage and going around the corner, I see hes still overtaking.

The mufti.



Yep, you guessed it, lights come on quick as a flash and the stupid thing is, there is a whacking great straight where you can overtake easily after the corner!

As I pootled by, I noticed I didn't hear any "doof doof" and the cop giving me a wave and a nod as he knew exactly what had happened behind him!

[imdying]

@gijoe1313

That's when you stop and put your 2 cents in

[Mikkel]

Yeah there are some right pricks out there...

I remember coming down Evans pass about a week after I bought the bike and I was obviouslt taking it nice and easy. Some guy comes up behind me in a maroon metallic legacy GT-B/B4 and sits right there on my rear wheel. Doesn't back off at all. So I slowed down from 60 to 30 kms since that was the speed I was comfortable with when he was sitting so close. Went back up to 50-60ish when we got into Sumner and onto the flat roads. Guy kept trailing me - albeit a bit further back. I pulled into the BP in Redcliffs to fill her up and the guy pulled into the BP as well... I ignored the bastards and just went about my business. For a second I had this nagging feeling that if I hadn't been a fairly big aryan fella I might have had some trouble with these bastards. Might be a coincidence, but you can never know.

*sigh* the wanker was even a gingah...

[sprag]

Heh, some great stories here - might as well add mine in, was on a ride out pootling to nowhere in particular as you (well, okay, its just me!)

Heading up north and was just riding at the speed of other vehicles, when I noticed a mufti up front. So I drop back and content to just cruise along. I get this fellow in a souped up boi-racer car come speeding up behind me and going into some twisties, just decides to see how close he can sit behind me Turns up his music even louder "doof doof" and has his arm hanging out casual like from the window.

I do my crazy ivans to get him to back off. No dice. He just guns his engine and does that swerving thing as if to overtake sort of thing. On a small straight, I give him hand signals to back off and indicate that theres a rozzer ahead.

No dice.

He roars by, the twit, on double yellows into a blind corner and I just put the picks on because I don't want to be caught up in any carnage and going around the corner, I see hes still overtaking.

The mufti.



Yep, you guessed it, lights come on quick as a flash and the stupid thing is, there is a whacking great straight where you can overtake easily after the corner!

As I pootled by, I noticed I didn't hear any "doof doof" and the cop giving me a wave and a nod as he knew exactly what had happened behind him!

Oh I love stories like this

mwahahaha

[Beemer]

It sounded like Mr DucatiRider was being a snob, but that's not always the case. I feel very awkward when some stranger on a bike pulls up beside me. Usually I nod and say, "Hi!" or "Howzitgoin'" or whatever, but sometimes I just keep to myself.

I was stopped at the lights in Wellington one day when two bikes pulled up alongside me. Two young guys and I heard one of them say "hey, it's a chick!" I was a tad flattered as I was probably old enough to be his mother! But I know what you mean, it's a bit awkward when someone pulls up and starts a conversation because if you've got earplugs in, you can't hear them in any case!

[avgas]

MV Agustas don't die in traffic.

Nope, just when beaten by boat motors

[delusionz]

I seem to get snobbed by alot of big bike riders... Look at that noob on a pissy lil 250 they're prolly thinking. That doesn't discourage me though, except for mopeds they can get fucked -- They are soo not bikers with their no gear no nod bullshit