Moron effing tourists

[Hitcher]

Those "moron effing tourists" are making a significant contribution to our GDP and standard of living. The death of a few kiwi motorists is a small price to pay for this privilege.

[maxworldbiker]

lovely place Mapua shall be back in Feb for a couple of weeks after going to the Cargil via CC then to Steward Island and will retrace your steps on the way back Franz jo, Grey, the port,then on to Mapua for a rest at your lovely camp hope the council has fixed that awfull smelling sewage pipe at the entrance of the lesiure park PHEWWWW!!!!! Shall keep a good eye on those camper vans, trouble is the driver does not have a lot of suround vision in them, plus the drivers cannot drive anyway, they back into anything at all

Actually, they haven't fixed the sewer pipe. I wandered down there last night to see a mate staying there (Guzzi rider) and I thought something was dead and rotting in the undergrowth. That is one FOUL drain. PM me when you're up here, swing in for a cuppa, we'll take ya for a tour of the garage, although its fair ti say you may not make it out alive....

[Quasievil]

Those "moron effing tourists" are making a significant contribution to our GDP and standard of living. The death of a few kiwi motorists is a small price to pay for this privilege.

BWAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

and excuse the tourist for not being aware of our road rage mentality and crapola roads before booking their trip of a life time

[magicfairy]

Milford Road down here is diabolical -

On the news last night they showed a push from I think local police, or it might be ambos or some other local outfit, wanting hire companies to refuse to insure rental vehicles on the Milford Rd. Like they do for 90 mile beach and Skippers canyon. Just to cut down the huge number of tourists that come to grief on the road. It was blamed on the fact that it is a narrow winding road and tourists aren't used to driving large vehicles like campervans on these sort of New Zealand roads.

Of course hire companies said no....I guess they just increase the charges to compensate for higher insurance levies.

[kerfufflez]

Here's a link with the pics that Scumdog mentioned;

http://www.stuff.co.nz/southlandtimes/4361083a6011.html

[McDuck]

Get a pair of those gloves that DMNTD has, the fuck off titanium coated ones..

[ElCoyote]

Why can't these campervan fools be made to take a competence course before they get out on the road and kill us all?

When our politicians are made to take the same test that would be mandated the same week.........hang about there would be no politicians to mandate......"unsure what to do next so goes down to polish bike before it become illegal".

[The Pastor]

if you ride a sports bike, you have this little thing called power, you can use power to overtake.

You can thank me later.

[Grahameeboy]

It is interesting. So many people so often claim that drivers overseas (almost any overseas) are so very vastly superior to those in NZ.

Yet, when those same overseas drivers come to NZ, everybody also agrees that they are absolutely terrible drivers.

Is it because we are on the bottom of the woprld, causing blood to rush to the head I wonder?

And we assume that all camper van drivers are from overseas.

NZ driving standards are poor compared to the States, UK, Europe, Aussie and sad to sad even Africa, all places that I have driven in.

Having said that you just get used to it and drive accordingly.

Last year a guy went to change lanes and saw me just in time. He put his hand up to say sorry, at the lights he wound his window down and apologised again...........he was an Aussie. In 9 years, that is the first time someone has acknowledged they were wrong instead of the ususal arrogant look....."what are you doing in my space"

We have one freak accident involving a tourist..............and Kiwi's find a way to say that they are not bad..bit like a year ago when it was Asians to blame.

[Grahameeboy]

On the news last night they showed a push from I think local police, or it might be ambos or some other local outfit, wanting hire companies to refuse to insure rental vehicles on the Milford Rd. Like they do for 90 mile beach and Skippers canyon. Just to cut down the huge number of tourists that come to grief on the road. It was blamed on the fact that it is a narrow winding road and tourists aren't used to driving large vehicles like campervans on these sort of New Zealand roads.

Of course hire companies said no....I guess they just increase the charges to compensate for higher insurance levies.

This applies to all Renters, not just tourists and what makes you think that Kiwi drivers are any better in a camper van?

There are narrow windy roads in UK and Europe............

[Grahameeboy]

Yep, campervans ...burn 'em...and Subarus and 4WDs, and vans and trucks and....you get the picture!
Or...just learn to ride proactively/defensively and get over it!

Like Porsches I guess..............

[Shadows]

Maybe those two young guys who torched those campervans with people in them in Wellington a little while ago were onto something....

[Okey Dokey]

It's a beautiful morning here and I'm just about to head out on a circuit through Marlborough and Nelson. You just have to be aware that it is summer and the roads are busier. Stay alert and try to keep the rage at bay. It is hard being relaxed but I find as a rider your own attitude is so important.

Thanks for the reminder of what is waiting out there. Motorcyclists have to try to ride better than the average driver, bearing in mind that we are so much more vulnerable. Use all the advantages we have of acceleration, road positioning, and the like to keep ourselves safe.

[jonbuoy]

Since then, summer has come and Nellie, with its twisty, windey, biker-heaven roads to lovely places, has been swamped by even more of the same scourge-of-mankind-to-motorcyclists. What planet are these people on? Isn't it enough that we have to contend with police cars doing u-turns on blind bends and trying to blame the motorcyclists who were nearly killed and who had their bikes written off as a result? We also have campervans, in alarming numbers, indicating left and turning right, u-turning without even bothering to slow down in front of us, treating us like cyclists and overtaking us on blind bends and forcing us into the ditches, etc, et bloody cetera.

How slowly do you ride that a campervan needs to overtake you on a bend??

[mowgli]

From http://www.ltsa.govt.nz/factsheets/11.html:
Note that 4500kg is big. The average f-ing Maui campervan would be a lot less than that.

Yup. When I was 16 and had my full class one I used that rule to drive a milk truck. To keep it under the 4500kg limit we had to split one section of the run into two parts with an extra reload. I reckon it was that job that taught me to use my side mirrors (both of them) properly.

Camper vans tend to have nice big side mirrors (better than your average jappa anyway). If drivers were more accustomed to using them then there'd be far fewer camper vans turning into other traffic.