12 Things?

[PirateJafa]

Motorcylcists and their lack of patience must surely piss off cagers. Here is one, when there are only two or so cars waiting at the lights and the biker has to go to the front pll in front of the lead car and sit on the pedestrian crossing are, just to be in front. I don't mind lanesplitting bikes, but when there is hardly any traffic, really do you have to. You get to your destination 30 seconds quicker but annoy pedestrians and other motorists alike,

I do this just about every time.

I'll be buggered if I'm going to leave myself vulnerable between two cars, one of who I am desperately hoping will stop in time.

Andrew could give you a couple of stories where he's only missed being rammed by a dozy car-driver by gassing it through red lights, or hell, my very own sister rear-ended a car in front of her at some lights. I treat every car like she's driving.

Even a cager taking their foot off the brake - if it's a auto it'll roll forwards right into ya!

I don't sit on the pedestrian crossing though. There's rarely any need to roll that far in front of the cars.

Besides, for you city boys it might only be a extra thirty seconds you save each day, but for those of us who live well out of town we save ourselves a good bit of time.


Edit: Ixion explained it much better than me. Hell, the ol' bugger beat me to posting too. Maybe I should try reading the whole thread first next time...

[AlBundy]

Suggest you re-read the first post dude, we are looking for every day things here not the stuff of your fantacies.

Sounds like you're the one living in lah lah land Mom.

The brief of the original comment was not "Things that Mom sees everyday".

For ONCE I agree with Katman....

I personally do several stoppies every time I ride the 'tard... Has sweet FA to do with fantacies...

People I have ridden with, wheelie all the time. Some of them, well into the 200's range too. I suggest you get a grip on what some people actually get up to as opposed to 'mommy-land'...

[MarkH]

Besides, for you city boys it might only be a extra thirty seconds you save each day, but for those of us who live well out of town we save ourselves a good bit of time.

You might be surprised at just how much time can be saved in the city as well. I will often move between a couple of cars at the lights to get in front so that I can take off quicker - sometime sitting behind slow cagers means that you miss the next lights and have to stop vs getting in front and going through the next lights before they change. But it is VERY important to get a quick start when the lights turn green - nothing worse than some leather clad biker filtering through to the front of the queue at the lights then sitting there for a couple of seconds when the lights go green (or stalling it). Of course I get pissed off at cagers that don't take off quickly from the lights too - whoever is at the front has an obligation to pay attention to the lights and move swiftly when they go green, a little consideration for everyone behind you is just common courtesy!

[FROSTY:Me]

Suggest you re-read the first post dude, we are looking for every day things here not the stuff of your fantacies.

sorry mom--although not every biker does this every time--of course --in the last couple of years its become fairly common here in orkland.

[OutForADuck]

RE: passing on double Yellows

Cagers do that as well. It not unique to motorcyclists.

Yeah but I see 10 bikes doing it for every 1 car... what is it about bikes that makes us think this is ok?

Having seen the results personally of bike Vs truck headon..... this is one manuevre I hate seeing!!

[OutForADuck]

SPEED.... we all seem to have missed the speed bit....


Now lets see? speed, noise, passing too close, odd small wheelie, occational stoppee.... damn you guys are describing my riding

Welcome back Frosty!!!

[ital916]

I do this just about every time.

I'll be buggered if I'm going to leave myself vulnerable between two cars, one of who I am desperately hoping will stop in time.

Andrew could give you a couple of stories where he's only missed being rammed by a dozy car-driver by gassing it through red lights, or hell, my very own sister rear-ended a car in front of her at some lights. I treat every car like she's driving.

Even a cager taking their foot off the brake - if it's a auto it'll roll forwards right into ya!

I don't sit on the pedestrian crossing though. There's rarely any need to roll that far in front of the cars.

Besides, for you city boys it might only be a extra thirty seconds you save each day, but for those of us who live well out of town we save ourselves a good bit of time.


Edit: Ixion explained it much better than me. Hell, the ol' bugger beat me to posting too. Maybe I should try reading the whole thread first next time...

I have never had a close call with cars not stopping behind me, I pull up on an angle and then keep an eye on whats ging on. Once a car behind didn't slow dwn enough but i just rode forward out of the way.

That one car in front of me is a buffer zone that I quite like. The chances of getting hit by the hundreds of red light runners today is a lot more than getting rear ended, the car or bus in front can get hit. Tis why it is bad to bolt of from the lights like it is a race.

[Nagash]

Just a quick well done to 'Mom' for taking alot of these bollocks posts with a cool head and a sense of humour.

Can't say in 3 years or riding, on my regular commute, have I EVER seen someone stunting. I'm sure it happens, but it's not a majority thing. Hell, the majority of bikers don't stunt at all.

And splitting to the front of the queue is always advantageous, no matter how many cagers are there. On my commute, getting through each light first is fudamental for a smooth ride without any long stops at the light (They have awful traffic light layouts in this country, somebody get a German in this country for god's sake)

Another addition which isn't on this list yet, and has been mentioned is speeding. See it every day, do it myself even. 50's just painfully difficult to do..

Also I agree with the sneaking up on cagers when passing, not really something we can control if the cager's don't actually look in their god damn mirrors but i've seen cagers swerve right over to the left when i've gone for a perfectly normal pass.

[dipshit]

Kicking car mirrors off because they didn't get out of your pretentious way.

[dipshit]

Riding around with your headlight on high beam so everyone can get out of your pretentious way.

[dipshit]

Riding much much faster than the normal flow of traffic and expecting everyone else to keep out of your pretentious way.

[PirateJafa]

I have never had a close call with cars not stopping behind me, I pull up on an angle and then keep an eye on whats ging on. Once a car behind didn't slow dwn enough but i just rode forward out of the way.

That one car in front of me is a buffer zone that I quite like. The chances of getting hit by the hundreds of red light runners today is a lot more than getting rear ended, the car or bus in front can get hit. Tis why it is bad to bolt of from the lights like it is a race.

That's why you look left and right before taking off from the lights.

Never trust the cagers to stop for a red light. For some of them, it's like a red flag to a bull.

Riding around with your headlight on high beam so everyone can get out of your pretentious way.

One of these days I'm going to mount the central median in my Nissan'o'Doom and take out a certain fucking Hyosung up here in Albany who always rides with his highbeams on.

Fellow biker or not, it's fucking annoying, and more to the point it's fucking blinding.

[vifferman]

Hey, woz wrong with riding on the footpath? That's what it's for, after all.

Welllll.... since you asked.
I've overtaken on the footpath only a handful of times (four, I think).
The last time I decided to do it, I fell off when the front tyre hit the wet grass on the verge. The VFR has scrapes on it as a result.
In my defence, it was when I was coming off 18 months of overprescribed drooogz, and my judgement was very, very dodgy.
It was still my fault, but there were mitigating circumstances (worked late, was very tired, brain was tired and malfunctioning, traffic was heavy, I acted before thinking things through).

[dipshit]

One of these days I'm going to mount the central median in my Nissan'o'Doom and take out a certain fucking Hyosung up here in Albany who always rides with his highbeams on. Fellow biker or not, it's fucking annoying, and more to the point it's fucking blinding.

Yeah there's some brainless dicks around on motorcycles.

[Nagash]

Yeah there's some brainless dicks around on motorcycles.

Who would'a thought..