Psycho commute riders

[alanzs]

As a devoted lane splitter (one of the reasons for riding a bike in traffic) I always try to leave room at the light (or the lane) for any other bikers who split the lanes. If I see a bike coming behind me as I am splitting the lane, I move over. There have been the odd occasions when I don't see the bike, as I am concentrating on Ian or Myrtle in the millions of cars around me. Usually though, I'm the one coming up faster. Most bikes do move over. If they don't, I move around them. I figure they're concentrating on what's going on in front of them, not behind them. Fair enough. No big deal.

A very hot looking Suzuki SV1000 pulled up to the side of me the other day as I was sitting between the cars at the light on Ti Rakau and Botany Road. When the light changed, they wheelied out and through the intersection, just as a car plowed through the light. The car just missed t-boning the bike. It was a beautiful, graceful wheelie. My hat's off to them, but not looking almost got them hit.

[sbaker3]

yes and it should be done with being curtious to other people using the road..
Perhaps people who arnt confident to split at a safe speed should learn to use their mirrors and move over for people who are. and yes finding an alternative route means cuting to another lane going past and then cutting back again.. thats when you get a thread like this starting.. because mr GN or whatever their on probally didnt check there mirrors or didnt realise he was going that slow that there where 2 or more "fello motorcyclists" who had been stuck behind and had to go the long way around

I was already at the red when he honked, he was just being a dick.

[Devil]

If you split up to the front of the lights, you should really pull over to one side at the front. It allows anyone slpitting up behind you to also pull to the front, rather than being wedged behind a bike and in between two cages.

Get real. Anyone coming up behind should be looking ahead and not putting themselves in a position where they're sitting between cars if they're concerned about it.

I cant stand it when i'm in the car and a bike splits up and pulls in front. Fucks me off. Cars can take off quick too. Stay in the middle. It's up to anyone else splitting up from behind to ensure they put themselves in a sensible position.

The person who tooted at you sounds like a cunt.

[James Deuce]

Didn't I get the fuck outta YOUR way last night?

[PirateJafa]

Get real. Anyone coming up behind should be looking ahead and not putting themselves in a position where they're sitting between cars if they're concerned about it.

I cant stand it when i'm in the car and a bike splits up and pulls in front. Fucks me off. Cars can take off quick too. Stay in the middle. It's up to anyone else splitting up from behind to ensure they put themselves in a sensible position.

I took it as a given that common sense would also be applied - evidently this was too great an assumption.

You don't pull in front of a boy-racer'd Supra - rather, the slower vehicle. And you don't piss around when it goes green - a quick check for red-light runners and get out of there.

If you have split to the front, it is only courteous to ensure you don't hold anyone else up.

[retro asian]

I cant stand it when i'm in the car and a bike splits up and pulls in front. Fucks me off. Cars can take off quick too. Stay in the middle.

I also didn't used to take kindly to that. Bikers would often pull in front of my car and take off slowly, slowing me down.

Now that I'm a biker noob, I'll show some lenience however...

[MentalFacility]

bikers kill bikers what esle can i say?

[Morcs]

i could reply with my rant about, gn riders who lane split so slowly is painfull .

Agreed.

Perhaps you should pull your head in a bit. If anyone chooses to lane split then it should be done with all due care and at a speed that the motorcyclist is comfortable with. If you have to slow down or find an alternative route past them, so be it.

So what if the due care, speed and comfort zone is much higher than someone elses? the slower bike should move out of the way. Im pissed off with having to go left, round the back of a car, round the other side, and pull back in front of the slow bastard.

Get real. Anyone coming up behind should be looking ahead and not putting themselves in a position where they're sitting between cars if they're concerned about it.

I cant stand it when i'm in the car and a bike splits up and pulls in front. Fucks me off. Cars can take off quick too. Stay in the middle. It's up to anyone else splitting up from behind to ensure they put themselves in a sensible position.

I disagree Matt. What if you breakdown, have a stroke, or even so much as stall? In those situations id rather be clearly in a lane, holding up a load of cages, because if you were in the middle, cages dont give a fuck and will just be flying past on both sides regardless. Its a matter of safety IMHO rather than courtesy.

[vifferman]

I disagree Matt. What if you breakdown, have a stroke, or even so much as stall? In those situations id rather be clearly in a lane, holding up a load of cages, because if you were in the middle, cages dont give a fuck and will just be flying past on both sides regardless. Its a matter of safety IMHO rather than courtesy.

That's why I do it, not to piss people off.
Although if it pisses them off, that's a bonus.

And talking of pissing people off (and getting back to the original post) - it used to piss me off when commuting the other bikers that seem to think they need to race me, but experience has taught me that if I just ride my own ride, I generally get to the end of the road faster than the racernoobz, with less risk on the way. Experience and cunning beat hormones, impetuosity and lack of imagination most times...
Not that it's a race, of course. But I usually win anyway, even though I'm not participating.

[skidMark]

It seems that the zen of my morning commute is increasingly being ruined by mental riders who want to race everything on the road.

I'm not against lane splitting, I consider it one of the perks of riding. But it seriously pisses me off when I lane split up to a red light and then a rider comes up behind me and starts beeping as if I'm preventing him from running the red.

Today this happened at basin reserve just out of the tunnel. And then he almost hit me when he tried to overtake with about 1 metre of space between me and the basin curb. He then took off weaving like a crazy man while racing some other fuckwit who was pulling his own shitty moves in another lane.

All I can say is guys, you ride a bike to work - that means you've already won the race. Slow the fuck down and show your fellow riders some consideration.

OK, rant over.

I always split to front of lights like that, but then there is some commuter only rider, ie somebody like you on a gn...that stops...between the cars.... and i give toot, standard biker procedure is justr creep forward of the light and off to the side to let the other biker in, he probably did not want to run the red, just get to the fron....would you want to be behind a bike between 2 cars off a set of lights, when you could be infront?

see it from his view. sounds like you have alot to learn, no sympathy here.

[Devil]

I disagree Matt. What if you breakdown, have a stroke, or even so much as stall? In those situations id rather be clearly in a lane, holding up a load of cages, because if you were in the middle, cages dont give a fuck and will just be flying past on both sides regardless. Its a matter of safety IMHO rather than courtesy.

If you ride an unreliable bike, are prone to stalling or not confident enough in your health, dont split!

[Bren]

And there are some on KB too. Not looking at anyone in particular, or course.

yup

but he didnt even do a wheelie?

point made in full!

[PirateJafa]

If you ride an unreliable bike

Don't be a two-stroke hater mate.

[NOMIS]

so stoping next to a car window with my exhausts next to someones face is okay by you because you wont move foward a bit to let me in as well??? hey ill even over fule it and turn the choke on for th cager to :-)

[dipshit]

so stoping next to a car window with my exhausts next to someones face is okay by you because you wont move foward a bit to let me in as well??? hey ill even over fule it and turn the choke on for th cager to :-)

If you are going to get stuck between traffic with no quick exit... then don't go there. What makes you think you can just push your way through to the front?

Get yourself a copy of the 'Ride Forever' DVD and listen to what the instructors say about multiple motorcycles lane splitting.