Seen any numbskull riding recently?

**dipshit** · 7th January 2009, 14:33

I remember BRONZ advising people (unofficially of course

) how to get an exemption from wearing a helmet back in the "right to decide" days.

**Roki_nz** · 7th January 2009, 15:23

Originally Posted by Roki_nz

The guy riding with the Turban will most likely be a Sikh. However i don't think there is a religious reason why they can't wear a helmet. My partner is a Sikh so i will ask her or the preist at the wellington temple.

I have asked my partner and here is the answer: Sikhs that are “baptised” are required to wear a head covering and keep there hair uncut etc “As I understand it Sikhs are only required to cover there heads and as such a motorcycle helmet counts as a head covering.”

There is no religious reason why a Sikh cannot wear a motorcycle helmet. She added that some hardliners would refuse to wear one because its not “traditional etc ”

“The only practical reason might be that the turban might get crushed in a helmet or bag (I am told its not easy to wrap one around you head and it takes a while) but in saying that its just as likely to get blown off”

I will ask around however to get a balanced answer. But at the moment I am sticking with NO.

**trump-lady** · 7th January 2009, 15:31

theres no way dude i saw was getting that under a helmet..........

**fliplid** · 7th January 2009, 17:46

from what i remember, rastafarians were excempt along with sikhs in the uk- for much the same reasons.

**Roki_nz** · 7th January 2009, 20:55

Originally Posted by fliplid

from what i remember, rastafarians were excempt along with sikhs in the uk- for much the same reasons.

Yes and those who don’t wear helmets are idiots. If I was working at the LTSA I would never in good conscience grant a helmet exemption. A lot of that crap comes from been inflexible with tradition that is often born of necessity rather than the religion. Here is a rant that was given to me by my partner’s uncle who is a Sikh in his fifties.

Uncle Singh: “You know at some of the temples there is so much politics on how things should be done and some of it is so backwards and they do not move with the times. At the temple we used to go to we had a priest over from Singapore to check out the temple
Uncle Singh: He looked around and saw we had table and chairs to eat on, in the old days everyone would sit on the floor”
Singapore Singh: The tables and chairs must go.
Uncle Singh:…. Um why would we do that, we have a lot of older people here and it is not good or easy for them to eat on the floor
Singapore Singh: Because that is the way the Gurus did things and we eat on the floor
Uncle Singh: You realise the First Guru went from village to village on the back of a donkey and when he got to the village the people would gather around him and sit on the ground because the didn’t have chairs etc.
Singapore Singh: This is way things have always been and that’s how they should be here
Uncle Singh: So are you going to do everything like the first Guru? Did you and you donkey hope in the boat and row over here from Singapore?
Singapore Singh: Grrr… (His Cell phone rings)
Uncle Singh: So is that your Guru calling

PS: Allan Sikhs do not hug trees… they would rather chop them down or you if you said that to one however Rastafarians do like hugging a tree :P

**roy.nz** · 7th January 2009, 21:05

Saw a fella yesterday on the north shore heading south just before the northcote exit, he was on a newish looking fjr1300 thingie and riding in just a work dress shirt and pants, but the weirdest thing is he put his gloves on, o and his helmet, mate if you dress like that forget the gloves and helmet! who ever you are, you are an idiot

**Fred Dagg** · 7th January 2009, 21:21

That has to be my most favorite quotes - Rock on Iron Maiden!

**quickbuck** · 7th January 2009, 22:09

On my trip to Wanganui and back today I didn't see ant numbskull riding, BUT I saw a couple of cage drivers doing some dodgy stuff....

A car run out of room rapidly as he over took two others with me coming towards him.
I just moved over to the left and shock my head.
He realised he made a mistake, and hopefully will think twice next time... on a road with less room. No real need to get upset about that one.....

Then a few minutes later I saw a car turn right one road too early heading into Wanganui.
The locals will know this as the exit from ANZAC Parade (I think it is) onto SH3. Yep, following a car, and he hangs a right! Straight up the No Entry! Could have been a very nasty head on, as people exiting this road are winding up to 100k, and have their head over their shoulder to merge with traffic safely.

Oh, and the third thing.....
NOBODY realises that you are supposed to give way to traffic turning right out of Trafalgar Square if you are turning into it.....
I was sitting there for a while waiting for a gap in the traffic, all the while a little girl waited, parked right in front of me, in her beat up Honda Civic not realising what I was trying to do.
What I didn't want to do was to make myself and the other half her hood ornament, so I decided to hang a left and head around the block... Didn't get to do the esses up through the cemetery

Will be there another day though

**Roki_nz** · 8th January 2009, 06:28

Originally Posted by roy.nz

Saw a fella yesterday on the north shore heading south just before the northcote exit, he was on a newish looking fjr1300 thingie and riding in just a work dress shirt and pants, but the weirdest thing is he put his gloves on, o and his helmet, mate if you dress like that forget the gloves and helmet! who ever you are, you are an idiot

Yes I have seen the same thing in Wellington with a Guy on a GSX600. What I see more often though is people riding scooters with no protection other than a helmet.

I had a word with a few I know about gear and the answer I normally get is “You do not go as fast on a scooter and I have only come off once” To which I reply “I was under the impression that most accidents were at or below the speed limit including a large chunk of the fatal ones and I have never come off yet

”

**James Deuce** · 8th January 2009, 06:38

Originally Posted by roy.nz

Saw a fella yesterday on the north shore heading south just before the northcote exit, he was on a newish looking fjr1300 thingie and riding in just a work dress shirt and pants, but the weirdest thing is he put his gloves on, o and his helmet, mate if you dress like that forget the gloves and helmet! who ever you are, you are an idiot

You're only legally required to wear a helmet.

How about you ride in what you feel comfortable and safe wearing and let other grown ups make up their own minds?

**pritch** · 8th January 2009, 07:20

I was following a woman in a boi racer car on my normal route home from work yesterday, her driving was not exactly ummm predictable(?) so I was watching her like a hawk.

She put on her left blinker so I thought she might be going to park outside one of the houses there (or not?). Just as I went to turn right into my usual street she did a big round 180. She first saw me when I was headed straight for her about four metres from her door. It was OK though because I had been ready for that - or pretty much anything else that she did.

I pulled closer and said, "That wasn't very fucking smart was it?"
She looked instantly pissed off and took a big breath preparatory to giving me the benefit of her expertise. She undoubtedly considered herself a good driver... I let the clutch out and departed, however, so I didn't hear a word of what she said.

**fliplid** · 8th January 2009, 08:27

Saw a bike prog in the uk years ago which had a feature on a bike cop. As part of his duties he was a community support type dude, including victim support. A local bike dealership donated a scooter for his use- liveried up, with suitable on-board storage etc. He wore the same kit riding that as he wore for his other role as traffic cop on his Pan-Euro. His stated reason was to do with safety, and educating the increasing number of scooter users. He said he was trying to get the message across that when you have an accident, you will suffer the same types of injuries whether you are riding a tooled up Pan-Euro or a small bike/scooter at similar speeds.

**Movistar** · 8th January 2009, 10:03

On the way back from Taupo yesterday, came across an obviously under intelligent gentleman aboard a Harley Davidson traveling in the opposite direction just south of the Awakino petrol station.

Said gentleman was traveling at a speed that should not be attempted on such a machine, mainly due to his previously mentioned lack of intelligence and also possibly the uncanny wobbling motion the steed was making as he brushed death by lane splitting cars that were traveling in opposing directions...

As I gazed in wonder at his skills as he approached and then looked in the mirror after the sonic boom of his hollowed exhausts trailed off behind us, I noticed that he was slowing...
Did my look of astonishment crossed with the look of "You spastic bastard' perhaps bemuse him?

As there were no rear vision mirrors attached to his handle bars, or any other part of the motorcycle for that matter, he proceeded to actually look over his shoulder to see that there was no one in close proximity behind before conducting a U turn.

This was amusing in two ways;
1) There was no way anyone was behind him. At the speed he was travelling, all vehicles were obliterated that he had passed due to the rearward facing bazooka exhaust weapons that were mounted to his ride.

2) While carefully looking behind himself, he failed to notice a rather large vehicle of destruction (read truck) rounding the corner in his opposing direction. The shock of discovering this made the gentleman on the motorcycle stop in angst in the middle of the main road, still.

The outcome was the truck ran off slightly into the gravel, the spastic bastard then continued on his U turn of life changing events, and then headed off to obliterate all vehicles that were now travelling in our direction of travel!

As he passed the truck that had nearly claimed another statistic and then ourselves, I noticed that this fantastic resemblance of the grim reaper was wearing jeans and a singlet...good on ya pal!

To top things off, as we headed into Moukau, (about 5km's away) guess who was heading back in his original direction?

The same under intelligent gentleman...

**nico** · 9th January 2009, 04:56

saw some num,nuts yesterday yes i was hot i was sweting like a pig on heat but.... for christ sakes where the protective gear man jeans jacket gloves helmet min saw not one but two iodits one in wellingtion leaving the aero club on a yellow trupy shorts and t-shirt helmet seriously squid and the other in upper hutt pulld inbehind me filling on a vtr same gear he did make the coment gees you must be hot and laughed i replyed yes but i will be alive and have my skin if something hapens , i got a reply somthing like ohh whateva i wont fall off so some shit what a winner as i watched him hoon off over the takas thats just asking for it or what?