Retards on the Southern this morning...

**dipshit** · 29th March 2009, 18:50

Originally Posted by Ragingrob

Maybe you should use your mirrors every now and again. Might make you realise you can discover what surrounds you!

Well someone that cheeks their mirrors then thinks everything is clear is courting with disaster.

Like I said... it's usually the one you didn't see that gets you.

**Ragingrob** · 29th March 2009, 19:35

Originally Posted by dipshit

Well someone that cheeks their mirrors then thinks everything is clear is courting with disaster.

Like I said... it's usually the one you didn't see that gets you.

Yes you are correct.

Meh

**scumdog** · 30th March 2009, 19:31

Just thought I'd post a comment from a hot-rod forum:

"On the way back to Whiritoa from Whanga on Sunday arvo,some dick on a jap bike decided to jam himself between us and Waikato willies r/p,coming down the 35 km/h curly bits to the one way bridge just before Whiritoa,braking for the curves and have some flogger stuff a bike in the hole,also braking,does not make a pretty sight,if I had taken him out,it would have been messy,front bumper on the truck is near 3mm thick.And they say we give bike riders a raw deal? insert Tui ad here... "

Just to let y'all know mind...

**weekendwarrior** · 30th March 2009, 19:44

Originally Posted by Ragingrob

Really? And how's that? What did they do to deserve to be called dickheads and give bikers a bad name and make the 'public' hate us (Who are part of the public)?

read the 1st and 3rd thread

**Ragingrob** · 30th March 2009, 19:57

Originally Posted by weekendwarrior

read the 1st and 3rd thread

So staying within one's lane and riding completely legally and safely is grounds to be called a dickhead and be told you're ruining the public perception of bikers?

Just because one guy thinks you look like a retard?

**Tone165** · 30th March 2009, 20:35

Originally Posted by vtec

People get angry due to a subconscious jealousy a lot. That's why people used to abuse me on my bicycle when I was working as a bicycle courier. Cause they were jealous of the freedom I had, and they were frustrated as all hell sitting in their cars. So what they weaved a bit. My heart pumps custard for you. As long as you weren't trying to lane share with them they should be fine. Find a bigger fish to fry. There is plenty of them these days.

Sums up my position adequately also.

Try and find any biker that doesn't put shit on other "types" of rider...I know I do it!

But I prefer to target the incompetent rather than the exuberant.

Get some Effin lessons!

**sosman** · 30th March 2009, 20:48

Originally Posted by weekendwarrior

Its dickheads like that that give bikers a bad name and the public a reason to

hate us.

Hmmn what are you gonna upgrade to next? cbr600? gsxr600 & Why? "I know" you'll tell ya mates...just how fast you accelerated up to 99.9kph & how you crank yr bike over in the corners & swerved suddenly to avoid a massive pot hole & bla bla bla etc.....But you won't tell them that would ya,cause yr just an A-to-B rider who obviously just rides to save petrol cause doing it for the Wow this farkin rocks factor! is just not you....Is it?

I could be wrong

**Ixion** · 30th March 2009, 20:51

I am with the writhing gentleman.

It seems to me that the original post could, with entire justice be restated as

" two people were riding along, quite legally, not endangering or even inconveniencing anyone (including themselves). They appeared to be enjoying themselves

But, they were doing something that I do not do. And anyone who does anything that I do not is thereby a retard"

That's an ugly attitude. A cager attitude. It is sad to see such things on a biker forum

It is a paradoxical observation that the most intolerant attitudes toward any display of individuality often seem to come from crusier riders, who frequently claim to be expressing their own individuality. Perhaps individuality is only permissable if its a standard and approved individuality.

**sosman** · 30th March 2009, 20:56

Originally Posted by Ixion

I am with the writhing gentleman.

It seems to me that the original post could, with entire justice be restated as

" two people were riding along, quite legally, not endangering or even inconveniencing anyone (including themselves). They appeared to be enjoying themselves

But, they were doing something that I do not do. And anyone who does anything that I do not is thereby a retard"

That's an ugly attitude. A cager attitude. It is sad to see such things on a biker forum

It is a paradoxical observation that the most intolerant attitudes toward any display of individuality often seem to come from crusier riders, who frequently claim to be expressing their own individuality. Perhaps individuality is only permissable if its a standard and approved individuality.

Well Newby who started the thread... was in a cage with Fitz of rage lol

Actually where is Newby?

**dipshit** · 30th March 2009, 20:59

No, they were riding erratically and unpredictably in traffic. The very opposite of what you should be doing in traffic.

To someone who saw them - they did not look cool. They looked stupid. This person was a motorcyclist himself. Imagine what the other drivers must of been thinking.

Just because you are on a motorcycle, doesn't mean the sun shines out of your backside and you can do no wrong.

**PirateJafa** · 30th March 2009, 21:01

Originally Posted by dipshit

Maybe some motorcyclists should stop thinking that the sun shines out of their backside and their shit never stinks. Quite possibly from the outside they looked like a couple of wankers.

Crazy radical concept for you people, i know... but there you go.

Wait a second. So you've been saying in this thread that because these guys were, as Rob pointed out, riding legally, at the speed limit, within their own lanes, without endangering any other road users or babies, they're wankers.

Why? Because they're sportbikers who're enjoying themselves?

What would a country with you in charge look like? I can only imagine a New Zealand where the only permitted vehicle is a Corolla.

**dipshit** · 30th March 2009, 21:03

Originally Posted by sosman

Actually where is Newby?

He's probably stunned how most people picked on him instead as if he was the idiot.

You shouldn't be a heretic just because you said you saw some wankers on some bikes today.

**Ixion** · 30th March 2009, 21:06

I doubt they cared less if they looked "cool". If you need to worry about it, you ain't. And less still what cagers might have thought. A fine world it would be if we were to worry what they think.

And , contrary, just because they are motorcyclists does not mean they can only do wrong.

I have seen nothing to indicate they were driving erratically or unpredicatably. Rather the reverse.

Passant, I have observed before how very often these prurient threads begin "I was driving my car" . Why, one asks, was the OP, if he be a motorcyclist himself, driving a car?

**Ixion** · 30th March 2009, 21:07

Originally Posted by dipshit

He's probably stunned how most people picked on him instead as if he was the idiot.

You shouldn't be a heretic just because you said you saw some wankers on some bikes today.

Perspicious little fella, isn't he.

**dipshit** · 30th March 2009, 21:09

Originally Posted by PirateJafa

Wait a second. So you've been saying in this thread that because these guys were, as Rob pointed out, riding legally, at the speed limit, within their own lanes, without endangering any other road users or babies, they're wankers.

You can still be erratic and unpredictable to other traffic even if staying within the law. It is more about maturity and self-control and discipline and thoughtfulness for the other road users around you.

Why? Because they're sportbikers who're enjoying themselves?

The roads - particularly motorways - are not playgrounds for having "fun" on. This is why they are wankers on bikes.