Near Miss

[placidfemme]

Glad to hear your ok. Close call eh? Don't give up biking over something like that, sure its scary as hell, gives you a real fright and makes you realise just how fragile you really are and how quick something can go wrong.

But you live and you learn, your one experience better than last week, your skills have improved because of this and you can only get better the more you practise. For as long as you ride you will ALWAYS have stupid assholes/cagers/soccor-moms/cellphone users/I didn't see you's etc, but the more you ride the better you will become at developing that "6th sense" and spotting most of these hazards before they become a hazard.

Ride to live and Live to ride.

[Paul in NZ]

Hi Alex...

Hows the bike going?

Bloody scary shit that. I have had similar experiences on that road and never ride it with total commitment (ie always leave room to move) because of the stupid people that cannot / will not stick to their side of the road. I've had to haul my helmet out of the way which is just crazy stuff...

Anyway - thankfully its a rare occurance and just something that needs to be factored into the equation. Riding is a balancing act in more than one way!

Have fun and ride safe mate..

Paul N

[Guitana]

She might have been following you to apologise.

Imagine if we lived in a world where that happened.

More like she was going to pull him over and beat him senseless with her Versacci handbag for nearly scratching the Beemer!!
Never mind that she was'nt watching the road and on her fucken cell phone!!
Rich bitches are arrogant slags!!!!!!

[vifferman]

After beeping her she decides to turn around and follow me all the way up to the top of the hill before pulling into the observatory bit.

That was considerate of her. So you took the opportunity to talk to her about her driving, take her details and report her to the cops, give her a good flogging/shagging, that sort of thing?

[sels1]

Good to see you are ok Alex, dont let it put you off. You have had a valuable riding lesson, the more it scared you got, the better you will remember it! Idiots in cages are an unfortunate part of biking, so you have to make allowances for them. As much as I enjoy that road, I am always looking out for just that situation (had a few frights there myself).

And if she just missed you on the bike, what would have happened if you were in a large vehilce like hers?

[KLOWN]

i would've pulled over with her and given her a sorting out. YOU FU*KIN SON OF BITCH COULD"VE KILLED ME YOUR STUPID WHORE etc etc GOING TO FOLLOW YOU HOME AND YOU BEEMER AIN"T GONNA LOOK SO PRETTY ANYMORE .....

only if she didn't apologise. you need to let them know the gravity of the situation. otherwise they will keep doing it.

[beyond]

Stuffed up the post, see next.

[beyond]

Glad to hear you are ok mate, but it's a common occurrence unfortunately.
Camper vans with the big rectangular wing mirror at head height, teach you to be a turtle real fast too.

Why do we do it??

This is why:
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=32775

[XP@]

Anyway - thankfully its a rare occurance and just something that needs to be factored into the equation. Riding is a balancing act in more than one way!

Not so sure about it being rare on that road. Ok, they have reduced the speed limit in the interesting section 70 but still drivers seem to like cutting the blind corners. In one run I had 3 cars come out of corners on the wrong side. One of them was pushing it a tad, and he was the tightest of the three. The others were just being lazy.

It is the road to practice your delayed apexes, cos if you don't you will get collected.

[KLOWN]

Not so sure about it being rare on that road. Ok, they have reduced the speed limit in the interesting section 70 but still drivers seem to like cutting the blind corners. In one run I had 3 cars come out of corners on the wrong side. One of them was pushing it a tad, and he was the tightest of the three. The others were just being lazy.

It is the road to practice your delayed apexes, cos if you don't you will get collected.

its a good road to pratice useing your left hand for throttle while holding a steel bar in the right hand to "teach" the cages which side of the road is yours and which is theres.

[XP@]

its a good road to pratice useing your left hand for throttle while holding a steel bar in the right hand to "teach" the cages which side of the road is yours and which is theres.

All well and good, however I have a certain affinity for my right hand and a large enough knowledge of physics to calculate the effects of hitting something coming the other way.

Any remember you don't want to clip wing mirrors on a left hander!

[Disco Dan]

close call huh? geeepas...


I keep my cell phone in my jacket pocket... can whip it out and take a picture real quick. (wait.. that sounds disgusting.)

Glad your ok... remember cars are our natural predators and are only there to eat us. Think "gazel" when you ride....

[KLOWN]

All well and good, however I have a certain affinity for my right hand and a large enough knowledge of physics to calculate the effects of hitting something coming the other way.

Any remember you don't want to clip wing mirrors on a left hander!

wingmirrors will give. but I wasn't being serious, You'd have to be pretty skilled to cruise round tight corners using left hand to throttle and line up cars to nail them with a steel bar. on a side note I was thinking how you 'could' do this with out too much hassle I figured you'd need a pillion to carry the bar they only need one hand to hang on with then they can wack the offending cars while you are in full control of the bike.

[Kinje]

But you live and you learn, your one experience better than last week, your skills have improved because of this and you can only get better the more you practise. For as long as you ride you will ALWAYS have stupid assholes/cagers/soccor-moms/cellphone users/I didn't see you's etc, but the more you ride the better you will become at developing that "6th sense" and spotting most of these hazards before they become a hazard.

Ride to live and Live to ride.

You have had a valuable riding lesson, the more it scared you got, the better you will remember it! Idiots in cages are an unfortunate part of biking, so you have to make allowances for them. As much as I enjoy that road, I am always looking out for just that situation (had a few frights there myself).

And if she just missed you on the bike, what would have happened if you were in a large vehilce like hers?

Scary one mate. Glad you got out of it

Unfortunately they do like to cut corners, and my opinion of BMW drivers is not good based on an incident I had on my bicycle riding to uni in Dunedin- arogant prick passed me then turned into his driveway across my path!

Don't let it stop you riding. Try and think about what you did to avoid the car, and remember that as a strategy for avoiding the next time it happens. Did you look at the empty piece of lane and aim for that? Counter steer? ...???

I think the bad drivers have been out in force lately, including some that haven't seen me in a very large ford courier 4X4 work ute!

[240]

Hey mate the fact you reacted well should comfort you. That is when experience matters and it sounds like you will be fine if you handled that the way you did.
The only comment i would make is after riding for heaps of years is that i stay well away from that road it is inherently dangerous for us bike boys (and girls)