Was riding down 16 on the weekend when someone from a group we passed decided to tag along with ours, unsettling to have a bike who I didnt know riding too close of my hip especially as we were booking it. I think its a bad habit formed early in ones riding career, best to keep well back and off to one side. As for the Harley riders that got skittled, sympathies to the families but generally I have found Harleys to be porky, rather noisy obstructions with pretty bad try hard riders especially with the sit up and beg style when they try to go quick. The bikes sound ok its just the bum flaps vibrating in their arseless leather chaps thats so unpleasant.
A sizeable proportion of cagers and bikers alike are so clueless that they don't even notice what they're doing. We see them closing up in our mirrors, hassling to pass, passing, then closing up on the next poor schmuck to do it all again.
Some are such nutjobs that they disagree it's an issue even when it is pointed out to them, with graphic evidence if necessary and maybe a layman's explanation of inertia. Worse still, those types probably need more thinking time than most ... which makes tailgaters even scarier.
"Shout! Shout! Let the clutch out!" Gears for Fears
so when someone is travelling a decent amount below the limit, there's no easy passing are you supposed to sit in behind for miles and miles and let the cunts force you to be bored shitless, lose concentration and get irritated. i'm well over cunts who think that the only crime there will ever be on this countries roads is exceeding the speed limit, whereas it's fine to drive around twenty k's below.... I cam across a woman driving into wanganui last week at 55km's hr in an 80, when i pulled up behind she waved her arms around like it was her right to do so....
Well - From my experience a significant number of the members of the Ulysses Club in Marlborough for starters. I did a number of rides with them a year or two back when I was a member and experienced this sort of behaviour on every single ride. I was at or slightly above the speed limit on every occasion and making good progress so not getting in people's way. Following way too close, trying to intimidate others out of their way and passing on solid yellow lines were all par for the course.
They simply saw nothing wrong with what they were doing...
I no longer ride with them - I made the mistake of believing that being over 40 might make them better at this sort of thing. Sadly I was very wrong.
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Nipped up to Palmy from the Horowhenua yesterday.
The amount of fuckers that can't maintain road speed is very noticable,makes cruise control a pain in the arse.
On the way the wife said why are you always passing ?? She was meaning trucks and SUVs' 4x4 etc !
But yeah, drivers who speed up in passing lanes and slow right after,go back to 90 kph ,happens all the time. For this reason alone I just pass everyone, all the time.
Just like on the bike if you are following, the larger shit (trucks and SUVs etc) you just can't see the road ahead or anything that might be about to happen ?
Always ridden and driven this way,for eg. any reasonable lump of wood or other shit can cause big problems (esspecially on the bike).
You'd never go hungry with Nigella Gaz.
If it weren't for flashbacks...I'd have no memory at all..
"Shout! Shout! Let the clutch out!" Gears for Fears
I find these people very annoying, they slow down unnecessarily, except in passing lanes where they seem to subconsciously speed up as there few brain cells still awake, are saying ' it's more spacious now = safer to go faster .
the other bunch that drive me crazy are the lane hogs that "buddy up", stopping anyone passing on dual carriageways, it's hard to resist ramming them off the road sometimes!
but patience generally rules , till I get the opportunity to blast pass em, which is what I do with those strange odd people who follow anything going ridiculously slow such as tractors, harvesters etc , I mean what is up with them, they'll sit there causing a massive traffic jam behind them not passing even when it's clear to do so......
Yep - On the South Island this is particularly prevalent and the stretch of SH1 heading South from Picton being a classic example of where you see this. Thankfully there are a few overtaking spots away from the passing lanes which you need to utilise on a bike if you want to avoid this sort of crappy driving.
Open road driving skills are generally abysmal. Not sure if they are taught at all when people learn to drive?
What annoys me most when I'm driving is people travelling just below the limit who follow the vehicle in front, make no attempt to overtake and leave no gap, especially if it's a truck.
Highway 27 is a nightmare. I avoid it as much as possible.
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