Bike/Car Drags - why do you bother?

Hi - we've been having a discussion over at aus.motorcycles and we thought
it was time to invite the other side into the discussion.

Why do cage drivers persist in trying to drag off bikes at traffic lights?
This is given that there are very few cars on the market that can
out-accelerate a 250cc Baby Blade, let alone a litre-class superbike. The
number of WRX's and hotted-up V8's that we see revving at the lights and
looking at us in anticipation of a contest is quite astonishing.

To the 2-wheeled community, a bike taking on a car is about the same effort
as a car taking on a bicycle - the outcome is so inevitable it's hardly
worth proving over and over. But we find ourselves being continually
challenged, and so we keep going through the motions.

So why do you persist? Is there a genuine belief that you stand a chance,
even when a brief consideration of the simple physics of power/weight ratios
indicates there isn't one?

Motorcyclists habitually like to get away from the lights very quickly,
mainly because we like the safety of having empty space around us (you cage
drivers being the inattentive, random-lane-changing lot that you are). We
usually drop back to a semi-legal speed once we are in open territory. Is it
possible that some of you misinterpret this as a desire to drag-race?

Anyway, your thoughts.

Regards
Manning from aus.motorcycles

 

Note - this reply not x-posted:

Well let's see what happens...

Manning

 

Sweeeeeet! Feeling alive with a naughty sense of anticipation... )

Cheers,
Dave ZZR600 => ST2 (stolen) => '03 XX

 

Hehe - did you mean to x-post that?

Cheers Manning

 

Go Trolling somewhere else.


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I'll Top post if I feel like it.
| Hi - we've been having a discussion over at aus.motorcycles and we thought
| it was time to invite the other side into the discussion.
|
| Why do cage drivers persist in trying to drag off bikes at traffic lights?
| This is given that there are very few cars on the market that can
| out-accelerate a 250cc Baby Blade, let alone a litre-class superbike. The
| number of WRX's and hotted-up V8's that we see revving at the lights and
| looking at us in anticipation of a contest is quite astonishing.
|
| To the 2-wheeled community, a bike taking on a car is about the same effort
| as a car taking on a bicycle - the outcome is so inevitable it's hardly
| worth proving over and over. But we find ourselves being continually
| challenged, and so we keep going through the motions.
|
| So why do you persist? Is there a genuine belief that you stand a chance,
| even when a brief consideration of the simple physics of power/weight ratios
| indicates there isn't one?
|
| Motorcyclists habitually like to get away from the lights very quickly,
| mainly because we like the safety of having empty space around us (you cage
| drivers being the inattentive, random-lane-changing lot that you are). We
| usually drop back to a semi-legal speed once we are in open territory. Is it
| possible that some of you misinterpret this as a desire to drag-race?
|
| Anyway, your thoughts.
|
| Regards
| Manning from aus.motorcycles

 

Why is it bikes pull up next to my work van and start the whole rev the
engine thing, why is it some idiot on a bike proves how good he is by riding
parallel to my workvan on the freeway whilst popping a 1/2 km mono at
100kph, like I'm going to race him or try popping a better one with an
Econovan?

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Pat
Brisbane, Australia
http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~mangey/
Who needs lockers when you got secondaries.

VH4000-> CL3500/4300-> GH2600-> S2A2300/3000->
GJ1600/2000->RR3500/3900 ->GQ4200

 

Yay!

Pat
Brisbane, Australia
http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~mangey/
Who needs lockers when you got secondaries.

VH4000 (rusted)-> CL3500/4300(rusted)-> GH2600(taxied off)->
S2A2300/3000(too slow)-> GJ1600/2000(gave to mum)->RR3500/3900(too weak in
driveline) ->GQ4200 (just right)

 

Manning you're a cruel evil calculating prick. I like that in a person.

 

With respect, I'm not trolling - this is a serious question. Please feel
free to check into aus.motorcycles and see the discussion we've been having.

Regards
Manning

 

Well there are wankers on bikes just as much as there are wankers anywhere
else. It's hardly fair to judge the entire community by individual cases.
You've all seen complete wankers behind the wheel of a car, but that doesn't
condemn the entire car-enthusiast community.

Cheers Manning

 

*sniff* - I'm deeply touched.

hehe Manning

 

Erk - Kiwipete still posting thee?

1. I do the same in cars. Open space good. Herd bad.

2. If some dawk on a bike is there, I 'want' him to piss off out of the way
to his own open space, preferably ahead of me and therefore not
hanging about hiding in blind-spots as a highly accelerative and
therefore marginally predictable obstacle.
And if that means tricking the bighead into grandstanding - so be it.

This produces three zones after each TL start.
Open space bike zone.
Open space Car zone.
Herd.

I prefer to drive with the other OS Car Zone occupants - paranoids like us
make safer drivers.

There ya go.
Simple problem - simple solution.

 

Why is it bikes race planes next to airstrips?
Just because of a few, doesn't mean every car on the road want's to race
either.

Pat
Brisbane, Australia
http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~mangey/
Who needs lockers when you got secondaries.

VH4000-> CL3500/4300-> GH2600-> S2A2300/3000->
GJ1600/2000->RR3500/3900 ->GQ4200

 

Dunno - the joys of the killfile. I think he might have finally buggered off
and formed a self-help group of one somewhere. CDIHL still drags his sorry
arse in there though.

Well, that is so sensible you could almost qualify as a bike rider!
(Seriously, though - nice answer).

Cheers Manning

 

Um... no. Could be the late night karma gods telling me that I should have
been asleep hours ago...

 

You better graduate off that 250cc onto something a bit quicker then Manning.
My 21 year old Commodore can out drag a 250 baby blade... from 0-100 kph but
probably mph too.

Nev..

 

Should have left the discussion over there too!

How many vehicles does it take to conduct a 'drag'?

So you feel you just *have to* go through the motions once again ))))))))

Why do you persist in meeting this alleged challenge? Why waste your time
and petrol doing something you know the outcome of already? Why risk getting
booked for something that's inevitable anyway? Me thinks you've got way too
much wind blowing through your helmet and it's scrambled your brains. Get a
life.

Yeah that's a brilliant tactic in all the circumstances isn't it? Have all
those imbeciles who can't drive or even recognise potential danger right
behind you Me, I'd rather have people who can't drive in front of me and
deal with those who can't change lanes safely where I can keep an eye on
them. You treat all drivers the same way, nobody can drive properly and they
are all a danger to you.

Waste of bandwidth.

 

LOL, this comment after you generalise with the "cage drivers" comment.....

 

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Blind-spots? Don't you have mirrors?

 

I gather this is really an ego post and nothing more.
How about keeping it in aus.motorcycles