Bike/Car Drags - why do you bother?

I actually going to tell you what I thought about it, but you were so
obviously in love, and I didn't want to shatter your illusions. It's the
sort of pretty that only parents of really ugly children can understand...

Damien
GPX250 (stolen) -> CBR600

 

Well no, we didn't - but we did check in with them, and they said you'd be
along shortly to set us all straight.

Damien
GPX250 (stolen) -> CBR600

 

If you find Dene's comments amusing reg-Joh then you must also like to
watch paint dry for entertainment

 

Careful Manning, he's trying to drag you down to his level so he can beat
you with experience!

Damien
GPX250 (stolen) -> CBR600

 

Dene
Or can i throw you in the same barrel as well

 

Don't you have to enrol first before you can fail something?

Damien (try room 205B, just down the hall on the right)
GPX250 (stolen) -> CBR600

 

IS NOT!

Damien
GPX250 (stolen) -> CBR600

 

Big Ears just called - he wants to know where you left the vaseline - he'll
be waiting for you when you get home.

Damien (just don't tell Mr Plod, or he might want to join in as well)
GPX250 (stolen) -> CBR600

 

Conehead wrote ...
|
| "fritz" wrote
| <snip>
| >
| > It doesn't have to be a mountain road either, I was held up by a group of
| bikes
| > on the old Pacific Highway between Mooney Mooney and Gosford one day.
| > This stretch has lots of tight corners and the bikes simply couldn't cut
| it.
| > I wasn't driving a Porsche either, just a VL turbo with modified
| suspension
| > and very good rubber. I closed up on the bikes and after several slow
| corners
| > it was obvious the bikes were slower than the VL through the tight stuff
| <snip>
|
| It wouldn't have anything to do with the bikes wanting to see through the
| tight corners before charging in, would it?

Tight corners are tight corners, mate. You get a warning sign. 35, 45 etc.

You obviously don't know the piece of road I was describing.
Go for a drive up Gosford way one day.

| Or maybe they didn't know they were in a race with such a talented driver?

You miss the point.
Cars handle better (go faster) around tight corners than bikes.
QED


| Conehead

 

I didn't ignore it even though it was trolling...

the trolly, offensive (if you're the sort of idiot that gets offended by
news posts anyway ) part was the underlying sentiment that aus.cars is
full of retards trying to prove how fantastic they are by dragging
bikes, not realising bikes are so much faster. As has been
demonstrated, there are about as many in aus.cars like that as there are
in ausmoto...

by not lumping everyone in the 'stupid' category, for starters. And
without the 'look at me, I'm a troll' stuff...

Charlie

 

you better not smee, it might hurt my car driving sensibilities.

 

I used to do that too, until the day I did it to the wrong person. He was a
complete tool, and well deserved getting the finger - only problem was I
didn't realise that he was also a psychopath. I won't tell the story here,
but quite literally all I did to him was give him the finger after he cut me
off (and several other people), and he tried to kill me.

I learned my lesson. If someone cuts me off now, I just let them go - it's
much safer! If you are smart, you will too. Most people won't do anything,
but it only takes one fucked up psycho to really ruin your day - or maybe
your life. All I did to this guy was flip him off after he pulled some
dangerous manouvres. Is a gesture that is ultimately meaningless really
worth that sort of grief? If they're gonna be a dickhead, just let them go.
Shake your head, but save the gestures for when you're telling the story to
your mates.

Damien
GPX250 (stolen) -> CBR600

 

Yeah, he's clearly different to you, Clem (thank ghod!), but I stand by
my rebuttal of Mannings "Ride a bike for a few days" quip...

I dunno about that... I reckon Shane copped _way_ more flack than he
deserved when he showed up in aus.moto way back when... Yeah, he's a
cop, and therefore "the enemy" sometimes, but somehow he got a _lot_
more abuse than scrok or buzz ever did... I recall ending up with quite
a bit of respect for his consistency, even though I didn't always agree
with his reasons or attitudes...

big (I can't believe I'm sticking up for a cop in here! ;-)

 

Okay then, try to imagine what it might feel like to have gotten away in one
piece (albeit slightly shaken perhaps), only to find you've just flipped off
some psychopath who decides to come back again to try and finish you off?
Might make it a bit easier to stay calm next time! Controlling the urge to
make pointless gestures is a much better alternative to waiting for your
broken bones to mend.

Damien (where did Jules get to with that wire brush?)
GPX250 (stolen) -> CBR600

 

Car's great - just got a new roof for her, just in time for summer!
I should have done it earlier in the year, I could have spent *this*
money on a roll bar... [sigh]

Work's good: They pay me to stand around and talk about cars all day!

Good to hear you didn't end up selling Ellie. And yes, a catch up
would be good. I'll email you soon.

Cheers,
Steve

 

An insult and compliment from a crotch jockey in one

Just jokin Damien

 

Ive seen an accident when the bike was weaving in and out of peak
hour traffic, car had to brake suddenly just as the bike was about to
move into a lane split but clipped the right rear of the car and was
thrown from the bike, he was damm lucky his body lane splitted as he
could have been run over by the following vehicle.

I consider it a general courtesy, the thanks wave is appreciated but I
don't expect it from a bike rider due to them requiring more
conecentration on the road so thanks too
I do expect it from car drivers though but sadly it doesn't always
happen.

 

As bike riders have to be more alert and careful than motorists, I
wouldn't expect to be lane splitted on both sides, but I do check the
other side more so to ensure I have room to move over though.

 

I think you're both being far too kind... nothing I can remember either of
them ever contributing amounted to anything more than dogmatic and
belligerent defense of the philosophy and the procedure ot the system they
work within. They hold the views they hold because they've been
indoctrinated with them, not because they've thought them through and
accepted them for making empirical sense. That's the hallmark of a fool.

As evidenced in this very thread, be all compliant, agreeable and jovial,
and they respond in kind. State something even a whisker out of phase with
their worldview and out come the insults, the belittling and the mad dash
for the soapbox. Wtf's that shit? If someone's got only those two modes of
interaction with people, they're simply not someone who can think about
things in a structured way.

Oh, you're all right. Let's be mates.
What? You don't agree with me? Faken cahn.

It's exactly how the minds of the westie groncks I went to school with work.
I can't bring myself to respect them, either.

Fuggen good riddance to both of them. Ausmoto's a more harmonious place for
having hounded them out.

 

More information, please. Peak hour traffic can travel at anything between 0
and 110kph, and be anything from bumper-to-bumper to a steady stream of cars
passing by with a few car lengths between them.

"Weaving in and out of peak-hour traffic" smacks of moderate speeds and high
congestion, which would put the rider's actions onto the risky side.
Percolating through car-length sized gaps at 40-50kph is dicey and a bit
inconsiderate (startles people), doing it at 80 is death-wish material...

....that said, though, personally, if I'm on the freeway (live in Canberra,
where the next World Tailgating Chapionships are due to be held in 2005, and
everyone's hard in training) and someone's crowding me from behind while
there's no room in the lane next to me, I will rather line up on the lane
markings and zip ahead of the pair of cars in front of me than stay where I
am. A couple of seconds of extreme anxiety brought on by having door handles
30cm from either knee evaluates as a better option than the open-ended
period of high anxiety caused by being tailgated.

I always wave over my shoulder at the people I just passed.

****, if I'm making my way forward through cars banked up at a red light,
and someone actively noses their car out of the way to give me more room, I
have to fight the temptation to pull up next to their window and give them a
box of chocolates... I usually have to settle for a quick thumbs-up or a
nod, though.

It's all about being excellent to each other.