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Courtesy.
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 3:55 am
by Sharpe1
How's this? I was riding home the other night, lane splitting at lights and I couldn't quite make it past a couple of cars because their mirrors were too close. The guy on the left hits a button in his car and, hey presto, his mirror folds in leaving me enough room to pass. After a thank you of course!! 8-) Just shows that they're not all inconsiderate.
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 4:28 am
by VTRgirl
Bet he had a bumper sticker saying "my other car's a bike"...
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:21 am
by cupasoop
Bet he done that coz the last bike that went past him knocked his mirror off.
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 1:27 pm
by droid
Rich you are a cynic of the highest order, I bow to your greatness
I find that if you SHOW yourself to cagers, they will generally make room.
Especially if your bike's yella!
Droid
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:58 pm
by gurnE
You can definately spot the bike owning car drivers out there
The twats who deliberately try and hinder your progress make my blood boil tho.
I had one a couple of days ago.
Rush hour traffic, filtering down the middle, not doing anything wrong when a car coming the other way moves right over to the right, as close as he can get to me and starts gesturing that I should be waiting in the queue
I don't think he expected me to turn around and follow him until he was forced to stop at some lights tho........lol
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:59 pm
by droid
Jeez Kas you're playing with fire wi' that last comment!
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 1:52 pm
by Sharpe1
Thats a lot of fun, pinning the throttle while your behind them and putting your headlight straight into their rearview mirror.
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 2:12 pm
by droid
Druid?
Droid
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 2:19 pm
by Sharpe1
droid wrote:Druid?
Droid
Huh??
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 3:39 pm
by droid
Previous thread
Fines points or both, started by teagie, subverted by others, in bike chat.
Worth a look, eh Kaz
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 9:57 pm
by Druid
droid wrote:Druid?
Droid
You called?
I don't always check out General Chat, so I missed this
VTR1000KAZ wrote: one thing tho...your headlight has to be on full beam !!!!!
blind the bastids!!!!!
Shall I nibble?
Nah, that bait is far too smelly for me ;)
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 10:06 pm
by robin1000
This is why I don't always get road riding, I'm not an annoying butt
!
Seems you all want the box drivers to play with you. Don't tease them and they won't f**k you off, IMO.
Anyway, I think the mirror guy was just showing off.
And hey, kids, play nice and live another day
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 10:42 pm
by droid
Eh????
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 11:54 pm
by Sharpe1
VTR1000KAZ wrote:robin1000 wrote:This is why I don't always get road riding, I'm not an annoying butt
!
Seems you all want the box drivers to play with you. Don't tease them and they won't f**k you off, IMO.
Anyway, I think the mirror guy was just showing off.
And hey, kids, play nice and live another day
this only happens ( rolling on and off throttle) once they have already pissed me off!
say they've seen the bike behind them but they refuse to move over, even tho the car in the next lane is half a mile away..... or they've blocked your way through.
This is also what I was getting at!
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 11:58 pm
by Sharpe1
[quote="robin1000"]
Anyway, I think the mirror guy was just showing off.
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You could be right, but the way I see it, he didn't have to, so I appreciated it anyway.