Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest
Attempted murder
-
12-04-2011 8:54am#1
Comments
-
-
-
-
-
Sesshoumaru wrote: »Had an old guy in a pink Yaris drive straight at me this morning as I filtered. It really boils my blood every time this happens, which seems to happen far more frequently when I take the Piaggio instead of the Ducati. Would I have been wrong to turn around and go back after him to smash his wing mirror off? I didn't do that of course, just took some deep breaths and continued on my way. But the big smirk on his face as he went by me really haunts me now!! :mad:
Anyone else encountering this kind of behavior lately? I'm thinking of fitting a HD camera to the front of the scooter. Just wondering though can you use privately recorded video as evidence in Ireland?
My policy was (when i had my bike - CBR600FS) if the gob$hites using the roads hadn't the knowledge to mirror,signal,manouevre then they were fair game for a right bollocking and if they refused their wrongdoing then their refusal to aknowledge their wing mirrors ment they didn't need them! ...... ever see the face of a sickened BMW owner with fooked mirror?
,
Although to point out, this happened in relatively slow moving traffic in morning rush hour,he had been repeatedly & dilebrately been moving in and out riding the white lines just to keep me behind him, his smirking face in the rear veiw was getting my goat so i thought "i'll show this funny fooker" .
so no telling what I may have done in your situation but i dare say continuing on after a few deep breaths wouldn't be high on the list.
although i believe in karma lol .... i got mine not long afterwards when my bike was stolen :mad:0 -
Advertisement
-
-
-
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Hen I used to dispatch in Dublin I'd remove a mirror nearly every week
the trick is to have a plate that's held on with magnets and just lean back, pull it off and stick it in yer bagMister men wrote: »I've lost count of the number of wing mirrors i've put down at this stage. Feels better these days also what with the fancy indicators in them and what not must cost them a pretty penny to replace.:D
Jeez - no wonder they're out to get us...
0 -
-
Advertisement
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Sesshoumaru wrote: »Had an old guy in a pink Yaris drive straight at me this morning as I filtered. It really boils my blood every time this happens, which seems to happen far more frequently when I take the Piaggio instead of the Ducati. ...
Anyone else encountering this kind of behavior lately?Jackasaurus rex wrote: »Yeah happens to me regular enough, I ride a px200 so i wonder is it partially a scooter thing. Really boils my pissI think there may be something to that, I recently just picked up a 200PX myself, and tbh I have noticed a difference in some drivers attitude/behaviour towards me when compared to riding my other bikes.
I beening riding a good few years, so I'm well used to bad driving, however, it would appear that drivers pull out in front of me more often when I'm on the PX compared to the transalp. The thing is that the vespa doesn't have the power that the other bikes have [there all between 500-650] to get me away from bad driving.
Actually, I think it IS scooter thing. Years ago, in Galway, I had a run-in with a guy in a 5-series, whilst on my PX............basically, he was in a queue of traffic heading out of town in the am - the queue to the industrial estate, and I filtered up outside. Anyhoo, at the top of a hill, the traffic thinned a bit and I got into the moving queue, and next thing Del boy in the 5-series skims my handlebars - must've been pissed at getting passed by a PX..:rolleyes:...and off he goes. 500 yards up the road, the traffic is backed up again and I filter past, but this time pull up outside his window and mouth off at him (not very effective from inside the helmet tbh......:p ). Del Boy loses it again, hops out of the 5 series, and grabs me by jacket. So, bit of a jawing session, in the middle of the road, in the full glare of morning traffic. In work a few minutes later, right across the road, one of my compadrés who had been sitting in his van watching all this, makes the (then) obvious comment: why didn't I head butt him, in defense ? I, after all, did have a Schuberth on............mmmm, missed that, I did..........:cool:
91-DL-18xx.........Karma's a beatch, you know........(yes, I still remember the number.........)
I used to commute the 20 miles each way on the N6 on my PX, and people really, really, really hate being behind scooter's. Don't know what it is, some sort of inferiority complex/penis envy, obviously
And it doesn't make any difference to what speed you're doing, they just see red when behind a scooter........ Cure: Big F-Off Scooter: which is why I love my Aprilia Atlanti 500 (..when it runs that is......:rolleyes: ) You should see the looks of people when you flash them to move over, at 120kph, 2-up, on a ......'scooter'. Heh Heh Heh...:D
As other's have pointed out, no-one ever does it when I'm on my H-D.........funny that..........:pac:
Of course you can: the country is filled with CCTV and it's used on Crimeline all the time. So if you're of a mind to, record away. Mind you - you'll only be recording from the front..........?? Helmet cam, anyone........ ??Sesshoumaru wrote: »I'm thinking of fitting a HD camera to the front of the scooter. Just wondering though can you use privately recorded video as evidence in Ireland?
........ah, about that: AC powered big horn......??? :PThough whilst I have a lot of long term plans for the vespa, one of the first things I intend on getting is a nice loud horn for it.
I got deliberately cut up in Eyre Square, years ago, by a lady in a Volvo, and she then hovered 12" from my bumper. Anyhoo, enough was enough: I pulled up, in the middle of the road (she was now so close she couldn't go around, see......), and see her big son had been goading her on (probably, about 20yrs age) in the passenger seat, and he gets out, jawing at me. The mother was mortified.....she probably though I was going to come in through the windscreen.........so I knocked off the bike, put it on the centrestand, took off the gloves - in peak time traffic btw - and went back and ....'enlightened' him(verbally). Mother was trying to hide from mortification......I then walked (very) slowly back to bike, put gloves on, kickstarted several times - oh, damn, did I forget to turn the key ? :rolleyes: - get on, take off centrestand, and drive nice'n'easy away. Mother was now jawing at son, in the middle of the traffic as well.madra dubh wrote: »Best thing I witnessed was a Motorcyclist flagging a car down after being seriously cut up. The rider parked his bike in front of the car, took his gloves off carefully, put them on his saddle, walked up to the drivers window and tapped on the glass. When the driver wound the window down he received a perfect right hook. The motorcyclist then went back to his bike, carefully put his gloves back on and gently rode off.... class!!
Like I said: Karma.
Ode To The Motorist
“And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road”
0 -
Advertisement
-
-
Think you have the order of events confused. The wing mirror kick is performed after someone trys to kill you
No - I realise that, don't get me wrong. And fair play if that is the order of events... but I have met some very angry bikers in the past and on more than one occasion have, unfortunately, had to say to myself that what I've just witnessed is why us bikers get a bad rep.
Saying all bikers are good and honest and never do anything out of line unless provoked is the same as saying all cage drivers are ignorant and out to get us. Though they probably are 0 -
-
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
Yeah sorry the wording isn't great. Usually the outside refers to the one closer to the centre of the road But I was thinking in terms of going around a corner and taking the outside lane of the roundabout.
I was on the outside of the roundabout near the curb and bike slipped in between my car and the curb. Of course there is no curbs around the roundabout but you get my point. It would of been okay if he was to taking the first exit. But he was taking the second one.
Like I could of been one of the 99% of drivers that do not use indicators on roundabouts and taken the first exit and drove into him because I never checked my blind spot.0 -
-
-
Agreed But it'd be fun to watch
No doubt about that.
Passed an unmarked cop car at 100MPH yesterday while giving them the finger. Didn't realise it was a cop car until the grill lit up with flashy blue lights! :eek:
they only waved at me to slow down, think they realised they were in the wrong for pulling out into my lane in front of me.0 -
-
Advertisement
-
BlackWizard wrote: »I can see where you get your name from!! I take it that wasn't in Ireland though.
Of course not. :cool:0 -
-
-
BlackWizard wrote: »Yeah sorry the wording isn't great. Usually the outside refers to the one closer to the centre of the road But I was thinking in terms of going around a corner and taking the outside lane of the roundabout.
I was on the outside of the roundabout near the curb and bike slipped in between my car and the curb. Of course there is no curbs around the roundabout but you get my point. It would of been okay if he was to taking the first exit. But he was taking the second one.
Like I could of been one of the 99% of drivers that do not use indicators on roundabouts and taken the first exit and drove into him because I never checked my blind spot.
Biker was in the wrong there, and fair play to you for letting them off with it.
Talking of wrong behavior saw a biker this morning filter up to the traffic lights. Fine I thought, but he gets blocked about 3 rows back from the front of the queue and decides the pavement is fair game as a temporary road. Then again I saw cars using the pavement as a filter lane a few weeks ago. Basically the standard of driving in this country is pretty bad! It's all for the sake of being 10 seconds down the road of course, like there's a prize at the end.0 -
Advertisement