Thread: Karma ...

Idiots speeding, tailgating, driving dangerously is rife everywhere. I live in a 50km/hr street where idiots do 60 - 80km/hr all the time.

There are countless roads all over the country where drivers do 20kmh+ over the 60kmhr / 80kmhr / 100kmhr speed limits with seemingly no consequences. Police presence is minimal on most of our roads, despite all the advertising.

The only way to stay safe and protect ourselves is to be uber vigilant and drive very cautiously - all the time.

I have to say, It's even worse as a cyclist on our roads, whereby these speeding bogans don't recognise that cyclists have equal right to be on the roads as cars.

The prevalent attitude seems to be - not that we all share the roads - but that 'everyone should get out of the way of ME'.

Arapilies, it's great to hear that Karma sometimes rises immediately, but mostly for those bogans its a long time coming I reckon. In the mean time, all we can do is lead by example and stay safe.

Why don't you all get together and start a YouTube channel? Surely you all have dashcams?

I can think of a couple of names for it...

Easier to become bogan, join in and enjoy ****ing people off.

Could start 'Bogancam' perhaps?

Originally Posted by Saitch

Easier to become bogan, join in and enjoy ****ing people off.

Could start 'Bogancam' perhaps?

How about middle ground: somewhere between bogan and sanctimonious?

Originally Posted by Tins

How about middle ground: somewhere between bogan and sanctimonious?

Funny you mentioned "Sanctimonious". I was thinking 'Holier than Thou'!

Originally Posted by Saitch

Funny you mentioned "Sanctimonious". I was thinking 'Holier than Thou'!

Fits, don't it?

Funny thing is, this is the second time that something like this has happened.

If you know the Hume you'll know that there's a very long 60kmh stretch as you come into Holbrook from the south. I was following the speed signs a few years ago and a couple went past, beeping horn, fingers raised etc. About 5 seconds later a cop stepped onto the road ahead and waved them over. Perfect timing.

Similar things used to happen along one stretch of road in my hometown, but the thing is that quite apart from being law abiding I also knew where the local police hid ....

Originally Posted by Homestar

Once had a P plater on the freeway come past me in his Falcon - V8, loud exhaust - slowed to match my speed and looked at me like he wanted a race - I was on my CBR1000F at the time so this mystified me a bit, but heck, let's play I thought. I slowly accelerated and Mr Stupid next to me kept up and then floored it - I then matched his speed - up until I he either chickened out or reached the Falcons vmax - I still had another gear to go and opened it up and left him - much amusement was had (by me) - I slowed back down again just before turning off at my exit - he went flying past at blat speed maybe thinking he'd got the better of me - and just before I lost sight of him I saw some red and blue lights come on a car he was overtaking...

Guess he was a pedestrian for a while after that. I was still laughing when I took my helmet off at home 10 minutes later. I still can't imagine why he thought his car was a match for a 1000cc bike...

Did a similar trick at about 2am on the Hume highway in about 1986. A trucky felt tailgating me was funny at 110kph, then 120 then 130. Did little tweak to about 200 before moving off the highway. After they drove past at speed, I followed and laughed my head off when I over took the now stopped trucks with a very welcome blue light holding them all up. Not sure what speed they got up to but assume it was a little below the BMW k100s top speed of about 220 before the speed limiter kicked in. Note most truckies are cool to share the road with.