Thread: hehe strange sence of humor

Originally Posted by dobbo

so why don't you have to register bikes then? And contribute to these "free roads" you can still travel at highway speeds, but you don't get done for speeding. You can still knock some old dear for six if you hit her, yet no licence required for bikes.

Actually you can still get done for speeding and it has made the paper here and in Melbourne recently with cyclists fined for speeding in shared zones. You knock down the old lady and she sues your ****, I don't know of any of my cyclist friends that don't also have cars and pay rego same as everyone else around. And as pointed out earlier your rego doesn't pay for roads. Even though your doing all the other motorists a favor and taking one more car out of that mornings traffic jam.

Originally Posted by 100I

'fraid it is in QLD, I might even know of someone who got 2 $60 tickets in a month.
Never used to be enforced but the issues with the 'great western carpark' in brisbane has turned a little political and steps had to be taken...
The first one who issued the ticket (a solo) was real smug with himself, the second guy (a weekend rider) did not want to be there.
Just don't get caught anymore.
Oh an drivers who intentionally squeeze bikes are fair game

Hmm, not so sure. In NSW, you'll definitely get grabbed for riding up the breakdown lane.

However, if you stay to the left of the lane marking whilst passing a car on his right, then you won't get hit for passing on the left.

Both my son and I have had cops move over so we could lane split. They don't worry about it if you're moving through slow or stationary traffic.

I can find no reference to it in the Austrralian Road Rules.

Ron

Whether it's illegal or not, and I can't find any reference to it either, it doesn't justify assaulting someone because you find it irritating. If you saw someone speeding would you chuck a rock through their windscreen and then laugh if they crashed?

Mate of mine was knocked off his motorbike and seriously injured by some moron in a car who opened the (passenger) door deliberately into him.

i ride a pushie around home and to work. It always reminds me of the first rule of the road....

Always assume the buggers aer out to get you!

(funnily enough they are even like that when i drive the Defender )

Riding bikes is probably one of my more favourite past times.

I've acquired quite a few self inflicted, and quite a few other injuries besides. I've run into several 'cunningly' accidentally opened doors. For the most part, it's not -too- bad. Then again, I ride a tank. I do -hate- the fact that I must then spend another $100 on a rim and tube most likely afterwards. Not to mention the cracked frame I acquired from one such incident.

But that's not even the best part. The best part is getting clipped in traffic, when people dont think you're allowed a lane. Most've been slow speed. After the first 'brush' I acquired metal bar ends (just stops, not the big long pointy ones). These serve their intended purpose. Any bastard that comes too close gets to trade some paint...and possibly a boot print if I get the time.

What aggrivates me most, idiots that dont wear helmets! Much gnashing of teeth when I see li'l kids riding around without them on. I want to beat the parents in the head as punishment. But maybe I just like beating people though.

Geez.........not just my view I'm sure, but maybe it's an age thing, why don't we all just learn to live with each other and share. Tolerance is the key word, take time out to smell the roses.
I don't usually get involved in these posts, but it got to me this time.

Originally Posted by googe

Had it happen many times when i was a kid and it hurt like hell/i hit a young girl in my car years ago i thought i killed her it was the worst feeling ive ever felt,dont judge me on a simple thread that you as a person with more than 2 IQ think is justified.

Not judging anyone. Just the type of humour - and yes there can and are funny sides to all things. There wasn't and isn't anything personal here.

Unless its legal to do it in a car, it's basically not legal to do it on a bike with a few exceptions.

Originally Posted by Aust road rules

Unless otherwise expressly stated in the Australian Road Rules, each reference in the Rules (except in this Division) to a driver includes a reference to a rider, and each reference in the Rules (except in this Division) to driving includes a reference to riding.

and

This Part contains rules that apply only to bicycle riders. Most rules in the Australian Road Rules apply to bicycle riders in the same way as they apply to drivers — see rule 19. There are some other rules that are for
bicycle riders only, or that have exceptions for bicycle riders. These include:
• optional hook turn by bicycle riders — rule 35
• bicycle riders making a hook turn contrary to a no hook turn by bicycles sign — rule 36
• bicycle riders excepted from giving stop signals — rule 52
• exception for bicycle riders riding in emergency stopping lanes — rule 95
• bicycle riders entering and leaving roundabouts — rules 111 and 119
• bicycle riders overtaking on the left — rule 141
• riding alongside other riders — rule 151
• bicycle lanes — rule 153
• parking at a bicycle rail or in a bicycle rack — rule 166
• stopping on footpaths — rule 197
• stopping on a road with a bicycle parking sign — rule 201.

So bicycles can 'generally' lane split, ride in the breakdown lane, ride two abreast, or stop on a path, dividing strip or nature strip.


Martyn