Typical ride to work...

Is it just me?

4wd pulls out in front of me, I honk (fairly long as horn is feeble and
maybe confused with mouse being run over if not held on in a sustained
sqeek), 4wd stops dead in tracks, I pull up beside and recieve loud verbal
abuse for not letting him in?

While on the subject of 4wd drivers arrogance is it also only me that is
getting overtaken by 4wd's 9 times out of 10. (while doing 100-120)

BTW does anyone know where to purchase those special boots with the large
spike poking out through the toe area?

AH.

 

aus.motorcycles:

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It's your own fault, then, innit?

 

My point being if any road user is speeding it will be the giant truck like
thing that takes twice as much road to pull up!

 

are the trolls getting weaker round here..

 

Solution.... don't ride to work

 

My ride to work on Tuesday...

Approaching a round about and see this stupid b!tch on the round about
but no indication - she should be going straight. have that sixth
sense feeling that she hasn't indicated - which she hadn't and rolls
around in front of me - she had not a care in the world...

Five minutes later and Im being severely tailgated by another stupid b!
tch in a Subaru... change lanes and let the bitch go past. Shake head
as she goes past - want to kick her f'in door in...

Need to do a right turn on a busy road - hate these turns -
fortunately there is a right turning lane. The car in front has made a
mistake - his attempted to go but traffic is coming and his had to
abort his turn. Now he has his front bumper well into the oncoming
lane. I decide to keep back and not join this guy in the middle as you
normally would. The stupid b!tch behind me *leans* on the horn - she
wants me to move forward. looking in my revu, I can now see that she
is waving her arms around... f*ck me, this women forgot to take her
valium this morning. The thing is, it makes no difference, I'll move
forward if the lights go yellow or he goes. Now she goes around me in
a maniac way! man, I wanna do things that I cant mention....

The point of this inane story it that this is just a typical morning.
Im getting madder and people are getting worse - especially women (I'm
not a misogynist, just my observations). And I'm not ridding my
motorbike to work anymore... I'm back on my bicycle.

The solution really is; don't ride work (for some).

 

er... maybe you should check the road laws regarding how indicators are
used at roundabouts before you get upset about the odd one who does it
properly. You are supposed to indicate left to exit the roundabout.
This makes sense on really large roundabouts like they have in
Can'tberra, but looks absurd on some of the tiny suburban ones we have
in Melbourne.

The other two instances do, however, look like people who should not be
on the road.

Moike

 

Ummm, you sure about that, Moike?

My understanding is that the indicate-left-to-leave rule was introduced
as an addition to, not a replacement for the rules which preceded it,
which were to indicate at a roundabout as you would around any other
intersection...

That said, the OP could well be having a semi-unnecessary whinge; the
act of swinging the wheel left to enter plenty of roundabouts is
pronounced enough to cancel a right indicator.

The rest of his problems could, no doubt, have been resolved by the
simple expedient of wearing a fluorescent vest.

 

No, Moike, you're not required to indicate left to exit a roundabout in
Victoria. You only need to indicate as you would for any other
intersection, left to turn left, right to turn right, none required to
travel straight. What a silly idea anyway, to complicate the
already-difficult-enough-for-many-people task of negotiating a
roundabout, by making them fiddle with the indicator while they're
trying to do 4 other things at a time.

Bob the rider sounds like every other noobie-road user who will find
many friends@netrider. His roundabout complaint is unwarranted because
when entering a roundabout you are required to give way to any other
vehicle already on the roundabout, so Bob is required to give way to the
other vehicle regardless of whether or not they have indicated.

Nev..
'04 CBR1100XX

 

Sort of, Maybe.
The guidelines on the vicroads website are a bit vague
http://tinyurl.com/2mn3jv

The "indicate as you approach, and indicate left if practical to leave"
works better for the small intersection, but makes little sense for big
roundabouts.

True, we don't know whether or not the other car signalled on approach
to the intersection, but self-cancelling indicators would prevent the
indication continuing through the roundabout. In any case, the give-way
rule clearly says you must give way to anyone already on the roundabout,
and guessing wrong about their intentions is probably no excuse.

I think this is a problem that really needs to be addressed.
There is far too much confusion at roundabouts. Turning little
intersections into roundabouts by planting a tree in the middle doesn't
necessarily make them safer.

heh.

Moike

 

I straight line the fuckers in my 4WD

 

This is a contentious question in Qld.
I've never really checked it and most of the Qld Transport brochures ignore
it but I work on the
signal-where-you're-going theory as you approach and enter the roundabout
and
signal-left-as-you-pass-the-exit-prior-to-the-one-you're-using as you're
leaving the roundabout. (and yes; in a little suburban roundabout you'd be
lucky to get a flash in!)

Up here all the roundabout literature is simplistic and incomplete.
They have all this stuff about if you're exiting at 9 enter in the left
lane.
If you're exiting at 3 enter in the right lane and,
if you're exiting at 12 use either lane.

This totally ignores the fact that you can enter at 6 and plan to exit at 12
using the right lane and someone else can enter at 3 planning to exit at 9
using the left lane and you'll both legally crash into eachother at about
11:50!!

 

That's the way it is.

Can't see that. Someone exiting at entering at 9 won't be there at
11.50. They'll have turned off at 9. Unless they're making a 540 degree
turn...

If you give way to traffic already on the roundabout you won't collide
with anyone else.

The only problem arises on multilane roundabouts when someone tries to
turn right from the left lane across the path of someone in the right
lane going straight through.

 

Hmmm... not sure which country you are from, but here in aus/vic we
are required to indicate on a roundabout when turning right - it's not
optional.

Nev, you are the one who sounds like "every other noobie-road user"
who "thinks" they know all the rules without ever having read them.

Cause I'm a nice guy, I have attached a link to the road rules for you
to actually read before you post anything stupid again:

http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/NR/r...C-49ED-B3B4-34A882148421/0/DrivinginVicRR.pdf

Pay particular attention to page 46, where it says under making right
turns on roundabouts: "Signal a right turn on your approach".

 

Being "on your approach" to a roundabout, by definition, happens
*before* you enter and make your way around the roundabout, so the piece
of text you quoted doesn't actually have any bearing on the point you're
trying to make.

So far, we have an impression that everyday traffic occurrences make
postworthy material, an apparent inability to vet potential evidence
before citing it to prove a point, and the use of haughtiness among
people he doesn't know thing-one about as a debating technique...

Picked that one quite well, Nev. Definite Netrider material...

 

Please don't quote back to me what I have already written and then
pretend that I didn't know it.

Because I'm a nice guy, I have quoted the bit from my post for you to
actually read before you post anything stupid again:

Nev..
'04 CBR1100XX

 

I dont think that you understand the post at all.... let me explain it
to you; the original post was replied to by the comment "don't ride to
work". I agreed with this by providing an account of one of my rides
to work and how many idiots there are on the roads that it is not
worth the stress (or danger). I even said that the story was inane -
the *point* is that it is not riding to work eveyday is good advice
and postworthy material, imho. most of you missed that point and
instead flame me on roundabout rules...

As for that roundabout thing.... I give up trying to explain that one
- even providing a link to the rules where it states you must indicate
before turning right and you somehow take this to mean that it doest
include during your turn?!?

 

: bob_the_rider wrote:
:
: > Hmmm... not sure which country you are from, but here in aus/vic we
: > are required to indicate on a roundabout when turning right - it's not
: > optional.
:
: Please don't quote back to me what I have already written and then
: pretend that I didn't know it.
:
: Because I'm a nice guy, I have quoted the bit from my post for you to
: actually read before you post anything stupid again:
:
: >>
: >> You only need to indicate as you would for any other intersection,
: >> left to turn left, right to turn right, none required to travel
: >> straight.
:
: Nev..
: '04 CBR1100XX

not as simple as it sounds
especially when you are confronted
by one of the five point roundabouts
here in Addledaide
and as for the six pointer within 200 metres of home ...


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Of course it's as simple as it sounds. You're just trying to make it
sound confusing. If you're going left you signal left, if you're going
right you signal right, everyone not in the roundabout gives way to
everyone already in the roundabout. No confusion at all.

Nev..
'04 CBR1100XX

 

what about in france ?