Very nearly

Had a close call on Saturday. Country road, plenty wide enough for two
vehicles, with a white line painted down the middle. This road has
lots of nice corners and sensible people stay on their own side as
corner visibility is limited. Not this bloke I met on Saturday though.
Leaning nicely into the corner on a really steady line, three feet my
side of the white line, until he saw me at 50 metres. I thought I was
going to have blood of the ute.Just as well I was going slow enough to
be able to put two weheels in the gravel on my side. Damn close. I'll
lay odds he went slower for the next corner.

Theo

 

same thing happened to me in NZ last week, Manga over taking another
car on a complete blind corner.. 4th corner on a different bike..
Strom 650 instead of the DR650 I had been riding for several days
before.. being on the Strom I think saved me, I cant remember doing
it, but one of the other behind me said I slammed on the brakes and
swerved around it beautifully, it was all instinct.. I have been
riding a strom for nearly 4 years, it just came naturally, if I was on
the DR, I dunno what would have happened

as for that knucklehead slowing down, he almost took out one of the
others a few corners behind me, this time not on a overtaking
manoeuvre

fuckwit

its the closest I have looked death in the face


mh

 

things must have changed.. and they do, becuase I have heard stories
the same of your experiances about NZ

we where in the North Island only and found that the drivers where
the most courteous that I have come across, the road works very well
signed

the only problem was the the size of gravel they use over there, both
on the gravel roads and roadworks, on average it was the the size of
golf balls and some times as large at cricket balls and their solution
to anything on the roads was to either grade it of throw more down

mh

 

Odds are that the drivers you are/were having trouble with were non-Kiwis
from a land where driving is on the other side of the road; hence all the
arrows on the road here and there pointing in the appropriate (rhd)
direction and side of road.



Cheers