Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!

[darrsi]

Got a "KEEP CLEAR" box at the bottom of the road where I live (on the main road), so I ride down there getting ready to pull out and turn right as the lights towards the left had gone red and........a police car rolls into it and stops in front of me.  >:

I did the sensible thing and just shook my head and went around him, rather than the normal blast of the air horn that everyone else gets.

The police are not in my good books at the moment so this really pissed me off.  :grumble

[Freck]

Don't get me started with the Police, I'm still waiting for them to come and get my statement about my bike accident 10 weeks after it happened...... Useless w@&kers!

[darrsi]

Don't get me started with the Police, I'm still waiting for them to come and get my statement about my bike accident 10 weeks after it happened...... Useless w@&kers!

I've had a case going on for 16 months and they just completely dropped it, through their own fuck ups, delays, and lies.  :rolleyes

[fazersharp]

3) An Audi at a point where 2 lanes merge into one, could have pulled into the huge empty gap behind me but accelerated the last 30 yards to the merge point just to get in front and cut me up big time.... wanker!  :2guns

Thats a good one! . I get that a lot at a certian piece of road, the thing is that as you say this is where two lanes merge to one so 90% of the time the now single lane traffic he has just come up against is only going 15mph and so I just filter straight past the tosser.
Why the foc do they think that a bike would ever be holding them up in traffic :finger

[darrsi]

Riding behind car drivers who insist on continuously looking at their passenger, but also who really talk with their hands at the same time.
Pay attention and watch the road you mong.  :rolleyes

[sinto607276]

Paying for something online, they take your money right away but when you return it for credit it takes days to return your money!
What the foc :grumble

[Val]

people who drive staright through roundabouts without even looking to the right WTF??

[darrsi]

People who drive with fog lights on in clear conditions, then this morning in thick fog I saw loads of cars with no lights on at all?  :wall

[noggythenog]

Ok i just mentioned this elsewhere.....regardless of the science it just really gets my goat in an ocd way




Guys switching their bike off with the kill switch. :evil :evil :evil


Its just a bit like stalling your car purposely every time to switch it off instead of using the key :evil

[joebloggs]

Ok i just mentioned this elsewhere.....regardless of the science it just really gets my goat in an ocd way




Guys switching their bike off with the kill switch. :evil :evil :evil


Its just a bit like stalling your car purposely every time to switch it off instead of using the key :evil

Had a friend who did this (RIP Chris) use to argue that it saved his ignition switch????

[slappy]

People who drive with fog lights on in clear conditions, then this morning in thick fog I saw loads of cars with no lights on at all?  :wall

You beat me to it , going along A64 this morning the number of cars with no lights on at all was  ridiculous.

[BBROWN1664]

Too many plebs believe that automatic headlights work.

[bobdog]

people who put for sale signs on cars/bikes etc without putting a price on.

[mr self destruct]

people who put for sale signs on cars/bikes etc without putting a price on.

Agreed. Then those same people get all pissy about 'lowball offers'.  :lol

[Grahamm]

Guys switching their bike off with the kill switch. :evil :evil :evil

Its just a bit like stalling your car purposely every time to switch it off instead of using the key :evil

I don't see it's a big deal. If you stopped, held the clutch in with the bike still in gear, then held the front brake and let the clutch out, that would be stalling it (and probably not good), not simply cutting power to the ignition.

I used to stop the engine on the kill-switch  because my bike has an alarm and when I switch the main key off it starts arming which would cause it to go off if I'm still pushing the bike into the shed or getting stuff out of the top box. I only stopped doing this when I found that it was leaving the headlight on which was draining the battery, so now I have to switch the key off, then back on for two seconds, then off again which puts the alarm into service mode.

I then have to remember to re-arm it before I walk away...

[Grahamm]

people who put for sale signs on cars/bikes etc without putting a price on.

People who put messages in the For Sale area with the subject line of "For Sale". Yes, we know it's something for sale, that's what the bloody area is about, try putting *what* is for sale in the subject so we don't have to open the bloody message and find it's nothing of any interest to us!

[darrsi]

[quote author=noggythenog link=topic=17546.msg214777#msg214777 date=1446464701]
Guys switching their bike off with the kill switch. :evil :evil :evil

Its just a bit like stalling your car purposely every time to switch it off instead of using the key :evil

I don't see it's a big deal. If you stopped, held the clutch in with the bike still in gear, then held the front brake and let the clutch out, that would be stalling it (and probably not good), not simply cutting power to the ignition.

I used to stop the engine on the kill-switch  because my bike has an alarm and when I switch the main key off it starts arming which would cause it to go off if I'm still pushing the bike into the shed or getting stuff out of the top box. I only stopped doing this when I found that it was leaving the headlight on which was draining the battery, so now I have to switch the key off, then back on for two seconds, then off again which puts the alarm into service mode.

I then have to remember to re-arm it before I walk away...
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Doesn't it make an almighty bang if you're still moving and switch it back on?

[joebloggs]

[quote author=Grahamm link=topic=17546.msg214824#msg214824 date=1446505071]
[quote author=noggythenog link=topic=17546.msg214777#msg214777 date=1446464701]
Guys switching their bike off with the kill switch. :evil :evil :evil

Its just a bit like stalling your car purposely every time to switch it off instead of using the key :evil

I don't see it's a big deal. If you stopped, held the clutch in with the bike still in gear, then held the front brake and let the clutch out, that would be stalling it (and probably not good), not simply cutting power to the ignition.

I used to stop the engine on the kill-switch  because my bike has an alarm and when I switch the main key off it starts arming which would cause it to go off if I'm still pushing the bike into the shed or getting stuff out of the top box. I only stopped doing this when I found that it was leaving the headlight on which was draining the battery, so now I have to switch the key off, then back on for two seconds, then off again which puts the alarm into service mode.

I then have to remember to re-arm it before I walk away...
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Doesn't it make an almighty bang if you're still moving and switch it back on?
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I think that only happens if your in gear with the clutch out, fuel on a carbed bike would still be drawn into the engine and ignited when you flick the kill switch to on

[Grahamm]

Doesn't it make an almighty bang if you're still moving and switch it back on?

Not on a fuel injected bike :thumbup

[crickleymal]

[quote author=darrsi link=topic=17546.msg214775#msg214775 date=1446463628]
People who drive with fog lights on in clear conditions, then this morning in thick fog I saw loads of cars with no lights on at all?  :wall

You beat me to it , going along A64 this morning the number of cars with no lights on at all was  ridiculous.
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Oh yes then they look at you as though you're stupid when you flash your lights at them. I had one clever soul follow me for about 1/2 mile completely oblivious to any gesture I made and ignoring me turning my lights off and on again.