What makes you smile and what winds you up

[Beenz]

I guess this has been asked before so I apologise in advance but I guess I'm a tad inquisitive.

The question is really bike/car/road user (or passenger) related. There's not enough bandwidth to cover everything.... is there?

All light hearted so no specifics an no names please.

1) What makes you smile?
What do you enjoy about your bike, journey way you ride etc. e.g. Good route to work, car drivers waving you past in a queue etc.

2) What winds you up?
What upsets you on your bike? e.g. Inconsiderate road users or cyclists undoing your luggage or setting fire to it (joke) :shock:

Have fun!

[Speedy]

A,the noise it's capable of making,and admiring it when it's clean!

B,DIESEL! Everything about it I hate! Diesel cars,buses,fumes,and especially SPILT diesel on roundabouts!

[Beenz]

From Stewboy in another thread, made me smile anyway. Sure have not the bottle to do this meself :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg8n3gLHO4s



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vKpwoUzhIY



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ_K1qf97l8

Oh and what winds me up, well milk floats that just well err stop, and not pull over.

[andyaikido]

Smile: bike cops on the M1 last sat. I was doing about 90 in lane 3 and pulled over and slowed a bit when I spotted them. They went straight past, gave me the thumbs up and i got to follow them at about 110 for the rest of the trip with no worries of getting pulled. :D

Mad: this bloody hot weather. All sweaty when I get to work, bring back the snow. :wink:

[Lou M]

Smile - not a lot I'm afraid. Though the other night some bloke was walking his dog, who obviously had a problem with bikes. Well this dog went mad when I rode past, the bloke was having to practically sit down to stop the dog running after me. After the initial '**** that could have been nasty' I couldn't stop laughing!

Mad - Tail gaters, and as a girly I can say this, (I hope :lol: ) But bloody women are the worse, don't they realise what a sensible gap is? FFS. :roll:

Nutty x

[Anonymous]

smile - just getting out on my bike

sad - people pulling over to stop you filtering thru traffic jams. always want to scrape my boot along their car. usually someone at other side will move over to let you thru then give baddie the finger as you get past which then makes me smile

[Couerdelion]

Smile - Just being out on the Bike. Nailing a corner well. Racing Captain Nemo down a hill and getting beaten, only to find the cops waiting round the corner with speed guns :)

Sad - Diesel on roads. Getting stopped by the Garda every week for being English.
Not having a gsx-r 1000 yet :twisted:

[Captain Nemo]

smile, ?

when i filter to the front of a que and the car next to be nudges forward a tiny amount, just to let me know he intends to go first, i like to look accross, smile , then destroy him (it is always men) when the lights go green. and the best bit, i dont have to put any effort into his destruction, just gently open the throttle and bye bye gti

winds me up?

when youre getting ready to pass a line of traffic and one or more vehicles pulls accross to the centreline in an attempt to stop you going by, even though they choose to be in theyre comfy £20k cars they hate the fact that your 4 grand bike is getting somewhere quicker than them.

and police

[northwind]

Sounds mad, but I love filtering. Proper fast, aggro, slightly unhinged filtering :) Nailing a shrinking gap just right, or avoiding someone who seems to be trying to kill me, that makes me smile.

What winds me up? Red runners. There's 2 roundabouts on my commute where you have to be out of your mind to go on green, you need to wait, and then look, and you still can't be 100%. All it takes is one slip and someone'll have your leg off. No need for it at all, it's just ridiculously bad driving, hate it.

[Rider]

I've got the vespa and the gsxr which have their separate loves and hates.

On the vespa - I love filtering and can keep up with the big boys on the A4. I hate it tho' when I get a slow big bike which just won't pull in even if I'm faster on the scoot.

On the Gixxer - I love it that a slight twist on the throttle will take me from 100 to 130 and laying off it will take it down to 90. I hate it that I'm still not that competent yet and still **** myself on corners.

[tricky]

:D Pretty much everything to do with motorcycling except:

:( People who ride like nobs, people who drive like nobs, insects.

[fizzwheel]

Good Stuff = Induction Roar, the feeling you get when you tip the bike in on hot tyres. The feeling you get when you make it round a corner that you didnt tihnk you were going to get round.

Bad Stuff = Road Users who make a mistake and then don't think its their fault and start giving you the finger / verbal agro.

[Ceri JC]

Smile: Switching lanes and getting past an idiot who has intentionally (or just through extremely poor observation) persistantly blocked you.

Frown: I could be here all day, so I'll just say: People who throw lit cigarettes out of the window without even looking to see who is there (usually me).

[Dicky Ticker]

Smile= Day in London Town with glorious sun shine, heavens open and it is the best wet T shirt competition ever :lol:

[K]

:D Everything.
:cry: Nothing. Why bother? Life's too short and all that jazz. Move on and it's gone.

[DeanoN]

Sad = realising the blue mondeo you just overtook at 130mph at 6am on a sunday morning is an unmarked police car.

Smile = watching a blue mondeo pull up alongside you and the copper in the passenger seat give you nothing more than a 'slow down' wave due to it being an empty road at 6am on a sunday morning.

They're not all bad.............

[shao]

Smile: Like others here say, filtering fast (as northwind says, "Nailing a shrinking gap just right"). Riding well in traffic, beating cars costing 5 or 10 times what my bike cost off the line with ease. Getting onto a dual carriageway/national limit after spending 20 minutes stuck behind a 25mph tanker through the twisties, dropping a gear and screaming past. The sound it makes when you get it right. The moment coming out of a corner that went perfectly when you get back on the throttle. The way you can go from quiet, peacefull cruising at low speeds to screaming acceleation and exess of speed in the time it takes you to think about it. Making some dizzy woman on the phone in her 4x4 have a heart attack becasue you watched her not check her mirrors, pulled right up beside her and blipped the throttle. The feeling of superiority over the vast caged masses. Friendly drivers moving over, trucks/coaches waving you past when they can see clear road and you cant.

Frown: I do worse than frown, you should hear the stream of abuse that goes on under my helmet on a bad morning fighting through the traffic. Ignorant drivers, the ones who dont stop to let you out, despite the fact that there's a red light and they're gonna have to stop in front of you. People who refuse to get onto a roundabout unless there a gap a double-decker could fit in. People who think it's ok to pull over on a busy single-carriageway in rush hour to check the map or whatever, and sit there for 20 minutes oblivious of the 20-vehicle queue behind them. People who stop to let a single car out when they have 2 or 3 behind them who will have to stop, and a big gap behind them the car could pull out in. "Speed Limit Zealots" who see it as their appointed role to stop you reckelssly breaking the speedlimit by refusing to get out of the outside lane, and then give you a honk, or lights, or both when you overtake on the inside. ("Yes I know im not meant to overtake on this side, but if you were bloody driving right there wouldnt be a gap here i could overtake in...) And people who are so scared of speed cameras they see fit to drop the traffic speed to 20mph to go through cameras in a 30. And while we're on it, people who dont understand that you drive in the left hand lane if not going past someone. The trucks on the motorway taking up 2 lanes to do a 45-minute ovetaking manouver with 3mph speed difference. Doing something silly because im impatient, then having to abort because it wasnt a well planned manouvre. People who honk/give abuse just because you did something they didnt think of, or forced them to pay a bit of attention to what's going on around them. People who think hatched yellow areas (dont go in if you cant get out...) apply to others only, or more often didnt even notice the bright yellow lines all over the road. Cement mixers and truck driving along shedding a path of gravel/sand accross the road behind them, or just on the apex of corners. Crap road surfaces, and their half-hearted attempts to fix them. New 4x4's (and others) with door posts so big at the back of the driver's door there's a 20-metre section of road they're not gonna see you in even if they look. The feeling of approaching for a good 5-10 seconds and not being able to see the driver's head is scary.

[Rider]

Wow - that's quite a post!! :)

Forgot the 4x4s. Although not the worst drivers in London, they're just wrong.

[Mogs]

Smile:

People who use their TomTom’s on the daily commute – have they forgotten the way since yesterday.


Winds me up:

Cyclists that pass through red lights.

[shao]

Wow - that's quite a post!! :)

Yeah, a lot of things **** me off, and also since i got the sv there's also an awful lot of times im grinning ear to ear under my helmet :D