Tailgating bastards

[dick dastardly]

I was talking in depth about this last night. I love going out on the bike and am starting to really appreciate how much fun it can be, but there is one thing which is ruining it - numpty bastards who drive 1 metre from your arse!

Don't these people realise how dangerous this is, especially when you are on a bike? When I get one I spend all the time looking in the mirrors to see what they are doing and not concentrating on the road ahead.

I HATE them! What do you lot do when you get in these situations?

[rsvnigel]

Usually start with a few hand gestures , then if that doesn't work either filter/overtake the vehicle in front to get away from the tailgaiter .

Failing that if its around town, when stopped at a junction or lights roll the bike back against their bumper and proceed to do a burn out

[lancelot]

There was a biker killed on the A38 (dual carriageway) south of Burton on Trent within the last couple of weeks in this exact situation.

From what I read a tailgater caught the bike's back wheel knocking him off. He was then hit by other cars. Last I heard police had the tailgater in custody.

[iguana]

I honestly dont think I've ever had this problem, if youu are getting it (and im not trying to take the Pi$$ here) you are going too slowly for the speed of traffic, let 'em overtake or ride faster

[dick dastardly]

rsvnigel said:

Failing that if its around town, when stopped at a junction or lights roll the bike back against their bumper and proceed to do a burn out

Best thing I've heard in ages! Gold star to you sir

lancelot said:

Last I heard police had the tailgater in custody.

Hope they fry his ass!

[dick dastardly]

iguana said:

I honestly dont think I've ever had this problem, if youu are getting it (and im not trying to take the Pi$$ here) you are going too slowly for the speed of traffic, let 'em overtake or ride faster

I get it all the time, even when in normal rush-hour traffic with nowhere to go. Believe me, when I can get away I do but it still happens almost everytime I go out

[cazzo]

The only vehicle that has recently been aggressively tailgating (and flashing) me was a traffic plod - fcuking volvo drivers!

Seriously though, I don't recall ever having this problem.

on open roads there is rarely a car close behind me and I don't ride much in town/city but have found that most leave a sensible space - maybe 'cos the duke's exhausts blow right in yer face/air vents, or that the sheer noise of the thing 'scares' people but never noticed it on other bikes either.

As rsvnigel said I'd be tempted to do a burnout on'em see how they like a bonnet full of burning rubber bits and a face full of chokin' smoke!

[Mon Ami Mate]

Close throttle. Flick kill switch. Open throttle. Flick kill switch. Kaboom!!! If numpty hasn't died of heart failure, he'll certainly have got the message!

[cazzo]

Mon Ami Mate said:

Close throttle. Flick kill switch. Open throttle. Flick kill switch. Kaboom!!! If numpty hasn't died of heart failure, he'll certainly have got the message!

Can't do that on fuel-injected bikes

But get a big twin with a 60mm full race exhaust and you get a similar effect - continuosly

Or buy an FP1 and flame'em on the overun

>> Edited by cazzo on Saturday 5th July 13:49

[iguana]

Mon Ami Mate said:

Close throttle. Flick kill switch. Open throttle. Flick kill switch. Kaboom!!! If numpty hasn't died of heart failure, he'll certainly have got the message!

Ahhh I did that to a very annoying max power muppet at a set of lights, me on bike with ear plugs in and still his music was defening me.

So as my exhaust is right by his window & just before the lighs go green I rev bike up to the limiter hit the kill switch blip the throttle a few times and flick on the kill switch= BOOM & a lovely 3 foot flame.

yes childish but it made me smile


ps can you do the kill swich flame thing on an injected bike? ive only ever had carb'd bikes & would hate to loose my flames

[cazzo]

iguana said:

= BOOM & a lovely 3 foot flame. ps can you do the kill swich flame thing on an injected bike? ive only ever had carb'd bikes & would hate to loose my flames

Nice one Iguana!

Unfortunately on fuel injected bikes when you kill the ignition you also kill the injection so no backfire or flames - unless someone invents a kit Mmmm now there's a thought...........

Better still just get the FP1, you know it makes sense

[rsvnigel]

The kill switch back-fire should work for mr dastardly, FI did arrive on the CBRs until 2001.

Will you fcuk anything up by doing too many of these?

Cazzo, one of the guys near here is the distributor for these
The noise and the rear facing rocket launcher put most off

[deltaf]

Kid bro has had multiple run ins with these fools that tailgate.
Some old biffa told him he was gonna "knock him off and drive over him" after broski told him to back the fluck off.
Didnt go down to well with bro tho, that old giffa's comment, so he followed him and eventually he came to a halt at which he kicked his mirror off and tried to drag the old fart out and duff him up....all in view of two coppers who seemed to be enjoying the spectacle.....oh well, nil desperandum...

[cazzo]

rsvnigel said:

Will you fcuk anything up by doing too many of these? Cazzo, one of the guys near here is the distributor for these The noise and the rear facing rocket launcher put most off

Once blew a hole in the silencer box of a car by doing it - the throttle cable split and stuck in fully open position, as I was only a few miles from home I controlled speed by the ignition off/ignition on method causing massive backfires, ah well the exhaust was rusty anyway.

As for the Aprilia pic - nice zorst! My old Ducati 250 scrambler had something similar but not by design - all the baffles fell apart in the can, so I gutted it and left it totally empty, effectively all it did was divert the flames out the back.

[DennisTheMenace]

The kwack seems to have a thing about throwing a flame out if you deaccelerate from 14,000rpm also the odd flamer tends to make them back off abit sharpish Iguana ive done the smae to a blon on boy at the lights ! its bloody good fun

[mags]

I've had the odd problem, especially with bloody van drivers!
They seem to hate the thought that you don't have to sit in endless traffic when they do.
I normally just overtake the car in front or let them pass and then blatt past them later shaking my head.
Mags

[Davel]

Had a different one last week. In the inside lane, just about to filter into a left hand slip road and leaving a small gap from the car in front when a lady starts to cut in from the offside land alongside me.

I ended up stopping to let her in or she'd have knocked me off the bike. She was of course also on her mobile phone - maybe calling for an ambulance for me!

What can you do?

[s2ooz]

I go to the middle, tap the brakes so im suddenly on the outside of there window, then knock on the window and wave, or just open it back up and pull back in front.

I wonder if scraping the titanium knee pads on their wing seems like a good idea??

[Steve_T]

This happens to me almost everyday. These morons have no idea of the seriousness of their actions and there simply isn't time to educate all of them. Sometimes it's motivated by jealousy and sometimes just by imcompentancy. The end result is the same, these fwits are a menace. My only advice is to look out for number one and give them as wide a berth as possible, whenever you can.

Steve.