Top 10 things you hate on the road

Val · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Nov 2012 Karma :

My worst one is screen wash in the summer. Really hate this one.

https://www.bikesure.co.uk/bikesureblog/2016/02/top-10-motorcyclist-pet-hates.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=pothole&utm_campaign=bikesure

For some reason SMIDSY is not in top ten Shocked

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wristjob · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Karma :

the worst thing on the road is bikers.
great clumps of em all going slowly in convoy and just being twatish.

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Rogerborg · nimbA Joined: 26 Oct 2010 Karma :

Bullshit list appears to be bullshit.

Litter is above potholes? I encounter a lot more wrecked road surfaces than packets of Walkers.

#1 is "drivers hearing a loud bike and trying to goad it into racing"?

Really? How often does that happen, compared to drivers getting rageface at us for "skipping the queue"? That's an offence, that is!

Even if it did, how is it a problem? "After you, Pinky McWinky," and laugh it off.
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bikertomm · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Jul 2010 Karma :

1. I'm not one to generalise but nearly every Hyundai i10 I come across on the roads deserve to be blown up instantly. They effectively scream 'I know fuck all about cars or the road or where I am so go around me, please' on them. Hate.

2. People that can't find the accelerator when joining a motorway, what the actual fuck. I've had people bimble along at 30-40mph down an entire half mile of clear sliproad, sometimes with me flashing behind them.. only for them to get to the point of joining and STOP.. Shocked

There was no way I was stopping so just went up the inside on the hard shoulder and joined that way. Laughing

The list goes on, but in general anyone that can't drive for shit pisses me off. Mr. Green

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phatstorage · Trackday Trickster Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Karma :

Prius/mini cab drivers, bad roads and the fact that my bike costs more to tax than a diesel fiesta.

Polarbear · Super Spammer Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Karma :

Minicab drivers, agreed.
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spikenipple · Crazy Courier Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Karma :

Cars. Cars are the worst thing on the road.

Imagine the roads if the only vehicles were our bikes Cool

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DieselASFC · Spanner Monkey Joined: 30 Apr 2014 Karma :

Tailgaters. Angry cagers trying to prove a point after I've filtered past them. Roadworks. Loose chippings.

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grr666 · Super Spammer Joined: 16 Jun 2014 Karma :

Phone bitches, phone bitches, bitches on phones.
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wr6133 · World Chat Champion Joined: 31 Dec 2013 Karma :

Honda Jazz drivers

Beehive Bedlam · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Oct 2013 Karma :

Horse shit.

thehairysmite... · Borekit Bruiser Joined: 27 Jul 2015 Karma :

People turning right that edge out further when they see (or dont) a motorbike approaching them! Especially when they are obviously not concentrating.

mentalboy · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 May 2012 Karma :

I hate it when you pull up alongside a cage and see some bird giving the driver a blowjob. Why not me, why is it never me??? Sad

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bigdom86 · Traffic Copper Joined: 17 Jul 2015 Karma :

motorbikes that dont check mirrors or shoulders when changing lane position, am always wary of overtaking motorbikes for this reason. or motorbikes who overtake inches from you, i had another motorbike manage to overtake me whilst filtering between two lanes of cars

london cyclists who stick their arm out but dont bother looking before changing lane, turning or changing lane position, i guess the arm out means no other motorist is near you so can swerve across the road blindly

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Fidge · Banned Joined: 04 Oct 2014 Karma :

Phone bitches, however they all drive expensive 4x4s and drive on the wrong side of the road with their head in the sky until you toot your horn to which they swerve slightly to their left not giving a fuck. Worse when Its dark and they have their lights on full beam and think they don't need to turn them off because hitting a motorcyclist won't hurt them or their car much.

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spottedtango · Trackday Trickster Joined: 04 Dec 2015 Karma :

Potholes so deep that you could visit china in, I seen the aftermath of a car recently that had hit one and instant blow out. They're the hidden land mines of the urban world in the rain.

I also dislike the feeling of riding over shitty tarmac and bike skitters about, Im talking about the road surface you get after winter (usually new year) that no suspension setting will sort out.