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I was flipping through the new TWO magazine and there were some interesting stuff inside:

The new V-Max has a wierd new design, I kinda like and I hope they keep the 4 exhausts. You can check it out and throw them some design info at www.next-vmax.com

Also there is a small article in regards to noisy pipes and that near silent bikes are in our future if irresponsible people keep disturbing the locals when riding by. What's interesting is that instead of pipes making us noisy but it also makes us sound faster which authorities assume we're speeding. As if there wasn't enough crap that the general pub hates us for.

There's also the in-depth review of the Kawasaki ZZR-1400. It's actually pretty tame...

On a funny note, the use of soap and bathtubs are more dangerous than motorcycling .

Lastly does anyone find it annoying when you're at a light and the cager behind you either stops and then keeps inching out until they almost touch your rear tire or in an other case just stop at the last moment and still pull way too close? When they actually made contact with my taillight the bastrd had the nerve to tell the cop that iwas speeding and stopped in front of him.

I hate starting posts and wanted some responses on how to handle my last problem.

{Lastly does anyone find it annoying when you're at a light and the cager behind you either stops and then keeps inching out until they almost touch your rear tire or in an other case just stop at the last moment and still pull way too close? When they actually made contact with my taillight the bastrd had the nerve to tell the cop that iwas speeding and stopped in front of him}

I know I can't speak for everyone, but I have to believe this is a universal problem. That's why you should allways leave yourself plenty of room infront and stay in gear incase you need to skin out.
When that happens to me, I usually look back at the cager w a little crazy in my face and inch forward. That usually works.

Whenever someone is creeping up on me, I give them the "hold" signal (raised fist) and then stare them down. That usually works. Haven't had too many people fly up on my "O Ring" lately. When they do, I just pull next to the car in front of me (I always stagger at lights so I can let the vehicle in front of me get it if someone can't stop). And I am always in gear... I don't go to neutral.

I actually was told in my MSF class to try give an underhand wave thing, like waving them back. I got a chance to try this yesterday evening, and it actually worked, some guy in a camaro was tailgating me, and I tried flashing the brake light, and he didn't do anything, so I tried waving, and that got him to back up quite a bit.

Getting tailed on the freeway is a diffrent game. There are two safe ways , in my book, to deal w this. One: Move into the other lane. Just get out of the way, because when you speed up you just end up w someone tailing you at a higher speed. Second under waivng works fine as well. Alot of cagers don't understand the following distance when behind us and will tail you and be totally unaware you are about to loose you mind.
Besides both of these options get the job done w/o blowing this all to common situation into a potentially deadly one. That's what I see.

some responses on how to handle my last problem.

The best, but not the easiest or cheapest, way to handle this problem is with a bike-mounted video camera. The next time a cager tells a cop a load of bull, pull out the camera and show him the tape.

I was a passenger in my wife's car and we were going 60kph (as that was the limit.) We were in the far right lane too. There was this guy in a minivan tailgating behind us with about 3 feet of buffer who made no attempt to pass... so I turn around and give him a look first, and he waves at me(like a 'hello' kind of wave) and keeps tight to the rear... so i wave back (but more of a 'shove-off') sort of wave. He gets this crazed look in his eyes and hits the throttle and swerves into the faster passing lane (cutting off the car that was there) and starts tailgating someone else until he gets the opportunity to swerve infront of my wife's car to cut her off. then speeds away. The guy looked to be about 35 or so and was driving a minivan.. I don't know where that kind of immaturity/anger comes from, but it's scary. I say, do everything you can not to upset the cagers around you, who knows what that guy would do to a biker that flipped him the bird or something!

I have to always remind myself not to make any nasty gestures or give any dirty looks to jerks driving around me as these days, you never know what they'll do (as much as I really want to flip them off!). And especially in countries where there's lots more people packing guns these days. Unfortunately, I have an evil temper at times but fortunately haven't had any confrontations as as result. I feel for you though.

XM23 wrote:

some responses on how to handle my last problem.

The best, but not the easiest or cheapest, way to handle this problem is with a bike-mounted video camera. The next time a cager tells a cop a load of bull, pull out the camera and show him the tape.

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