What annoys you while your'e riding your bike?

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People that tailgate me, pass, then slow down under the speed I was riding at and making me need to pass them, then they tailgate me again. A-holes!
 
Rain doesn't bug me. That's what good rain gear is for! I've done 300 miles+ in the rain.

I try to avoid riding in the city so I tend to avoid getting stuck behind busses and things like that; but tailgaters sure are a pain. And as someone else mentioned, they tailgate you, you let them pass, and then they drive slower than you were before!

Another big pet peeve out here is people going over the line. It's not that they can't; they just won't make the corner. Too lazy. They'll just make wide sweeping turns several feet over the yellow line!

BUT; my NUMBER ONE pet peeve? CIGARETTE BUTTS!

I dunno why, that one just drives me nuts! When I see sparks fly when people toss their cigarettes out the window. WHY oh WHY can't you just keep them in the ash tray in your car and dispose of them elsewhere? I've been hit by them before, plus it's just nasty. Not to mention, that's likely someones yard you're tossing that garbage into! For a short while I lived in a house off of a somewhat-traveled road. The lawn near the road was always full of litter, mostly cigarette butts. It's even a big cause of forest fires out here! Nasty, nasty stuff. It's a $1,000 fine if you're caught but, evidently folks are never caught because they just don't care!

I guess it just irks me so much because it's so simple. I mean, bottom line; if you're tossing them out the window you're a pig! What if I come throw trash in YOUR face or in YOUR yard! LOL

So that's mine!
 
All of the above, especially rain (worse when its windy). I HATE tailgators and mobile phone users (not that you'd know from my vids, lol). I think Ill throw gravel resurfacing into the mix. You know the 20mph temp speed limit, punctured tyre feeling, bike running through soup resurfacing they only do when bike weather finally arrives!!
 
Sneezing in my helmet bugs me, but i guess my biggest annoyance is being able to smell rotting roadkill as you ride past it.
 
On the bugs question - I know exactly how they get in there for me anyway - they ping in there at speed on my XR1100 helmet vent holes. Gives me a jump every time it happens, especially the one wasp that looked as shocked as I was!
 
My exhaust annoys me the most. Got a OEM laser exhaust and it's not so good... The system is made of 3 different pieces and a muffler. There Always is a leak somewhere. Next week i'm going to a metalworkshop where they are going to weld all the pieces together.

Hopefully that will work.
 
Here's one I experienced the other day!

Went through a construction area. Stopped for a couple minutes then they waved me on. Group of workers standing in the lane chatting, waving me on as if I was just supposed to ride in between them. How about no! Yes, I CAN, but I shouldn't have to! Get out of the lane!

That, and people who mow their lawn and blow all the clippings all over the road, or who mow and have their mower halfway in the lane. That grass is slippery! Always makes me nervous coming around a corner to see some old lady with headphones on halfway in the lane and the entire road is green!
 
It's hot, my head's boiling in the helmet. All vents on and windshield up to get some fresh air and the guy sitting in a car infront of me decides to wash his front window. Most of the detergent liquid sprayed from nozzles on the hood lands right on my face. And I'm not mentioning that some people are doing this on purpose.

And driving smokers throwing their cigarettes stubs out of the window. I'm not some nature activist but that stub landed on my lap while driving three times already.
 
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