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PCTC
15th March 2010, 16:32
Well I have often been told its not if you come off its when! A beaut day so moneybags and I decieded to go for brunch Mokou ,but half way up mt Messanger going about 50k around a bend I think a bit of loose metal sent me on my way two bike lengths later I was in a little gutter with my SV1000 on top.Shit it hurts!!! How the hell do those guys crash in Moto GP etc run get on their bikes and carry on.Three cars pulled around me and carried on before some young lads stopped and lifted the bike off me another local went to the top and called the police/ambulance/etc the first response ,an Waitara cop were fantastic,.no sarcastic or negative coments the cop arrange to get my bike down .I Thank them all!
The Everlasting
15th March 2010, 16:37
Bugger! So no damage to yourself then?
CookMySock
15th March 2010, 16:50
Oww. Likely the council will cover your uninsured losses on that. They are not supposed to leave unsignposted loose gravel around.

Steve
Hopeful Bastard
15th March 2010, 16:56
Oww. Likely the council will cover your uninsured losses on that. They are not supposed to leave unsignposted loose gravel around.

Steve

So if there is loose gravel on the corner of my street after the resealing 2 or 3 months ago, And i cane off as i slide it around the corner.. i can claim against the council?
JimO
15th March 2010, 17:49
So if there is loose gravel on the corner of my street after the resealing 2 or 3 months ago, And i cane off as i slide it around the corner.. i can claim against the council?

dont count on it
CookMySock
15th March 2010, 18:22
So if there is loose gravel on the corner of my street after the resealing 2 or 3 months ago, And i cane off as i slide it around the corner.. i can claim against the council?Lots of people claim and get payment for that. Perhaps a few of those people will post here and assist you.

edit: Ahh I see you are a bastard. :niceone:

Steve
Hopeful Bastard
15th March 2010, 18:30
Lots of people claim and get payment for that. Perhaps a few of those people will post here and assist you.

edit: Ahh I see you are a bastard. :niceone:

Steve

Ah shit. I forgot bout you when i changed my name! :lol:

DB and HB.. Ah shit....



Could i possibly send a note to the council to get someone out to sweep the road?
varminter
15th March 2010, 18:32
Glad you're well enough to post. Much damage to the bike? Question for the more experienced on KB, what's the best thing to do in the aforementioned circumstances, I assume, leave the brakes and throttle alone and ride it out? or will it just go down? answers please in a plain brown envelope.
Laxi
15th March 2010, 18:49
Ah shit. I forgot bout you when i changed my name! :lol:

DB and HB.. Ah shit....

should have been hopful dangerousbastard huh?
pritch
15th March 2010, 18:55
Oww. Likely the council will cover your uninsured losses on that. They are not supposed to leave unsignposted loose gravel around.
Steve

I didn't go to Mokau this weekend so I'm three weeks out of date, but a lot of the loose metal on that road comes down from the hills above. I suppose the OP could consider a claim against God?
Berries
15th March 2010, 21:31
So if there is loose gravel on the corner of my street after the resealing 2 or 3 months ago, And i cane off as i slide it around the corner.. i can claim against the council?

Why not call them and tell them about it so they clean it up ? Would save you the trouble of picking gravel out of your arse, as well as the paperwork.
PCTC
16th March 2010, 06:20
Its great most of customers booked in are or were bikers so have been quite understanding as I have had to cancel a lot of work.Im still bloody sore! ,I guess I need to harden up!!
BuzzardNZ
16th March 2010, 09:42
sorry to hear that. Hope you and the SV are ok. Same bloody thing happened to me on a GB400, 50 metres away from Wellington hospital. Picked myself up, noticed my forearm was snapped ( looked like I had a 2nd elbow in my arm ) walked into the hospital, dosed up on morphine, next day had a plate put in my arm, which is in there for life.
Bike was written off, didn't think to follow up with the council.
JimO
17th March 2010, 21:13
sorry to hear that. Hope you and the SV are ok. Same bloody thing happened to me on a GB400, 50 metres away from Wellington hospital. Picked myself up, noticed my forearm was snapped ( looked like I had a 2nd elbow in my arm ) walked into the hospital, dosed up on morphine, next day had a plate put in my arm, which is in there for life.
Bike was written off, didn't think to follow up with the council.

they would probably given you a ticket for littering