Biker whoops Mana Esplanade (20 Dec 07)

[Grub]

Bike down this morning at about 07:10. Apparently slipped on the white lines (they're damp) and dropped it.

Nothing else hit, only bumps and bruises and the cages all managed to avoid them.
No other details sorry

[skidMark]

Bike down this morning at about 07:10. Apparently slipped on the white lines (they're damp) and dropped it.

Nothing else hit, only bumps and bruises and the cages all managed to avoid them.
No other details sorry


alot of threads like this lately....

why does it matter?

we don't care.

hell if sumbody put up a thread for all my crashed i would have my own sub forum

[Deano]

It's interesting there are no parallels with slippery road markings, and slip hazards in a workplace under OSH. Eliminate, Isolate or Minimise.

[Sully60]

It's interesting there are no parallels with slippery road markings, and slip hazards in a workplace under OSH. Eliminate, Isolate or Minimise.

That would mean filling out a JSA everytime you rode your bike!
You'd have to draw up a site specific safety plan for the entire NZ roading network.
Like we all need more paperwork!:no:

[Pwalo]

Some one would also have to come up with a traffic management plan, cone off the hazards, and put out the appropriate signage.

[ManDownUnder]

alot of threads like this lately....
Yes


why does it matter?
It's interesting to know what's going on and if it affects a friend of someone they might like to know too...


we don't care.
See above


hell if sumbody put up a thread for all my crashed i would have my own sub forum
True but it's nothing to be proud of.

[JimO]

Some one would also have to come up with a traffic management plan, cone off the hazards, and put out the appropriate signage.

that will be next years project for labour:crazy:

[vifferman]

alot of threads like this lately....

why does it matter?

It's all about voyeurism.
People like gossip, juicy tidbits, tales of woe and suffering, etc.

Good news isn't very interesting. :rolleyes:

[Swoop]

that will be next years project for labour:crazy:
Why? They aren't going to be around long enough...

[manwithav8]

alot of threads like this lately....

why does it matter?

we don't care.

hell if sumbody put up a thread for all my crashed i would have my own sub forum

yes there is a lot of threads like this....

WRONG!!! Most are cared for, idiots how ever ARE NOT!!

Just goes to show how bad you ride then doesn't it!!!

[fireball]

Some one would also have to come up with a traffic management plan, cone off the hazards, and put out the appropriate signage.

god not the cones again! we dont need a repeat of that last thread!:dodge:

[Hawkeye]

A guy on a pushbike came off behind me at the top of the gorge at 8:15am today. Just where the Newland slip merges. I went passed him at the top and then the traffic slowed so I eased up. He was on the meridians as he hit his brakes to slow. All I saw in the mirror behind me was him sliding all over the road as he went down. Thankfully the cars behind him managed to stop. He got up and dragged the bike off to the side.
Halfway down the George, he went passed me on the footpath (if you can call it that) doing about 60k (I was by then moving at about 50). The guy must be a nutter, or have a death wish.
He's not the first I've seen gunning it down that stretch. I am surprised that there isn't more pushbikers coming off down there the way they ride around the morning rush hour traffic.

[Mom]

Some one would also have to come up with a traffic management plan, cone off the hazards, and put out the appropriate signage.


Ummm you said cone!!!!!!! :nono: nasty swear word around here mate.....LOL


god not the cones again! we dont need a repeat of that last thread!:dodge:


Snap! Cone, Cone, Cone :lol:

[fireball]

Snap! Cone, Cone, Cone :lol:

if you are offering i wont say no Mom.....:doobey:

[James Deuce]

I'm with Mark on this. There's nothing to be learnt from it so what's the point? Road markings are slippery when wet. Not exactly brand new information and even newbies should have that committed to memory because it's in the Road Code.

I know why Grub does it, but motorcyclists aren't trained Pilots, have giant egos, believe they know it all anyway, so only a few diligent souls will take heed, and they aren't the sort of people to fall off on road markings because they know they are slippery when wet.

People who fall off and post AARs (After Action Reports) are providing a valuable service. Telling us someone fell off is gossip, IMO of course.

[Grub]

There's nothing to be learnt from it so what's the point? Road markings are slippery when wet. Not exactly brand new information and even newbies should have that committed to memory because it's in the Road Code..

Yet again someone who "knows" lines are slippery has fallen off on them. So that is the point of the post.

I went past the site of the oops yesterday and discovered something else about the whoops. The only place it could have happened was on the ... ahem? ... centre flush median. There's a double transit lane (T2) there and plenty of room so WTF was this bike doing - an illegal passing manouvre? Flush medians are verbotten and will earn you a policeman's autograph on the bottom of a page from his ticket book.

I avoid the white lines in the dry at all times so that it becomes an instinct to not be anywhere near them in the wet.

Be careful out there.

[James Deuce]

Yet again someone who "knows" lines are slippery has fallen off on them. So that is the point of the post.



Their problem, isn't it?