God-damn diesel

[FilthyLuka]

I went for a ride today :-) from remuera, to piha and back. Started raining when i was on scenic drive, no matter, took it easy and everything went fine.

Pulling into my road, lean in, front hits some diesel on the ground, front slips out, i get thrown onto the road, hurt my knees and my hand, other than that all good... fucking diesel bullshit crap arse fuck

Now the GN needs its tank repaired, some new handle bars and a new indicator... FUCK ARSE BALLS

merry christmas

shit

[TOTO]

so sorry to hear that man. Hate the damn diesel treat it like a kriptonite. There was some on Gilies on-ramp to the motorway too. Thing to watch out for. Hope you are ok. For the bike there is parts for you there arent that many parts (what my dad sais). Be careful. Merry christmass, and hopefully happier New Year.

[EnzoYug]

dude that sucks! sorry to hear about it.

Hey, take a day to get drunk and worry about it in the morning!

[FilthyLuka]

dude that sucks! sorry to hear about it.

Hey, take a day to get drunk and worry about it in the morning!

sounds like a plan!

[DMNTD]

Sucks arse eh man...but hell you're alive and not damaged so all good.
Have binned both a ZX10 and Superduke this year on diesel at "low" speeds...in the dry so don't feel that you're alone :confused:
Try and find something to learn from it(ie: detection etc) and move on :sunny:

[NZsarge]

I feel for ya bud, had a similar experience yesterday only I hit a thin strip of metal/gravel/chip and down I went. Gotta look at it this way, at least you're not spending christmas in hospital, (neither am I) bike can be fixed or replaced, whole lot harder with human beings.

[FilthyLuka]

I feel for ya bud, had a similar experience yesterday only I hit a thin strip of metal/gravel/chip and down I went. Gotta look at it this way, at least you're not spending christmas in hospital, (neither am I) bike can be fixed or replaced, whole lot harder with human beings.

that is a very good point...

[The Stranger]

Hmm, I wonder if the addition of a flapper valve in the neck of the filler on all diesel vehicles would stop most of these problems. Even if its not possible to retro fit, make it a requirement on all new/newly imported ones.

[Patar]

You know, I went from remmers to Piha about 2 weeks ago, the ride ended in tears for me too...
A guy crashed into me at the bottom of seaview rd.

[sprag]

I went for a ride today :-) from remuera, to piha and back. Started raining when i was on scenic drive, no matter, took it easy and everything went fine.

Pulling into my road, lean in, front hits some diesel on the ground, front slips out, i get thrown onto the road, hurt my knees and my hand, other than that all good... fucking diesel bullshit crap arse fuck

Now the GN needs its tank repaired, some new handle bars and a new indicator... FUCK ARSE BALLS

merry christmas

shit

Dude that sucks ass big time, I have never had to deal with diesel (that i can remember) and hope to god i never do lol, mind you i seem to be very lucky on bikes, no luck with winning anything but lucky when it comes to bikes :)

[pritch]

Dude that sucks ass big time, I have never had to deal with diesel (that i can remember) and hope to god i never do lol, mind you i seem to be very lucky on bikes, no luck with winning anything but lucky when it comes to bikes :)


It is possible that luck may be a rather fragile thing.

Any sharp(ish) corner or roundabout near a gas station with a diesel pump must be treated as having the same friction coefficient as wet glass.

In town in the rain we should be looking for diesel on the road, as well as sniffing the air for it, and despite all this, it is still too easy to come unstuck on a diesel spill.

[sprag]

It is possible that luck may be a rather fragile thing.

Any sharp(ish) corner or roundabout near a gas station with a diesel pump must be treated as having the same friction coefficient as wet glass.

In town in the rain we should be looking for diesel on the road, as well as sniffing the air for it, and despite all this, it is still too easy to come unstuck on a diesel spill.

Yep i know luck only goes so far, might have just really f***ed it all up now by talking about it lol