St John Ambulance Run 08

[Ghost_Bullet]

The Canturbury Ulysses Club again put together this run. And planty of people turned up for the cause. Nice to see so many bikes on a day that was brisk at 13degrees with cloud covering much of the sky.
A map of the route HERE (http://tinyurl.com/5bjp2z)

Arriving with an array of bikes and riders, familier faces etc.

A very long Q" for the sausage sizzle, A few looks at my stack of four... which were not all for me... but to be shared around my clan.

A chatter, walk around the bikes, and listen to see whom won prizes... I was handed a number of tickets from Rashika and Chic 'n' charge and for I think Chic" she had number 89N (or was it Rashik'?)with a grey heart, sadly missed on getting a pack with some dog'y wash stuff etc, but a good pack all the same. (so will get that one to ya)

Of course I had me cammy out.... Pictures at the link...
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One rider happened onto the back of a fourwheel drive breaking their leg... gotta suck for sure.

All the badges sold out, so have to await this years in the post... (thats mail post and not forum post....ok)

Roll on 2009... actually retract that one.... 2008 has some time to run yet.

[riffer]

Sounds like you had a great time. Tim and I had fun too on the Wellington Run.

We went from Maidstone Park in Upper Hutt, over Haywards, Paremata Rd to SH 2, and down the motorway to Thorndon.

[Laava]

We had a great turnout somewhere in the 60-80 bikes bracket. Big thanks to all the Auckland Ulysses for joining us, it was awesome to see and will be a big day for you all when you get home in a couple of hrs time.
Big thanks to Kaitaia St John for welcoming us with a lovely feast!
See you all next year and some of you on sunday! cheers Al.

[dangerous]

As... the Guzzi gear box is all busted up all I could do was meet up at the asembly point, and then head home for lawn moeing and such shit.
Great turnout and aperantly a great ride mapped out ending up in a nice wee spot Cust.

Now unfortunatly there was a seriousish ish acco on the way involvong KBer's, Triumph, Harley, Honda, Kawa and a 4x4, KBers are ok and or sore but the Harley chick is well broken up but ok.
No need to panic I believe the mess of bikes and KO'd riders has been sorted... bloody shit tho but at least thoses involved got there moneys worth out of St Johns :crazy:

[The Lone Rider]

I had fun

Good to run into you again Alex - glad to see you are hitting events now that you have a bike

Fred - me and you are going to be on TV on Monday night :P And can you PM me your email so I can get that photo you took of us! Thanks

[Romeo]

Now unfortunatly there was a seriousish ish acco on the way involvong KBer's, Triumph, Harley, Honda, Kawa and a 4x4, KBers are ok and or sore but the Harley chick is well broken up but ok.
No need to panic I believe the mess of bikes and KO'd riders has been sorted... bloody shit tho but at least thoses involved got there moneys worth out of St Johns :crazy:

Don't mean to be nosey, but are you referring to the accident that happened out on the open road on the way to Cust, or the mysterious dinged up GSX1400 parked at the Belfast gas station? It looked familiar for some reason, thought it might be a KBer's.

Regardless, we're glad to hear that the open road outcome wasn't as bad as it looked.

Overall it was a good ride, I missed most of the action since I arrived about 30 minutes late - thanks to my 90kph CB175 :]. Also, good to see a few familiar faces, though I was too sissy to approach anyone :whistle:


//EDIT: Yeah, good to see you too man, even if it was just for a few seconds before my crew rolled out on me!

[Subike]

...Overall it was a good ride, I missed most of the action since I arrived about 30 minutes late - thanks to my 90kph CB175 :]. Also, good to see a few familiar faces, though I was too sissy to approach anyone :whistle:


//EDIT: Yeah, good to see you too man, even if it was just for a few seconds before my crew rolled out on me!

Hey romeo, good to meet you, I bet you passed those Vespa's at least
Cool looking little scoots.....

Had a good slow tootleout to Cust. xsessive didnt like the 95kph Harleys. Fark. And the Gold blings!!! Why do some of those suckers need ALL the road.
I was glad to see my little brother and his scruffy trike, bloody smoker it is, its parked behind the VW in goasties pics,
Say the blue zuki with the bent bars at the Johns rd turn off? was not one of the group, didnt look too bad, guess the riders was off to hospital in a cage or ambo.
The weather threatened to turn sour on us, as riding in from Grets I hit light rain at Smellfast, the clouds looked llike a preggy lady, ready to drop their load on us lol.
Did everyone get their free "rideforever.co.nz" key holder. tis a nice blue. might use it to hold me leather pants up. Rating must be 500kg! ( skite)
Just after the raffel draw I headed out , managed to just beat the rain before it started at Greta, just.
In all an enjoyable day, but must get the clutch fixedon xsessive, developed a tendency of staying disingauged when held on for a while at lights :(
Good to meet up with you all again, only if it was in passing
Till next time :Playnice:

[The Lone Rider]

Did everyone get their free "rideforever.co.nz" key holder. tis a nice blue. might use it to hold me leather pants up. Rating must be 500kg! ( skite)


How come you never mention us in your write up Dave!? You are always around the chromers :P

Is that a key chain!? I was saying to the guys I'm gonna use it to keep my pillions on my bike

[chic 'n' charge]

I can't honestly remember what numbers I gave you apart from they were either something like 53 to 60 there were like 7 grey hearts in my bunch of tickets.

Not overly worried, only really did it for donation. Had great ride with friends in the brisk sunshine.

[fireliv]

Sounds like an awesome turnout! Had to work, so next time!

Pity about the crash though, as long as everyone involved are Ok

[dangerous]

How come you never mention us in your write up Dave!? You are always around the chromers :P

heheheeeeee... why would he want to, you make enough din on ya own :Punk:

[Rashika]

yeah Ghostie, you keep the prize... I'm sure you'll put it to good use ;)

Nice ride out, lucky the rain stayed away and it was kinda nice wandering around looking at bikes, and then sitting in the sun at the pub.

Was a bit gutted to hear about the acco tho, first time I've ever heard of a mod serious one involving more than one bike on that run. Spoken to one of the poor guys who got run up the arse of, hes ok, bikes a little bent, sad cos i think he was really in luv with his new baby. Sounds like a whole lot of well done evasive manouvres by all involved, a bit of unexpected offroading eh B? ...and luckily only one serious injury... all the best for your recovery

[Mr Triple]

yeah Ghostie, you keep the prize... I'm sure you'll put it to good use ;)

Nice ride out, lucky the rain stayed away and it was kinda nice wandering around looking at bikes, and then sitting in the sun at the pub.

Was a bit gutted to hear about the acco tho, first time I've ever heard of a mod serious one involving more than one bike on that run. Spoken to one of the poor guys who got run up the arse of, hes ok, bikes a little bent, sad cos i think he was really in luv with his new baby. Sounds like a whole lot of well done evasive manouvres by all involved, a bit of unexpected offroading eh B? ...and luckily only one serious injury... all the best for your recovery




A nice little ride up until that point, Seeing Lemans flung to the right on impact like he was dropping into a right hand hairpin wasn't nice. How he hung onto it was amazing, great work Lemans:niceone:

I ended up in the grass trying to avoid the rider and the bike, which wasn't easy as both were sliding. After just missing the rider by about 2 feet I was heading for a power pole so had to eased back the other way. Another rider ended up on the other side of the road and dropped it in the grass, but rider and bike were ok.

After the ambo came and took the injured away the 7 or 8 of us carried on to Cust. Lemans did have some damage to his bike, but he could sill ride it.

When we got to Cust most people had gone, but we did get a free sausage.

[Ghost_Bullet]

I can't honestly remember what numbers I gave you apart from they were either something like 53 to 60 there were like 7 grey hearts in my bunch of tickets.


Yeah yeah then it is of your tickets then!!!!!!!!:woohoo:


I saw the familier bikes coming through the gate as we was leaving... that was a sure bugger of an incident... very lucky uh.

[SDU]

Overall it was a good ride, I missed most of the action since I arrived about 30 minutes late - thanks to my 90kph CB175 :]. Also, good to see a few familiar faces, though I was too sissy to approach anyone :whistle:



Well I guess we can't have scared you enough the first couple off times you met us :laugh:cause you were brave enough to come & see us. Pity we arrived at cust just as you were leaving.

It was good to see all those familiar faces on the ride.

[SDU]

I want to thank those who were able to help out those involved in the accident yesterday and stayed & supported everyone & made sure all got to Cust (apart from the the one that had to take the bus) It was lucky it wasn't worse.
There were some amazing people who stayed with injured rider until the Dr & Ambo arrived.:2thumbsup:2thumbsup :clap::clap:hope they see this.


Also thanks to B & Mrs B for helping me out on the way home :Oops: owe ya :apint: & to the other Trumpy rider & her guest for hanging out.

[laRIKin]

Yeah I'm OK and the bike and I came out better than the poor HD and it's rider.

I was so lucky and only have a sore foot and back.
The bike will get repaired in a few weeks or so, so pulled the Guzzi out of the shop and still have a bike to ride.:Punk:
And Street and Sport will let me ride a Triumph demo bike at the next RAT ride. (thanks Guys)

Thanks also to those people that stayed to help and support us.:2thumbsup

It would have been a great day and I do not blame the HD rider (or the 4X4 driver) as she (and he) was riding (and driving) OK and just got court out by the sudden braking on the straight road by all the bikes.:shit:
Why everyone suddenly braked I'm not sure.

It may have been a good thing that there was a 4X4 in front of me or there would have been a lot more bikers down.

I hope she has a speedy recovery and is riding again soon and she now owes me bourbon. (and I'll buy her one to)

[SDU]

We have seen the injured HD rider in hospital & she is doing well & it won't be long before she is out.

She wishes to thank all those who helped her -she is really grateful so if you are out there bling to you.:2thumbsup:clap::clap::clap:


Ps if you are pipe up & let us know who you are-don't be shy

[stevewederell]

Hey SDU and all the others that stayed behind to help with that lady. I was on the wee GN at the front of the next pack.

Huge thanks to the lady who stayed by the lady's side (head really) the whole time and even bigger thanks to the ex paramedic who was able to take over from me and really sort her out till St Johns arrived.

Was a terrible shame that it happened but it showed me how tight knit and giving the riding world is.

To the injured lady - Hope to see you back on two wheels soon.


Happy and safe riding to everyone - I have avo off work and I'm off for a ride!

[SDU]

Hey SDU and all the others that stayed behind to help with that lady. I was on the wee GN at the front of the next pack.

Huge thanks to the lady who stayed by the lady's side (head really) the whole time and even bigger thanks to the ex paramedic who was able to take over from me and really sort her out till St Johns arrived.

Was a terrible shame that it happened but it showed me how tight knit and giving the riding world is.

To the injured lady - Hope to see you back on two wheels soon.


Happy and safe riding to everyone - I have avo off work and I'm off for a ride!

Thanks Steve for the huge help for the HD rider. She really appreciated your support.
Not the best way to meet people but we met some good people that day.
Lemans bike (Trimuph Daytona) should be ready soon and his foot was good in no time. We hope next time we meet you will be incident free.

[chubby]

Had a good slow tootleout to Cust. xsessive didnt like the 95kph Harleys. Fark. And the Gold blings!!! Why do some of those suckers need ALL the road.
:

:yes: because were old, hairy, obnoxious and believe that the journey is more important than the destination, or we are just bad riders, you were watching you make the call *insert really smiley smiley*.

Mind you, I was just in front of some sporty's up to Belfast. Some dude, in front of me on a HD, had a pillion taking pics with his cell and he was all over the road. Llama blew passed him but I felt better running parachute for the guy.

It was a good ride, nice day out and chance to see some very nice scoots.

I'm sorry for the lady in the prang but good on you guys for helping her :first:.

Love from an old, hairy, obnoxious, slow HD rider :yes:

[Biggles2000]

It was great to see so many riders helping out. I was on the Road King behind Steve on the GN. I take my hat of to all of you. I hope the Lady on the HD is feeling better.

[SDU]

It was great to see so many riders helping out. I was on the Road King behind Steve on the GN. I take my hat of to all of you. I hope the Lady on the HD is feeling better.

It is good to put a name to a face:niceone: Thanks for your help too!
I think her bike is still in the shop.
She was going to give us a call when herself & bike are ready to go for ride. Her & her partner are nice people.