A beer I really didn't want...

[Badger8]

Well was out and about with the Hornet Swarm this evening. Had a lovely dinner to kick off the eve, a great ride round various suburbs, and then went round Maraetai and through to Clevedon to top the night off. After a chinwag at Clevedon, we decided to go to Dennys for waffles (which they didnt have after all, rather miffed about that!)

So on we rode, up [insert road name here] toward the Ardmore airport. Cruising along at about 90-100, no hurry. Oncoming vehicle (car or van i'm not 100% sure), as the headlights pass there's an almighty THUMP and it feels like a rotten orange or something has just exploded on my arm or something, an almighty wallop that if i were not such a solid strong fella would have ripped my arm clean off the bars (only just held as it was). Took a second to compute, bike still rolling okay, the bastards must have thrown something at me.
Why can i smell really stinky cheap domestic beer all of a sudden?
Oh, the bastards!!!
Reach for brake lever to slow and pull over, find said lever pointing more skyward than normal, and somewhat sticky. Luckily it works sufficiently well to pull me to a halt to investigate.

Right mirror took the brunt of the hit, crushed backside, smashed and ejected face of it, twisted an already tightened stalk right backward, and then twisted the whole switchblock and lever assembly backward. The can then proceeded onward to smack me very solidly in the bicep, where i am now rather tender.

Why the hell would someone throw a full beer can at a motorcyclist?
And why would they throw it at bike #2 in a line of 5. Did they think they'd get away without a worry?
Unfortunately by the time we sortof comprehended what the hell had just happened, and 2 of the lads turned back to give chase, they were nowhere to be seen. Buggers...

Mirror can be replaced, no biggie...
Re-adjust switchblock, lever seems to be functioning okay again, no biggie...
My leather jacket now wreaks of cheap domestic beer, grrr... :angry2:

Put a damper on an otherwise wonderful evenings ride, and definitely a beer i could have done without.

(Sorry for the poor quality pics, camera phone in the dark doesnt really cut it)

[ducatilover]

Bugger dude that sucks! I might have a set of mirrors that are tidy sitting around somewhere if you want them;)

[Anarkist]

Owned.

Also try going for a run instead of eating waffles.

[Badger8]

Bugger dude that sucks! I might have a set of mirrors that are tidy sitting around somewhere if you want them;)

Cheers dude.
No worries on the mirror, $17 each for the best mirrors i've yet to find for my baby :woohoo:

[Badger8]

Owned.

Also try going for a run instead of eating waffles.

I've never had waffles before, hence the temptation to just bugger off home at 10pm was overcome on the promise of waffles. Double owned :p

[ducatilover]

Cheers dude.
No worries on the mirror, $17 each for the best mirrors i've yet to find for my baby :woohoo:

That's nice and cheap.

So why not make waffles?

[Anarkist]

Waffle party at Badger's house!

[Badger8]

That's nice and cheap.

So why not make waffles?

1. i dont have a recipe
2. i dont have a waffle iron
3. i cant be arsed, as i have work in 6h :doh:


Waffle party at Badger's house!

So that's what the kids are calling it these days? :scratch:

[ducatilover]

1. i dont have a recipe
2. i dont have a waffle iron
3. i cant be arsed, as i have work in 6h :doh:



So that's what the kids are calling it these days? :scratch:

ah, touche

[LBD]

Thats a bugger that is, same mentatilty as throwing rocks from over passes...but, thanks for the inspiration, must try that one myself next time I come home smelling of ....

[Taz]

Shit guys I got him!!!! Told you i'd get one of them with my beer! ;)





































Actually that sucks........... Lucky it wasn't worse.

[CookMySock]

Thats a bit sobering, bud. I hate to think of the outcome if his aim was a little better and you had an open-faced helmet on. :pinch:

Once you are on a bigger noisier bike they tend not to fuck wit joo then.

Steve

[Okey Dokey]

Christ, what a terrible tale. It could have been so much worse...glad you are such a staunch fellow and that the bike will be okay. There are some losers out there. It would have been great to smash them up after they did something like that, but probably just as well you didn't catch them cause the cops would undoubtably charge you for assault!

[gijoe1313]

:angry2: The thing was, I was lead rider, came onto the straight ... dipped my high beams, the car did the same thing ... wasn't till I was about to go around a left hand bend when the lack of lights in my mirrors was a bit of a concern :eek5:

Had to ride a bit to find a safe place to u-turn and came back to see TOTO and gremlin roaring off like avenging angels ...

A natter with badger8 and Sharry filled in details and it was a quick pootle to my place to sort out some quick mirror changes! :yes:

Mmmm Denny's ... no waffles :weep: guess I will have to pull out my waffle iron and organise a waffle ride and meet! :pinch:

[Choco]

Ouchies! Glad your ok man and hope your baby gets new mirrors soon!

[madbikeboy]

:angry2: The thing was, I was lead rider, came onto the straight ... dipped my high beams, the car did the same thing ... wasn't till I was about to go around a left hand bend when the lack of lights in my mirrors was a bit of a concern :eek5:

Had to ride a bit to find a safe place to u-turn and came back to see TOTO and gremlin roaring off like avenging angels ...

A natter with badger8 and Sharry filled in details and it was a quick pootle to my place to sort out some quick mirror changes! :yes:

Mmmm Denny's ... no waffles :weep: guess I will have to pull out my waffle iron and organise a waffle ride and meet! :pinch:


I had a small incident once with a bunch of teenagers that squirted me with a waterpump gun, nasty smelly stuff. I ended up turning around, and followed until they got jammed in traffic. After some constructive advice about where their lives had taken the wrong direction, and they did a little soul searching, navel gazing, and a little lie down - I left them to it.

But a beer can. Figure it this way, a bullet is a small thing that causes massive damage due to velocity. A beer can at 200kmh, it's a dangerous thing.. Glad you're okay Justin.

MBB

[rosie631]

Once you are on a bigger noisier bike they tend not to fuck wit joo then.



Beg to differ. I had stuff chucked at me by a carload of boyracers in the middle of the afternoon last week. Fucking arseholes. I so wished I had a hammer handy. It would have gone right through their windscreen.

[rosie631]

Actually, have also had the beer can thing. That was on the open road while passing. Bloody dangerous.

[The Pastor]

yeah ive seen a car ful of inbreds chucking beer cans at things on SH16. was riding along and thought i smelt beer, around the next corner i saw a car with its passengers chucking beer cans at letterboxs/parked cars etc. I thought it best to take a break at that point.

[Hitcher]

So what sort of beer was it?

[gijoe1313]

But a beer can. Figure it this way, a bullet is a small thing that causes massive damage due to velocity. A beer can at 200kmh, it's a dangerous thing.. Glad you're okay Justin.

MBB

Meh, t'weren't me, t'was poor ol'badger8 who was 2nd in line ... who had overtaken Sharry at one point, which in hindsight was lucky since badger8 is a man mountain of meat ... wouldn't have liked to see how petite Sharry would have come out! :pinch:

[sunhuntin]

damn, glad it wasnt worse, though it sounds bad enough. always amazes me the lack of brain cell some people end up with.

[Blackshear]

Consider yourself bloody lucky it didn't put a massive dent in your tank, stuck under the mudguard or hit your head!
Of all places, other than the obvious nowhere, I'd say the mirror would be the best place for it to hit!
200k beers don't stop badgers!
Scary :crazy:

[TOTO]

Took about 20 - 30 seconds to find out what the hell hapened.

Gremlin and I took off and split into different directions but alas couldn't find the bastards.

I'm just really glad it didnt hit his helmet, which would have ment a hell of alot of mess to sort out. It amazes me how this beautiful country has some of the dumbest people on earth. People like this deserve to be locked away in a 2x2 cell with no sun light.

[vfxdog]

Had a balloon full of liquid (water, hopefully) lobbed at the screen of my van down near Cromwell a while back. As it came from a car travelling in the opposite direction, the impact was massive. Luckily it didn't break the glass, but if I had been on a bike, I hate to think what might have happened. What goes on in the minds of people that do stuff like that? Probably not very much.
One of the darker aspects of road travel in NZ.

[Insanity_rules]

Man that sucks for two reasons.

1) You got hit by some inbred twat with a beer

Someone should pelt them with something nasty till they submit, only hope karma gets em

2) No waffles

Dennys in New Zealand just isn't the same. In the states our thing was to go to a midnight audience participation of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, then invade Dennys in full costume for Waffles, pancakes, steak or whatever took your fancy. First time I went in the one in Auckland I was horrorfied that there was no root beer float, a complete Dennys staple so I left.

[EJK]

Good thing that the beer hit the mirror. Replacing the helmet would cost more that $17 for sure.

[Hitcher]

One suspects that the reason root beer has never been introduced into New Zealand is the fact that some bogans may have difficulty in appreciating that it is a name, not an instruction.

[Squiggles]

At least it wasnt a 1.5L coke... :pinch:

[SMOKEU]

People like that deserve to have the crap beaten out of them.

[TOTO]

I got hit by a frozen fish trown from the 9th floor of the block while we were playing soccer. That was back in my country. Trat would probably explain my weird behaviour. Not that I'm making excuses or something.

Oh badger I have that spare identical to yours mirror. I dont need it so I can bring it to NASS on wednesday for you brother.

[CookMySock]

I got hit by a frozen fish trown from the 9th floor of the block while we were playing soccer.Trout or Tuna? :whistle:

Steve

[tigertim20]

Thats fuckin terrible, a real pity the whole five of you didnt catch up with the little arseholes. would have been deserving of their behaviour to have the fuckin shit beaten out of them. Glad I havent had that happen to me. Maybe one day youll see the van again and recognize it

[Badger8]

Once you are on a bigger noisier bike they tend not to fuck wit joo then.

Erm... Dont get much bigger than me sitting atop a 900 :p
it just amazed me that they saw a line of bikes, and decided to throw it at the second one in line...


So what sort of beer was it?

Wreaked of cheap domestic shit, much like the folk who threw it i suspect...


Consider yourself bloody lucky it didn't put a massive dent in your tank, stuck under the mudguard or hit your head!
Of all places, other than the obvious nowhere, I'd say the mirror would be the best place for it to hit!
200k beers don't stop badgers!
Scary :crazy:

Indeed... On retrospect, if it hadnt have hit the mirror, trajectory would have put it somewhere between chest and goolies... Would not have been pretty... Even after all the energy absorbed in smashing up the mirror and twisting everything attached, it still bloody hurt my arm, and is a touch swollen today where it hit. Didnt bruise up though luckily.


Oh badger I have that spare identical to yours mirror. I dont need it so I can bring it to NASS on wednesday for you brother.

Sweet, that'd be great mate! :first:

[Badger8]

Trout or Tuna? :whistle:

Steve

Well it smelt like fish... but it tasted like chicken for some odd reason... :bleh:

[Hitcher]

The type of beer still hasn't been revealed. This is important information in deciding the severity of this alleged crime.

[Badger8]

The can was never recovered. You can drop by and lick my leathers clean for a taste test if you're really keen :p

[sunhuntin]

Erm... Dont get much bigger than me sitting atop a 900 :p
it just amazed me that they saw a line of bikes, and decided to throw it at the second one in line...


chances are they were just aiming for "a bike" with no specific rider in mind... given the speeds involved, it would have been hard to deliberately hit a certain rider. i bet if you set up the exact same scenario, you couldnt replicate the beer cans impact point.

[jtzzr]

That sucks mate, hope they get what`s coming to them. Glad your`e ok.

It can`t have been good beer( no-one throws good beer away).

[Badger8]

chances are they were just aiming for "a bike" with no specific rider in mind... given the speeds involved, it would have been hard to deliberately hit a certain rider. i bet if you set up the exact same scenario, you couldnt replicate the beer cans impact point.

Yeah, it would have just been "aim for the general area of one of them bike things", but more the point they flung it near the front of a bunch of bikes. Did they think i wouldnt mind, and my compadres wouldnt take offence at such an act toward a fellow biker and come back for a chat?

[caseye]

Glad you are Ok and that, that wasn't a glass bottle instead of a can.
The mentality of some drivers/passengers these days is questionable to say the least.Shame your mates didn't catch up with the barstards and got their number, or better still followed them home.Wonder how they'd like a visit from a couple of hundred KB'ers in the middle of the night.

[hayd3n]

ffs whats this world gonna throw at us next

[sunhuntin]

Yeah, it would have just been "aim for the general area of one of them bike things", but more the point they flung it near the front of a bunch of bikes. Did they think i wouldnt mind, and my compadres wouldnt take offence at such an act toward a fellow biker and come back for a chat?

chances are they did, hence why they likely floored it as soon as they saw you pull over. still glad it wasnt much, much worse.

[Brownstoo]

Yeah, there's some really shit people round these days. I've had eggs, emtpy beer cans, and water balloons chucked at me (in my car that is).
Only thing I've hit on my bike is a big ass mofo hawk thingy, which flew up from its roadkill in front of me and decided the best escape route was directly through my chest.
That fucking hurt, and only on my second decent ride ever.

[Laxi]

hang em high

[firefighter]

People like this deserve to be locked away in a 2x2 cell with no sun light.

Shoot them in the face.....

[fizbin]

bro that just sucks arse! just glad your okay. it is a good thing you have so much padding otherwise it might have hurt!:crazy::whistle:

[LBD]

The type of beer still hasn't been revealed. This is important information in deciding the severity of this alleged crime.

Probably a SI drinkers auto reflex responding to a first sip of an NI brew....



(Apologies to Badger8...I do appreciate the severity of the incident and no way intend to make light of it)

[Badger8]

bro that just sucks arse! just glad your okay. it is a good thing you have so much padding otherwise it might have hurt!:crazy::whistle:

i feel sorry for the beer, it wouldnt know what hit it! :lol:


Probably a SI drinkers auto reflex responding to a first sip of an NI brew....



(Apologies to Badger8...I do appreciate the severity of the incident and no way intend to make light of it)

:laugh: wouldnt surprise me!

(all good, gave me a good chuckle :yes:)