For old buggers (40+) only. Youff piss off.

[ManDownUnder]

Flip, what has been said many times over about Murf's law ?

Murphy's an idiot - hates being challenged so here it is black and white. MURPH - DO YA WORST!!!!!!!!!!!

So - anyone up for a group ride with me?

[klingon]

I just made the stats look pretty bad, sorry Ixion.

You see I am old (positively ancient really) but I've only been riding for three years and was hit by a car when I'd been riding for only six months!

It's really not fair - I've had many years of driving without an accident or even a speeding ticket, then six months into my riding I get hit from behind at a stop sign by a dozy car driver who fully intended to drive straight through the compulsory stop.

Fractured ribs, mild concussion, lots of bruising and a broken bike later, I find myself being one of the statistics that can be used to 'prove' how dangerous motorbikes are. I would just like to point out how much better off I was with all my safety gear than if the same half-asleep driver had driven through the same stop sign and hit a pedestrian or a push-bike rider.

Also the claim went against her insurance, so surely the ACC stats should also go against her record as the cause of the injury, not against mine as the victim. I mean, we don't ask pedestrians to pay ACC levies in case they get hit by a car do we?

[Voltaire]

we don't ask pedestrians to pay ACC levies in case they get hit by a car do we?

I saw this in the Herald..so it must be true.
I read it out to my wife....shortened version is bike riding is safer than working on the house.
Whats next ..Site Safe Pass to buy stuff at Bunnings and M10?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10595342

ACC went on to blame 'middle aged' handymen.....jeepers....thats like saying under 20's are more likely to be involved in skateboard accidents......dry....

[klingon]

ACC injury prevention team leader Ceri Davies said middle-aged men often had "just enough tools to get themselves into trouble, but not enough tools to get themselves out of it".

You middle-aged men should really maintain your equipment better!

[Voltaire]

You middle-aged men should really maintain your equipment better!

ACC went on say...

"Say you're screwing something on a wall above your head with both hands [and] you lose balance. You haven't got time to put your hand out to steady yourself."

......and thats how the teeth marks got on my equipment.....really....

[vifferman]

I'd like to say that socks have caused me more pain than my bikes have.
Bikes: few cuts'n bruises, 9 stitches in right knee, possibly cracked heel.
Socks: Cracked eyebrow, 6 stitches in right eye, two black eyes, possibly broken nose, wrecked rotator cuff, a few months of physio, 9 years of arthritis (so far - can expect more'n'more'n'more.....)

Socks are evil, and should carry a health warning:
WARNING: Socks can be dangerous in some situations, and could cause injury!

Mind you if I was wearing ATGATT when operating myself in my socks, there'd likely be no injury.

[klingon]

...
WARNING: Socks can be dangerous in some situations, and could cause injury!
...

Especially the combination of socks and a lovely polished wooden staircase...

[MikeL]

It's really not fair - I've had many years of driving without an accident or even a speeding ticket,

Now someone who understands statistics should look at the correlation between years of riding, number of accidents and number of speeding tickets. Three variables is far too much for my non-mathematical brain to cope with, though...

[vifferman]

Especially the combination of socks and a lovely polished wooden staircase...

... or the front bumper of a Pajero, while carrying an armful of tools'n'stuff.
(It wasn't the lack of traction a foot from the end wot did it, but the faceplant into the doorframe and concrete. "D'oh!!" and all that...)

[MSTRS:Me]

You middle-aged men should really maintain your equipment better!

It's the lack of use. We get them out often enough, it's just that we get told to 'put that away'...

[MadDuck]

So - anyone up for a group ride with me?

Sure - I am. But will you be able to keep up old man

[PrincessBandit]

ACC went on say...

"Say you're screwing something against a wall ....
......and thats how the teeth marks got on my equipment.....really....

Oh really...??????

[MarkH]

A couple of low speed "oh bugger, I fell over' s but never injured myself.

Sounds about the same as me - not one injury accident ever. I have never needed medical treatment for any motor vehicle accident.

I think it's the over 40s who have not ridden for 20 years that are the problem.

That was me a year ago, but now I have over 22,000 kms of recent riding experience and have still maintained my lifetime record of 0 days in hospital.

[MarkH]

You assume I haven't seen it already.

More alarmingly, I understand that they're filming a remake of it. Hopefully it doesn't end up shite like most remakes (thinking Gone in Sixty Seconds, Ocean's Eleven etc here).

Logan's Run was a series, those others are movies. Hopefully Logan's Run would be more like Battlestar Galactica or The Bionic Woman - where the remake was pretty decent.

I tried to watch Space 1999 a few years ago because I used to watch it every week when I was young and I remember enjoying it - but it was just too dated so I stopped watching. I think that watching some of my childhood favourites again would just spoil my warm memories of them. I doubt I could enjoy The Tomorrow People today (unless they did a good remake).

[MarkH]

I saw this in the Herald..so it must be true.
I read it out to my wife....shortened version is bike riding is safer than working on the house.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10595342

Hang on - with all the deaths and injuries around the house, why is there this huge push to make motorcyclists pay more on their rego? Sure bikers crash and injure themselves and even kill themselves, but if they didn't ride then they would be at home injuring and killing themselves falling off ladders - doesn't sound like the risk to life & limb has gone up all that much by riding a bike (so why the big levy?)

I have never needed medical treatment of any kind from riding or driving and only once in 42 years from an incident around the home (7 stitches back when I was 9 or 10). It's not me running up the ACC costs.