Roast Duc on the menu?

[gav]

http://speedzilla.zeroforum.com/zerothread?id=42299
Anyone here know this guy, Andi? Posted about his woes with his MH900evo and now this!!

[idb]

http://speedzilla.zeroforum.com/zerothread?id=42299
Anyone here know this guy, Andi? Posted about his woes with his MH900evo and now this!!

Yep, met him at the Duc rally last week.
He lives in Wanaka & is pretty active (in a motorcycling kind of way) there. He told me that he had started up a new club in Wanaka.

[LB]

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Holy shit, yep I met Andi at the Ducati Rally the other w/end too, a really nice bloke.

Someone sent me the Stuff webpage link yesterday, and I never dreamed I'd know who it was.

Scary stuff.
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[erik]

He's the same guy that was having all those problems before?

Wow, he's got some bad luck!

[Wolf]

What a crying shame. Glad he got clear in time with no injuries. Can understand why he nearly shat himself and is freaked out by it.

[White trash]

Now, normally, I'd be the first to break out the marshmallows at the site of Duc on fire.

But that just plain sucks.

Poor bugger.

[justsomeguy]

Had a similar thing happen to my old corolla... a fuel line developed a leak and leaked petrol fumes into the engine, the fumes gradually built up and ignited........

At 6pm on a Tuesday night on Dominion Road....... luckily the fire truck came there in 4 mins flat in rush hour traffic......... so only the engine burnt...... not very scarry as it finished as soon as it started, was a bit sad actually standing on the other side of the road watching it happen..........

Real Hero's those fire truck fellas...... and all the ambo's in general...... the pigs on the other hand ......

[scumdog]

Real Hero's those fire truck fellas...... and all the ambo's in general...... the pigs on the other hand ......

You were going to say "are even better"?

[Ixion]

Oh man, that would really hurt to have to watch your wheel go up like that.Bad enough to have it burn after a crash, but to be just riding along and have that happen ! He is one unlucky dude I reckon.Sounds
like the fuel supply to one cylinder blew (fractured pipe, union loose or whatever). Thus losing that cylinder, then the pissing fuel went up.

I've only once had a bike erupt in flames around me and it was real scarey.The old 5T, I'd blatted down the motorway to Mt Wellington , turned into Mt Wellington highway, stopped at the lights and "woof", there's flames roaring up around my legs. Eeek. Roasted *chestnuts* is one thing, I don't want *those* nuts roasted. Luckily they were doing roadworks on the other side of the road and there was a big mound of bulldozed up gravel there. Turn off fuel , leap bike across the road (screech goes the oncoming traffic , but who cares !) and throw it down on the gravel and scoop gravel all over the bike like a demented madman. Amazingly, all that suffered was some blistering on paint and plastic.

Float bowl on the Amal concentric had loosened off, petrol slopped out and ran down onto the stupid sideways distributor thing those bikes had. On the motorway, it all blew away. Stopped at the lights, woof. After that I always wired those screws!

Oddly although the flames were all around my legs, I wasn't hurt at all (had a hard job convincing the road works guys not to call an ambo, they were quite scared ). Just heat blistered my leggings a bit.

[denill]

Read that; No decision has yet been made whether to send the bill for firefighting costs to the Duke owner???????????

Talk about (maybe) rubbing it in.........