Greymouth man survives accident

[Forest]

Yikes. What a story.

Something that's worth thinking about - if you go off the road while riding solo, will anybody come looking for you?

[swbarnett]

He should've worn a full face helmet. I'm guessing he had an open face jobbie. A full face helmet would've given him room to not only breath...but curse and swear his mates for leaving him behind...as the chin bar would've sat on the bottom of the puddle and kept his mouth approx 5mm above the waters surface.

Full face skid lids rule.

Surely that depends on the depth of the puddle?

[scumdog]

He should've worn a full face helmet. I'm guessing he had an open face jobbie. A full face helmet would've given him room to not only breath...but curse and swear his mates for leaving him behind...as the chin bar would've sat on the bottom of the puddle and kept his mouth approx 5mm above the waters surface.

Full face skid lids rule.

And MY guess is that I'll win Lotto this week too....

KN is waay too full of 'guessers'.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Surely that depends on the depth of the puddle?

And MY guess is that I'll win Lotto this week too....

KN is waay too full of 'guessers'.

It's called sarcasm.

[swbarnett]

It's called sarcasm.

Must fix detector.

[Zuki lover]

We normally have head counts when riding - and regular stop off points. Occassionally there have been riders dissappearing - but someone usually knows that they decided to turn off and head for home or the likes.

But trapped under a harley for 14 hours - man that sucks!!!!!!!!

[steve74]

2 sides to every story. I head from a friend that visited him in hospital that he was on his own riding from greymouth to haast and met up and tagged on the back of a group heading north. Some may not have even known who he was or that he was even there? One thing about traveling in south westland/ haast. you can run 2 metres off the road and never be seen again. planes have crashed down there and are never seen again. At least half a dozen times in the last few years people have been trapped in cars 5 to 10m from the road and it has taken days/weeks to find them.

The poor bloke was still in hospital with other injurys on monday.

[rosie631]

Something that's worth thinking about - if you go off the road while riding solo, will anybody come looking for you?

That does make you think eh? I ride on my own quite a lot. Makes me wonder if I should make sure someone knows where I'm planning on going and what time I expect to be back. Kind of takes the freedom away tho.

[dipshit]

That does make you think eh? I ride on my own quite a lot. Makes me wonder if I should make sure someone knows where I'm planning on going and what time I expect to be back. Kind of takes the freedom away tho.

It looks like emergency locator beacons are getting small enough to slip into a jacket pocket now. www.406beaconhire.com Would probably be worth a close look.

[scumdog]

good!!! 450km is a long way to leave a "mate" lying in a puddle dont you think?

Straight from the 'horses mouth', he was NOT 'left behind by his mates".

He had told them he was splitting with the groupt to head to work.

So until his mrs realised he hadn't come home from work nobody knew he was missing.

Had hit rain-slicked tar and arsed off the road with no sign of a crash.

Was pinned under the bike with a msahsed elbow, broken ribs and a hole in his back where the front axle had dug in, also serious internal injuries.

Persistent, diligent searching by his mates eventually found him (the knew where he must crashed to withing a km or so).

He bears them no grudge as they did nothing wrong and was really grateful for their search efforts.

But hey, this IS KB where ranting-before-facts-are-known is the norm.

[duckonin]

the TEC can also end up a long way behind the front runners, keeping an eye on the slower riders. Unfortunately you can't have a TEC for the TEC.

TEC looks after himself, he is the one that reguards speed as " been there done that" and dicks along "hopefully" safely!!!

But he may still miss the one that went over the bank..

Others also have to be responsible for themselves..