URGENT!!!

[Motoracer]

cross-post from another thread. I thought it might be better off under here...

We read and post of fellow bikers around NZ who have been unfortunate and while we read the posts, we pause and think about the loss, but we didn't know anything about them. This is different. Everyone on KB is well known, regardless of how many posts they've made and how they are seen in the community, they are still part of Kiwi Biker, which brings it real close to home. We're stretched out from the tip of the north island to the bottom of the south and everywhere inbetween, yet on the forum, we're all in the same place. It's this that brings the happy bits and the sad bits to your sofa, desk or chair.


I've not been able to concentrate much today, and I know I had joked a few times on threads with Sam, but I never personally met him. I'm still at a loss for words. This is the first 'loss' for me since joining the forum too.

Yea, I fully agree with the statement above. Well said, who ever it was.

[bugjuice]

Yea, I fully agree with the statement above. Well said, who ever it was.

this was from me, but I originally put it in the thread asking about the silent thread. I wrote it and realised that this is something that I feel I should say here, so I copied it over..

[Stevo]

Seconded,........................ Carried

[Hitcher]

Call for road works after motorcyclist dies

02.05.05 12.00pm


Calls for urgent road works on a Wairarapa road have been intensified following a fatal crash yesterday.

A Wellington motorcyclist who died in Masterton Hospital yesterday is the fourth person to die in three years following crashes at a bend on the Masterton-Martinborough Road at Gladstone.

The man, 20, died after his motorcycle collided with a car near the crest of a rising bend on the road at Gladstone about 1.45pm. His name has not yet been made public.

The smash happened just metres from the spot where Joseph Tyacke and Tony Bak were killed when American tourist Pamela Stone struck a group of motorcyclists in her Honda 4WD vehicle on Anzac Day, 2002.

Earlier this year Masterton man Bernie Esler died in hospital several days after crashing his motorcycle on the same curve. It has yet to be established whether the medical complications that caused his death were the result of serious injuries he received in the crash.

Mr Tyacke's widow Shirley Tyacke said lives were being lost because roading authorities have not tackled the design of the S-bend corner.

"There's been two accidents there since ours and these would never have happened if the road was straighter," Mrs Tyacke said yesterday.

She said she had been under the impression the road would be altered and that new warning signs put up after the crash were merely an interim measure.

- WAIRARAPA TIMES-AGE

[R6_kid:Me]

man this sucks, i've had a wierd feeling something was wrong when i started reading. Sounds like he was a good guy and you cant complain with that.

Im heading down to thames this friday night and i sure as hell will be taking it slower than normal just to make sure i get there in one piece.

Keep an eye out and try to avoid "known spots"

stay safe, stay alive

rest in piece sam.

~G~

[Uncle B]

I am deeply saddened by this passing of a fellow biker on a road that I love to go fast on and leave the worlds troubles behind.

Events like this make you stop and think......mere mortals we are.

R I P Sam

[Rainbow Wizard]

He gets my vote for endorsing the most favourable impression, both in his living and in his passing. A fine young man who despite his young age has left his important message in the minds and hearts of many. Long may he and his message be remembered. Thankyou Sam.


"Met Flyin yesterday - He's a good dude, and has chosen the right handle, because he was! Wish I could ride like that after only 4 months on a bike." Jim2

[ricksta]

oh man.... i'm new to KB but to hear that a fellow motorcylist has gone is just sad...

May u rest in peace Sam... us KB'ers will always miss ya heaps!

[bevsta]

Rest in peace bud, only just saw this now but absolutely gutted to see a member of such an awesome group taken so tragically.
Thoughts with the family and those guys and gurls who were close,
very sad.