Rubbish on road, my good deed today.

[rocketman1]

I just rode past a small piece of decking timber on a corner near Whatawhata this afternoon, I wonder how many other bikers passed it and did nothing.
I did the same, got 200m down the road and decided, I cant leave that there, so I turned around and rode back and kicked it into the ditch.
I couldnt live with myself to hear later some biker had been injured.
Nah dont want a medal, just hope it saved someone falling off
I feel better for it.

[hayd3n]

yea i tend to do little thing to help the world turn
wouldn't it suck if the drain was blocked and some other person removed it from the drain to help the flow

[sunhuntin]

ive done that once or twice... first time was one of those roadside markers... you know the ones they stick on the open roads with reflector tape. that was in the middle of wanganui outside the burger king... right in the middle of a lane, on the line, by street lights. i couldnt do much other than kick it to the left due to the road camber. note: the reflectors dont work when its lying down. only cos it was white that i saw it at all.
second was a road cone dumped in the middle of the road, well away from roadworks. parked up and removed it from the road entirely. its reflectors worked quite well., thankfully.

and almost ran over a street sign that had just been hit [saw the car speeding away as i came up the road] thank god i saw it was square and not flat like i thought. funny thing is that it was right outside a cops house, yet they did nothing. i helped a couple of neighbours shift it to the verge.

thats the perils of riding at dusk i guess.

[BiK3RChiK]

Funny you post this! I was driving home in my work vehicle tonight right on dusk and come round the corner into my street and see a whole man-hole cover missing! Just a big gaping hole right on the corner... I thought, that'd be nasty if someone was on a bike and coming round that corner, so rang the Council and they sent someone out pronto to replace it. Wonder what on earth someone would want to nick one of those for?!

[BMWST?]

Funny you post this! I was driving home in my work vehicle tonight right on dusk and come round the corner into my street and see a whole man-hole cover missing! Just a big gaping hole right on the corner... I thought, that'd be nasty if someone was on a bike and coming round that corner, so rang the Council and they sent someone out pronto to replace it. Wonder what on earth someone would want to nick one of those for?!

not only that but how!They are hard to remove for those that dont know how and they are friken heavy,i guess for scrap??

[cc rider]

yea i tend to do little thing to help the world turn
wouldn't it suck if the drain was blocked and some other person removed it from the drain to help the flow

is the little things for sure
wouldn't it suck if it lay across the footpath and some other person removed it to prevent a person at night tripping over

[caseye]

Funny you post this! I was driving home in my work vehicle tonight right on dusk and come round the corner into my street and see a whole man-hole cover missing! Just a big gaping hole right on the corner... I thought, that'd be nasty if someone was on a bike and coming round that corner, so rang the Council and they sent someone out pronto to replace it. Wonder what on earth someone would want to nick one of those for?!

Simple , they are cast iron and it's damn expensive, the scrap value is nearly $60.00 for one manhole cover! Theft of manhole covers has become a very dangerous pastime and yes motorcyclists have suffered thanks to these low lilfe barstards taking them from the middle of the road.
rocketman1, cheers for that, a month ago my wife came off her bike after htting debris left in the road way.
It was one of many car parts left dangerously in the road, at night in an area that had no street lighting at all, she didn't have a chance when she saw it, it was only 2 feet in front of her. and it nearly cost her her life, she did all the right things but still came off hard, her gear saved her more than a few bruises and some cuts and abrassions, but if the pricks responsible for letting all of this stuff come off their trailer had simply stopped and gone back to pick it up it might never have happened.
I stop and pick up stuff, or move it off the road at least these days especially after seeing my wife crash behind me in my mirrors and hearing her and her bike hit the road, not a pleasant experience I can tell you.
On a brighter note she got her bike back on Saturday and she did over 100 miles with me that day without a hiccup.Though these days she is particularly attentive to whats on/in the road ahead of her.
Life gives us some hard lessons and some easy ones, take em all and learn from the lot, none of us know everything.

[Shadows]

yea i tend to do little thing to help the world turn
wouldn't it suck if the drain was blocked and some other person removed it from the drain to help the flow

is the little things for sure
wouldn't it suck if it lay across the footpath and some other person removed it to prevent a person at night tripping over

Especially if somebody had just removed from the lane in case somebody hit it with their vehicle.

Somebody should have burned the fucker to break the cycle.

[cc rider]

Is all good folks, is bin night here. I'll just pop it in