Yet another biker killed

[vifferman]

Quite right. Yet we don't think that "this might be my time...." do we?

Yup. Sometimes.

[riffer]

Damn. I was going to take the black armband off my jacket.

Guess I won't now.





RIP

[Motu]

Probably a dirt road too,most of them are at that location.

Kaipara Flats road itself is all gravel,single lane and very twisty,but I don't think there are any bridges on it.There are several one lane bridges on the Tauhoa rd at the western end,it's gravel from the Kaipara Flats rd intersection,but seal eastwards to the Dome Valley intersection....I don't know the east end very well,it's seal so I don't ride it.One lane Bridges invarably seem to be on a corner,easy to get the approach wrong.

RIP dude....

[T.I.E]

Nope, If its where I think it is - then its one of those ones that you cross without realising... Or is that just me?

i think i know the bridge you mean. a little speed and there it is too late, and at night your head lights don't awlays hit the signs so you can see them.
there could have been more factors aswell. eg cattleor another car too.
i guess we will never know.

[gav]

Do car forums post a thread every time a car driver dies in an accident?

[Coyote]

What happened for him to hit a bridge? Slide into it or something?

Still a real bugger though. R.I.P.

[Patch]

What is it with bridges and bikes??

A couple of years ago, a chap rode a shop bike down south and tried to move a bridge with it.

Be careful and always ride to the conditions whether you know the road or not.

Be safe.

[Ixion]

What is it with bridges and bikes??
..

Tis because most places on the road if you lowside you have a chance of sliding to a stop, maybe knocked about but alive. Cos most roads have some space alongside the seal - gravel, ditch, bank etc .Lowside on a bridge or coming into it and you almost immediately hit the bridge side bits. Hard. And die

Also bridges are often nasty. I treat them all with intense suspicion. The angle is often nasty - the road often runs along side the river/stream, then swings round real sharp to cross at a right angle And they have a real bad habit of developing a nasty pothole/ridge where the soft road surface meets the hard bridge deck. Dodgy in daylight, treacherous indeed at night - and in the rain maybe too. Don't forget also, some still have the wooden decks - slippery as a politician avoiding a straight answer when they're wet.

[ajturbo]

Do car forums post a thread every time a car driver dies in an accident?

always one smarty in a pack eh!
hell if they did that the forums would choke