2 New Unmarked Police Cars in Welly

[Coldkiwi]

Originally posted by ManDownUnder
 



Good luck wih the cops... or... stay within the law :-)
MDU

...by buying a GN 250

 

[ManDownUnder]

Originally posted by Coldkiwi
...by buying a GN 250

 

 

oooOOOooo - no fair. There are 30kph areas you know (assuming the GN can make it THROUGH the shingle on the road).

As a kid my mate used to have one - called it the Gutless Nothing.

To be fair though - a good starter bike, but I hope the handling has improved over the years.

[riffer]

They can't be too slow. A mate of mine managed to kill himself about ten years ago on one in Masterton.

Committed all the mistakes... rode drunk, in the rain, hauled the brakes on when he slid on the railway tracks on the corner - all the while target fixating on the nearby lampost ... which was what killed him (well six weeks later the pneumonia got him - but anyway hitting the lampost split his brains two hemisphere's apart).

Anyway, since then I've not been a fan of GN250s.

[jrandom]

Originally posted by celticno6
They can't be too slow. A mate of mine managed to kill himself about ten years ago on one in Masterton.

Committed all the mistakes... rode drunk, in the rain, hauled the brakes on when he slid on the railway tracks on the corner - all the while target fixating on the nearby lampost ... which was what killed him (well six weeks later the pneumonia got him - but anyway hitting the lampost split his brains two hemisphere's apart).

Anyway, since then I've not been a fan of GN250s.

er... doesn't sound like the bike's flaws, whatever they may be, had much to do with that accident.

[riffer]

I never said my mate was perfect...

But his bike was pretty shitty too.

[ManDownUnder]

Originally posted by celticno6
I never said my mate was perfect...

But his bike was pretty shitty too.

GN250 issues aside... sorry to hear about the loss mate. Always bad to hear about things like that. When all is said and done, blame can be cast in all directions - the fact remains... he was a mate

MDU

[jrandom]

Originally posted by celticno6
his bike was pretty shitty too

Oh yes, GN250s are shitty, no doubt about it. They're just shitty in a kind of useful, nonthreatening, handles OK, not gonna cost a lot to run kinda way

And I'm not going to pass comment on motorcycling accidents I don't know about firsthand so... meh.