Queens Birthday Etiquette

[XF650]

Just a reminder to our fellow adventurers that it's "gypsy time".
Over the next few days the share milkers shift properties, which means many stock trucks on our back roads spilling slippery shit on the corners or splashing sticky liquid gold onto ya visors.
Some herds are walked to their next home, emptying out as they go & often hidden by that brow in the road.
Watch out too for unsecure loads on dodgey looking trailers, often being towed by a slow tractor that's just around the next blind corner.....
It's an interesting time of year in the rural areas.

[blackdog]

Well put. No bling left.

[Motu]

While on another thread they aren't so forgiving. Why aren't people a bit more accepting of life...what makes their life interesting if it runs perfectly to their rules? Maybe that's it...control freaks.

I love our ever changing roads and conditions....all you have to do is keep your eyes open,what's so hard about that?

[XF650]

Spot on Motu.
I get the impression many of the whingers forget we live in a rural based economy.

[Woodman]

While on another thread they aren't so forgiving. Why aren't people a bit more accepting of life...what makes their life interesting if it runs perfectly to their rules? Maybe that's it...control freaks.

I love our ever changing roads and conditions....all you have to do is keep your eyes open,what's so hard about that?

Well put, I think there are those out there who believe that public roads should be at all times groomed like a race track with marshalls waving flags etc, and the sole point of roads is so that motorcyclists can ride around on them how they like.

[Aslan]

useful post Struan - I experienced some of what you describe when traveling the Forgotten World Highway this past weekend - enjoy the Brass! Cheers S

[young1]

Steve, while in the area, did you pay a visit to your "favourite" rural bus shelter?

useful post Struan - I experienced some of what you describe when traveling the Forgotten World Highway this past weekend - enjoy the Brass! Cheers S

[tri boy]

Slap her on the arse,
pinch her jewelery,
flog her best brandy.
Say G'day to Charlie, and pinch Katies bum on the way out.
Roll Britania

[NordieBoy]

And when you're out on your bike this weekend, make sure you remember to wave in the prescribed royal manner...

[Monstaman]

I love our ever changing roads and conditions....all you have to do is keep your eyes open,what's so hard about that?

Rode over from Herriot to Ettrick last Sunday on the 990 SMR, rural road and covered in shit and mud, wet just to add flavour.

Had one moment where there was wet shit ALL over the road on a straight and through the bend, combine with deep muddy clay under it .... less than I deal for roady 17's.

I was not going fast at all (in low gears here) but she did a big slide and I thought I was gonna do some gardening on the bike.

So yeap eyes peeled and be ready for shit in the middle of shit too.

Ride safe gents (and smart).

[Motu]

And what's with all these fuckin' possums all over the road? Hit one of those in a corner and you'll slide on the guts into the ditch...or worse yet end up with possum brains in your knee slider. Why don't they have road crews out cleaning these things up...dead possums are a death trap!

[marks]

And what's with all these fuckin' possums all over the road? Hit one of those in a corner and you'll slide on the guts into the ditch...or worse yet end up with possum brains in your knee slider. Why don't they have road crews out cleaning these things up...dead possums are a death trap!

probably not an ideal situation from the possums point of view either

[Box'a'bits]

Re Possums, I rode with a couple of good friends to do the 1000 Miler Grand Challenge a decade or two ago. That year we did a number of backroads nr Hamilton. I was the 3rd bike. The first bike would dazzle the possum. The second would hit the brakes & dazzle me. I would ALWAYS hit the possum... Decimated the nightlife, and kept me well awake.

[98tls]

While on another thread they aren't so forgiving. Why aren't people a bit more accepting of life...what makes their life interesting if it runs perfectly to their rules? Maybe that's it...control freaks.

I love our ever changing roads and conditions....all you have to do is keep your eyes open,what's so hard about that?

Was out and about today down here in cowsville,hear what your saying M but will add a few signs wouldnt go astray.Big herds mean heaps of shit and when they have moved on and theres no obvious signs of a herd on the move ie 4wds,4 wheelers etc its pretty easy to get caught out.

[Motu]

I guess I'm just a tinarsed bastard,but in a shit load of years riding on a shit load of back roads,although I've been surprised by roaming wildlife (and never hit any)...I've never been surprised by a stock movement,even in the bad old days when any sort of warning was unheard of. It's just a case of being aware of where and when you are...and being aware of your own mortality.

And as for cow shit - COME ON !!!!!! I know those in Auckland get a bit annoyed with a touch of cow poo on the Porsche Cayenne,but any Kiwi who recoils in horror from cow pat needs to fuck off back to Australia.