Queens Birthday Etiquette

[FJRider]

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).

I don't know why they call it Moa FLAT ....

[scumdog]

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

But not if you're a Harley rider, you're not allowed to...

[scumdog]

I don't know why they call it Moa FLAT ....

Yeah, it's moa hilly than flat

[FJRider]

But not if you're a Harley rider, you're not allowed to...

UNLESS ... it's the KB wave ...

[98tls]

I guess I'm just a tin arsed 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.

Sounds like something my old man would have said before collecting a Kamikaze ewe whilst heading through to Waiau many years ago on a not very old wire wheeled Katana,fucked him up pretty good and he still has whats left of the helmet,possibly a reminder of his mortality.

[Monstaman]

Yeah, it's moa hilly than flat

It is a groovy road even in the wet but deep wet poos and wet clay, I won't take the SMR over than again at least in winter for the lack of traction.

Don't mind a dirty bike from a great ride but ... a n d I want to know,

WHY does it stick (like shit to a blanket) literally ... I mean you can make adhesive from that crap

yet

WHY is it so slippery to ride on .

It must have been designed by a woman cos a bloke wouldn't do that!

[Aslan]

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

Hi Mike - no due to time constraints I gave the Mt Damper Road and the School Bus shelter a miss

[warewolf]

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.

On one I did about that long ago, we came west over the Coromandels in the middle of the night. I crested a curved rise to spot a possum on the ideal line, with a 180 section hollow in it's back. I didn't alter my line, didn't feel a bump, and I spoke to a couple of dozen riders at the after-party - they'd all seen and done the same thing! The possum was still there in that state a couple of hours later.

The triple-whammy trick I've seen in cars, but with a rabbit. First car goes over it, second car sees rabbit pop up from underneath and they collect it on the back of the head while it's busy watching the first car receding, must be thinking "Sh!t that was...clonk!". Third car sees rabbit spat out underneath number 2, wildly cartwheeling towards them, fur flying, cartoon style, it bounces off the windscreen and over the top!

any Kiwi who recoils in horror from cow pat needs to fuck off back to Australia.

Cow pats not a Kiwi-only phenomena. Plenty of them in Aussie, too! And lots of rural Aussie roads are only one lane of bitumen - at least here you generally have a second lane to swerve on to.

[Ender EnZed]

Sounds like something my old man would have said before collecting a Kamikaze ewe whilst heading through to Waiau many years ago on a not very old wire wheeled Katana,fucked him up pretty good and he still has whats left of the helmet,possibly a reminder of his mortality.

Well I agree with him and I could probably be your old man's grandson, have never lived outside of a city and I hit a sheep last year. Mind you, the sheep lost. My views might be different if it hadn't.