Blocks of wood in the road

[BoristheBiter]

So, you have been a perfect gentleman up to that point; and this is where you lift the front wheel & show them what you really have got (politely of course!)

I drive the AKL motorway everyday, of course I'm the prefect gentleman.

Until i get to work to hear the abuse on the answer phone (got to remember the ute has my name and number over it)

[sootie]

I drive the AKL motorway everyday, of course I'm the prefect gentleman.

Until i get to work to hear the abuse on the answer phone (got to remember the ute has my name and number over it)

Paint the ute up like a block of wood - you seem to be OK to do what you like then!

[kiwi cowboy]

[QUOTE=FJRider;1130402094]Don't get me wrong ... it's a rat-race down here too ... (But the rats down here run a lot slower)


OR ride yamies with special attraction to fj's i understand

[FJRider]

Don't get me wrong ... it's a rat-race down here too ... (But the rats down here run a lot slower)

OR ride yamies with special attraction to fj's i understand

Cry me a river ... oop's ... you already have ...

Quote me properly if you don't mind ...

Fast bikes in slow races are always fun ... (honda riders do it the other way round)

[kiwi cowboy]

Cry me a river ... oop's ... you already have ...

Na dount know that song.

Quote me properly if you don't mind ...

I did I did

Fast bikes in slow races are always fun ... (honda riders do it the other way round)

Thats me on me race bike but thats a suzi-maybe i shouls get the onda on the track NOT wife would kiil me

[FJRider]

Thats me on me race bike but thats a suzi-maybe i shouls get the onda on the track NOT wife would kiil me

Go on ... you have to die of something. But increase your life insurance first. So no matter where you die accidently (by your wife or by honda) ... SHE will be well off ...

[Akzle]

Thats me on me race bike but thats a suzi-maybe i shouls get the onda on the track NOT wife would kiil me

holyrunonsentencebatman!

[kiwi cowboy]

holyrunonsentencebatman!

i cloud awlyas wirhgt lkie tihs

[kiwi cowboy]

Go on ... you have to die of something. But increase your life insurance first. So no matter where you die accidently (by your wife or by honda) ... SHE will be well off ...

Yeh Na tried that recently but got a letter saying due to my recent past they cant offer me any

[R-Soul]

Glad you're OK, mate, though pity about your rims...



I know, aye? Pisses me off so, that I go around them honking and/or giving them a look like "WTF!"...

And they are either texting or talking on the phone, OR not doing anything and yet oblivious to the 10 cars held up behind them...

Thanks - although I am all sorted now. Spectrum motorcycles sorted me out with a set of second hand rims -I preferred this to having them fixed. New ones would have meant the bike is written off, or me waiting months for rims from Japan.

[R-Soul]

Shit mate, every time i see you on the motorway I move over.
It must be the hypnotizing paint job on your helmet

I KNOW!



I think I am onto something here with this helmet. Even if I got a nice new carbon fibre one, I would do the same to it. I already have a plan for what its going to look like. Spirals - really hypnotising!

[R-Soul]

Nice idea. I seem to recall that the last one a couple of months ago went down like a paedophile at a five years old birthday party.

And what is ART out of interest?

Advanced rider training days. I recommend the hell out of them. And any time spent on track.

[R-Soul]

Dam right ... !!! if you were in front ... you would have seen it much sooner ...

Only a bit of wood anyway ... I've seen a double bed (complete with mattress and blankets) upside down on a road near here once ...

If you used the two second rule while following ... you would have had plenty of time to change your line. Obviously following too closely ... your fault.

yes probably- and because I was look ing away when it came out. But it was heavy traffic over the birdge - no place to pass, and moving in "waves" like pressure pulses, so you get too close when they barke, you brake and then they speed up again...

I have started giving a lot of extra room between myself and cages. But that is an invite for other cages to move in.

[R-Soul]

I have been hit by significant objects several times while crossing the Ak harbour bridge.
I reckon the odds are about one significant strike every 500 crossings.
Then there are all the ones I did manage to avoid by seeing them early enough .....
Welcome to the world of Ak road riding! LOL

I have been corssing teh bridge almost every day for about the last four years on a bike - never hit a thing!

[sootie]

I have been corssing teh bridge almost every day for about the last four years on a bike - never hit a thing!

Well, I can only tell you that in 20 odd years of largely crossing the bridge by bike, I have been personally hit by a lump of 4x2, hit by a tennis ball sized rock squeezed out by a truck tyre in the adjacent lane, had a bumble bee invade my visor, seen hub caps rolling between the cars, and had to negotiate chemical & oil spills. I have also chosen to ride across in wind gusts of around 160kph (they close the bridge now days for that!) So far I have managed to stay sunny side up, but I am not too cocky about this after these incidents.

I do think the bridge is a safer place now days, perhaps because of more police & driver attention to safety, but you need to be aware that very occasionally it can hold nasty surprises for a motorcyclist. Go Well!