Taranaki Toy Run crash

[FJRider]

Why, oh why did they put those stupid rumble strips on the roadsides instead of on the centreline? This would stop a lot of people from drifting over to the wrong side of the road.

Have you never taken a right hand corner with the tyres touching just left of the center line. With YOUR head half a meter over ... ??? Are you then legally over the line or not ... ?? (Does it really make a difference)

[jellywrestler]

Why, oh why did they put those stupid rumble strips on the roadsides instead of on the centreline? This would stop a lot of people from drifting over to the wrong side of the road.

its' so people get startled and swerve away from the noise, sometimes into on coming traffic!

[Sensei]

well well well......
the last pub, how many did you stop at????

The pubs etc were regrouping points for most , 12+ if you must know !

[Road kill]

Who are the NZ Motorcycle safety council ?,,,at last that's what I thought the guy called them/himself.

Heard this guy on the radio today "head of the NZMC safety council,,pointing out all his reasons it was pretty much the bikers own fault somebody ran them down because they were riding in a large group.

I have no idea who this cunt is but if he's on our side "we're fucked.

[scumdog]

Who are the NZ Motorcycle safety council ?,,,at last that's what I thought the guy called them/himself.

Heard this guy on the radio today "head of the NZMC safety council,,pointing out all his reasons it was pretty much the bikers own fault somebody ran them down because they were riding in a large group.

I have no idea who this cunt is but if he's on our side "we're fucked.

He might have a point.

"spread out, that way they won't get all of us with the one grenade"

[duckonin]

He might have a point.

"spread out, that way they won't get all of us with the one grenade"

+1 I shall go with that.

[Naki Rat]

Why, oh why did they put those stupid rumble strips on the roadsides instead of on the centreline? This would stop a lot of people from drifting over to the wrong side of the road.

Having lived on a rural highway in the BOP with centreline rumble strips I can tell you they don't stop drivers overtaking, but they do piss off those who live near the road. The constant 'rat-tat-tat' as vehicles cross the centreline used to drive us nuts

[pete376403]

Meanwhile, in other parts of the 'naki...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-dail...eed-bike-chase

Someones not doing us any favours.

[scumdog]

Meanwhile, in other parts of the 'naki...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-dail...eed-bike-chase

Someones not doing us any favours.

Sorry to tell you but there's already a ginormous thread on KB on that topic.

[duckonin]

And reinforces the justification of the increased ACC levies ...

Rubbish !!!

[FJRider]

Who are the NZ Motorcycle safety council ?,,,at last that's what I thought the guy called them/himself.

Heard this guy on the radio today "head of the NZMC safety council,,pointing out all his reasons it was pretty much the bikers own fault somebody ran them down because they were riding in a large group.

I have no idea who this cunt is but if he's on our side "we're fucked.

Many like to go on group rides ... especially "Charity runs" ... and have the idea that their group is somehow special ... and exempt from normal road rules and recommendations ...

Sort of like funeral processions. They don't like being split up .... So they travel close together.

Then ... either a few idiots get pissed off and do silly things ... or the bikers do the silly stuff.

[FJRider]

Rubbish !!!

Tell that to those (The Powers That Be) that made the decision in the first place.

[pete376403]

Sorry to tell you but there's already a ginormous thread on KB on that topic.

Yeah I started reading the threads from top down, so found this one before that one. Sorry if I offended your sense of internet thread etiquette

[Katman]

Where's a mod when you need them?

[Bassmatt]

Can you come and move norf? I have presented myself at the local cop shop, complete with rego numbers and a very good description of some of the most unbelievable driving I have ever seen ( a light truck with a diger on the back, pulled out on a passing lane without indication or looking, and forced another car over a double yellow line on a blind corner, on one of this regions most deadly stretches of road) I had to take evasive action so as not to have ended up in the same place. Thank God nothing was coming or it would have been total carnage, and would have most likely involved me too. This truck had just ( less than a min from when I stopped at the station) turned down a bit of road that had few options of destination, and at the speed the thing was travelling would have been an easy catch up. HP plod was on station, and came to talk to me at the counter. Nothing he could do apparently unless I took these papers home and completed them! EH? Ok, I will stand here and complete them right now, the truck is only just up the road, no, take them away and do it, in most of these cases we end up charging the person making the complaint, so think carefully before you fill them out!


He was not at all interested, fecked it I know if he ever did anythign about it, my guess? He filed it in the bin. Our HP cops are not well respected up here, cant imagine why?

Sad news though about these bikers killed. I count 5 dead this weekend alone. Must be the start of summer.

What. The. Fuck?
Any of the popo on here like to elaborate on this?