The little Ninja is no more. GPZ250R Vs COW

[cowboyz]

Shit just saw your bike and explaination on trademe. Bugger dude. How fecked is the gpz?? Is it salvagable at all?

I am searching the 250's at the moment looking for a trade and some cash on my cbr600 that's for sale. Your gpz looked in mint condition. Sorry about that.

Once I get over myself, there may be some salvageable parts on it. The motor still runs. The brakes still work and the drive chain still makes the wheel go round. However, the front is twisted to hell. The fairings are smashed to a million pieces. Radator has bits of cow in it. generally one big mess.

I put the auction back up for one day with an explnation on it because since I listed it I have been non stop on the phone answering questions about it. I have an almost (I did say almost) unhealthy attachment to the little ninja. I love that bike. This is the first scratch I put on it.

[aff-man]

Once I get over myself, there may be some salvageable parts on it. The motor still runs. The brakes still work and the drive chain still makes the wheel go round. However, the front is twisted to hell. The fairings are smashed to a million pieces. Radator has bits of cow in it. generally one big mess.

I put the auction back up for one day with an explnation on it because since I listed it I have been non stop on the phone answering questions about it. I have an almost (I did say almost) unhealthy attachment to the little ninja. I love that bike. This is the first scratch I put on it.

Well it was quite a scratch from the sound of things

Good luck for finding the farmer

[stanko]

Worst case of Bovine suicide Ive ever heard of. Must have known it was off to the works soon. Stand up for Bovine freedom !!

[James Deuce]

When's the BBQ???

Good you're still here.

[cowboyz]

tomorrow night. going to get the cows cousin cooking up in a ritual type ceramony. Unfortuntely the doc told me I am not allowed to drink on the drugs they have given me.

[Zapf]

Free leathers?

[sanchez]

Some farmers have insurance to cover just this sort of thing.. The farmer has lost a bunch of money too, dairy cows are expensive.

[Sniper]

Thanks Sanchez

[FROSTY:Me]

You are one friggin lucky MOFO --hitting a cow at 100km/k is not something ya usually just walk away from
sounds like the damage is all cosmetic dude. there will be heaps of GPX bits around to fix it.

[cowboyz]

Some farmers have insurance to cover just this sort of thing.. The farmer has lost a bunch of money too, dairy cows are expensive.

Found out a few things today. The police believe the cow came from a small lifesytle block. The owner admits that he is missing a cow but is not admitting liability because in the past he has had cattle stolen from his property and the one he has missing may have been stolen and the one I hit could be someone elses. Does anyone see this as grasping at straws or is it just me?

Anyway. The council picked the animal up off the side of the road and took it somewhere to bury but because the police called them to do it they have taken photos of the animal and taken the animals eartags to put on file.

I can't see the file under Monday morning.

This is just stupid. But then there were some on hear that warned me.

I did get a little bit in the paper although they called it a calf. It didn't *feel* like a calf! Maybe it was. I didn't actually see the animal at all, well very very briefly. I was too busy lying on the ground in pain after the accident to go look at the animal so I will be interested to see the photos and report to see how calf-like this thing was. The ambo and police referred to it as a cow when I was being taken care of and that made sense.

I will be stunned if I find out it is like a 40kg calf or something.