Glad to hear your ok Jin
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I've had a couple of incidents like that on roads out Hunua way in the last 2 years. In both cases the road had been resealed, there were patches of loose stones that hadn't been swept, and no signs.
I hope you have at least 3rd party insurance.
Pleased to hear you and the bike are relatively unharmed and hope you're back on the road quickly.
No lecture from me as I've had my fair share of offs in corners over the years (black ice in two cases, piece of metal being the third). When hitting gravel on corners it's never that easy to keep upright whatever speed you're doing, and riding a bike upright around every corner just in case would be no fun at all. The bad accidents tend to be those involving other objects (vehicles, trees, walls) so just try and avoid those ones if you can:-)
Only suggestion is consider getting insurance, it pays for itself sooner or later.
There are two main problems:
1: Council road repairs need to warn motorists that "conditions" exist which are different to normal. Loose gravel falls under this category.
2: Council contractors are quite quick to use cars to sweep away the loose chip they leave behind, rather than properly sweeping away the stuff themselves.
After encountering multiple shit like this on a popular road, a complaint to the council drones was in order. They were quite concerned about it and stated that "the contractors shouldn't do this".
More insurance companies should hit the councils with reimbursement claims. Perhaps something might be done to prevent the contractors from removing warning signs PRIOR to the road being swept clear.
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When something similar happened to me I wrote to the council and sent in the bill - they sent me a cheque back.
One of the first cases is reported here
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...jectid=3578001
I would quote the case in your letter.
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Woodcocks Rd used to be all gravel, it's gone downhill since they sealed it. SH16 was all gravel once too, not much taffic on it back then. Seal a road and it gets a lot more traffic, and most of them should've stayed away.
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Jump on a dirt bike and learn how to handle gravel. Last year I had a horrible run up highway 22. They resealed a couple bits of road. The road looked amazing... obviously too good to be true. I usually go a decent pace up highway 22, I leaned into a left handed, both wheels have way and did a 2 wheel slide, ended up crossing the center line at the exit of the turn. 5 mins later did the same again, slower this time. Let the bike slide, came out fine.
if there's gravel on the road unless you're the first on the scene generally it spreads far and wide, in a very short space of time,
vehicles coming the other way will pick it up in their tyres and as they leave the area it will flick out.
As you're approaching the offending gravel any spread gravel you pick up will make a noise, a little tink tink or a lot, the noise sticks out like dogs ball, this is all the warning a good rider needs, unless you've got the dead kennedys playing or solo mio or whatever in ya earholes.
theres also the:
ride around a corner and in the middle of the road is a car, a van and the motorcycle it collided with earlier, the motorcycle on its side, the rider laying in the centre of the road, and 15 rubberneckers standing IN THE ROAD gawking because none of the silly cunts had the sense to think that the the entire population and vehicle fleet of some small island nations congregating around an accident might pose some risk to other traffic and that perhaps someone should go up the rad a hundred metres and warn oncoming traffic coming from both directions.
just another one I know of!
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