Old Steve had an off

[old slider]

something to do with "sizing up your opponents"... 2Tonnes of metal and plastic vs your squishy carcass...

Yep, your dead right there Akzle,

Lunchtime traffic I was following a few cars up our busy main street, I stuck to the right hand wheel track and had the car in fronts drivers eyes clearly visible in his rear mirror, I left a good couple of car lengths between us seeing the speed was around between 20-30kmh. A line of traffic was following me so I was keeping one eye on my mirrors, the traffic lights changed to amber as I was a quarter way across and phuck me the car behind feed it the fat and sliced past me as I quickly moved to the left hoping to avoid losing my elbow on his passenger side mirror or worse. I thought Phuckwit etc, 40 mts ahead he slammed on his brakes obviously suddenly deciding to take the road on the right once the oncoming traffic had gone, my phuckwit opinion changed. luckily for me or possibly him I was unable to stop and express my displeasure at his driving.

[Akzle]

Yep, your dead right there Akzle,

are you tryna' make it into my signature?? it's pretty full.... i'd have to kick someone off...

[old slider]

are you tryna' make it into my signature?? it's pretty full.... i'd have to kick someone off...

Sorry that took me awhile to figure out, lol

I had no idea what you meant, then it clicked after staring at your post for a few minutes. (I have never admitted to being bright)

I imagine you have the best people there, "some more than once", I am still no closer to figure out who really hates who, and who is pretending to.

[Akzle]

Sorry that took me awhile to figure out, lol

I had no idea what you meant, then it clicked after staring at your post for a few minutes. (I have never admitted to being bright)

I imagine you have the best people there, "some more than once", I am still no closer to figure out who really hates who, and who is pretending to.

i dont hate anyone. this is the internets and is not serious.

i certainly wouldn't go wasting my real-life time with my kb fanclub though.

-edits (cos after a box of cody's and giving my mitti a good hiding, it wasn't apparent from what i typed)-

cos they take this shit WAY too srsly.

[old slider]

i dont hate anyone. this is the internets and is not serious.

i certainly wouldn't go wasting my real-life time with my kb fanclub though.

Lol, argh Gummon mate, ewes saying lots this stuff knot for reel.

[caseye]

She is! Terrible ain't it?

[old slider]

Anyone heard how Old Steve is doing recuperating from his surgery?

[Old Steve]

Three weeks later and I went back to work yeasterday, ACC are paying for me to taxi to and from work, bike is still at the shop - probably parts won't be here before Xmas, but I won't be riding until later in the New Year anyway.

My shoulder is still delicate, I can raise the forearm up to the horizontal. Bruises and ribs have cleared up, still got some shopping to do for replacement gear (Youi paid out $500 for replacement gear) but don't feel like trying jackets and pants on at the moment.

I do know that I'm getting a 'voucher' for a ProRider Gold course for Xmas from my wife. In fact I believe if the bike had been written off then I would have been under a lot of pressure not to get another one. The shop can't replace the exact model topbox I had fitted so have asked me for my favoured GIVI top box model, don't know what GIVI has in stock but I asked for the TRK52 (52L Trekker topbox)

Finally, the Police have located the Taxi driver and have scheduled a 'discussion' with him this Thursday as they want to hear his view of the incident. They already have two witnesses who gave statements, plus my own statement. At least I should get the Taxi company insurance company's name so I'll get me excess paid by someone else.

I tried getting ACC to advise what accident type my accident had been classified as in their statistics - was it a single vehicle accident as only one vehicle was damaged or was it a multiple vehicle accident as the Taxi caused the accident? But they could not/would not advise me. I might write and ask for their classification as I have a strong feeling that because of the nature of motorcycle accidents where a bike may go down avoiding another vehicle, and yet not actually hit the other vehicle, that this type of accident is likely to be classified as a single vehicle accident.

Could have been worse, and I'll be even more careful and slow down even more at that sort of intersection.

[Luckylegs]

Three weeks later and I went back to work yeasterday, ACC are paying for me to taxi to and from work, bike is still at the shop - probably parts won't be here before Xmas, but I won't be riding until later in the New Year anyway.

My shoulder is still delicate, I can raise the forearm up to the horizontal. Bruises and ribs have cleared up...

Firstly, glad things are on the mend. I do have to laugh at the irony of you now using a taxi.

I will say, i might go against the grain of this site, but im not convinced it should be recorded as a multi vehicle accident. There were not two vehicles involved. The way the accident played out is unique to motorcycles and unfortunately does show the inherent danger and unique situations we find ourselves in. These accidents happen daily between cars and no-one gets injured, or need tax payers to taxi them to work, cos they become minor fender benders

...fire retardant underwear on and ready for for what may come.

And to finish... still glad your on the mend and will be back on the bike at some point. Take care. At least you have an excuse to do sweet fuck all over chrissie.

[pritch]

I do have to laugh at the irony of you now using a taxi.

That had eluded me, but now that you mention it.

I hope Steve can bend his drinking arm sufficiently now.

[Luckylegs]

That had eluded me, but now that you mention it.

I hope Steve can bend his drinking arm sufficiently now.

Thats what funnels and friends are for

[Katman]

I will say, i might go against the grain of this site, but im not convinced it should be recorded as a multi vehicle accident. There were not two vehicles involved. The way the accident played out is unique to motorcycles and unfortunately does show the inherent danger and unique situations we find ourselves in. These accidents happen daily between cars and no-one gets injured, or need tax payers to taxi them to work, cos they become minor fender benders

I'd go even further and suggest that repeatedly stating that it was the taxi drivers fault shows that very little has been learned.

[Luckylegs]

Two vehicles do not have to crash for a multivehicle accident to occur as in the case of boy racing the driver of the car that did not crash can be charged too.

Being charged of a traffic offence and being included in a crash statistic are different things. Do you know that an accident resulting from two cars racing will be recorded as multi vehicle accident. I some how doubt it. Would you expect a police chase where the chassee simply runs out of talent and doesnt make a corner to be recorded as a multivehicle accident.

[Luckylegs]

Two vehicles do not have to crash for a multivehicle accident to occur as in the case of boy racing the driver of the car that did not crash can be charged too.

Being charged of a traffic offence and being included in a crash statistic are different things. Do you know that an accident resulting from two cars racing will be recorded as multi vehicle accident. I some how doubt it. Would you expect a police chase where the chassee simply runs out of talent and doesnt make a corner to be recorded as a multivehicle accident.

Oh, oh...oh - maybe all accidents on group rides should be multi vehicle accidents???

[Old Steve]

I hope Steve can bend his drinking arm sufficiently now.

Sufficiently ambidextrous, and able to drink left handed, so that the festive season will be unaffected.

Katman, I'm not saying and don't think I've said that the Taxi driver was completely to blame. I will in future slow down at such intersections even more than I did in this instance, and depending on traffic in the side street I may ride further to the left of the lane and not come out into the centre of the lane. But I contend that the Taxi driver was a definite contribution to the accident, without the taxi being there I would have had no need to take avaoiding action and my bike wouldn't have slid out from under me. What the Police surely want to discuss with him though is why he left the accident site without making sure of any injuries and offering aid, I think that is a legal requirement.

I've been back to the intersection and now know why I low sided. The camber of the side road intrudes out into the main road where the camber of the main road is lower, it comes almost 1/4 of the way across the inside (T3) lane from the left. As I tried to steer around the front of the taxi, while still turning/leaning left, my bike rose up on the start of the side road camber - I remember feeling the bike rise and thinking that I was going to high side - and that must have reduced the traction enough that the bike low sided. That the bike and I slid in front of the taxi shows that I would have cleared it if the bike hadn't low sided (or if you like, I hadn't low sided the bike).