NZ Road Accidents

[oldrider]

I had such a case once. One of our steel barrows (heavy flat things for carrying trays of plants on) rolled off a hill and hit a parked customer's car. Insurance tried to get out of it by saying no one was at fault therefore no blame no claim.
I rang them and told them that it was someone's fault - some silly employee had neglected to engage the wheel brake (me actually). So they had to pay out.
Afterwards, I rang them and berated the shit out of them for not covering "no blame" cases. I told them they should cover no blame instead of blame cases. There liabilities would drop a lot I said. Never got a reply. So I rang them again and told them to shove their fucking cover up their arse and went to another insurer.
Vote with your feet I reckon.

Well if nothing else it makes you feel better - at least until you find a company with matching or better rates!

The adage: "Decide in haste - repent at leisure" springs to mind!

[caspernz]

Seeing as I started my riding days with just my dad and a few mates giving me guidance, I'm surprised how few incidents/accidents I actually had.

Looking back from where I'm at now, it staggers me how much I learned when I got serious about improving my skills.

The old adage of "we don't know what we don't know" certainly holds true.

[onearmedbandit]

which I detect may be the case with you.

You don't detect shit lol

[EJK]

Have never claimed I am a better rider than those that go to riding school..

Few posts ago...

I have been a quicker learner than you having no need to go to riding school.

I detect retardation or/ and memory loss from you.

[WNJ]

Suicidal bollocks.....the poor bloody things are terrified out of their minds in a blind panic

I dont know about that the 4 peahens that ran into my right footpeg at speed seemed pretty suicidal They all got the outcome they were seeking,

[FJRider]

Those sports players, or former sports players, amongst us, will completely understand that instinctive reaction

It's called training induced reaction.

http://journal.frontiersin.org/artic...012.00130/full

[YellowDog]

So back on topic to NZ Road accidents:

[T.W.R]

I dont know about that the 4 peahens that ran into my right footpeg at speed seemed pretty suicidal They all got the outcome they were seeking,

Seen a couple of sheep do the "Toe Cutter crazy eye" when they've had close calls, the majority aren't in any way suicidal just a blind panic of terror, though as some of the KBers that have been in ChCh may question some of the sheep that used to have a tendency to just launch themselves onto the road up around the Summit Rd back in the old days.
As of this point in time I've had interactions with Sheep, Possums, Stoats, Rats, Sparrows, Blackbirds, Ducks, Pluvas, Magpies, Hawks, Dogs, & Cats funnily enough never came off in any of the incidents but have sent a few to their maker for an early date

[Jeff Sichoe]

don't forget pukeko, those fuckers are everywhere

[YellowDog]

don't forget pukeko, those fuckers are everywhere

If you catch them just right, they 'POP'. If you don't, you're farked

[Swoop]

don't forget pukeko, those fuckers are everywhere

I've only ever seen them near motorways.
Hence their name of "blue motorway chickens".

[jim.cox]

Hence their name of "blue motorway chickens".

And I thought that moniker applied to the gintlepong of the constabulary with the red and blue lights on their vehicles...

[ellipsis]

...i'm not sure who was the luckiest, me or the hare that decided to cross the road at the big corner by Birdlings Flat on SH75...I wasn't there when he decided to cross but cranked over at about 120k's meant I was there before he'd got a meter onto the road...I reckon his back feet were where my front wheel was going to be in a nanosecond...I was prepared for a rough exit and stood the bike up as quick as I could, at the same instant the hare stood up and leaned backwards past the vertical...I glimpsed his eyes as we passed within a whisker...my heart didn't do the big thump until a couple of seconds later...the duck that was gliding in to land on a river I was driving past timed it to perfection, if he really wanted to put his head into my spokes on the front wheel...blood and guts and feathers forever but I hardly felt the contact...

[jim.cox]

Once rode through a flock of starlings somewhere between Roxburgh and Alexandra.

Wondered why I got some very strange looks fueling up at the petrol station

Only then I realised I was covered in blood and feathers....

[YellowDog]

Once rode through a flock of starlings somewhere between Roxburgh and Alexandra.

Wondered why I got some very strange looks fueling up at the petrol station

Only then I realised I was covered in blood and feathers....

In my younger and considerably stupider days, I once went through a shady amber light, at a very high speed indeed (it was 5:30am in the morning), only to run into a flock of seagulls. I was going so fast that the turbulance kept the bike straight and I managed to hang on. I was very very lucky.

Haven't done the same since that time