OMG RIP here we go again etc

**Akzle** · 22nd November 2017, 15:07

Originally Posted by cassina

Spot on. The point of impact was just a little past the sign on the left at the end, on the road. Note the vegitation which would limit the view of anyone approaching/coming off untill the last minute. Whether there was more/less vegitation there at the time I was hit I would not know.

Now you have spooked everyone on here into thinking of my crash everytime they cross it!! Anyone keen to ride it and wishing to avoid coming to grief better do it before Dec 15 when SH1 up to Blenheim opens fully, only during the day though.

you're a fuckwit

**Scuba_Steve** · 22nd November 2017, 15:52

Originally Posted by cassina

With a bit of luck you will experience the same "not at fault" crash as I did if you cross that bridge fuckwit. Then I bet you will never call me fuckwit again

Hey good payback if you win, current odds are 760:1

**FJRider** · 22nd November 2017, 16:07

Originally Posted by cassina

With a bit of luck you will experience the same "not at fault" crash as I did if you cross that bridge fuckwit. Then I bet you will never call me fuckwit again

I'll take that bet ...

**FJRider** · 22nd November 2017, 16:09

Originally Posted by cassina

Spot on. The point of impact was just a little past the sign on the left at the end, on the road. Note the vegitation which would limit the view of anyone approaching/coming off untill the last minute. Whether there was more/less vegitation there at the time I was hit I would not know.

Now you have spooked everyone on here into thinking of my crash everytime they cross it!! Anyone keen to ride it and wishing to avoid coming to grief better do it before Dec 15 when SH1 up to Blenheim opens fully, only during the day though.

More like ... they'll think about it and laugh ...

**FJRider** · 22nd November 2017, 16:51

Originally Posted by cassina

I guess the same riders would laugh when they see warning signs about areas of frequent crashes eg the Crown Range Rd.

I used to drive past those signs many times a day ... usually the first sharp corner outside a 50 km/hr zone ...

**Honest Andy** · 22nd November 2017, 17:14

Originally Posted by FJRider

I'll take that bet ...

forget it, no one will take those odds

**granstar** · 22nd November 2017, 17:37

Originally Posted by eldog

I would like to see an additional sign on the bridge or very close to it
Some of the signs are too far away from the obstacle IMHO

Same with passing lane exits, more info to show motorists the lanes are about to merge so to make a safe pass, back off, allow flow without all this inconsiderate road rage shit and near misses. Maybe the Police Minister should go for a drive someday.

**granstar** · 22nd November 2017, 17:39

Originally Posted by cassina

So maybe if I had tailgated the car in front the muppet that hit me would have no gap to squeeze into but if he had hit the car in front head on instead of me I would have rear ended it. This was an accident that no one could have swerved out of as one way bridges have barriers on the entry and exit. Maybe when you do your next riding school class you could ask the instructor what he would do in the same situation. I have read on here the thing to do when facing a head on collision is to try and throw yourself over the top if on a bike. All the best doing that fuckwit yourself!!

Can't you swim?

**granstar** · 22nd November 2017, 17:42

Originally Posted by T.W.R

Part of a safety booklet for learners produced by ACC in the 70s and compiled & edited by Mike Hailwood but I'm sure you'll poo-hoo that

Agree, stand up. ( Also shares this again as it makes good sense, saved a mate of mine who had a car U turn on him).

**granstar** · 22nd November 2017, 17:46

Originally Posted by cassina

There is another technique which I think did actually work for someone in that they dropped the bike side on which was towards a truck, in that case and threw themselves over the side of a bridge they were on but it could be towards the side of the road too. Only the bike made impact with the truck as it spun towards it. A better option maybe. Still a lot of luck involved.

Only going to happen on a speedway track, out of curtesy dump the bike. 4 leaf clovers BS when yer gonna die, yer gonna die, reduce the odds by riding defensively.

Crown Range a great ride, as long as you ride to the conditions, often grit on roads, tourists (center of road, side of road, too busy rubbernecking), if you crash on it you are a fuckwit, a dead fuckwit.

**caspernz** · 22nd November 2017, 17:49

Originally Posted by granstar

When yer gonna die, yer gonna die, reduce the odds by riding defensively.

The above is all that any of us involved in advanced rider training have been advocating the whole time...

**Graystone** · 22nd November 2017, 17:49

Originally Posted by cassina

threw themselves over the side of a bridge they were on

Sounds like a good plan, you first...

Originally Posted by granstar

Agree, stand up. ( Also shares this again as it makes good sense, saved a mate of mine who had a car U turn on him).

Probably prevents mashed nads in a slow speed bump too

**Akzle** · 22nd November 2017, 18:04

Originally Posted by cassina

With a bit of luck you will experience the same "not at fault" crash as I did if you cross that bridge fuckwit. Then I bet you will never call me fuckwit again

any collision i'm involved in does not make you less of a fuckwit.
unless i collide with you and knock some fucken sense into you.

you're a fuckwit.