there's laws on our roads regarding following too close, whose gunna get charged here

**jellywrestler** · 23rd November 2017, 21:47

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/991...f-christchurch

**oldiebutagoody** · 23rd November 2017, 21:58

Its the beginning of a vicious cycle......

**T.W.R** · 23rd November 2017, 22:12

Bloody Hell that was so fuckin long over due it isn't funny!!
Every bloody Thursday from 5.30pm onward that lot would think they owned the roads around Leeston & Southbridge and I dunno how many close calls I've seen caused by them.
They'd use the rugby club carpark across from work as their gathering point, there were some bloody nasty sights stretching lycra to the max.....Alby Anderson (ex All Black) certainly knows how to test the quality of CIMA race suits

Hopefully none of the kids that are involved were part of the group that crashed though

**awayatc** · 23rd November 2017, 22:21

Originally Posted by oldiebutagoody

Its the beginning of a vicious cycle......

Now you are stretching it......

**Luckylegs** · 23rd November 2017, 23:31

One can only hope that the lead riders acc levy is increased for being at fault

**caspernz** · 23rd November 2017, 23:48

Someone must be writing a lycra lullaby with a blue tone...

**jasonu** · 24th November 2017, 04:11

There must have been a lot of pressure to keep up with the leaders.....

**Cosmik de Bris** · 24th November 2017, 10:54

Was the road closed? Were they racing? If the road wasn't closed there are a whole lot of infringements aren't there?

Back around the time of the Commonwealth games in Ch-ch I carried bike referees on the back of my Z1. There were four of us that did it regularly, all from the Pioneer Motorcycle Club and those cyclist guys were the cheatingist bastards. If they got a puncture they'd hang on to the back of the support vehicles and stuff to catch up, hence the need for mobile refs. These refs were ex-cyclists and mostly gone to fat, so an 18 stone lump who'd never been on a motorbike and me weighing 9 stone made for quite a lot of effort getting around corners.

During the games they raced on a closed road, up hackthorne rd, down dyers pass, round the river, across colombo st and somehow back to cashmere road, I can't quite remember but it was 5 hours on the bike. It was a stinking hot day and people were hosing us down at the top of hackthorne rd.

Sometimes the ref would want to watch a bunch of these cheating bastards and then he'd say "can you catch the leaders before they cross the start/finish? The road was closed and at the briefing in the morning the cops said that there was no speed limit but would we be sensible? Yes officer! We passed the Duke of Edinburgh in his Rolls, we were doing about 150k around the river somewhere. Coming down Dyers pass was monumental, those cyclists were all over the road, one went over the rail on one of the last couple of bends.

Finally to the point. After the games I carried refs on some other road-races and there were several incidents were whole bunches went down because of the close following. The roads weren't closed on these occasions. My job was to ride on the outside of the bunch and keep them inside the white line. I squeezed them sometimes otherwise they would've been in the oncoming traffic. I think I may have caused one of the accidents but I'm not admitting anything.

Cheers

**T.W.R** · 24th November 2017, 11:13

Originally Posted by Cosmik de Bris

Was the road closed? Were they racing?

If it was closed it would be a first as they never closed any of the roads in the past and they aren't officially holding a race meeting, it's just a social type event. The majority are wannabe race cyclists who like being seen in lycra & spending coin on fragile treddlies out of maybe 30 odd that usually attend there'd only be a couple who compete in official events.