Another Close Call!

[skidMark]

You put a bunch of adrenalin consuming KBers on an open runway and you say "not going too hard"!!

Whenuapai Airbase in the pic already has a riding course going once or twice per month that a number of KBers have been through...I do like the idea of a controlled 'speed day' though.

see who really has the fastest bike...

and the guts to do it without easing off ......see god.... then brake

[jrandom]

not to mention the props look like they've fallen off!!!

You're not helping with the blush factor.

not many globemasters come here...

That's probably why I didn't think 'C-17'.

I should have. I've soaked up all the requisite thinly-disguised-recruiting-propaganda Tom Clancy stuff.

If I were a Murkn, I'd want to join the A/F and drive an A-10. Coolest aircraft ever.

[2_SL0]

Glad to hear your ok.

[RiderInBlack]

Yep must have been close call day Zed. Glad you made it.

Had some cu*t in a work truck dropped a lenght of 4x3 in front of me riding home yesterday. Bloody big piece of timber that. Broke in half when it hit the road. It only missed me cause I was sitting behind the wa*ker on his right (if I had been dead centre, I would have been dead in a centre). Pulled upto his drivers window to tell him what I thought, and the fu*ken idiot just grins at me. He had no fu*ken idea (probably thought that a nice Honda Rider was waving hello to him, if there ever was a time for a HD and patch, that was it). I should have turned back for a bit of the 4x3 to smash his fu*ken head in. Too bad that I was too shagged from riding to give a fu*k.

Any how glad you made it Zed

[Swoop]

Zed dude, glad your OK!

Hope that co*csuckers wingmirror is in pieces along the road....


That C-17 is "rented" from the USAF to transport the squadron stuff to/from Afganistan since our air farce is incapable of doing anything decent apart from dragging polytician's arses around to meetings, etc...
More of our tax dollars hard at work.

[NodMan:Me]

i thinks i have an idea

bare with me ...

bike...runway....runway + bike = fun speed test....

runway + many bikes = one hell of a speed test day

i think we need to have a "chat" to the airfield and ask if we can use thier runway...

heck we could even have drag races?

not going too hard though just for a bit of fun get some medics on hand and all that damn sounds like a good plan for an event

and av gas as well

im seeing a winning idea

not meaning to pour cold water on ya idea mate but couple weeks back we used an airfield outa wellywood for four bikes to play...buggers charge out at $1,000 just for the backup runway and not even a great surface....

have had a few plays on that field out west aucks...dont know the price but dont think they want me out there anymore...sumfing bout one honda being too quick for their ten BMWs...if you ever see their promo shots of the day the ole Honda is nicely edited out,,,bout the surface out west it will kill a race tyre four times quicker than pukey so it becomes a real expensive day...

[vince25]

funny, didnt know there was an airbase in piha!

I hate people that do that, they dont look. IDIOTS!!! Ive always said, if everyone who drove a car, also rode a bike, the roads would be a lot safer

[tracyprier]

Airhorns are great

I've only had to use them in anger a few times since I fitted them but they ALWAYS get a "positive" reaction from unaware, half-asleep cagers.

[Lou Girardin]

They do it to other cages just as readily; the van driver who thought his heap of shit could accelerate fast enough to get ahead of a car doing 30 k's quicker that was right alongside his tail, the driver of the Recreation Services truck who wasn't content with pulling out as he was about to be overtaken, but hit the brakes in the fast lane too.

[Silage]

It helps if you meet god halfway. Those who help themselves, and all that...

Good comment Hitch. At least Zed, He was keeping a lookout and you managed to steer the right course. Good to hear you are fine.

I find that when 3+ back from the front in a line of traffic that I often regress into cage mode of "wait your turn to pass". Then I realise I can take on a lot smaller gaps, but nana that I am, I pass one then observe what the next is doing before blasting past it. You must get some pretty quick liftoff in second. I generally use third and often find I'm at $1.40 (ish) by the end of the manoever.

[Zed]

I find that when 3+ back from the front in a line of traffic that I often regress into cage mode of "wait your turn to pass". Then I realise I can take on a lot smaller gaps, but nana that I am, I pass one then observe what the next is doing before blasting past it.

I appreciate your nana stance, and I do it from time to time also, but when you've been sitting behind a line of slow-coaches for some time (5 mins is far too long IMO) you just take the first opportunity to pass them and go for it...unfortunately some of the cagers think the same way!

You must get some pretty quick liftoff in second.

Ooo yeah! :spudbn:

[dawnrazor]

Ah the close call, natures way of reminding us all how easy it is to go tits up. If it don't kill you it makes you stronger right. I hate them when they happen, and can be haunted by the what ifs, but you learn from them. I now have an uncanny sixth sense for random U-turns from fellow road users, after a close call with a taxi performing this move in the middle of newmarket. I think I'd rather have a close call then a direct hit anyday!

[Bartman10]

or delete them altogether.....

not to mention the props look like they've fallen off!!!

not many globemasters come here. they are the coolest - huge thrust and load carrying capacity, can pull reverse while airborne to slow down/lose altitude quickly. huge global range. one of the best transport aircraft in the world.

If I recall correctly these used to be part of the strategic air command, carrying nukes around the world continuously to prevent first strike by the Communists.

They land at Christchurch regularly for the Antarctic programme. Even seen a C5 galaxy there a couple of times.

Nice picture marty, cheers!

[ducatilover]

man that sounds a bit rough, good you have the brains and experience to get out of that situation

[marty]

If I recall correctly these used to be part of the strategic air command, carrying nukes around the world continuously to prevent first strike by the Communists.

They land at Christchurch regularly for the Antarctic programme. Even seen a C5 galaxy there a couple of times.

Nice picture marty, cheers!

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notice how not one of the guys on the runway is doing any work - you'd wanna be keeping your eye on that 550 tonnes coming towards you - looks like they are at altitude too!