The Cheese Cutters are doing their job.

[SPORK]

bye bye Indy

-Indy

I pray that never happens. INDY FOR KB PRESIDENT

[Sketchy_Racer]

i dont believe that ther should be any motrcycle crashes along them, because in general they are on stright (ish) roads and if a little care is taken while riding past them.

Of course there is gonna be the 'fluke' accidents that happen, and thats life, get used to it.

so well done to the guy who thought these up. its a shit load better than a car hitting you head on at 100 kph.

Cheers, Glenn

[TonyB]

I always get the impression that the cheese cutters would do a hell of a lot of damage to a car too- sort of grab them and make them spin, whereas with a concrete one they would just slade along the egde. Is that not the case?

[Colapop]

The little bit they've got north of Pukerua Bay has done it's job real well on a half dozen different occasions so far. And they've decided to extend it almost to Paekakariki from where it is now. Kept a whole lotta people safe it has.

[Skyryder]

They are a cheap option. Crash barriers are safer from our point of view. I tend to give them some respect but I would hate to be rear ended into one or hit a diesal spill. But they are better than nothing.

Skyryder

[scumdog]

I haven't heard of anyone yet, but then a lot of accidents don't get reported.
If there hasn't been anyone into them, it'll be a tribute to most bikers ability rather than anything Transhit has done.

I bet if a motorbike hit them seriously it WOULD get reported!!!

And like the visible lion lurking - people are more careful when they see a percieved danger (riding near 'cheese-cutters = the lurking lion).

[Indiana_Jones]

Winja, clicking on the video preview button doesn't work?

-Indy

[ducatilover]

i havent seen anyone hit the cheese cutters yet but i have seen several people [cages and one bike] hit the barrier in the middle of wainui hill....

i saw a skyline go up the barrier as he was carrying too much speed as you come upi the hill from wanui the second corner. his car fliped and rolled right at our car aimed where i was sitting. rather scary shit.

i saw my mate bin it on the hutt side and that wasnt too pretty. but if it was cheese cutters on the wanui hill.... fuck that

[Matt Bleck]

Those things fucking piss me off.... there has been absolutely no thought for the motorcyclist, surley theres another option!!

[idb]

I don't entirely get the objection to these.
Sure, they are probably more dangerous than a concrete barrier or a wall of pillows or marshmallows but so are power poles, six wire fences and vehicles crossing the centre-line into my lane..............
Surely it's just our responsibility to make sure we don't drive into them?