Point and laugh at the cagers

**gamgee** · 21st June 2006, 13:05

So i just finished work for the day, and it decided to start bucketing down hail as i was heading for my bike, so i'm thinking great, going to have to go slow now, I got to stuart street, which is a steepish hill, and it was just blanketed in hail, by now all thats going through my mind is 'ohfuckohfuckohfuck-slip-ohfuck-wohoo kept it up-ohfuck'
but I powered on anyway, going about 20kmh pointing and laughing (in my mind, i was too scared to take my hands off the bars) at all the cagers spinning out, getting stuck, etc. and i just cruised straight on through, with only the odd little slide, and got home safe, I bet most of them are still sitting on stuart street, and i'm home nice and warm

**skidMark** · 21st June 2006, 13:08

awwwwww you left the poor lil cagers to fend for themselves....

trust a good old gpx to be able to hang on.....

gpx's OI gpx's OI gpx's gpx's gpx's OI OI OI

all HAIL gpx's

**gamgee** · 21st June 2006, 13:41

Originally Posted by markauckland

awwwwww you left the poor lil cagers to fend for themselves....

haha if i'd stopped and lost momentum, i probably wouldn't have started again, every time ya tried to put even a little more power down, the back wheel spun

**The Pastor** · 21st June 2006, 13:57

Hell yeah, ice is fun

just like ice skateing but with motors and wheels

**skidMark** · 26th June 2006, 16:34

Originally Posted by gamgee

haha if i'd stopped and lost momentum, i probably wouldn't have started again, every time ya tried to put even a little more power down, the back wheel spun

cus of all the 40 pony's

**Jantar** · 26th June 2006, 17:33

Back in my Uni days at Otago, I can recall one particulay heavy snow fall in the afternoon. All the hill roads were supposedly closed, but my little suzuki 125 cruised up and passed all the cages stuck in the snow, all the way up to Highgate. As you say though, if i had stopped for any reason then it would have been very difficult to get going again.

**Sketchy_Racer** · 26th June 2006, 19:36

Originally Posted by markauckland

cus of all the 40 pony's

[Insert tui ad here]............

**skidMark** · 26th June 2006, 20:09

gpx's are 40 hp mate well erm at the crank i think it ends up about 34 at the wheel..

go look up the specs

**Sketchy_Racer** · 26th June 2006, 21:33

Yeah and my KR150 is 35hp at the wheel according to the manufacture....

Its all a load of

**PZR** · 26th June 2006, 21:59

Well I was in Dunedin last week (Mon thru Wed) and I went up and down Stuart St a few times including Wed night when it snowed and I thought
"Oh Fuck!!! thats steep and I would not want to ride a bike up or down this hill in the ice and snow so you must be
A/ a very good rider
B/ desperate to get home
C/ Daft
D/ have trainer wheels
E/ or all the above
cause man those Dunedin hills and ice do not mix. There where heaps of cars sliding everwhere but lucky for me I was in a 4 x 4 (no problems)
Well done for surviving the weather.

**skidMark** · 26th June 2006, 22:16

i would just leave it in a low gear and engine break it down

**Jantar** · 26th June 2006, 22:25

Getting up Dunedin's hills in those conditions is not as hard as going back down. Stuart St is one of the worst because it gets so much traffic that the snow gets compacted into ice, and frost just turns straight to black ice.

I used to find that it was safer to use either Rattray St, or head down Maori Hill to get to Uni.

**gamgee** · 27th June 2006, 08:50

yeah i wouldn't go down stuart street in ice etc. just to many farken morons who can't drive, I usually go over maori hill way to get down. it's quite funny, my house overlooks taeri road, so i get to see all the idiots trying to go hard on the brakes, spinning out, and causing big backups in the traffic, thats what puts me off stuart street, to many people have no idea how to drive a cage on ice, engine braking people

**gamgee** · 27th June 2006, 08:55

Originally Posted by PZR

Well I was in Dunedin last week (Mon thru Wed) and I went up and down Stuart St a few times including Wed night when it snowed and I thought
"Oh Fuck!!! thats steep and I would not want to ride a bike up or down this hill in the ice and snow so you must be
A/ a very good rider
B/ desperate to get home
C/ Daft
D/ have trainer wheels
E/ or all the above
cause man those Dunedin hills and ice do not mix. There where heaps of cars sliding everwhere but lucky for me I was in a 4 x 4 (no problems)
Well done for surviving the weather.

A/ haha nah, it was just like riding a dirt bike on wet mud, a few little slips but otherwise fine

**JMemonic** · 27th June 2006, 09:06

Originally Posted by gamgee

yeah i wouldn't go down stuart street in ice etc. just to many farken morons who can't drive, I usually go over maori hill way to get down. it's quite funny, my house overlooks taeri road, so i get to see all the idiots trying to go hard on the brakes, spinning out, and causing big backups in the traffic, thats what puts me off stuart street, to many people have no idea how to drive a cage on ice, engine braking people

Dont forget some of those people are driving automatics, in their case engine breaking in not an option, even if they understood what you ment.