Motu hits a big one....

**Motu** · 10th July 2006, 21:08

I'm always on your guys backs about keeping your bloody eyes open,there's no excuse for running into something that ''just appears'' in front of you.Here's some ammo if you've ever felt like giving me some shit.

I'm coming home tonight down Te Ohaki Rd,that's the road from the Rangiriri bridge to the power station in the Pajero....on the road again with a brand new cyl head and camshaft.Not a lot of traffic on this road,maybe half a dozen cars on a busy night,I'm doing 100kph listening to Marcus Lush having difficulty sorting his CD collection into alphabetical order.On the straight past the golf club another car comes the other way,so I dip my lights.Dip for me is still pretty damn powerful,my lighting is illegal - my ''driving'' lamps are dual fillament,high and low beam.

As we get ready to cross - a frigging huge cardboard box is in the road in front of me! And split seconds to make a desicion.I can't swerve around it as I'll hit the car on the otherside,it's going to be a pretty serious panic stop,and I may not retain control of the Pajero...this is kinda out of it's design profile.So in one blink I've got to decide if it's an empty box...or does it contain a washing machine or fridge....or maybe a 4 year old kid...???...

KABOOM!!! - I reckon it's empty so take it out! I finally stop 50 meters down the road and walk back to check it out and clear the debri....I just happen to have a million candle power torch with me tonight.Phew - no 4 year old kid inside.

I drive this road everyday,in the dark mornings it's thick with fog - and I drive at 100kph,absolutely zero visability.I'm ok with the things I can see...but things I can't see? Like a cow,a drunk lying in the road...shit load of things can go wrong.I can't see a huge cardboard box sitting high in a 4x4 with 230 watts of lighting on a clear night.I have a recipie for disaster...don't take much for it all to go wrong....

**Quasievil** · 10th July 2006, 21:16

Originally Posted by Motu

I'm always on your guys backs about keeping your bloody eyes open,there's no excuse for running into something that ''just appears'' in front of you.Here's some ammo if you've ever felt like giving me some shit.

I'm coming home tonight down Te Ohaki Rd,that's the road from the Rangiriri bridge to the power station in the Pajero....on the road again with a brand new cyl head and camshaft.Not a lot of traffic on this road,maybe half a dozen cars on a busy night,I'm doing 100kph listening to Marcus Lush having difficulty sorting his CD collection into alphabetical order.On the straight past the golf club another car comes the other way,so I dip my lights.Dip for me is still pretty damn powerful,my lighting is illegal - my ''driving'' lamps are dual fillament,high and low beam.

As we get ready to cross - a frigging huge cardboard box is in the road in front of me! And split seconds to make a desicion.I can't swerve around it as I'll hit the car on the otherside,it's going to be a pretty serious panic stop,and I may not retain control of the Pajero...this is kinda out of it's design profile.So in one blink I've got to decide if it's an empty box...or does it contain a washing machine or fridge....or maybe a 4 year old kid...???...

KABOOM!!! - I reckon it's empty so take it out! I finally stop 50 meters down the road and walk back to check it out and clear the debri....I just happen to have a million candle power toch with me tonight.Phew - no 4 year old kid inside.

I drive this road everyday,in the dark mornings it's thick with fog - and I drive at 100kph,absolutely zero visability.I'm ok with the things I can see...but things I can't see? Like a cow,a drunk lying in the road...shit load of things can go wrong.I can't see a huge cardboard box sitting high in a 4x4 with 230 watts of lighting on a clear night.I have a recipie for disaster...don't much for it all to go wrong....

mate ya cant control everything, but you did a fine job of making that decision to take the box on instead of braking or swerving into another car, both of thos options could have been very serious, you took the right move even though it was a risk.
Im impressed !!

**Mr. Peanut** · 10th July 2006, 21:26

At least you were't on ya bike

**The_Dover** · 10th July 2006, 21:29

Originally Posted by Motu

a drunk lying in the road....

where do you live?

I'll keep my eyes open for a blind old fart in a Pajero

**sAsLEX** · 10th July 2006, 21:32

Originally Posted by MrPeanut

At least you were't on ya bike

no time to turn, do the same prey for empty and whack open the throttle and wheelie through it!

ok that wouldnt work on my bike

**Skyryder** · 10th July 2006, 21:34

There was a discusion way way back about decision making and how if you made the wrong one you only had yourself to blame. I argued that sometimes no matter how careful you ride there are sometimes situations that arise when you can never be in control. You made the right decision with the box being empty but if a "four" year old kid had have been in the box it would have been the wrong one. Lady luck was riding with you on this one Motu.

Skyryder

**oldrider** · 10th July 2006, 22:05

Hey Motu, did that box have any teeth marks in it? It may not have been past it's use by date!

**yungatart** · 10th July 2006, 22:20

You were lucky Motu. My advice... ditch Marcus Lush, he's prolly the reason it all went pear-shaped.

**myvice** · 10th July 2006, 22:22

Stick Marcus Lush in a box and...

**XTC** · 10th July 2006, 22:31

I finally got ya with the box!!!! All those nights wasted waiting for you to come along! Sometimes it'd blow away or someone else would remove it before you got there. My life is now complete and I can go onto something else... Maybe concrete blocks off an overbridge? What do ya reckon?

**Ixion** · 10th July 2006, 22:33

Nay, now you play the clincher.Now Mr Motu has decided to drive onto the boxes. Another box, the same looking, same place. But this one is filled with concrete.

**XTC** · 10th July 2006, 22:42

Now that's just nasty.....

**Motu** · 10th July 2006, 22:43

If I was on a bike I would of been able to get between the box and oncoming car,with practically no evasive action at all.There was no real chance of a kid being inside,but I mentioned it because it did go through my mind,worst case alarm bells.By the way the box was lying I was pretty sure there was no heavy machine inside,but it was a box made for such items.So I hoped it would be empty...my other thought was it fell off a removal truck,someones trailer....so full off clothes,a stereo,crockery.I was pretty sure the Pajero would make quick work of that.All that to think through in a split second.

Random events - we've talked about them before.All you can do is make sure everything else is in place for when you get one.

**Motu** · 10th July 2006, 22:44

Originally Posted by XTC

I finally got ya with the box!!!! All those nights wasted waiting for you to come along! Sometimes it'd blow away or someone else would remove it before you got there. My life is now complete and I can go onto something else... Maybe concrete blocks off an overbridge? What do ya reckon?

YOU BASTARDS!!!!!