Small (250) bike ride - AUCKLAND

[Two Smoker]

Yeah , a bit like his dammed knee sliders !!

F/F

LOL i heard about tht one

[Yamahamaman]

Yeah we noticed you had gone missing before the second bin and of course we started speculating which ditch you were lying in.
After all, bad things come in threes...
Glad you had a pleasant ride even if it wasn't quite the route you were expecting!

How come you have time to go riding when you have all those letters to compose.

[Motoracer]

Thanx for the ride guys. Although a bit too short for my liking, I had fun while it lasted (the twisties).

Well done Andrew and Two smoker who showed some brilliant riding! I had a good time just watching these guys batteling it out.

That was my indicator btw erik!! I was wondering where it decided to wonder off to!

[Two Smoker]

LOL with me it is slow riding...... your the brilliant rider, its great to watch just you ride... for the few corners i see you LOL....

[Ms Piggy]

Sorry to hear about the bins but I glad no-one was seriously hurt!

All ya can do is learn from your mistakes...speaking from expereince here!

[Firefight]

LOL ...... your the brilliant rider, its great to watch just you ride... for the few corners i see you LOL....

you got a point Chris, however, if you can see him, your not doing to bad yourself

Firefight

[Two Smoker]

you got a point Chris, however, if you can see him, your not doing to bad yourself

Firefight

LOL i would like too think so.... I need a bigger bike though if only i had the licence

OK, round up for today, very short ride, good turn out, enjoyed the twisties.....

Darry crashed, hope your ok mate, and you learned something same too you shawndog (how did that goodlooking ambo driver go hehehe)

Motorcycle cop was cool, and we had a good yarn too him

SpankMe, MR and Andrew were the fast guys of the day.....

MadDucks SV650 is damn nice, as is Duckman's TLR, and Quasi's Ducati and SpankMe's SV1000S ......

Great too meet everyone, and i hope i didnt hold anyone up

Cant wait for the next

[shandawg]

Er, sorry guys, it's Shannon not Shawn :P

Thanks a lot for the ride, had a great time even if I did bin it!

Gareth and SpankMe both witnessed me jinx myself at the BP at Silverdale

A short lapse of concentration and all of a sudden you're in a ditch covered in mud. The corner tightened much more than I had anticipated, with a bit more experience I may have got it round.

Couldn't have wished for better weather or a better bunch of guys (and gal) to ride with, see you once my arm (and bike) gets better.

No broken bones luckily, but evidence of dislocation, and a torn ligament which holds some bone to some other bone, so six weeks in a sling for me.

The bike, on the other hand, is perhaps not in such good shape, but hopefully a bit of spannering will get her back on the road without too much $$, as long as the forks are still straight.

Thanks again to all of you who helped, including the guy in the car who stopped and helped pull the zxr out of the ditch - whoever you are, and the people who let the guys store the bike in their shed.

Oh and Quasievil, thanks so much for the lend of the pants, they are fine (but covered in mud), as I never touched gravel. If you PM me your address, I'll have them professionally cleaned and courier them down to you.

[MadDuck]

Well very interesting day thats for sure. Saw Darry's accident which kinda made me go slower than usual...yeah I know - cant go much slower than walking pace ...lol

I didnt notice the blonde ambo driver come to Shandawgs rescue but the bloke ambo officer werent too bad I am guessing you guys wouldnt have noticed

Laugh of the day ... how damn cheeky does a young fella get other than asking to sit on cops bike for a photo.

Short ride but better than mowing the lawns. Next "slow" ride count me in
MD

[Firefight]

Er, sorry guys, it's Shannon not Shawn :P

Thanks a lot for the ride, had a great time even if I did bin it!

Gareth and SpankMe both witnessed me jinx myself at the BP at Silverdale

A short lapse of concentration and all of a sudden you're in a ditch covered in mud. The corner tightened much more than I had anticipated, with a bit more experience I may have got it round...

No broken bones luckily, but evidence of dislocation, and a torn ligament which holds some bone to some other bone, so six weeks in a sling for me.

Glad thats all mate, good attitude, most of us have had a bit of a bin, just learn from it and get back into it as soon as you can.

F/F

[R6_kid:Me]

hey hey!!! i knew i wouldnt be the only one to notice that blondie!!! And the nurses/st johns uniform made it so much better! Im sure she woulda made shannons day just a wee bit better
Gotta give it up to the cops
Specially our friend on the bike who came up from glenfield/wairau at 180kmh just to see what had happened!
Maybe we should all become police

[Devil]

Ok here's my first go at posting pics. Hope it works.

Shot 2 shows the right bar which before it was unscrewed and twisted into the current position was bent into the fairing making a right turn impossible.

In the third shot the scrape on the tip of the exhaust makes me wonder what the hell my bike did after I left it.

EDIT: Just resized the photo's

Hey dude, where did you do that? What happened?

When i get around to getting rid of the L plate ill come on a ride hehe.

[KATWYN]

Who binned it on state Highway 16 yesterday between 10.00 am
and 1.00pm ? We were coming back from the lookout and saw a
whole lotta bikes parked on the side of the road. With what
looked like a bike being pushed back up onto the road by
two or three people.

As I slow down, a guy did the thumbs up to say "its ok"

was that any of these binnings spoken about?

[Aucker]

Just wanted to thank everyone for helping me out after my 'little scrape'

Got the bike back home on a trailer alright.

I'll post pics soon.

bummer dude! feel for ya. :disapint:

[Aucker]

looked like a few turned up...i thought it was 250's only?? O well, a ride is a ride