Worst Ride You've Had?

[Skyryder]

Damn there are some funny yarns in this lot.
Still wouldn't swap riding for quids aye.

(^ nice mix of trans tasman colloquialisms in that lot!)

Fell on the floor once. She was a grat ride. Never missed a beat. Or should I say stroke??

[Kyle]

Worst ride, proberly be about 12 years ago, way back on my first road bike, a tzr250 2stroke. Apart from dirtbikes i was pretty much a learner rider then, so riding over the kaimai ranges (hamilton to tauranga) in one very dark, windy and rainy night was abit of a nightmare. I was getting blown all over the road, and getting soaked aswell. Ended up in first gear most of the way near the top.
Thats the only bad ride i can think of, i enjoy riding too much. wind, fog, rain, traffic wars, surprise obsticles, darkness, breakdowns, even crashes i look back on as good memorys, all part of the game as they say, and you learn from it. Infact its things like those that i remember most. All the uneventful parts are just a blur. I know they were there, but nothing happened, so i cant recall the event.

[Riff Raff]

1. Pillion on a Harley from Dover to Sittingbourne at night when it was snowing, wearing crappy leather jacket, lycra leggings and suede boots.

2. Riding down to Wellington - began raining at the Bombays and didn't stop until Bulls. Was torrential through National Park - couldn't see further than about 5 metres in front. Strong winds from Ohakune - nearly got sucked under two trucks that went past. Got to Wellington with soaking wet gear, a bit of hypothermia and thoroughly miserable. Discovered White Trash had arranged for us to go out - I refused to get on a motorbike again so his flatmate took me in car, but had to stop and help get a trailer loaded with bikes for Manfield the next day. Stood shivering my arse off in a freezing garage for 45 minutes becoming increasingly shitty. Didn't stop shivering until the following morning.

[NinjaBoy]

Ride to KB trackday II - Akl to Taupo.

Started with a little drizzle in Aucks but as we progressed along the backroads it was obvious we were riding into the storm not out of it.
Then coming to Te Kuiti - there were two rivers that had formed across the road - travelling at 100km/hr to late to apply any braking but hang on and ride straight thru. When it couldn't get any worse, it did. As we approached Taupo the temp. dropped and my visor instantly fogged up.

Now I was wet through, cold and couldn't see. All on a bike I had owned all of 3 weeks.

And the worst thing about it 12 months later... the leathers have shrunk from that soaking.

[skelstar]

Fark I remember how wet it was that w-end. MoFun and I walked to Camelia Court from Taupo central and got totally soaked. The TD wasnt cold at least, just quite wet.

[Blackbird]

1. Pillion on a Harley from Dover to Sittingbourne at night when it was snowing, wearing crappy leather jacket, lycra leggings and suede boots.

Know that area well - Kent was where I spent my time pursuing the Mrs B to be (courting sounds sooo quaint ) and got married in a 15th century church in Hildenborough.