Bloody Vegetarians will be the death of me...

**Paul in NZ** · 6th July 2004, 18:40

As you may or may not know we went 2 up on the LM2, full gear (and I mean FULL - what do you do with a woman that needs 2 pairs of jeans for a 2 day visit?).... Only a short ride (400km each way plus side trips) to Neil and Helens place (north of Napier) but it is the middle of winter!!

Anyway! I had a new tank bag (on sale at Motorcycle City close down sale) of the REALLY big variety and put a lot of heavy stuff in it and 2 up the ride was superb. We were struggling to hold the old girl back to the speed limit as it was always wanting to go faster and faster... In fact, we came across mates on the same ride pull out of a side road ahead and we were going so fast we were just chugged on past at Guzzi speed. Amazing stuff for a 25 year old bike..

Only one incident of note...

Barrelling through one fast twisty bit on the way back, we notice a very animated orange vested gentleman on the side of the road waving us down... How odd we think, no road works signs, maybe an accident.. So we start to scrub of as much speed as we dare before the bend on the damp road.. Arriving at the bend, scrubbing off a LOT more speed became a priority as we see a small landslip right across the road... It was very easy to see as the guy had thoughtfully painted it bright, dayglow orange....

Odd..... Where would he get the time to do that???? Some sort of performance art?????

All this going on in the head while heavy braking and rapid down shifting and keeping hold of the bike as Vicki is climbing up on my shoulders due to rapid deceleration.... (no snickering you lot, brakes are excellent for a steam driven ocean liner)

Finally the plot has slowed to walking pace where we can pick our way across where a car has convieniently been before us... AH! Not a landslide....

Carrots....

Yup! A big semi trailer FULL of carrots had lost his tailgate latch and dumped the lot.... I damn near fell of from laughing.. (bloody slippery I can tell you) Poor bugger is going to have some explaining to do as the clean up would need a loader at least! I'm told it even made the news!

Funny... I thought vegetables were supposed to be good for you?

ps... Good on the driver for doing all he could. Without the warning I'd be writing this from a hospital ward!

**James Deuce** · 6th July 2004, 18:59

Performance art. Maybe Wellington Ratepayers sponsored that.

Nice one Paul.

**dangerous** · 6th July 2004, 19:59

Always bloody good to read ya posts Paul. I've been missing them having not visit the 'wild guzzi' forum all that often these days but I still drop in on the 'guzzi exchange' every week.
One thing that I have noticed with the VTR, unlike the Guzzi it is easier to hold the speed down.

DD

**Dr Bob** · 6th July 2004, 21:25

1990, along the northwestern motorway (although it wasn't a motorway then, I think there were lights at lincoln road. I looked in my rear vision mirror as something caught my eye, and saw a load of cabbages - still in the daihatsu (sp.) truck cartwheeling through the air. The truck slammed its anchors on and it rolled over the front end, and the truck ended up in the centre meridian on its wheels. But there were cabbages as far as the eye could see.

**Wenier** · 6th July 2004, 22:11

yea i seen carrots off a truck on the side of the road luckily somewhere on a trip cant remember where but it was a fair way up north on a trip

**Paul in NZ** · 6th July 2004, 22:16

Originally Posted by Wenier

yea i seen carrots off a truck on the side of the road luckily somewhere on a trip cant remember where but it was a fair way up north on a trip

I saw all sorts a stuff on a trip once too.... No carrots but there was all sorts a other stuff.... It was comin' outta the walls an....

;-)

Paul N (old and often forgotten)

**Bob** · 6th July 2004, 22:16

Isn't the term 'bloody' vegetarians something of a misnomer?

The perils of food on the floor - I've been hit by a banana skin carelessly chucked out of a van before now. And a friend of mine nearly lost it when he clipped a giant catering pizza that plopped out the back of another van.

There seems to be a connection between vans, poorly stored food and close shaves on a bike here...

**Motu** · 6th July 2004, 22:26

I did something similar once - stupid is as stupid does.The fruit and vegie shop over the road needed their truck moved out on the road so they could unload the potatoes,but the only guy who could drive the truck had lost his licence and was too scared to even park it out front - like,the cops knew him real well.So he came and asked me if I could do it - sure,no worries mate - so I go over to bring it out front,up a very narrow alley - but only one mirror on the truck.Trying to keep as far right as possible so I didn't hit the building I couldn't see as I turned left onto the road....ah,yes...I hit the building on the right with the rear overhang,and um,got jammed into it,couldn't go back,couldn't go forward,the owner of the building came running out screaming blue murder,it was all happening - but I hadn't finished yet...the only way was to force my way forward - and as the truck sprung back into shape it threw all the potatoes (in jute sacks)over the right side of the truck.There were potatoes strewn all over West Coast Rd at 4.00 in the afternoon,the start of the rush hour in Glen Eden.I slipped away unnoticed and thought I might just close the shop and go home early.

LB · 7th July 2004, 05:56

What about the time quite a few years ago when, at a set of traffic lights on a steep uphill section, the coffin slid out of the back of the hearse in rush hour traffic in Auckland?

**What?** · 7th July 2004, 20:00

Originally Posted by Lynda Blair

What about the time quite a few years ago when, at a set of traffic lights on a steep uphill section, the coffin slid out of the back of the hearse in rush hour traffic in Auckland?

Did it contain a vegetable?

**Wenier** · 7th July 2004, 22:41

Originally Posted by What?

Did it contain a vegetable?

hahahahahhaha

**Hitcher** · 8th July 2004, 11:10

As I read the title of this thread, the nostrils of a Hobby Horse flared and it pawed the ground in anticipation of being let out for a canter... Imagine its disappointment!! Good post though.

**vifferman** · 8th July 2004, 11:17

Originally Posted by dangerous

One thing that I have noticed with the VTR, unlike the Guzzi it is easier to hold the speed down. DD

Why?
Is it a dud?
Is it too quiet?

Originally Posted by Hitcher

As I read the title of this thread, the nostrils of a Hobby Horse flared and it pawed the ground in anticipation of being let out for a canter... Imagine its disappointment!!

That's OK, Hitcher - just give it its head anyway. Let the bugger out!