Almost all over...

**98tls** · 11th February 2007, 18:14

Went for a jaunt on the TL today...headed up to winchester turned off and went the inland way up through Rakaia gorge.......a short but awsome bit of twistys.........getting up to the top of the gorge theres a real tight left hander which is a bang it down into first crank it over and grab a big handful on the other side and into a slightly less tight right hander.....cranked over i go and F@R%in hell theres a bloody great rock in front of me.......this was happening at a fair pace and way over..........was almost as if time stood still and i was waiting for the bars to fly out of my hands.........then nothing......i must have missed the bloody thing by mm.......the relief was enormous in fact so much so that i almost stuffed up the right hander..........The gods of motorcycling were smileing on me today otherwise it could well have been a very expensive/painful episode.......

The whole thing was such a rush i just had to share..........

**onearmedbandit** · 11th February 2007, 18:18

Damn, close call eh? I take it the rock is still there??

**zuk** · 11th February 2007, 18:25

Know the feeling, found the same thing on the Napier/Taupo, but I hit it-- airborne but landed safe and due to the weight of the bike ,kept going straight, buckled both rims and had to ride back to the hutt at a very reduced pace !!!!

**T.W.R** · 11th February 2007, 18:27

hope you left my strategically placed rock alone

it's there to keep foreigners out of my stamping ground

Nah seriously though, sounds like you had a close one

The last lefty huh? the wee tight bastard or the sweeper up onto the terrace straight?

**98tls** · 11th February 2007, 18:32

Originally Posted by onearmedbandit

Damn, close call eh? I take it the rock is still there??

Na mate........rode up the top of the gorge turned around and went back and removed it.

**98tls** · 11th February 2007, 18:33

Originally Posted by T.W.R

hope you left my strategically placed rock alone

it's there to keep foreigners out of my stamping ground

Nah seriously though, sounds like you had a close one

The last lefty huh? the wee tight bastard or the sweeper up onto the terrace straight?

The real tight one in the trees bill.

**DMNTD:Me** · 11th February 2007, 18:36

Dang! Nothing better than a decent pucker moment for feeling alive eh mate!
Glad you were able to write about it man
Sometimes mm's are big enough...

**u4ea** · 11th February 2007, 18:37

luck was on your side today !!good man for shifting the rogue rock too....

..hope youre having a beer to calm youre nerves !

**98tls** · 11th February 2007, 18:38

Originally Posted by zuk

Know the feeling, found the same thing on the Napier/Taupo, but I hit it-- airborne but landed safe and due to the weight of the bike ,kept going straight, buckled both rims and had to ride back to the hutt at a very reduced pace !!!!

Mate i dont mean to laugh but bloody hell you were a bit lucky eh.......buckled both rims........better than hitting the deck though..........

**zuk** · 11th February 2007, 18:43

It was VERY close to a brown trou moment---on a Sunday too so I couldn,t buy a lotto ticket, oh and I also stopped and removed the said fucken rock

**T.W.R** · 11th February 2007, 18:49

Originally Posted by 98tls

The real tight one in the trees bill.

Oh joy!

I know the one

not to many options there if things get ugly either

Should have given me a yell, could have caught up for a scratch

just been bouncing in & out of here all day while tinkering on the fairing panels

**98tls** · 11th February 2007, 18:54

Originally Posted by T.W.R

Oh joy!

I know the one

not to many options there if things get ugly either

Should have given me a yell, could have caught up for a scratch

just been bouncing in & out of here all day while tinkering on the fairing panels

yea mate...........could have borrowed your shithouse to empty out the leathers...............you goin to the march hare...........?

**T.W.R** · 11th February 2007, 19:00

Originally Posted by 98tls

yea mate...........could have borrowed your shithouse to empty out the leathers...............you goin to the march hare...........?

by the time got here you'd have fully moulded armour plating daks

would have had to get the water blaster out

Yep I'm going to terrorise the March Hare

**98tls** · 11th February 2007, 19:03

Originally Posted by T.W.R

by the time got here you'd have fully moulded armour plating daks

would have had to get the water blaster out

Yep I'm going to terrorise the March Hare

Sweet mate...........as its so close i will only go for the sat but will catch up over a beer for sure..........

**imdying** · 11th February 2007, 19:09

Originally Posted by zuk

Know the feeling, found the same thing on the Napier/Taupo, but I hit it-- airborne but landed safe and due to the weight of the bike ,kept going straight, buckled both rims and had to ride back to the hutt at a very reduced pace !!!!

That is God condoning you spending up large on some new carbon fibre rims to replace them