Binned it again!

[R6_kid:Me]

10r cart wouldn't get power down and would be very unstable yet a ****load of fun seen a gixxer 11000 donk in one and it flew.

where the fuck did you find an 11L gixxer?

[outlawtorn]

as long as you came out of that in one piece.....

[saul]

Man o man that is a bitch.

Terrible for you and your friends.

There was a dude down here that binned his 10 the other day (now who was that)

Hope you and your friend heal up quick and get good news.

Warm regards

[MD]

Sorry to hear and hope the injuries heal quick.
Chris Parkin, A wgtn City Councillor sucessfully took the (Wairarapa or there-abouts?) Council to court over his similar crash caused by no warning signs on a bend under repair. The council initially denied responsibility because they used Contractors. But the Judge threw that out saying, (IIRC) they could not delegate out their responsibility for maintaining our roads and the resultant safety of the users.
Make sure you get all the Police details/records as evidence.

[Croft]

GUTTED for ya!!!! Damn damn DAMN!!!

Glad you're ok baby!!!

[Leong]

Mate.... I don't believe it, not again, but then if it was on SH22 I'm not too surprised about the gravel on the road. Still bad luck though.

Hope Star Insurance look after you as well this time. Even I... who have been with the same insurance company for 25 years, have considered changing my bike insurance to Star because of your last experience. I'll wait to see how you go this time!!!

Hope the injuries heal up quick... and hopefully see you on a new bike at the next trackday!!

[pritch]

They are not going to be happy with me!

Sincere condolences, that's a serious downer.

You may console yourself to a small degree with the fact that you have a gift for understatement. By way of miniscule additional consolation have bling.

[Detroitdiesel]

Riding through Porters pass to Aurthers pass a few weekends back and without warning on a reasonably fast corner there was gravel and grit all over the road, managed to get my bike upright as quick as I could before before a big slide into a ditch,had to use most of the road lucky road was clear, I can only assume Fulton Hogan know something about how the grit got onto the road with no warnings.

[jade]

Fuck man that blows, glad your ok tho, was bad enough seeing you go down metres in front of me at puke and you were taking it nice and easy at taupo..
glad your ok and hope they sort you out

[gijoe1313]

Crikey - glad to hear you got off "lightly" Good on ya for wearing good gears and then posting up about it! Ouch, the piccies of your poor ride shows up all the damage and the effectiveness of your gear well!

Heal up quick and let's hope you sic the miscreants responsible!

[heyjoe]

Sorry to hear about your bin man.

A friend of mine took on one of the local firms contracted by council to repair roads when he came round a sweeping bend with no warning signs and there was gravel and shingle all over the road. He could not avoid or stop in time and slid out on the shingle. He took them on in court after their lame excuses didn't wash with him. It cost him (in insurance) and the whole accident was not his fault.

It's not your fault from your description so someone is responsible for your accident. It could have been avoided. People have been put at risk and now someone has injuries and their is property damage.

[Prof - R]

sorry mate about another bin in such short time hope you guys are fit & well soon with some new machine just take it easy for now

[eviltwin]

thanks everyone for all the support, it's wicked!

i doubt i'll have a bike for this weekend, so i think i'll take the truck down to paeroa and fill the back up with lots of icey cold beers. so if you see a green cherokee with the back flap up, swing by and grab some coldies.

also, i'm going to need a girlfriend too now with all this spare time on my hands...any suggestions?

it is preferable that she is lighter than me because i don't fancy someone heavier than me sitting on my ribs...ever!

actually, isn't there a new french girl in town? i seem to recall looking at a thread yesterday full of horny blokes flashing their google language translators.

c’est genial, tres bien!

J’ai invie de faire peepee, bonsoir.

[Finn]

It is about time those responsible for the roads were held responsible.

Well we do live in a developing country and knowing this, it's about time riders were responsible for their own actions.

[terbang]

Well we do live in a developing country and knowing this, it's about time riders were responsible for their own actions.

I agree with some of that and I don't think that the gripes here about loose metal are attempts to shirk our personal responsibility as riders. Well not from me anyway. The combination of less than careful riders (myself included on occasions) and less than careful roading contractors culminates in an accident (search the Dr James Reason model). Then it would be fair to say that some, perhaps punitive, learning should be brought upon the roading contractors as well as the riders. We pay rates and taxes and expect a reasonable return and duty of care for our money that is spent on roading. Just like we pay our insurers who ultimatly punish us for our own folly's. Loose metal left in the middle of a bend is just as slack as a (road)rider hitting the corner too hard with no room for error. When the two meet, chances are, your off....! Wouldn't part of our responsibility for our own actions be in eliminating our own risk? Pointing out road errors to the roading contractors is part of that. Eliminating risk.

There often is an attitude among riders that it is external factors and only external factors that cause us to crash and there is a reluctance to accept personal blame. It's part of being human by finding it difficult to accept our own weaknesses.