Harleys are F%rk#n heavy........

[98tls]

Found out first hand today..........ive given my best mate shit for years about his overweight cruiser (he rides a Harley) and hes given it all back about my rice burningyada yada yada...but this morning we shot up to ch-ch at 6 am and did a few things and headed back this afternoon,instead of taking the bikes we took my ute as it was pissing down and did so all the way up and all the way back,the rain was pretty shocking and traffic pretty slow as even on the plains no one was passing as the amount of spray flying about made it impossible to see far.....we went passed this poor bugger on the side of the road standing by his bike and from this motorcyclists point of view it was a strange place to be in the pissing rain so when i could i doubled back and it turned out it was a bloke on a sporty which had just died on him....no point in the 3 of us getting drowned so onto the back of the ute it went........with some considerable effort then my mate and the rider had to share a bucket seat to Ashburton..delivered him safe and sound then gave my mate shit all the way back to oamaru about the weight of cruisers...a few laughs had by all.

[chanceyy]

good on ya hon .. blardy awesome weekend up here rain seemed to go all the way round us .. fantastic ride this aft .. but I do know wot its like to be stranded with a dead bike ..

[NZsarge]

Well done mate...well done.

[98tls]

Well done mate...well done.

Only did what i would hope any motorcyclist in a ute would do if he came across another with a problem......glad i wasnt on my own bike as it suffers from the same dis-like of water....just wish i had the camera on me so when me mate starts rubbishing my jappa i could bring the photo out to shut him up

[surfchick]

Found out first hand today..........ive given my best mate shit for years about his overweight cruiser (he rides a Harley) and hes given it all back about my rice burningyada yada yada....bucket seat to Ashburton..delivered him safe and sound then gave my mate shit all the way back to oamaru about the weight of cruisers...a few laughs had by all.

Alright for the ute rescue! I bet the rider had never been happier to share a bucket seat with the blokes who rescued his bike

how did you get it up on the ute without ramps? ...did you combine forces and L-I-F-T it? hope it wasn't a 4wd..they so high...

[98tls]

Alright for the ute rescue! I bet the rider had never been happier to share a bucket seat with the blokes who rescued his bike

how did you get it up on the ute without ramps? ...did you combine forces and L-I-F-T it? hope it wasn't a 4wd..they so high...

Was a BA xr6 ute which is really low but tell ya what it still took a bit of grunting to get it up there........thank f$ck it wasnt a big block harley.....i am picking it was only a water problem but not one of us wanted to hang about drowning trying to get it going......funny looking at the pair of them cuddling up on one seat..i couldnt help but remark on the closeness of riding a Harley....nice really.

[scumdog]

Good shit Mike - Kharma will surely reward you.

And I know what that rain was like 'cos I was riding in it coming back from Otematata HOG rally, got to Pukeuri about 10-ish, man it was WET!

Then South of Dunners (after the blardy fog!) it get ferkin cold - 3 degrees at my back door!!

My 'hi-tech' waterproof gear was sweet-as

A bit damp around the helmet/skull mask but the rest of me was dry. (Bless Mr Holsums fine bread-bags!)

[98tls]

Good shit Mike - Kharma will surely reward you.

And I know what that rain was like 'cos I was riding in it coming back from Otematata HOG rally, got to Pukeuri about 10-ish, man it was WET!

Then South of Dunners (after the blardy fog!) it get ferkin cold - 3 degrees at my back door!!

My 'hi-tech' waterproof gear was sweet-as

A bit damp around the helmet/skull mask but the rest of me was dry. (Bless Mr Holsums fine bread-bags!)

Saw alot of em heading back up to CH-ch today...poor buggers i thought as it was pissing down........then again anyday on the bike is better than one off it.......

[laRIKin]

Good on you helping out a fellow rider.

But I do not believe that a HD broke down and it had to have a ride on the back of a Ute.
They only do that to keep the mileage down because they are collectable.
And in this case the rider did not have wet weather gear.

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[98tls]

Good on you helping out a fellow rider.

But I do not believe that a HD broke down and it had to have a ride on the back of a Ute.
They only do that to keep the mileage down because they are collectable.
And in this case the rider did not have wet weather gear.

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yea ok you got me mate.......truth is as you say,it started to rain he got off it and flagged me down...i saw it was a harley and felt obliged to save him some polish..........

[Bren]

Good on ya mate, you deserve a Speights