Fatal accident involving Back Fire/Razya on SH1. 20 Oct, 2007

[erik]

Damn it. I knew him.

Commiserations to his family.

Zapf, I hope you're ok.

[Nicksta]

I'm deeply sorry to read this thread.

To Daniel's family... stay strong and cherish the good times and great memories...

Allan, Felix, Tristan, Mark and friends, what can i say....

Dan, Rayza.... one of the first KBers to talk to me when i was a noob, online and on my first ride... thank you for hanging and teaching me so much. Our blats to KKK... Coffee runs... and Playstation battles and company when i was sick. Thank you for letting me ride your 600 at westgate LB'll have a gixxer ready for you....
rest in peace dude.... rest in peace.

[Leong]

Very very sad news. Dan was one of the first KBers I met when I started riding just over two years ago. A fine polite young man and a credit to his parents. I know they're a motorcycling family, but I'm sure this doesn't make it any easier. My condolences.....

Rest in Peace Dan.

[Nasty]

RIP Dan ... our thoughts and wishes go with you as you make this next part of your journey ...

[Lissa]

r i p......... My thoughts to friends and family.

[BIGBOSSMAN]

That's simply dreadful - me and a bunch of riders rode past the scene this morning on the way to Waihi not knowing we'd lost one of our own.
Rest In Peace.

[DUCATI*HARD]

rip,ride on brutha!!!

[NotaGoth]

Rest in peace Dan.......

[Xile]

So sorry to hear, condoleances..

(hear about a crash by a driver at a station service at the end of the ride, but did not imagine how sad it was...)

[Matt Bleck]

r.i.p .

[skidMark]

I'm deeply sorry to read this thread.

To Daniel's family... stay strong and cherish the good times and great memories...

Allan, Felix, Tristan, Mark and friends, what can i say....

Dan, Rayza.... one of the first KBers to talk to me when i was a noob, online and on my first ride... thank you for hanging and teaching me so much. Our blats to KKK... Coffee runs... and Playstation battles and company when i was sick. Thank you for letting me ride your 600 at westgate LB'll have a gixxer ready for you....
rest in peace dude.... rest in peace.

Can just see bruce daryl and dan wheelieing across the clouds already like the good old days....

Very very sad news. Dan was one of the first KBers I met when I started riding just over two years ago. A fine polite young man and a credit to his parents. I know they're a motorcycling family, but I'm sure this doesn't make it any easier. My condolences.....

Rest in Peace Dan.

I think youve summed that up perfectly leong , he was a very polite guy and his parents had raised him extremely well could be a bit quiet sometime but damn he knew how to ride....

I remember the ATNR (Auckland Thursday Night Ride) one night he came out on his dr650 deafening us all with his loud yoshi...then pulling out and we were taking a shorter route heading thru backroads he get onto a straight and put it up on one wheel and man.....that still remains to this day the best ever wheelie i had seen....

perfectly balanced and i mean perfectly...went along for a good 500 metre with the numberplate about 2 inches off the ground...no more no less for the whole frikking wheelie....same angle the whole way.... plate 2 inches off the ground perfectly consistent for 500 metres , the rest of us couldnt believe it...talk to him after...oh yeah...was nothing much....

meanwhile were all sitting there in disbelief...

anothertime we had undercover cops following the ride but ddnt notice...and he hoists up a massive wheelie...well we get to dairy flat...cops took 6 licenses....then walked up to dans bike and go right now whose bike was this...dan steps forward and says mine...

cop says we were behind you and you hoisted up a wheelie. but were letting you go because that was a very safe wheelie and we saw nothing wrong with it....

always known for having deafeningly loud bike...the dr650 passing me one night down a straight....bwarrrr and i went ohh yeah pretty loud...went round some corners....next big long straight i come out...and theres this deafening noise...i'm like whys my bike so bloodey loud...hang on that aint my bike...nobody nearby....look 500 metres ahead...theres this little dr650 tail light dissapearing down the straight...and i still couldnt hear me blimin bike...

and when the k6 gixxer thou had a slashcut...geez...me poor ears.... that was LOUDDDDD.

LEGEND lol

a little while ago i'm sitting at the pub....and somebody gets a cellphone call.... can somebody come get us???

so me having the only car a couple of **delivery riders jump in and away we go...get to the end of peak road to see 3 rather glum looking fellas sitting there with thier bikes...and no licenses......so two of them needed a lift...but not dan...oh yeah ill be sweet...got a lift coming.....

are ya sure buddy? yeah yeah i'm sorted...alrighty so in hopped the two fellas with no licenses..... and the two fellas with licenses delivered thier bikes home for them...morcs and karma from memory...with pumba and big dog riding thier bikes....

i remember driving away and looking at dan as i drove away sitting on the ground....see me gives me a grin and away we went and away he slipped away from the lights into the darkness....

and thats the last time i ever saw him.

that image is forever in my mind.

SM

[TLMAN]

Live by the sword, die by the sword!!

RIP dude.

[MidnightMike]

I'm only putting up Rayza as thats when I used to talk to him through the good old days of KB chat, quite like Klingon:

I just realised this was Rayza. (I didn't realise he'd changed his name to Back Fire.) When I first joined KB and chat was more lively, I used to chat to him a lot in there.

Great person to talk to, and get some info from, especially when I was new to this site and to bikes in general.

Very sad start to the long weekend, especially for it to be someone so young.


Please ride safely out there guys.

R.I.P Rayza.

[98tls]

Live by the sword, die by the sword!!

RIP dude.

About time.Thing is do both in your own space.

[skidMark]

for my earlier post katman gave me red rep...was speaking from the heart about a lost mate...if anybody else has a problem with my previous post....number 86....please let me know....