Look, they do stop cages

[Fub@r]

I have called Motomail and they are happy to have the petition in their stores so I will drop off copies to the main shop and outlet shop this afternoon. When I go to the outlet shop I will drop in and see Kerry at Motohaus and drop a copy in their also.

[DEATH_INC.]

Anybody got any figures of how many trucks have been through those barriers??

xx accidents involving trucks were not stopped by Wire Rope Barriers in the last year looks like some useful propaganda.

If you look into the standard they are tested to you'll see there is a statement saying they are not tested for any two wheeled vehicle unpowered or not.
The level 3 test ( remember this is what the cheesecutters are tested to) is only up to a 2 tonne pickup ( 2008 toyota landcruiser auto curb weight 2.586 ton, 1/2 ton more than this!)

lemme see if I can find it.....
Here's the words of the report... ' Note that no provisions
are made herein for the design and testing of safety features
for two-wheeled vehicles-powered or unpowered.'

see attachments below for the specs...

Note how there is no allowance for anything that is not a sedan or pickup; convertables, sportscars, buckets, trucks, buses etc etc are not even considered at level 3!

[Mental Trousers]

So they're not designed to handle 10 ton trucks etc. Some actual figures of how many trucks have gone through them would reinforce the fact they suck nicely.

[DEATH_INC.]

I think that'd be damn hard to find, you'd hafta look at all the truck crashes, see where they happened, see what happened and work it out...... I kinda doubt there will be a file specifically for trucks going through wrb's...

[DEATH_INC.]

I wonder how they can use this standard actually (been thinking again, never good) , we pay rego to use their road, so the road is for bikes, if the barriers aren't designed for use with bikes, then this makes the road not suitable for use with bikes. Not fit for purpose maybe? Do the ltnz owe me a shiteload of rego for supplying the wrong product? where's my lawyer???

[Bullitt]

I don't see any of the vertical posts in that picture (that are supposed to be the main source of damage for bikers), it looks like just several wire ropes. Depending on how securely the vertical posts are fixed to the ground and the wire rope (and the spacing), they might've stopped that?

If you look at the videos of them crash testing Rovers into them all the posts are there for is to hold the wires up, the car rips out of the ground/bends flat (im not sure which) everyone it touches

[El Dopa]

The Monash study from which that picture is taken is available on thier website. Makes interesting reading.

I will certainly be referring to it in the letters I intend to write this weekend to various MP's.