Another Fatality

[SPman]

Another young guy killed this morning on his way to work on East Coast Road., by Wilks Rd going to Silverdale Apparently passed a car, misjudged everything, perhaps clipped the car he was passing and head on into an oncoming vehicle!
He leaves a yr old daughter, partner and shocked motorcycling parents and sisters.

Be careful out there you guys

SP.

[StoneChucker]

So sorry to hear, wishes to family and friends

RIDE SAFE people

[Blakamin]

thoughts to the family... specially the child

[Hitcher]

Tragic. I hope he wasn't one of ours.

[SPman]

Tragic. I hope he wasn't one of ours.

Nope. He was a bit loose on a bike though - like a few of the young chaps on here.

[Omega1]

RIP -condolences to the Family

[k14]

Crap, sounds like you knew him SP-man. RIP buddy. Be careful out there guys and gals.

[SpankMe]

Shit I've heard about way too many biker fatalities lately.

Give those bloody cages a wide berth when passing guys. They WILL kill you given the chance.

[FROSTY:Me]

Thanks for the reminder SP . Whoever you are dude I hope the roads are windey and the bikes are seriously nice.

[Ghost Lemur]

The season is certainly upon us.

By the sounds of it he came from a riding family. You sort of think his skill level would be higher than average in that sort of environment.

An ever constant reminder that life is fragile and live it while you can.

[Mongoose]

Yep, just goes to show that one wrong move and she's all over rover.
With out taking anything away from and early death, it does sort of stuff the arguements on the other thread about cars causing M/bike accidents/crashes a tad.

[jrandom]

Whoever you are dude I hope the roads are windey and the bikes are seriously nice.

A lovely sentiment, Frosty, but he's *dead*. That means, you know, rotting, decayed, or (most likely) spent some quality time in a cremation oven. Resting in pieces is a more appropriate term. Non-existent. The roads were windey before that, but now there just *aren't* any. It's all over. Good night. Biker has left the building.

Which is why it's better, all things considered, not to hit cages head-on.

[Ms Piggy]

Sympathies to his family and loved ones he leaves behind

[KATWYN]

A lovely sentiment, Frosty, but he's *dead*. That means, you know, rotting, decayed, or (most likely) spent some quality time in a cremation oven. Resting in pieces is a more appropriate term. Non-existent. The roads were windey before that, but now there just *aren't* any. It's all over. Good night. Biker has left the building.

Which is why it's better, all things considered, not to hit cages head-on.

I was thinking that and agree . But JR ,if his family reads this thread or people apply it to their loved ones it really isn't a comforting thought to know that....as much as we all wanna believe we carry on riding.

BTW, the share physics of how you would ride some 200kg iron horse in the sky is an interesting thought

If I knew I was going to go and ride a bike on some lovely winding
road off this planet.....hell I woulda checked out and done so ages ago, instead of riding it out here on this pathetic self indulgent peice of *&^%$

When people say "be careful out there people" we can be really careful and
there will still be someone who will take our lives.......i'm afraid we make the
decision to take the risk....we have to accept the consequence of that risk...its not fully about "BEING CAREFULL OUT THERE"

[jrandom]

I was thinking that and agree . But JR ,if his family reads this thread or people apply it to their loved ones it really isn't a comforting thought to know that...

I know. I should probably be shot for being a curmudgeonly prat. I just feel that there's nothing much good to say about it, and there's no point dressing that fact up in fancy clothes. But you're right.

BTW, the share physics of how you would ride some 200kg iron horse in the sky is an interesting thought

Not to mention the shear physics.

i'm afraid we make the decision to take the risk....we have to accept the consequence of that risk...its not fully about "BEING CAREFULL OUT THERE"

Indeed.

You know, I think I've figured out why KB has a tolerance for the 'biker down that we've never met' posts, whereas, say, uk.rec.motorcycles has more or less banned them. It's because there's few enough of them in NZ that we can essentially cover every biker's death or serious injury across the nation without creating much noise on the forum.

I can't figure out whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, though.