Carnage Loop

[DMNTD:Me]

Not planning on it but shit happens.

Sure does...and a 99% higher chance if you're going to ride like that on the road too.
Do you honestly think the Man that you hold in such high regard wants you to join him yet?

Chronic attitude SM but hey you don't give a fark anyway so who cares huh?

[crashe]

Fitting Tributes Guys

I have been around the (full) Coro Loop three times now safely.
Last time around was back in the end of 2005 or early 2006

On that last time, I got stung on my right wrist by a very nasty bee in Whitianga and had to ride all the way home with the wrist hurting like hell.

I have also ridden the Coro Loop when it was also such a hot day that the tar was melted and damned dangerous to ride on. Everyone rode slow and carefully throu that. Some sportbikes had tar all over their tyres..... that it ruined the tyres. I rode up in the high centre part of the road which was interesting. I wouldn't want to ride in melted tar like that again.

It was on one of those three times around the Coro Loop that I rode with LooseBruce.....

I have/had ridden with Bruce on other occassions.

[Zapf]

Well I just completed by first Coro Loop and couldn't help wonder how many people have come to greif on this world class ride. I rode away unscathed but other on the ride werent so lucky.

Lets hear your stories and pay respect to all the bikes lost on this loop, RIP.

Its not the loop. The loop is a place where things could and can happen, and it can happen anywhere too.

There are more crashes there, why? It is people's riding. The loop is not as forgiving as your local street or backroad. People who ride at their limit or close to their limits are more likely to come to grief.

I have started riding the loop from the 1st day I joined KB. In fact it was my 1st ride and 1st KB ride, on my VTR250 with 50km's on the clock. With LB and Death... / Two Smoke. That was almost 3 years ago. I have ridden the loop over 50 times in the last few years yet I have not came to grief. Where is the logic in that.

As I say its not the loop, its the riding.

[@mmie]

Its not the loop. The loop is a place where things could and can happen, and it can happen anywhere too.

As I say its not the loop, its the riding.

Couldn't agree with you more!

[McDuck]

Its not the loop. The loop is a place where things could and can happen, and it can happen anywhere too.

There are more crashes there, why? It is people's riding. The loop is not as forgiving as your local street or backroad. People who ride at their limit or close to their limits are more likely to come to grief.

I have started riding the loop from the 1st day I joined KB. In fact it was my 1st ride and 1st KB ride, on my VTR250 with 50km's on the clock. With LB and Death... / Two Smoke. That was almost 3 years ago. I have ridden the loop over 50 times in the last few years yet I have not came to grief. Where is the logic in that.

As I say its not the loop, its the riding.

it is also the hype, makes people think that it is special and they can try that stuff on inside its limits. I almost went down because of it, and it was only words that sidecar bob gave me that stoped me pushing

[Forest]

lossebruce (rip) and dess3 (rip) boath lost there lifes on the coro.

Head-on collisions don't cause themselves.

You can't blame them on the coro loop.

[McDuck]

Head-on collisions don't cause themselves.

You can't blame them on the coro loop.

I am not blaming the loop. I am blaming the shelf KB sports bike riders put it on. I was marely staiting that those two died on that pice of road.

[Forest]

I am not blaming the loop. I am blaming the shelf KB sports bike riders put it on. I was marely staiting that those two died on that pice of road.

Sorry about that - I misread your post.

[enigma51]

skidmark you need to grow up your not a child so don't act like one

[MaxB]

The number of inexperienced riders is the reason I don't do the loop on the weekends anymore. Last time I went was a Wednesday arvo.

I'll ride it alone or with someone I know very very well and can trust them with my life.

What I don't get is the attitude. These are public roads. Every rider should ride with attitude they are going to come home in one piece, even if it means not going hard out. If you didn't get your dream lap, so what? It gives you an excuse to come back another day.

[Squiggles]

nice road, not in the best condition at the moment, fun to ride on at a pace, but wouldnt push myself as its quite clear from the moment you start it that it wont be forgiving

[Squiggles]

The number of inexperienced riders is the reason I don't do the loop on the weekends anymore. Last time I went was a Wednesday arvo.

Its seems almost empty on tuesdays

[skidMark]

Yep. A statement like "Knee down all 3 of the crash site corners for the fella" is top-class satire worthy of The Onion.

It's out of repect for my fallen mate.

I know the corners i am leaving alot in reserve.

I don't push it becasue the last thing i would ever want to do is take out the cross or something.

It's my way to pay tribute to my mate as a i go past, to say hey bro, look what i can do

he was everything i aspired to be, always gave me shit for my pristine condition knee sliders.

One day you will understand. Until then do not comment on things you do not understand

Cheers: skid

[skidMark]

nice road, not in the best condition at the moment, fun to ride on at a pace, but wouldnt push myself as its quite clear from the moment you start it that it wont be forgiving

Yeah when it says 25 on a corner on the loop they mean it

[slowpoke]

Still think about Bruce everyday. Knee down all 3 of the crash site corners for the fella. ride in his memory, he was my idol.

I have never done the full loop....only kopu- whangamata and back to kopu.... and kopu - thames- coromandel town and back to kopu.

never arsed off there yet.

but if i go in a bike crash i want it to be down there.

or on the roads from auckland to kaiaua down the coast...between whitford and clevdon- kaiaua.

At least then ya knowi went with a fucking huge grin on my face.

fave road is whagamata road though. always will be.

Sunny day just let her fly ...140 round the 55's tipped right over knee down wrapping around through the cliffs.....blimin heaven i tell ya!

Until you see

then speed increases lol.

SM

Are you for fukkin' real? Someone please tell me this is a pisstake or troll.....anybody?

Fella, nobody goes with a "fucking huge grin" on their face. You go in a world of pain and confusion and regret:
"Is that my mangled arm over there by that car? Fuck I can't breathe! Waddaya mean take it easy, I can't take it easy when my mouth keeps filling with blood?! Why are they looking at me like that? Is that my bike revving fit to burst, bouncing against the limiter? aaaah quiet, thank god, except for the lady screaming, I mean screaming at her kids to "stay in the fucking car!".....uurgh, I can feel the bones in my chest grating together....fuck it hurts, man...no I mean it really hurts like somebody is twisting a huge knife in my chest....funny, my shoulder doesn't hurt at all...I can feel Davo pressing his favourite tee shirt against the ragged stump where my arm used to be but that's about it....blood everywhere...is that all mine?....the poor bugger is crying...I want to thank him, tell him I'm sorry but I just can't seem to take a breathe....oh man I...just....can't...seem...to get...any...air...fading, feel like I'm falling all over again......voices......screaming......going....... .going......................"gone

SM, try holding half your mates face on as he's lying on the side of the road, try having to ride home when your broken mate has just been loaded into an ambulance (or worse, dead) and your whole body is still shaking no matter how many shuddering deep breathes you try and take, try telling him as he's lying there that everything's ok when you know damn well that the ambo's are 20 minutes away and there's already more blood than you've seen in your life leaking over the road. Try dialling a mobile phone to make that call to his missus when you can't stop shaking enough to read/jab the numbers not having a clue what to say and your mouth feels like the bottom of a parrots cage.

I wonder where your "fucking huge grin" would be then....I wonder if you'd be grinning if you were the one lying broken on the road......
I don't really wonder, 'cos I know for a fact you'd be crying and snivelling and praying/begging just like the rest of us and you'd do anything, absolutely anything at all if you could only turn back the clock.

But hey, you don't have to listen to people like me spruiking on, you can just keep riding as you are and find out for yourself.......