Carnage Loop

[deanohit]

and all those bikes without upside down forks

Mine binned, and look closely at the front, go the mighty Zongshen!

[nodrog:Me]

Mine binned, and look closely at the front, go the mighty Zongshen!

its amazing what you find when you wash things aye?

[more_fasterer]

So are we all agreeable that it's NOT the Coro Loop that is dangerous...it's the idiots attempting to do 140kmph around 55kmph corners that make it dangerous?

+1 vote here

[Mikkel]

So are we all agreeable that it's NOT the Coro Loop that is dangerous...it's the idiots attempting to do 140kmph around 55kmph corners that make it dangerous?

Agreed - with a modification... It's not just the Coro Loop!

because i know for a fact alot of you are so much worse.
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i will sit down and have a serious chat with you. but a fight of some sort proves nothing you are double my size.
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i'm sick of al these threads that single me out like i'm the most dangerous person in nz on a bike, it's bullshit.

Mark - you know jack shit, that is the only thing you have made clear beyond any reasonable doubt. I don't know you in person, I can't comment on your riding, but unless you got a rare flair for irony (see stuff like real ultimate power for an example of what I mean) your posts doesn't leave you much hope.

And for sure - beating you up won't prove anything. Anyway, I didn't see anyone posting any written threats on here. Only one guy saying that he was looking forward to having a chat with you - and I do think you could do with an attitude adjustment.

Oh, and despite how hard you try I don't think you manage to claim on being the most dangerous person on a bike in NZ... but perhaps on KB.

At least you should be off the roads for a while.

[SPman]

Back to the Coro thread........

Bruce wasn't called LOOSE Bruce for nothing. A stupid way for a really nice guy to go, but, not entirely unexpected. No Mark, you don't want to emulate him!

Oldfart (Bruce), (from conversations I had with people who should know), may well have been stung by a bee, immediately before his accident - it's the only way I can think what happened, happened, because he was usually the last person you would think would make a cock up of that magnitude. He was a GOOD rider,smooth, risk & ego free.

The first KB ride I went, to Whitianga and back, there were 2 bikes destroyed, one by a rider overestimating his abilities whilst underestimating his bikes abilities, and one through not making allowances for crap on the road. Other Coro runs I have seen behaviour that I thought would result in the meat wagon being called hither, good luck being the main saviour.

It's a great road in parts, just better when your ego is firmly packed away!

[FROSTY:Me]

AND BACK ON TOPIC------
My experiences with the loop this particular time of year havent been fantastic. 2 reasons. =1)Idiot drivers make me nervous to commit to a corner in case Young billy in his zooom zook WRXHYXGWIZZ has fucked up and overcooked a corner.
and 2)Its so blardy hot I find the road surface is too darned greasy in the middle of the day.
Only my opinion mind you.

[jafar]

So are we all agreeable that it's NOT the Coro Loop that is dangerous...it's the idiots attempting to do 140kmph around 55kmph corners that make it dangerous?

This wouldn't be the very same DMNTD that sent a certain KaTey M for a lesson in SkidMark(s) on the self same Coro loop would it ?





p/t

[DMNTD:Me]

This wouldn't be the very same DMNTD that sent a certain KaTey M for a lesson in SkidMark(s) on the self same Coro loop would it ?

LOL!! Doing 90kmph around a 100kmph corner and binning cause some bloody Honda dropped its diesel on the road...well,no one would've had a chance!

[jafar]

LOL!! Doing 90kmph around a 100kmph corner and binning cause some bloody Honda dropped its diesel on the road...well,no one would've had a chance!

Sorry mate I couldn't resist

Does highlight how fast things can happen out there though.

[Cajun]

Sorry mate I couldn't resist

Does highlight how fast things can happen out there though.

he didn't go down on the coro was paereo way, and was behind me so he had to be going slow.

[jafar]

he didn't go down on the coro was paereo way, and was behind me so he had to be going slow.

So he grated the lemon in paeroa ???
& I always thought they squeezed it .

[Jimmy B]

LOL!! Doing 90kmph around a 100kmph corner and binning cause some bloody Honda dropped its diesel on the road...well,no one would've had a chance!

Actually DMNTD, the truly accomplished rider utilises superior road craft and flairs their nostrils prior to entering a corner thereby enabling the rider to smell hazards such as diesel some distance prior to contact. This technique enables the rider to deploy suitable countermeasures, in this case, a handful of grit from the jacket pocket or tank bag to the road surface in a timely fashion thereby maintaining traction and composure through the corner..

Seriously, Coro is not really any more dangerous than any of the roads that we ride and those who bin there are just as likely to bin anywhere else (bin ambivalent?) where you have a concentrated number of hazards over a relatively short stretch of road. Treat Coro like that and you will be sweet.

[Finn]

I meant to post this here. Maybe a Mod can bring it over...

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...&postcount=228

[Bonez]

So he grated the lemon in paeroa ???
& I always thought they squeezed it .

Squeezed tits?

[swbarnett]

Drifting a bit off topic here, but I had a thought on my last trip. When preparing for the Basic Handling Skills, our instructor had a few pictures of what can be done with a bike. What about a few more of what happens when you take the road for a track? Doesn't need to be morbid, just some thought-provoking pictures before sending unskilled riders on the road...

When I did the Coca Cola riding course in 1982 they had a theory evening where they showed slides of what happens if you don't wear the gear. The one I remember the most showed the vertical piece of a jandal lodged firmly in the middle of a foot right in front of the ankle joint. Certainly stopped me riding in anything but proper boots.