Why why why?

[homer]

Congratulations, you gained MORE experience in your motorcycling history. Learn from it. So if you find yourself in similar deserted RURAL roads, EXPECT similar thing on the road...and be ready. City boys (and girls) often find this hard to understand.

not quite right there .
on the occasions mentioned there clearly in the wrong , should just run in to the cows or the bike and then you get a nice new bike
just scrub off enough speed first

[McDuck]

i have a rather suspision that the events occured by people from dairy farms ?
each occassion i ll guess to

I would be surprised, dairy farm crossings need (by law) to have flashing lights and signs marking the crossing etc. n

[homer]

no not quite
they need to all be an underpass
or they can pay to clean my car or my bike
so the shit dont melt the steel

[fliplid]

I would be surprised, dairy farm crossings need (by law) to have flashing lights and signs marking the crossing etc. n

And when did it being a legal requirement mean anything???

Expect the unexpected...oh, and avoid areas where there are animals liable to be crossing

[McDuck]

And when did it being a legal requirement mean anything???

Expect the unexpected...oh, and avoid areas where there are animals liable to be crossing

If a person is hurt at an unsigned crossing the farmer gets done by the cops.

[beyond]

avoid areas where there are animals liable to be crossing

LOL
Lock the bike up and leave it at home. We've got sheep, cows, steers, turkeys, possums, rats, weasels, stoats, cats, dogs, hawks, rabbits, hares, mice, frogs.... I've nearly come to grief with so many of them.

[Renegade]

il think you will find that when doing cattle crossings they must be sign posted or have flag persons, i think its an OSH requirment, a lady i met hit a cow and if she had of been carrying a passenger in her car they would have been dead, the cow crushed the left A piller into the passenger head rest and yip the cow died, wish i was a butcher too, could have got it while it was fresh and filled the freezer.

Still got to be careful on the bike cos i reckon that it would hurt like a bastard if you hit a cow, even the cow pat left on the road is a potential danger, if trucks cant dump effluent farmers shouldnt be allowed either.

[ynot slow]

It's a bit like When in Rome.If in the country,and you see homesteads expect to see livestock,when further in backblocks you see not as many stock,but they may escape due to faulty fences/gates which the cockie hasn't seen or know about.
A few years ago my brother and I were coming back from Auckland,just about the Mokau/Awakino area on SH3, came accross about 4 bulls on the road,drove to next farm to advise farmer we had put them into a paddock,as we saw a gate pushed open,first farm noone home,went to next house and guy was happy,he had fixed the gate earlier in the day temporarilly.

[fliplid]

Only meant kinda like farm type beasties... Mind you, there was some stoopid viral joke thingy about someone being attacked by a squirrel.

yup- cow splats on the road are dangerous!

[McJim]

LOL
Lock the bike up and leave it at home. We've got sheep, cows, steers, turkeys, possums, rats, weasels, stoats, cats, dogs, hawks, rabbits, hares, mice, frogs.... I've nearly come to grief with so many of them.

Yoy missed wild pigs....so did I....just. Out for a wee trip up the Awhitu Peninsula going to the Manukau Heads Lighthouse.

[Ixion]

Those roads were built for the farmers (and like as not paid for by their rates). They were built to facilitate farming. Which includes moving stock. Not to provide visiting motorcyclists with a race track

The farmers have the right of it. Their roads, we use them on their terms

Slow down. Dead simple. Stop and say howdy-do to Mr or Mrs Farmer. It's rural courtesy.

If you have to be a city slicker plonker then expect to come to grief. Best to stay in Parnell, really.

[beyond]

Yeah, but they managed to get all the best roads

[Ixion]

They were there first. There were farms (and stock) before motorcycles were invented.

[McJim]

They were there first. There were farms (and stock) before motorcycles were invented.

Not in New Zealand.....most of New Zealand was still undeveloped when Motorcycles were invented.

[McDuck]

Those roads were built for the farmers (and like as not paid for by their rates). They were built to facilitate farming. Which includes moving stock. Not to provide visiting motorcyclists with a race track

The farmers have the right of it. Their roads, we use them on their terms

Slow down. Dead simple. Stop and say howdy-do to Mr or Mrs Farmer. It's rural courtesy.

If you have to be a city slicker plonker then expect to come to grief. Best to stay in Parnell, really.

They are maintained by the rates tho....