BFTP - Blast From The Past Rides

[Dodgyiti]

Yeah!... Radar detectors and laser spoilers... lots of them

Really?
Most of that trip I would barely maintain the open road speed limit, there are so many corners

[caseye]

Well you lot, just for your laughing pleaseure a little note to say,"aw shucks fellas, where are you all???" Well it would've been alright to ask NEXT Week, aye!Never mind it's a beautiful day and i'm off riding no matter what. Crocodile seems I might need one of those intergalacteek rader detecters, you know the week in advance ones!
Have a good week all and I look forward to seeing you all at The Botanical gardens Manurewa, next Sundaythe 14th of December in the year 2008.

Remember, we leave at 0815hrs so be early.

Gas is available just down the road a littel further at the Hill road Mobil station.

Should be in Kopu at about 0930hrs approx to catch up with Max head room.

[jmk]

Hiya guys

Looks like I better join you on this thread

What a pity we have prior arrangements for Sunday, would of been great to meet up at close to Thames

[StatusQuo]

Hi Psyguy,

Hope to make it on the day - still some carb issues i need to sort out...

Cheers

[flyingcrocodile46]

Bugger it all. I ain't gonna make it. (aside from less important considerations) I have got too many chores that have to be sorted over the next two weekends and will not be able to make it. Have a great ride and keep safe.

[Dodgyiti]

Rain forcast looks isolated in the showers

Could just be a bit damp in places. Radar shows it fading

We going to go for it anyway?

Will pop up to Westgate and see at 7.30

[Alive]

Sorry guys this is just a little too long and starting too early for me.

Hope you have a good trip.... Hopefully see you on the next run.

If not...

Merry Christmas

[Dodgyiti]

Its sweet to post some pics of ermm...todays ride. I wanna see them.

Thanks you guys

busted but not broken


my g/f is keen to see how the hell ya get hit with a flying boat on land

[Voltaire]

Its sweet to post some pics of ermm...todays ride. I wanna see them.

Thanks you guys

busted but not broken


my g/f is keen to see how the hell ya get hit with a flying boat on land

Good to see you still have a sense of humour.....a pre requsite for Italian Bike owners.
Max Headroom can sort you out some quality German bits to fix up the T3....

[Jacko2]

Glad to hear your OK brother.
Now you know I am concerned but, more importantly, how's the bike?
JACKO

[Voltaire]

Glad to hear your OK brother.
Now you know I am concerned but, more importantly, how's the bike?
JACKO

Front wheel looks like it touched the motor, wheel and brakes look ok, forks are bent, handlebar grips are only about a foot apart....thats all I could see at a glance. Avon ( cosmetics) mirror knackered, and road rash.
Thirsty work loading the heavy mutha in and out of the BFTP VW support vehicle.

[Dodgyiti]

Front wheel looks like it touched the motor, wheel and brakes look ok, forks are bent, handlebar grips are only about a foot apart....thats all I could see at a glance. Avon ( cosmetics) mirror knackered, and road rash.
Thirsty work loading the heavy mutha in and out of the BFTP VW support vehicle.

haha
yeah thans to te support crew.
it weighs 240 with a full tank

that max will not even touch my once beautiful bling machine, hes not worthy.

actually, if i leave it there a week or 2 he may become converted or perveted like i did and throw in the 'roundal' and come over to the dark side of the force, he has bought my wrecks off me before you know.....

[Jacko2]

Once again, glad your OK Buddie.
No other crew i'd rather be with if I went down.

[caseye]

LOL well you see it begins with "Once upon a time" on the Coro loop ride.
Anyway we had two riders down but not out,both suffered but walked away, their bikes, well not so lucky.
I'll let the pictures the others post tell the sorry story about the guys beautiful Moto's.
So the Blast from The Past Riders event for today was cut dramatically short when two of our number were involved in a freaky accident that involved a large bump in the road , a car and boat combination and some unfortunate road positioning as a result of hitting this large bump.
Good old Dodgyiti was almost able to come to a complete stop before the sickening realisation that the trailer and boat coming towards him on his side of the road were not!
So in the finest tradition of self preservation he laid down his trusty stead and sheltered behind it, a move which I am 100% certain saved his life.
The boat and trailer flipped over his bike, sending the boat catapulting over the bank and onto the rocks below smashing it up terribly.
Injuries here, one biker with two broken fingers a puncture wound to one of them(courtesy of the hurtling trailer and boat hitting his hand on the high side of his handle bars) and a broken upper arm bone.This rider walked out of Thames Hospital with us some 3 hours latter.
As did his friend and fellow Moto rider who nevertheless also suffered a sore back injury and most probably a dislocated shoulder as a result of taking the ROCK bank on the other side of the road instead of putting himself directly in the path of the oncoming car and boat and forcing them into Dodgyiti.
This action meant that his Moto suffered terribly but that he and Dodgyiti were going to walk away, I salute his decisive and painful decision to almost certainly destroy his beautiful bike and make sure as best he could that there were no others involved, unfortunately no one could have predicted the boat trailer jack knifing and still collecting Dodgyiti.
This was to be the BFTP Riders last ride before Christmas and it was going extremely well, we had 9 bikes and ten riders attend a very early morning start in Manurewa for a leisurely trip down the back roads of Papakura and then up the Paparata road to Maramarua and on to Kopu where we rendevousd with another two bikes and riders.
All was well at this point except that we lost ol Steel Rider, last seen heading in the direction of Coromandel we think?
Where are ya Steel Rider?
Also our resident hard trailer(Surfer) who had toiled magnificently with bumpy roads and fast sections (which only make his bike vibrate even more) turned for home from here too, after wishing us all a safe and glorious ride.
Well the ride stopped just out of Thames with the above accident happening.
Our riders did a great job of making sure traffic was controlled and getting medical assistance to those who needed it, assisting the Local Volly Fire brigade and attending Ambo's and Police.
We all got to watch the local recovery driver simply drag the poor old boat up the rocks ripping it's outboard in half and tearing the topsides completely off the hull, mental note don't let that lot tow or recovery anything!
Van courtesy of (Max headroom) and his son arrived and we managed to stow both battered Moto's inside and get them to safety.
All in all I believe that without the two riders involved both keeping their heads and doing what they did we'd be talking about a a very different outcome.
I'm pleased to be able to say that everyone who left this morning has by now arrived safely back home this evening though two of our number will be nursing injuries for a few weeks to come.
Dodgyiti ol Max has all the pictures before and after mate so i hope he puts em up soon for you guys.
PS: as if it's not long enough already but I had to say this.
Many thanks to all the other bikers out there who stopped and enquired after our guys and made offers of assistance, special thanks to the unnamed man on the Castrol Honda who offered his premise Thames Honda(I believe) and a vehicle to recover and store the guys bikes, though a generous offer we had already sorted that by then, but THANKS again.

[psyguy]

omg, not sure what to think of it all after reading caseye's report...
the accident surely sounds sickening

i was terribly sorry this morning that i couldn't make it but now i think it might have been all a bit too much for me to witness such carnage (though only in metal and luckily not in flesh!)

but then again, it also sounds the aftermath was taken care of in the best way possible by courteus and friendly fellow riders, caseye, voltaire and max headroom in particular

i hope everyone recovers soon, both the injured parties and all the others, as i don't think anyone takes accidents like this lightly