We've been "Reached" Mom !!!

[FJRider]

Just a few snaps of the Cromwell gorge area, of the wire...THE REAL ONES...barriers installed there. As usual the traffic was bumper to bumper, but it was 3.30 in the afternoon. It wasn't warm... but the work ute has a heater and half decent stereo system.
The lengths of these vary from 25 metres, to well over a kilometer.

[Katman]

Can I assume you're not questioning the need for barriers there?

[FJRider]

You need SOMETHING to stop you going over the bank. A few cages went in PRIOR to their installment. I just take more care in the gorge. In 20 km's of gorge... NO PASSING BAYS... MORE needed everywhere. That would do a lot for rider safety.

[Mom]

Can I assume you're not questioning the need for barriers there?

You need SOMETHING to stop you going over the bank. A few cages went in PRIOR to their installment. I just take more care in the gorge. In 20 km's of gorge... NO PASSING BAYS... MORE needed everywhere. That would do a lot for rider safety.

I reckon you two should get a room.

Good luck to you FJRider. There will be more of them if you dont attempt to get the installation of these killers stopped. Hope you never have the misfortune to have something go wrong when you are travelling past one of them at any kind of speed over 50kmph. By something I am thinking, sudden wind gust to push you against them, other vehicle cross centre line and you get head on or WRB as your options, a mechanical failure, a blow out, or God forbid a brain fart that makes you not use your usual common sense.

I note you offer another road safety option apart from the cheesecutter. Good for you! There will always be another option, it may cost a bit more is all!

[Katman]

What do you suggest as a barrier there Mom?

Armco?

Great big concrete slabs? (The locals would love them, I'm sure. Not.)

Or do you suggest no barrier at all so cars can disappear straight over the edge into the water?

[FJRider]

That road cost over $100,000 per metre to build, and the budget couldn't stretch a bit more ???... it was THINK BIG ...not sense.

[DEATH_INC.]

What do you suggest as a barrier there Mom?

Armco?

There is nothing wrong with double row armco barriers, or armco equipped with 'mototub'. I tend to agree that concrete would not really be suitable in this case.

[cold comfort]

yeah, a bit difficult to swim out after you've had a couple of limbs severed by the bloody "safety barriers" !

[MyGSXF:Me]

Just a few snaps of the Cromwell gorge area

OOooohhhhhh... I remember that piece of road... motorcycle heaven..

yeah.. pity bout the wrb's!!!

[Katman]

There is nothing wrong with double row armco barriers, or armco equipped with 'mototub'.

Sorry, you'll have to excuse my ignorance - does double row armco or armco equipped with 'mototub' get around the issue of the danger imposed by the upright stands?

[DEATH_INC.]

Yes, you have a second steel rail down at ground level or the 'mototub' is a plastic sheild that prevents you sliding into the 'legs'

Mototub

Double armco

[FJRider]

OOooohhhhhh... I remember that piece of road... motorcycle heaven..

yeah.. pity bout the wrb's!!!

I usually do this road (in a work cage) twice a day. Hope you have better luck with the "traffic".

[MyGSXF:Me]

you have a second steel rail down at ground level or the 'mototub' is a plastic sheild that prevents you sliding into the 'legs'

I haven't seen one like that before.. looks bloody good!!!!

I usually do this road (in a work cage) twice a day. Hope you have better luck with the "traffic".

Went through early Dec.. just before the 1st South Island KB gathering at Otematata 06!! GOOORjus day.. GOOORjus scenery.. was enjoyin meself sooo much.. I jus about slid off me seat!!

[MSTRS:Me]

I can't believe that anyone who has spent time in these threads doesn't know the options that are available, with regards to barriers (biker-friendly or otherwise).
Mind you, any solid barrier in that gorge would be eco-terrorism...what about the view? p/t

[Katman]

I can't believe that anyone who has spent time in these threads doesn't know the options that are available, with regards to barriers (biker-friendly or otherwise).
Mind you, any solid barrier in that gorge would be eco-terrorism...what about the view? p/t

I'd have thought by now you'd have realised that gaining a diploma in roadside barriers is not high on my list of priorities.

And your comment about eco-terrorism may have been said as a piss take but I think you'd find there's a large percentage of the public that would think just that. (A larger percentage than motorcyclists make up anyway).