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    Now now, lets not get stuck into the poor guy.

    Still, it's a hell of a way to cement a relationship with the neighbours...

    /me gets coat...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steam View Post
    That is classic, so true. My fall was cushioned by a nice soft layer of concrete!

    In reply to everyone, I think it is very funny now.
    After I got the concrete out of my gear and washed off the bike, I went and apologised to the neighbours, but was too late to help them fix the concrete.

    So all is well.
    Off on the Bluebridge ferry tomorrow, then south to Home Sweet Home.
    the weather has shit its self(again) i hope you dont mind getting wet
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    Quote Originally Posted by binklebonk View Post
    ...any pics besides the concrete .
    None, the camera was triple-wrapped in plastic bags the whole time, it was sooo wet.
    it was the wettest day I have ever had on a bike yesterday, I rode from Auckland to Wellington in the middle of that pouring madness.
    Determined to kill my bike before it kills me

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steam View Post
    In reply to everyone, I think it is very funny now.
    After I got the concrete out of my gear and washed off the bike, I went and apologised to the neighbours, but was too late to help them fix the concrete.
    Bugger! As far as offs go this is pretty benign though.

    I'd agree that washing the gear and bike ought to get first priority - but bloody well good on ya for not forgetting about the concrete
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    Definitely one of those "funny later, but not at the time" moments!

    We'd had our concrete driveway (all 400 sq m of it) finished a week when this bloody huge waste management truck drove up it. I ran out and was screaming at him to get his fucking truck off my barely hardened driveway - never seen anyone back down a 45 degree angle driveway so fast! Turns out the previous owners hadn't bothered to let them know they had moved out. It was okay to drive on, just not anything heavy, so we hadn't bothered shutting the gate. Thankfully it didn't crack it or he would have been up for the $21,000 it cost us!
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    Wankers... get them to pay to have the bike and gear groomed or go and visit OSH about the unsafe worksite.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steam View Post
    So I am at the end of a month-long riding tour of the country, when I reached my brother's driveway at the end of a long day on the bike.
    It's a shared driveway, quite steep, with five houses on it. The neighbours were standing around the bottom of the driveway for some reasons, and there was a work truck parked nearby.

    I waved hello to the neighbours, hit the nice, clean, perfectly-smooth concrete and immediately plough in, sloosh!
    The concrete was fucking wet, freshly laid.
    The bike slide sideways out from under me, wheel spinning, and I put a leg down, squelch, my boot sank in, no traction, I slipped, the bike came down on top of me, squish, in the concrete.

    So there I was, lying in fresh concrete in full touring gear, pinned under the panniers of the heavily loaded bike, which was pissing fuel everywhere....
    and the neighbours were looking at me, gobsmacked. Astonished. Speechless. And then angry.

    I struggled out from under it, getting concrete all over everything, helmet, gear, gloves, dririder jacket and pants, covered in the shit.
    I washed it off in the shower, just showered in all my gear, as I was soaked from yesterday's rain anyway.

    That was about an hour ago. I'm glad I'm leaving tomorrow.
    and no one had a video camera?
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    Thanks for sharing your story with us, Steam. One of the all-time best "offs" I've ever read about! Glad you are okay and hope the bike and gear suffer no lasting damage, either.

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    I had a concete driveway laid a month ago and a pussycat walked on it while it was wet....I was PISSED!!!!
    sorta puts my problems in perspective doesnt it.
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    the feekers should have had some tape up to block off the driveway, the dirty prickbags

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    Quote Originally Posted by FROSTY View Post
    Steam Im sorry mate but the mental image is just so farking funny.
    I can just see you riding down the road--half normal biker and bike --half concrete man
    There's a busker (sort of) that used to park up at some local shops (he might still do it, I dunno), but his thing was to wear this suit that looks completely cemented, with a mask/wig/helmet to go with it, aswell has a trail bike also completely covered. He'd just stand there completely still until someone put money in his bucket, then he'd move sort of like a statue and freeze up again. Apparently he rode on the road like that.. I never saw him come or go though.

    Seriously though, there must be some sort of OSH issue with not having the wet concret marked off or whatever, especially since it resulted in your bike landing on top of you. I wouldn't care the slightest bit about their driveway if I were you!

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