Police news release - "Matching rider skills to their bikes"

[Oscar]

Unfortunately its a race track, and thats what happens on race tracks. People aren't going to slow down until they learn a nasty lesson, and that is the way of it.

Steve

I live just off the Raglan Road, and some Sunday mornings I swear I can hear the practice day at Philip Island. Must be those powerful Trans-Tasman winds...

[wbks]

Why is it that people all go to these roads knowing that the cops expect people like them to go there for a hoon? I don't speed much *holds katman at bay with a hot poker* but if I ever go out for a fast (for me anyway) ride, its on some secluded tight twisty road there is no traffic on and no one else seems to go there much. Not a road that is NZ wide known by bikers and cops alike as THE place to blow the cobwebs out

[The Pastor]

motorbikes are like women and money - best when they are fast

[wbks]

You try to convince the girlies that theory applies to sex?

[Oscar]

Why is it that people all go to these roads knowing that the cops expect people like them to go there for a hoon? I don't speed much *holds katman at bay with a hot poker* but if I ever go out for a fast (for me anyway) ride, its on some secluded tight twisty road there is no traffic on and no one else seems to go there much. Not a road that is NZ wide known by bikers and cops alike as THE place to blow the cobwebs out

Try the Kawhia Harbour Road to Te Anga.
Your bike will love you for it...

[wbks]

Lol which will I wear out first: The chicken strips or the rev limiter?
Twisty road or fast?

[Katman]

'Tis, I was trying to keep up with a mate (not fast, just above my 1 week on the road off mx experience level) and crossed the line on a corner with a bike coming the other way. Good thing the corner was quite big and I just went back around and the guy on the bike gave me a bad glaring look haha. Don't blame him, would do the same thing myself, now. Not a good road for inexperienced riders.

Haha??????

It's that sort of shit that kills people.

[Jantar]

Inspector Glenn Dunbier, said over the past three years 50 per cent of New Zealand's ACC injury claims involving motorcycles originated from the Thames- Coromandel and Hauraki District Council areas.

I believe this single sentence says as much about the riders as the entire remainder of the news item. This small piece of the country comprising less than 4% of the country's entire road network is responsible for 50% of all motorcycling injury accidents.

Don't blame the road, look at why so many riders go to this one area, and connect the dots. Coro GP perhaps?

[Oscar]

Lol which will I wear out first: The chicken strips or the rev limiter?
Twisty road or fast?

Twisty AND fast...
http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?f=q&hl...,0.703125&z=11

[MotoGirl]

"Our environment is very unforgiving. Falling off a bike on a country road a rider may slide on to the grass verge and be relatively unscathed. But on Coromandel roads we have trees, bridges, dirt banks and seawalls which means our crashes usually result in serious injury or death" said Mr Dunbier.

I'm actually pleased with this article. It addresses something that many riders plead ignorance about – the fact that pieces of the road have no room for error, which will potentially leave the rider seriously mamed or dead in the event of a crash.

Last time I rode to Coromandel I was still on a learner licence (1998) and I haven't even been to Kopu in over 12 months. Although the road is fun, it doesn't feature on my "to do" list because my life is way too valuable. If I want to share the tarmac with wanna-be racers, I'll take it to the track. I refuse to encounter them on a public road.

[roy.nz]

The coppers have a point there but also forget to mention all the car drivers who cant stay in there lane and sometimes cause our spills but its piontless trying to argue sometimes cos we dont have the numbers. But all summer weather riders and returners get used to the bike again before fanging the fuck outa it. Peace
O and car drivers also need restrictions when on a restricted licence, like us no bigger than a 250cc they need no more than 1500cc and no ratary's.

[wbks]

Haha??????

It's that sort of shit that kills people.

Laughing lightly at it is all I can do posting. Do you think I didn't feel guilty like a dork who shouldn't be allowed back on the road afterwards? Do you think I don't know that kind of shit kills people? Do I need to add a disclaimer to every post involving something stupid I do to make sure that you know I realize what I did? Eyeyeyeye I'm playing my own game of 21 questions here but you should get the point. I may sound too easygoing about it but what the fuck am I supposed to do, burst into tears over it?

[klingon]

Isn't it more of that people are being loonies around that road because its fun to speed on, rather than people having bikes too fast for them?

Yep. Just because a bike's capable of going fast, doesn't mean you have to ride it fast all the time.

It seems to me it's a lack of judgement that's the problem.

[slimjim]

Laughing lightly at it is all I can do posting. Do you think I didn't feel guilty like a dork who shouldn't be allowed back on the road afterwards? Do you think I don't know that kind of shit kills people? Do I need to add a disclaimer to every post involving something stupid I do to make sure that you know I realize what I did? Eyeyeyeye I'm playing my own game of 21 questions here but you should get the point. I may sound too easygoing about it but what the fuck am I supposed to do, burst into tears over it?

Grasshopper....don't get hung up.....

gota have a Helen in all facts of life......

why feel guilty...you choose...that's your right...good on a...

and as for the coro loop...well many a rider has left a huge loss via riding there......R I P...

[Katman]

forget to mention all the car drivers who cant stay in there lane and sometimes cause our spills but its piontless trying to argue sometimes cos we dont have the numbers.

No. it's pointless trying to argue that one because motorcyclists are probably every bit as guilty as car drivers. (Maybe even more so.)