Next Wellington 250 ride?

[Laxi]

yeah, wont go to wellington at all! about 10 years ago had a drunk hit us, my wifes head riped the rearview mirror clean off, she was delivered by ambulance, waited 4 hours to see a doctor, she felt tired and they said "let her sleep" besides never checking for concussion, docter looked her over said "she's fine, just bruised" when she was in pain for 2 weeks after we to the hutt, they x-rayed her & found 3 cracked ribs, broken wrist and worst of all a fractured vertibrae in her neck, lost all confidance in A&E after that

[RocKai]

Wow, bloody negligence bunch of wankers they are. But the new hospital should run better now (no stats proven yet), but let's hope we won't have to run in these drunks and doctors any soon.

Gutted with the spill mate, more pride than money damage.

[DingoZ]

working today But good news only half a day, been given the rest of the day off as it's ma birfday. So gunna head out and take the other half for a ride........The hill is looking mighty inviting. mmmmmm toppys for a late lunch.......roll on 12:30

[Nofiller]

Hey Rowan,

Glad to know you're all right, felt better after you flicked me a txt dude !
At what time will you go to Motorad on Tuesday, may be able to pop in if I can escape from work.
Hopefully it will not be a write off, but that's true those fearings are quite expensive to repair !
Keep me up on how things are going; Hopefully your partner will allow you to keep having a blat with me !

[325rocket]

Wow, bloody negligence bunch of wankers they are.

dude, it was 10 years ago!

yeah, wont go to wellington at all! about 10 years ago had a drunk hit us,

i think they do a bloody good job with the resources they have. if you want to point the finger blame lack of funding.

[RocKai]

Bring on the Write-off woo hoo

[Laxi]

dude, it was 10 years ago!



i think they do a bloody good job with the resources they have. if you want to point the finger blame lack of funding.

yeah my point exactly, they wern't underfunded as bad then, what the hell are they like now?

[Roki_nz]

Hey Rowan,

Glad to know you're all right, felt better after you flicked me a txt dude !
At what time will you go to Motorad on Tuesday, may be able to pop in if I can escape from work.
Hopefully it will not be a write off, but that's true those fearings are quite expensive to repair !
Keep me up on how things are going; Hopefully your partner will allow you to keep having a blat with me !

Hey Fabian

Not sure when my bike will get to motorad its been dropped off by the tow company and state will be sorting it with motorad. I will give them a call in the morning to give them a heads up in case state hasn't. Hmm would be a prick if its written off as i would have to get a new bike and I only have the bike covered for $7000 and after the excess i would get about $6000 to spend on a bike. But on the other hand if it is written off i would be able to get back on the road soonish depending on how quickly state pays out.

Ha ha I think my partner will still let me out the door to ride... first thing i did when i got home from the hospital was to get on trade me and start scoping out replacements

[RocKai]

Or maybe you need to get something without fairing, preferable second hand and ride it til you get better? Will save you the dosh for later too.

[Roki_nz]

Or maybe you need to get something without fairing, preferable second hand and ride it til you get better? Will save you the dosh for later too.

ha ha I just need somthing with ABS for next time

[RocKai]

250 Bikes don't have ABS. You'll just need to keep a safe distance next time with the car bro.

[RocKai]

Hopefully you'll get a new bike soon and probably take on the same ride again. Btw, I did my first Rimutaka passing yesterday. Sensational hill, just need to get used to the corner. Love the concave left hander :

[Roki_nz]

250 Bikes don't have ABS. You'll just need to keep a safe distance next time with the car bro.

Yeap I will have to wait for a bigger bike for ABS. Hmm wasn't the following distance that screwed me I had enough room to stop. It was the slippery surface and the fact I screwed up by applying far too much of the breaks far to quickly, and again by failing to unlock both breaks (although at the time I thought I had let go of both).

[Ojai]

Hopefully you'll get a new bike soon and probably take on the same ride again. Btw, I did my first Rimutaka passing yesterday. Sensational hill, just need to get used to the corner. Love the concave left hander :

I did my first Rimutaka pass yesterday too. What fun! But man, my cornering sucks pretty bad. I was pleased with how well I kept up with a guy on a cruiser on the way back down though!

[RocKai]

Hmm wasn't the following distance ...

Not much you can do there really if you lock it up, especially if its not your fault. I had this stupid lady turning into my path when I was going straight once. Bitch looked right thru me. I managed to jolt my brake really hard then release it straight away, lift my rear a little bit but didn't lock up. How lucky.

But in that situation because it's a slippery piece of road, the ABS will certainly help you from locking up and staying up but it won't help you much if the car in front of you stopped dead thus ploughing yourself into its behind and superman over it causing more carnage than just a slide.

Because once the ABS kicked in on that piece of slippery road, it will release the front brake from locking up and you'll travel a further distance to stop than on a normal lock-up. It is a common mishap on dirt (off) road riding/driving on ABS system. I wonder if having ABS will help you in this situation at all. Just unlucky mate.