Annual gypsy rural hazards

[XF650]

Just a wee reminder that it's Gypsy time again, when share-milkers shift their shit between dairy farms. So over the next couple of week's you can encounter a lot of cattle trucks, slow tractors towing overloaded trailers and mobs of cows leaving slippery messes, just around that blind corner or over the next brow. This is especially pertinent for adv riders on back roads.
For those riders doing the Brass via the McKenzie Country over Queens Birthday, it's also the Annual Irishman Vintage Car Rally which includes some of the same back country routes. Please be careful when overtaking / passing the old cars & if anyone roosts me, I will hunt ya down (eventually).
Ride safe.
XF

[Gremlin]

Just a wee reminder that it's Gypsy time again, when share-milkers shift their shit between dairy farms.

I thought they left their shit on the roads?

Thanks for the heads up tho

[R650R]

a lot of cattle trucks, slow tractors towing overloaded trailers and mobs of cows leaving slippery messes, just around that blind corner or over the next brow. This is especially pertinent for adv riders on back roads.

Ride safe.
XF

Read that article on stuff too. I do love the kiwi-ism of 'blind corners', and also seasonal hazards.
I reckon articles like that just serve to reinforce our bad habits of which I share plenty of like many others.
Had a trucky mate ranting about having to slam on the brakes for a slow tractor on blind corner, he didn't have much to say when I said what if it was broken down school bus or car stuck on road etc...

[JimmyC]

Golden rule (that few seem to abide by); Be able to stop in the availble space you can see... Otherwise, roll the dice.

[unstuck]

Have 2 farmers to move this year. Money money money, I love that stuff. Fuck you Mashy.

[Waihou Thumper]

Is this a world wide phenomenon?
Always wondered why Gypsy, I guess liking it to the caravan and taking over farmland but this way it is legal... unlike the Gypsies of old in the UK....