Encounters of the cone kind on the road.

[Ragingrob]

Always pays to have your eyes fully peeled!

9pm last night and pitch black darkness, I had just left home in Karaka to head into town for the night. Newly installed packrack taking the weight off my back and a beautiful night to be out on the road! Halfway through Karaka there’s a car maybe a half km ahead of me so I keep switching from high beam to low beam and vice versa before corners etc, I know these roads like the back of my hand. Anyway, I’m coming up to quite a nice short left hander I’d kept my lights on low beam as I didn’t want to blind the car around the corner, sure enough, just into the corner I’m staring through the turn and I spot two little glowing what I thought to be pieces of paper or something in the middle of my lane, get a little bit closer and end up having to swerve towards the centre line and then correct myself back around the corner, there’s a fucken full size road cone lying down on it’s side in the middle of the lane halfway around the corner! WTF!

Even though I really didn’t wanna make the effort, I turned around quick smart, went back the 100m, parked in someone’s driveway, and grabbed the cone and chucked it into the ditch. No way was I leaving it there for the next biker or even car to find, this is a 100km/h area remember!

Now is this shit intentional? By some dumbass kids? I’d find it very hard to believe that the cone fell off a vehicle into the middle of the lane. I had only come around that corner two hours or so before too! The worst thing was that with the cone on its side, the reflectors are only at the smallest tip, it was nearly impossible to see the massive chunky bottom-end, which was towards the centre lane.

Rant over!



What else have people come around corners to find? So far I've found gravel, a hawk, a cow, a goat, a cone, kids lying down on the road, and a car reversing up the left side of my lane along with another car driving towards me on the left of my lane the idiot!

[Blackshear]

A full fucking truck tyre.
Just the rubber, but a large obstacle nonetheless.

And where did I find this?

Kapatiki road, just outside Glenfield College roundabout.
At 10:20 when I was in a rush to get home for my curfew

Also, toddlers, those are the scariest... Open manholes... Fucking dodgy backstreets of beachaven....
Last but not least, another bike

[Ragingrob]

A full fucking truck tyre.
Just the rubber, but a large obstacle nonetheless.

And where did I find this?

Kapatiki road, just outside Glenfield College roundabout.
At 10:20 when I was in a rush to get home for my curfew

Also, toddlers, those are the scariest... Open manholes... Fucking dodgy backstreets of beachaven....
Last but not least, another bike

Oh that's one thing I've encountered on the good old Auckland motorway! A truck wheel bouncing it's way down beside me and I was going a good 80kph, it ended up passing another biker before curving towards the centre and almost bouncing over the concrete barrier into oncoming traffic! Luckily it settled down and finally rolled to a stop against the barrier!

[Blackshear]

Oh that's one thing I've encountered on the good old Auckland motorway! A truck wheel bouncing it's way down beside me and I was going a good 80kph, it ended up passing another biker before curving towards the centre and almost bouncing over the concrete barrier into oncoming traffic! Luckily it settled down and finally rolled to a stop against the barrier!

I love phantom wheels
Heading down Greenhithe bridge the one time, and down the other lane was a wheel, rolling merrily along in a perfectly straight line
And no owner to be seen!

I'll probably shit my pants if one came towards me

Hmmm. Shit. Bedtime.

PICK UP YOUR TYRES, PEOPLE!

[lb99]

Always pays to have your eyes fully peeled!

......... full size road cone lying down on it’s side in the middle of the lane

I hit a roadcone with my ute the other day, it was lying down on the centreline, I ran the fucker over then looked in my mirror, it was standing up again......


I have a traffic control certificate, and can advise that some one WILL get in serious shit if cones and signs and stuff left lying around cause injury or an accident.

by the way I know of at least 2 cones in our yard alone that are filled with concrete.......

thanks for picking it up by the way, those things are expensive

[Ragingrob]

I hit a roadcone with my ute the other day, it was lying down on the centreline, I ran the fucker over then looked in my mirror, it was standing up again......


I have a traffic control certificate, and can advise that some one WILL get in serious shit if cones and signs and stuff left lying around cause injury or an accident.

by the way I know of at least 2 cones in our yard alone that are filled with concrete.......

thanks for picking it up by the way, those things are expensive

Went through the corner yesterday and there are now TWO cones lying in the ditch where I threw it , dunno what the hell is going on!

There are road works about 2km from that corner, so it leads me believe that someone's grabbing them and putting them on that corner.

Yeah at 100kph round a corner, hitting a cone on a bike would not have a great outcome!

[lb99]

Went through the corner yesterday and there are now TWO cones lying in the ditch where I threw it , dunno what the hell is going on!

There are road works about 2km from that corner, so it leads me believe that someone's grabbing them and putting them on that corner.

Yeah at 100kph round a corner, hitting a cone on a bike would not have a great outcome!

I wish our cone supply would multiply like that, ours dissapear in broad daylight, every so often we conduct raids on other companys round town to get all our signs and stuff back....

oh, and the worst thing I have come accross in the road?
6 kitset shower cubicles, on a bridge, SH6.

I may or may not have been driving the truck involved......

or theres the time a workmate accidentaly dropped 6 cubic meters of fermenting cow shit on a suburban st, that took a while to clean up.....

[YAMASAKI]

well i hit a rock about the size of two fists on the old FZR... on the highway doing 100kph. Gave me one hell of a fright, riding at night, tucked in behind the fairing to keep warm and all of a sudden BANG, next thing i know the front tire has no air in it and it has become somewhat squirmy , i carefully pull off to the side of the road to inspect the damage. Big hole ripped in the front side wall.

I walk back to find out what the fuck i'd hit, to find the offending rock.
Now this rock appeared to be railway line/support type rock(technical term???) but is at least 50m from the line. however there is a gap in the armco for pedestrians to cross, so i suspect some little shit had plonked it in the middle of SH2 for giggles . I wasn't laughing.

[oldrider]

Bloody firewood cutters dropping their blocks of wood at this time of year. Bastards!

Our roads are OK it's just the shit that gets dumped on them by fuckwits that pisses me off!

And there is no consequence for dumping any of it!

Other than born again bikers losing control of their oversised bikes in the nice diesel spill.

Lets make a law against born again bikers riding big bikes!! What a load of shite!

RANT RANT RANT Sheeesh! John.

[XP@]

Plastic hubcaps...
almost invisible on the road but still lethal if you hit them!

[slofox]

A large rectangular plastic container - about 10 litre size I suppose...on the road in a corner this morning, just north of Te Awamutu on Paterangi Road...missed.

Various forms of wildlife...mostly missed but not all. Fortunately the "not alls" have been small little birdies that got minced into a !POOF! of feathers in the wheels....pore lickle fings...

[Forest]

Oh that's one thing I've encountered on the good old Auckland motorway! A truck wheel bouncing it's way down beside me and I was going a good 80kph, it ended up passing another biker before curving towards the centre and almost bouncing over the concrete barrier into oncoming traffic! Luckily it settled down and finally rolled to a stop against the barrier!

This video never gets old:

[sunhuntin]

ive found a collection of the white roadside markers used in 100k zones. thankfully, it wasnt dark, and for some reason they were in a 50k zone, in the middle town right by the burger king. dunno whether some kids had been out pulling them up, or theyd been lost by a truck. i kicked what i could reach out of the road [the corner was a set of lights and has a wicked lean.]

[Blackshear]

This video never gets old:

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL!!!!!!!
Surely they didn't forget to do up ALL FOUR TYRES
Totally saved.

[Kemet]

Went through the corner yesterday and there are now TWO cones lying in the ditch where I threw it , dunno what the hell is going on!

There are road works about 2km from that corner, so it leads me believe that someone's grabbing them and putting them on that corner.

Yeah at 100kph round a corner, hitting a cone on a bike would not have a great outcome!

Tell the local Bobby then they can keep an eye on the corner. Wouldn't it be funny if they caught the little shits (as, like you, I think it sound like someone is dropping there deliberately...)

Oddest thing I've seen in the middle of the road was and old-school bed base - you know the ones with the woodframe and wire-mesh thing for the 'sprung' area. It had previously been on an overfull-improperly/unsecured-load rubbish truck where I was the 5th/6th car behind. Just as well the car directly behind it had been following at a reasonable distance or it could have gone into their windscreen before it hit the road. At least the car had the decency to stop and chuck it to the side of the road whereas said truck just carried on. Didn't even slow!!

Had I been the one behind I would have *555 (with voice dial).