A beer I really didn't want...

**madbikeboy** · 5th May 2009, 09:12

Originally Posted by gijoe1313

The thing was, I was lead rider, came onto the straight ... dipped my high beams, the car did the same thing ... wasn't till I was about to go around a left hand bend when the lack of lights in my mirrors was a bit of a concern

Had to ride a bit to find a safe place to u-turn and came back to see TOTO and gremlin roaring off like avenging angels ...

A natter with badger8 and Sharry filled in details and it was a quick pootle to my place to sort out some quick mirror changes!

Mmmm Denny's ... no waffles

guess I will have to pull out my waffle iron and organise a waffle ride and meet!

I had a small incident once with a bunch of teenagers that squirted me with a waterpump gun, nasty smelly stuff. I ended up turning around, and followed until they got jammed in traffic. After some constructive advice about where their lives had taken the wrong direction, and they did a little soul searching, navel gazing, and a little lie down - I left them to it.

But a beer can. Figure it this way, a bullet is a small thing that causes massive damage due to velocity. A beer can at 200kmh, it's a dangerous thing.. Glad you're okay Justin.

MBB

**rosie631** · 5th May 2009, 09:35

Originally Posted by DangerousBastard

Once you are on a bigger noisier bike they tend not to fuck wit joo then.

Beg to differ. I had stuff chucked at me by a carload of boyracers in the middle of the afternoon last week. Fucking arseholes. I so wished I had a hammer handy. It would have gone right through their windscreen.

**rosie631** · 5th May 2009, 09:36

Actually, have also had the beer can thing. That was on the open road while passing. Bloody dangerous.

**The Pastor** · 5th May 2009, 09:45

yeah ive seen a car ful of inbreds chucking beer cans at things on SH16. was riding along and thought i smelt beer, around the next corner i saw a car with its passengers chucking beer cans at letterboxs/parked cars etc. I thought it best to take a break at that point.

**Hitcher** · 5th May 2009, 09:56

So what sort of beer was it?

**gijoe1313** · 5th May 2009, 10:40

Originally Posted by madbikeboy

But a beer can. Figure it this way, a bullet is a small thing that causes massive damage due to velocity. A beer can at 200kmh, it's a dangerous thing.. Glad you're okay Justin.

MBB

Meh, t'weren't me, t'was poor ol'badger8 who was 2nd in line ... who had overtaken Sharry at one point, which in hindsight was lucky since badger8 is a man mountain of meat ... wouldn't have liked to see how petite Sharry would have come out!

**sunhuntin** · 5th May 2009, 11:39

damn, glad it wasnt worse, though it sounds bad enough. always amazes me the lack of brain cell some people end up with.

**Blackshear** · 5th May 2009, 11:51

Consider yourself bloody lucky it didn't put a massive dent in your tank, stuck under the mudguard or hit your head!
Of all places, other than the obvious nowhere, I'd say the mirror would be the best place for it to hit!
200k beers don't stop badgers!
Scary

**TOTO** · 5th May 2009, 11:53

Took about 20 - 30 seconds to find out what the hell hapened.

Gremlin and I took off and split into different directions but alas couldn't find the bastards.

I'm just really glad it didnt hit his helmet, which would have ment a hell of alot of mess to sort out. It amazes me how this beautiful country has some of the dumbest people on earth. People like this deserve to be locked away in a 2x2 cell with no sun light.

**vfxdog** · 5th May 2009, 12:09

Had a balloon full of liquid (water, hopefully) lobbed at the screen of my van down near Cromwell a while back. As it came from a car travelling in the opposite direction, the impact was massive. Luckily it didn't break the glass, but if I had been on a bike, I hate to think what might have happened. What goes on in the minds of people that do stuff like that? Probably not very much.
One of the darker aspects of road travel in NZ.

**Insanity_rules** · 5th May 2009, 13:19

Man that sucks for two reasons.

1) You got hit by some inbred twat with a beer

Someone should pelt them with something nasty till they submit, only hope karma gets em

2) No waffles

Dennys in New Zealand just isn't the same. In the states our thing was to go to a midnight audience participation of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, then invade Dennys in full costume for Waffles, pancakes, steak or whatever took your fancy. First time I went in the one in Auckland I was horrorfied that there was no root beer float, a complete Dennys staple so I left.

**EJK** · 5th May 2009, 13:23

Good thing that the beer hit the mirror. Replacing the helmet would cost more that $17 for sure.

**Hitcher** · 5th May 2009, 13:46

One suspects that the reason root beer has never been introduced into New Zealand is the fact that some bogans may have difficulty in appreciating that it is a name, not an instruction.