Here ya go boys and girls, the photos of yesterdays right up to Whangarei.
The good news was we all managed to get up Whanga and back before nightfall.
The bad news, Luke's one month old R6 crashed on a right hand corner on state highway 16.
I can't tell you how it happened as I was a few bikes behind Luke but by the time I got around the right hand bend all I saw all this blue bike on the left hand side of the road.
So I quickly stopped and rushed to to see what the hell happened. His bike was lying in a pool of engine oil on the left hand side of the road, and Luke well, was pretty tattered but not broken. We quickly helped him push his bike onto the other side of the road and found a even ground to examine his bike.
Luckily, for Luke he took a small beating compared to his bike, he received a few grazes here and there *phew. But as for the bike, it had bent forks, your usual tank dents, road rash, missing indicators, and the engine was leaking oil.
The next thing was gonna have to be a 'towie' but it was a coincidence that a local dad taking his kids bout for a walk bumped into us, he offered to let us store the bike in his barn until we can sort our shit out. What a good chump aye, and after we pushed his bike back in the man's barn I asked Luke what actually happened. He mentioned hitting a fucken 'pot hole', and the thing he knew, he lost his turning line and ended up in the ditches.
Good thing that the slow pack eventually arrived and they all parked their bikes just before that fucken pot hole. A near miss for Issac when he hit that pot hole also, because he nearly had his g/f at the back bounce off.
In the end, Luke managed to get his dad to bring his trailer. He has insurance so good on em on that but fuck, a month into his ownership, then binning on a shit corner with a pot hole.
Futhermore, that local dad mentioned that bend was notorious for taking people out and leaving them in his paddock. Think it's a good time to call up the district council and get em to fix that hole.
Here are before and after shots of the R6.
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