Canterbury Wednesday Night Ride

[cowboyz]

Bummer about the drop. Didn't see it at all. Cheers for the ride albeit a fairly striaght one! Good to catch up

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[rossirep]

Bummer about the drop. Didn't see it at all. Cheers for the ride albeit a fairly striaght one! Good to catch up

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not straight enough for you WNR guys by the sounds of it..maybe next week ya could ride to timaru and back. think there is only 3 bends in that whole ride.. oh hang on, there are railway trax to cross if you ride there..lol,

[Shoshoni]

not straight enough for you WNR guys by the sounds of it..maybe next week ya could ride to Timaru and back. think there is only 3 bends in that whole ride.. oh hang on, there are railway tracks to cross if you ride there..lol,

I didn't think you knew there where any other roads besides SH75

[neels]

Sounds like far too many people binning their bikes on easy rides for me, don't need to be involved in somebody else's accident on a wednesday night.

Maybe next year.

[SpeedMonger]

Sounds like far too many people binning their bikes on easy rides for me, don't need to be involved in somebody else's accident on a wednesday night.

Maybe next year.

Come on, don't be a Nana. There will just be another set of new riders and dodgy road conditions next year.

[2DriveSafe]

Hi Guys , for the uninformed CBTA - Competency Based Training and Assessment is coming to town- so to speak. Its NZTA's new way of getting rider through the licencing system to a set standard - check out cbta.co.nz for more information.

Anyway I am going through the process to be registered to assess this (another string to my bow) and I need a couple of volunteers to be my guinea pigs and let me practice assessing before NZTA come along and do it. It is mainly so I can mark the riding faults someone makes in the correct boxes and I get to practice my route a bit more.

You won't officially pass/fail anything as I'm just practising so what is in it for me I can hear some of you saying??

Well, you get your riding assessed against the new standard and get to see how awesome you are really are!, you get some constructive feedback from me at the end (worth 100's of $$$!) and you get to ride out on your bike with me wittering in your ear telling you to turn left or right - now that really is worth a lot!!!!! - Oh and I might shout you a coffee too.

It would be ideal if the volunteers ( I need 2 or 3) are still on their learners or restricted (and on a bike they can legally ride) and probably by the looks of my overly full diary be free on a sunday afternoon and prepared to come up to Rangiora as that is where our first route will be starting from.( we will be doing routes from CHCH once we get the NZTA approval) Also needs to be before 24th Feb

Just email me duncan@2drivesafe.com if interested and available. I might be able to do one or two evenings between now and the 24th as well.

Thanks for the time in reading this

Duncan

[DMNTD:Me]

not straight enough for you WNR guys by the sounds of it..maybe next week ya could ride to timaru and back. think there is only 3 bends in that whole ride.. oh hang on, there are railway trax to cross if you ride there..lol,

Excellent...so are you going to show me where these corners are?

Sounds like far too many people binning their bikes on easy rides for me, don't need to be involved in somebody else's accident on a wednesday night.
Maybe next year.

That's a bit harsh mate. The guy missed some fines on the road in half light and had a whoops.
He certainly wasn't riding like a twat or anything that's for sure.

[gloplg]

Well considering I've been riding for 5 years without an accident (ever) on some of the hairyiest roads NZ has to offer, I assure you I was equally surprised. TBH due to the straight nature of the road my concentration may have slipped, but I assure you if I had spotted the lovely patch of grit in the shadows of the trees, I wouldn't have gotten into the situation. But since you're the worlds greatest rider I'm sure none of this applies to you. Don't be so quick to judge. The boys that assisted me after the drop said it could have happened to anyone, I was just unfortunate enough to choose that spot to brake.

Think Forrest Gump ................... "it happens". I hope you and your bike are not too badly harmed. There are some stirrers out there who should be ignored.

[Autech]

Think Forrest Gump ................... "it happens". I hope you and your bike are not too badly harmed. There are some stirrers out there who should be ignored.

Yup that's why in hindsight I deleted my comment, I don't need to justify myself to knob jockeys. Thanks for all your support guys, THAT is what biking is all about.

[SpeedMonger]

Yup that's why in hindsight I deleted my comment, I don't need to justify myself to knob jockeys. Thanks for all your support guys, THAT is what biking is all about.

Too true, being a State Highway there are national standards for maintenance of the roads and you could take the NZTA to task over this to try to recover any damages from them or the contractor, if they have breached the requirements and caused an unsafe road condition that was not placarded with warning signs etc.

[rossirep]

I didn't think you knew there where any other roads besides SH75

there are some, but none worth riding.. unless you like boring straight roads.. come on everyone knows the akaroa gp is where it is at..

[rossirep]

Excellent...so are you going to show me where these corners are?
.[/B]

AKAROA ,......round the bays, over gebbies pass, to lil river and over the hill to akaroa, its all there for you. all you gotta do is ride it.

[Autech]

Too true, being a State Highway there are national standards for maintenance of the roads and you could take the NZTA to task over this to try to recover any damages from them or the contractor, if they have breached the requirements and caused an unsafe road condition that was not placarded with warning signs etc.

Have you known anyone that has taken them on? Would love to hold someone accountable for the road condition. I blame myself primarily for not spotting the grit, but after looking at the gopro vid I'm not surprised due to the shadow cast over the road. Still would be good to hit them up cause at the end of the day you can't slip on something that isn't there in the first place.

Bike is in shop atm, will find out next week if the insurance company will write it off or not, did a fair amount of cosmetic damage due to the Oggy knob snapping off after digging in to the train track. That is all apart from a sprained rotator cuff on my left shoulder, which hurts like a b!tch haha.

[SpeedMonger]

Well it's a long story, but a couple of years ago a similar thing happened to me. I was commuting home from work in April, and it was going to be my last ride to work for the year as the rego was about to expire. Came back through a section of road that had been resealed earlier in the week, and the signs removed. But over the course of they day through trafficking and excess amount of chip being applied in the first place and not properly stuck to the bitumen, a windrow of loose chip had built up along the centreline and road shoulders. So I came through just on dark, and couldn't see it. Anyway as I moved to the centreline to turn right at the Y intersection, the front tucked under and I was on my ass before I knew it .

I had some broken ribs and landed on backpack with thermos flask in it.

The police attended and I got taken to hospital. The car behind me luckily saw me in the road and stopped. As it turned out, her battery went flat while I was being sorted out and when they tried to push the vehicle there was so much loose shit on the road they had trouble just getting it moving. This was all noted in the police report as the cause of the accident.

My plan was to take insurance and recover the balance and costs from the council, they blamed the maintenance contractor who denied any wrongdoing, and provided documentation showing their site supervisor has inspected and approved the site for removal of the signs .What it didn't account for was the poor application of the materials and the failure of the chip seal, and ongoing observation and maintenance of the road to a safe standard. It should have been checked and swept.

Anyway, I thought I had a pretty good case. Insurance paid up a current market value for the bike and depreciated value of my gear. I then started to organise a case to go to small claims court but got a call from the bike insurer to say that I had waived all my rights by accepting their payout, and that I must desist from taking any further action as it could jeopardise their claim, and that they would try to get a settlement for my other losses.

So I have been waiting and emailing ringing many times with no progress.

Based on this your claim would be against the Maintenance contractor who applied the grit and failed to clear it away. You would need some proof of what happened, written statements from witnesses etc. Anyway, discuss it with your insurer before accepting a payout, that you want to claim your excess and any losses / costs back.

I have changed insurers now, because of all this. And am now on the Vero Golightly scheme - hopefully I do not have to use it though!

[gloplg]

Duvauchelles anyone?? Hopefully without windrows of grit!!!!

BK, Dyers Pass, through Governors Bay, Gebbies Pass, first regroup on Millers Road just before the Akaroa Hiway. On to Little River second regroup at the old railway station. At Duvauchelles if the pub is busy we may turn back and have the final regroup at the Little River Pub.

safely everyone.