Bikers on the Rimutaka Hill

[James Deuce]

But she will get there ... eventually. Alive and happy ... ready for the next ride.

As long as she doesn't impede the flow of traffic and doesn't exceed any posted speed limits. How fast ... or how carefully she rides ... is her business.

No. That person has been riding since the Big Bang. At infinite and ever decreasing fractions of a corner radius, all but motionless to the naked ocular orb. Hopefully signposted as a hazard.

[FJRider]

That's what I don't get. If I'm leaned over in a corner, then by the time I stand the Gixxer up, load the front suspension and tyre so I can brake hard, I'd have to go around corners at less than half their recommended speed in order to do that.

That isn't against the law ...

Perfectly legal ...

AND ... safe .. !!!

Experienced motorcyclists should be able to tell if a blind corner is coming up ... ( hint: when the road ahead disappears )

[FJRider]

all but motionless to the naked ocular orb. Hopefully signposted as a hazard.

I very much doubt her ocular orb's are naked (or motionless) when she rides ... she's not that kind of girl ... (or is she .. ??)

[Kendoll]

How the fuck do you ever get anywhere? I can only ever picture you taking incrementally and infinitely smaller units of distance out of the same corner without ever actually getting to an apex, let alone making it the whole way around!

Heh, I do wonder the same thing each to their own I guess, just don't hold me up eh!

[Berries]

That's what I don't get. If I'm leaned over in a corner, then by the time I stand the Gixxer up, load the front suspension and tyre so I can brake hard, I'd have to go around corners at less than half their recommended speed in order to do that.

Fuck. How many crests do you know that are fun to take at 100km/h, or a little bit more, yet you can't see over them? I know a few, and one day some farmer will be walking his sheep just over the other side and I will plough in to them and die.

[SMOKEU]

Fuck. How many crests do you know that are fun to take at 100km/h, or a little bit more, yet you can't see over them? I know a few, and one day some farmer will be walking his sheep just over the other side and I will plough in to them and die.

Pretty much, yeah.

[GrayWolf]

If you came around that very same corner to find a very large rock taking up half of your lane ... would your reaction be any different .. ???

We always assume that "Our" lane IS clear around a blind bend ... even if we can't see around it ... or no indication there is a "blockage".

But we forget about the "being able to stop in half the clear distance ahead" rule ... and by your last line quoted ..

1) A rock is stationary, and neither (unless it's just that instant landed) continue to encroach into, on, or across my lane, reducing by said velocity the room I have to maneuver.

2) Thank you for the lesson Yup I do reduce speed, read the vanishing point, etc, etc, but again my ability to halt or adjust direction within a said distance is impacted by the forward motion of the oncoming vehicle. And brother some of them lorries aint hangin about, considering the road.

3) So yes my 'last line quoted'... is fairly accurate, obviously I did not become a 'bonnet mascot'.. but it is not nice to see your lane reduced substantially and be the filling in a B train, Vertical, solid rock wall.

[FJRider]

1) A rock is stationary, and neither (unless it's just that instant landed) continue to encroach into, on, or across my lane, reducing by said velocity the room I have to maneuver.

2) Thank you for the lesson Yup I do reduce speed, read the vanishing point, etc, etc, but again my ability to halt or adjust direction within a said distance is impacted by the forward motion of the oncoming vehicle. And brother some of them lorries aint hangin about, considering the road.

3) So yes my 'last line quoted'... is fairly accurate, obviously I did not become a 'bonnet mascot'.. but it is not nice to see your lane reduced substantially and be the filling in a B train, Vertical, solid rock wall.

I have on two instances ... been riding the South Island west coast and found a large (stationary) rock in the "other" lane. Both these times ... it wasn't the rock causing the bother ... but the traffic coming the other way passing said rock on my side of the road (causing ME to slow for them). I even got the fingers from one of the drivers ...

The words "Impacted" and "oncoming vehicles" have nasty implications ... The one's you see coming are (usually) not the problem ones ... even B-trains.

We have a few vertical rock walls in this area too ... and B-trains ... and campervans ... and ... all sorts of idiots driving things they haven't the ability to properly control. But are allowed to hire them anyway.

I'm glad you're nobody's bonnet mascot ... it's too far to go for a memorial run in your name ...

[Howie]

I have on two instances ... been riding the South Island west coast and found a large (stationary) rock in the "other" lane. Both these times ... it wasn't the rock causing the bother ... but the traffic coming the other way passing said rock on my side of the road (causing ME to slow for them). I even got the fingers from one of the drivers ...

The words "Impacted" and "oncoming vehicles" have nasty implications ... The one's you see coming are (usually) not the problem ones ... even B-trains.

We have a few vertical rock walls in this area too ... and B-trains ... and campervans ... and ... all sorts of idiots driving things they haven't the ability to properly control. But are allowed to hire them anyway.

I'm glad you're nobody's bonnet mascot ... it's too far to go for a memorial run in your name ...

The west coast of the south island!!! I fondly remember cruising along SH 6 between Westport and Greymouth, I didn't find to many rocks on the road or if I did they weren't a memorable hazard but yep the famous camper van around a reasonably sharp blind corner stopped in the middle of the lane with the driver leaning out the window taking a photo of the sun starting to set. I guess the answer is ride with enough alertness and expect the unexpected. Oh and I did miss going up the back of the camper.

I have also met trucks on the takas taking wide entry lines on occasion. The best one though, was a car doing a overtaking manoeuvre around a blind corner while I was coming the other way still not quite sure how I got away with that one. I just picked the bike up and headed left as far as I could and somehow still got around the corner.