What's around the corner???

**Usarka** · 5th January 2008, 14:17

...on Thursday for me it was a rural post delivery guy heading my way on my side of the road.

What is around that corner????

**skidMark** · 5th January 2008, 14:22

ive heard of guys plowing into cows etc.... came round a corner on kaiaua road once to a big row up of cars because farmer brown was moving his sheep.

closest ive ever come was on the thursday night ride came over a rise of a hill and crashe had decided it would be wise to stop on the main road so nobody would miss the turn...even though a pointer was already there.

came over the rise doing 100 and something. and theres crashe right infront of me....stopped....in the middle of the road.

what followed was fuckkkkkkk

brakeeee ....swerve....

turn around and come back

Never underestimate the predicatability of stupidity.

**smoky** · 5th January 2008, 14:29

Went for a ride after work last night - to Arapuni, thru Te Awamutu to Raglan, on the way home going fairly hard around a bend on the divi, there was a large green Jag heading towards me, he had run wide the previouse corner.
right in fron of me on the wrong side of the road heading toward me, I had to suddenly change my line, tighten up and almost ride in the weeds on the left to aviode a head on. Scarey

**skidMark** · 5th January 2008, 14:37

Originally Posted by smoky

Went for a ride after work last night - to Arapuni, thru Te Awamutu to Raglan, on the way home going fairly hard around a bend on the divi, there was a large green Jag heading towards me, he had run wide the previouse corner.
right in fron of me on the wrong side of the road heading toward me, I had to suddenly change my line, tighten up and almost ride in the weeds on the left to aviode a head on. Scarey

you win......

**Disco Dan** · 5th January 2008, 14:39

Originally Posted by skidMark

ive heard of guys plowing into cows etc....

You got to watch out for those talking cows.....

Dont "ride and shroom" kids.

**smoky** · 5th January 2008, 14:47

Cold crisp winter morning about 6am, coming down state 26 (I think it is), past the turn off to Tahuna heading south is a long smooth bend - GSX 750 fully banked over, using the throttle to control the grip - tractor with a feed out wagon pulls out of a farm gate on my side of the road - truck coming from the opposite direction - no where to go.
stand the bike up and take my chances in the drain on the left hand side of the road, it was about 6 feet deep.
Cutting a track thru the blackberry and weeds, I actually over took the tractor while in the drain before coming to a stop. I can still see the farmer in the tractor looking down in utter amazement thinking 'where the ...... did he come from.

**Jorja** · 5th January 2008, 14:59

came around a corner and had an Emu running straight at me. Was in a cage so possibly it doesn't count lol

**99TLS** · 5th January 2008, 15:03

couple of weeks ago i was on tahuna- ohinewai rd ( approx 35 ks good twisties) was nicely cranking the TL went through nice long sweeping right hander into tight left onto straight and a lime truck had shit its load in the middle of this 1km straight, new the road was straight but could see through cloud hit anchors and did huge stoppie before i got to cloud, pulled over and waited about 10 mins for it to clear , was a tractor on the road after cloud cleared, could have been nasty

**James Deuce** · 5th January 2008, 15:16

A KBer doing a U-Turn because he got taunted about reposts.

**sAsLEX** · 5th January 2008, 15:19

Originally Posted by Jim2

A KBer doing a U-Turn because he got taunted about reposts.

I think he was on to thread merging at the time.....

**sunhuntin** · 5th January 2008, 15:22

coming south on the paraparas... come up to a corner. note the sheep running like shit away from the fences... now, my bike does scare lambs, but never full grown sheep [specially not on a main road where they are used to traffic noise] so slow up a bit and take the corner carefully... to find two guys pushing a car out of the ditch. they pushed it on to the road basically right in front of me [and it was smokey as hell!]. haad to slow right down to allow them room before over taking.
im glad those sheep were there, otherwise it could have been very interesting. the car was a decent distance up the road, heaps of time to stop safely, but would still rather be forced to slow right down on my own time than stop without much warning.

**Lucy** · 5th January 2008, 16:06

around the corner, which is why, in theory, we are all supposed to be able to stop in the clear road we can see ahead. Would mean a lot of really slow riding and driving though.....

Luckily I have a GN, so it's no problem for me!

**RiderInBlack** · 15th January 2008, 06:47

Last Sunday leaving Matakohe Museum, Laava and I where having ta do catch-up as he had got lost in the Museum and the Use-less-lees had left without us. Coming around the bend, there ahead was a 4x4 looking like it was about to do a U-y. Beeped my horn, but the deaf old bugger just kept on turning. Now, because I had predicted and assumed that the silly old sod had not seen me and was going ta U-y, I had enough time to button off, brake and make my way behind him as he turned. Had I been hooning (I was going quickish) without any thought that there might be hazards like this in the road, I would have ended-up welding my bike into the side of his 4x4. Who would have been in the wrong? It would not have mattered as I would have been in Hospital or the Morgue.
Be careful out there Dudes and Dudettes.

DON'T RIDE LIKE YA STOLE IT, RIDE TO SURVIVE.