Why why why?

[beyond]

I haven't got anything against farmers and know many good ones personally but there are some really unintelligent ones floating around the countryside lately who appear to be in a world of their own who think there sole purpose in life is to scare the crap out of any unsuspecting motorcyclists.

A few weeks back was pootling along some nice country back roads on me own as I had just finsished work and wanted a good run between domestic duties. Come around a blind right hander at a lot slower speed than normal (thankfully) and here's a young kid in the middle of the road on a four wheel drive motorbike waving his arms frantically looking like Marty Feldman after a night on caffeine.

I slam on the brakes doing a very good impression of a sports bike stoppie and managed to miss the kid and stop short a few inches short of the three leading cows. behind them is about 20 cows being herded along the road and Mrs Farmer brown at the back still waving away like I was doing 160kmh even though I was already stopped.

Now that could have been messy.

Then last Saturday a quick spin in the country with a mate. Lovely bit of road, come over a nice rise with the front wheel lofting nicely in the air (only way to wheelie a 1400 at higher speeds) there on my side of the road, coming towards me with a girl on the front and a boy on the back is another farmer riding his four wheel drive motorbike with a dog trotting along his left side just inside the centre line on my side?????

A rapid application of the brakes and a quick swerve has me scooting by as the farmer decides it's a good time to go off road quckly leaving his dog in the middle of the road looking bewildered as my rear tyre recedes into the distance. The dog stands there and realises another one of those two wheeled monsters is coming from behind, has a spastic and can't decide which way to run and nearly disappears under my mates bike.

Shit, won't these people learn that the road is not a cattle race to be used only for them? There's going to be some nasty accidents if these sort of people don't get a little clued up and take some safety precautions.

[MIXONE]

I've seen a car that hit a cow and wow what a mess.A motorcycle doesn't bear thinking about.
Good reactions dude!

[98tls]

Hear what your saying mate nearly came to grief awhile back on a little country road,coming into a lefthander at speed i saw the top 1/2 of the tractor and thought "no problem" wrong as behind the tractor was an extremely wide set of discs which had the heartbeat rise for a second.Bottom line is i guess take it easy on backroads cause the cockys are not going to change there ways.With the ever increasing number of cow cockys comes the ever increasing amount of cow shite on the roads which can provide some interesting moments as well eh.

[Meekey_Mouse]

Rofl... Ever wondered why it's called a COUNTRY road? When riding on them you need to be aware of any animals (or turds... Very slippery) that could be loose... It's very common.
Sure farmers and such need to try do their best but if it's a far out country road you normally only have other farmers traveling on it and they know to expect stock at every turn.

Glad you or any one else didn't get hurt though

[beyond]

I've seen a car that hit a cow and wow what a mess.A motorcycle doesn't bear thinking about.
Good reactions dude!

Remember a guy at high school returning home one summer afternoon to Kawakawa bay on his bike and came around a nice sweeper at around 100kmh and smacked right into a large beefer who was at the front of a herd a farmer was leading. No one in front warning motorists. he flew through the air bounced off the top off another beefer, hit the ground and spent a few minutes lying amongst the cow pats and watching lots of hoofs clomping by just missing him.

Then he got up, farmer asks if he's alright. He was so the farmer wanders off with his herd. This guy goes to his bike which is totalled. Front wheel bent under the engine, everythings stuffed. he looks around for the dead cow and not even one of them is limping????

[98tls]

When a young fella i had a CR250 framed XL350 powered Honda,no lights etc no problem as we lived waayyy out in the sticks,riding back up through the Hundalees to the cottage one night i see all these dark shapes on the road,must have passed a couple before realizing there farkin cows....pulled over and had a fag before carrying on slowly.

[CookMySock]

yeah I know itsa bitch, and I know we all do it, and I know that they should have someone further up the road, but the law isn't on your side on this one. You have to be able to stop.

DB

[mowgli]

Cocky's have moved stock across and along roads ever since there were roads. Match your riding to the visible road ahead and there's no problem. Sounds like that's exactly what happened when you met the cows - well done.

I happended upon a smallish mob of sheep a couple of weeks ago. I pulled over, killed the engine and watched the spectacle as they trotted past. The cocky came over and thanked me afterwards for killing the noise.

[BiK3RChiK]

I often go from the top of the Mamaku's down a country lane to Lake Rotorua and around the top of the lake heading towards Whakatane, and was reminded on many occasions that this is farming country!

Also, while driving my work vehicle about 10 years ago, I was coming home from Opotiki about 9.30 at night and came around a blind corner in the dark only to come face to face with a whole herd of cows! Upon impact, about 3 were killed instantly and 2 more had to be put down... and this was on a 'main road'.

So I guess, while in the country, caution is necessary. Expect the unexpected.

I'm glad you managed to avoid any collision, beyond...

[McJim]

A friend of mine hit a cow on SH22 two summers ago. Bike was dead, friend broke a collarbone and the cow sprinted of into the sunset. Could we find a farmer in the area prepared to admit it was his cow? Could we f*ck.

[awayatc]

bullbars on the bike?

[MIXONE]

It wasn't that long ago that if you hit livestock on the road it was your fault and you had to pay the farmer!!!!!

[McDuck]

A friend of mine hit a cow on SH22 two summers ago. Bike was dead, friend broke a collarbone and the cow sprinted of into the sunset. Could we find a farmer in the area prepared to admit it was his cow? Could we f*ck.

One of dads employs hit a how a wee while ago, one of the last things the employee did before walking for help was grabbed the ear tag from the offending cow. The owner got in trouble. a bit.

[FJRider]

Congratulations, you gained MORE experience in your motorcycling history. Learn from it. So if you find yourself in similar deserted RURAL roads, EXPECT similar thing on the road...and be ready. City boys (and girls) often find this hard to understand.

[homer]

i have a rather suspision that the events occured by people from dairy farms ?
each occassion i ll guess to