Exactly Dooly!
Apparently a ute lost a four litre container of oil off the back....
Mad nagging bitch!
Exactly Dooly!
Apparently a ute lost a four litre container of oil off the back....
Diarrhoea is hereditary - it runs in your jeans
If my nose was running money, I'd blow it all on you...
Rest In Peace
thats what happened . 2 in the group my mates , they both ok , other two I only met yesterday at Paeroa. Thought about riding home with them , but decided to make it home by dark so left earlier. Sometimes its a roll of the dice.Originally Posted by yungatart
I feel so sorry for those guys and thier families , someones inattention causes so much havoc.
Pit Bitch no more
Yes just heard about that accident. Codolences to the family.
Tis a Yamahahahaha G. Just thrash it like you stole it.Gixxer 4 ever
It really did look very unloved. Specially as it was next to the R1 that the whole crowd wanted to look at. Gixxer 4 ever
The instructions are simple...
We were told at the scene that there was oil all over the road. Couldn't quite believe it....why there, of all places? The 75k right-hander just over the top of the climb after the cafe on the left at the end of the plains. The road is banked so anything on the Napier-bound side just runs down and across the Taupo-bound lane.
Today I learn that a 4litre oil pack appears to have been 'lost' off a trailer or something. Great skills to the fucken knobthat allowed that to happen.
Poor buggers that hit that never had a chance.
We talked to 2 uninvolved riders at the scene. One on a lovely old 1100 Slabby and the other on an RF. Both from Hastings. The RF rider walked his bike through the slick (!!) and well down the road to try and clean the tyres and his boots. Once he got riding again we sat behind him all the way to the summit cafe, just so's he could be sure of immediate assistance should he have missed a bit on his tyres. But all good, so left him to it. A very nervous/tense rider...terrible lines etc. But after seeing the prang/oil etc, would any of us be any different?
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
Slowest cnut in the Bay
Yep, fate, roll of dice etc.
Either way, fuck.
Best wishes to your mates.
Pit Bitch no more
Young Harlem did it again
Tis a Yamahahahaha G. Just thrash it like you stole it.It really did look very unloved. Specially as it was next to the R1 that the whole crowd wanted to look at. Gixxer 4 ever
Hardcore Biker
Well here I am sitting over at the Hastings Hopspital with my laptop killing time. My 18yr old son (who joined us at burger fuel after yest ride but not feeling the best) ended up in ED last nite and in surgery as I type having his appendix out.
Mixed feelings over yesterdays ride. Great ride out and up to wairoa but struggled to find the groove on the way back. Never felt entirely comfortable on the trip home, just one of those things I guess. Managed to scrape the underbelly fairing on a tight right hander so getting over but never quite comfortable. Thats the way it goes some days I guess.
Dooly, decided to go back to burger fuel after the ride as that is what they normally do so thought as it is their organised ride, to go with the plan and support the Franchise owner. Andrew seems a nice guy who just wants to get out and have some fun on his Duc when he gets some time out. We just chilled out for a while, cold drinks on the house and then brough BF for tea.
** Just reading about the motorcyclist deaths in the Dom and having also looked at the threads posted on here, condolances to the families. **
Probably wont be riding this coming weekend as have a Japanese student staying with me from today iuntil sometime next Sunday.
Slowest cnut in the Bay
Bad luck with your boy mate, but he'll be fine, young uns bounce back quick.
Know what you mean about the ride back, was a bit up and down eh?
Bacon tends to make me lose my stride a bit, and lots more traffic, but somedays you're on, some not. At least we got out.
Andrew seems a good bloke, keen and friendly.
Got a job out of him, he's giving me his Duc for a week to do belts, servicing, and a few other bits and pieces, so thats all good.
Prob only do the Classic ride from BP Clive on Sat as doing the Taupo trackday on Friday.
Highway Biker
Oh. Your boy wasn't hungry for a free (dad pays) burger which normally isn't a good sign is it. But you know, these surgeries are common place. Surgeons perform these more than we do oil changes. So you can rest assured that your son will be just fine.
Still, I know what it's like sitting around at the hospital... bloody place is full of sick people dagnamital. However, I also know what it's like to be in hospital pre and post surgery without having someone there with me, and so am more than sure that your waiting room sufferage is for a good cause.
As for the Taupo fatality... wtf can anyone really say about such things? These random unpredictable accidents totally bum me out, almost as though I know the victims personally... and I immediately put myself in their place. Oil on road + corner + motorcycle = bad things. All I can do is hope that the family of the lost biker is strong enough to get through what will be hard times for them.
So, after all that, I won't complain that my bike failed to even have ignition lights this morning... either the battery was flat (why? might be some dodgy parklight shanangans) or yesterdays after-ride wash got in somewhere where it shouldn't have. So, it's on charge... time will tell.
Forum whore
Yep it sure is. "Could have been"……. Is always around us. What will be will be. We can only limit the risk.
Good choice Dave
As for the oil on the tyres of the bike that was pushed through the oil, a good spin up in the shingle and dirt off the side of the road will clean the tread, and the working area of the tyre.
Rip
The instructions are simple...
Yep. And why would you stand beside and walk a bike through shit like that? Heavy RF on a downhill piece of road, with slight slope to the right. Oily tyres and boot soles.
Suffice to say that this was a guy that we would NOT enjoy riding with. Or socialising. One of those high mileage loner-types...
apologies if he ever reads this. no offence was intended
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
I'm not SMPL I'm just special
I got sent to the Quack by my doc today due to the size of the swelling on my leg. Doc took xrays, nothing broken just badly bruised. Not allowed on my bike for three days, damn it
lesson....Wear proper footwear and lift your feet when going over a low hanging chain fence
Pit Bitch no more
What? You out of practice to throwing yr leg over
Tis a Yamahahahaha G. Just thrash it like you stole it.It really did look very unloved. Specially as it was next to the R1 that the whole crowd wanted to look at. Gixxer 4 ever
Mad nagging bitch!
Nah, she's not out of practice! Just she had to throw it a lot higher than she's used to....What? You out of practice to throwing yr leg over
Diarrhoea is hereditary - it runs in your jeans
If my nose was running money, I'd blow it all on you...
Slowest cnut in the Bay
After a journey like mentioned in the paper below, what bad, bad, luck.
Lead: Biker dies in freak oil spill
23.02.2009
Roger Moroney
One of motorcycling's true characters, Napier's Jeremy "Kanga" Crate, 45, died last night after his motorcycle crashed in a freak oil spill on SH5 near Rangataiki.
Mr Crate died after his BMW motorcycle hit oil which spilled from a container, which had fallen from a vehicle that police were today trying to trace.
Two other riders also fell after striking the oil, with one being airlifted to Rotorua Hospital with serious internal injuries.
Mr Crate was one of three motorcyclists among the six people killed on the country's roads at the weekend - bringing the road toll for the year to 60.
A skilled engineer and a dedicated motorcyclist, he and partner Julie Ashton had only recently returned home after an epic 160,000km motorcycle journey all over the world.
"All that riding and all he did ... and for this to happen," close friend Wayne Moult said.
He said Mr Crate had gone to Paeroa for the annual street races with three mates, and he spotted him up there.
"He was having a conversation with Tony Rees (a former national superbike champion) so I just patted him on the shoulder as I went by. Then I get to work this morning and heard the news. It's just terrible."
Another long-time friend, Craig Guy, said everyone knew Mr Crate as "Kanga".
"He came in only last week and we were having smoko. He wandered in and made himself a brew and sat down for a chat. He is going to be so sadly missed. He was a great guy and a real character ... this has stunned everyone."
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