Cow vs Bike

[Disco Dan]

Yee gawds......... someone hide gijoe1313's pills........
He has taken the wrong one/s yet again......

I know who is best to take him for a ride...... McJim...... yep he is the best person to help him out.

take the little white ones with the "E" stamped on them...


I'll take your for a ride!!! "bring ya own gps ride"

[crashe]

Tis a clump of cow shit..........

[Disco Dan]

Tis a clump of cow shit..........

kow Pai Crashe!

[Chickadee]

A couple of years I ago I was on back of BusaJims busa, 11:30pm pitch black night, raining night near Havelock (just come off the ferry, heading to Nelson) when he sees a pair of eyes, realises there is an animal on the road but it was too dark to see which way the cow was facing, where the body was.

He slammed on the brakes, (which is what made me look up to see a huge black cow right in front of us!!) and just in time could see where the rest of the cow was and did a massive countersteer to get round it. There was no way to stop in time, if it hadn't turned to look we wouldn't have seen the eyes reflect and it would have been all over rover.

It was that close that as we glanced off the cows body, it knocked back the mirror and knocked Jims left arm off the bars.
He kept riding on to Nelson.
My heart was beating so fast I now know what it means when people say "my heart felt like it was going to leap out of my chest"
He told me later that he didn't stop cos he thought I might never get back on the bike, it was that close.
Was probably one of the scariest moments I have had on a bike - ever.

Bugger me, that would have definitely been a brown pants situation. Hope you've not had anything remotely like that happen again.

Our mate is probably giving up bikes which is a shame. We'll keep hoping he'll come around to the idea again, he is a good rider - but I suppose when the call is that close you start to wonder if it's worth it (bearing in mind he's a Dad to two lassies under 16mths and all). Irony being he was on the RRRS course a couple of weeks ago. He probably handled the situation better as a result. As long as he realises it would have been deadly senario in cage or bike - it was just bad luck.

[Chisanga]

Perhaps given some time to reflect he may change his mind about giving up biking totally... then again he may not. Probably all he can think about right now is how his daughters could have been left fatherless.

I haven't had a close call like that so I don't really know what my reaction would be either.

[Aitch]

From past experience;

1. You are obliged to report the accident to the people in blue. You may want to contact the local authority ranger and let them know
2. The Farmer is generally not liable unless there is some suggestion that the farmer was negligent in their duty regarding fencing etc. Local Authority rangers generally have their ear to the ground in this respect and should be able to tell you if this is a trend..
3. Your mate is not liable (obviously) and I would leave it to insurance etc

Stock can make heaps of mess unfortunately. Have been to a few fatals in my life-time where cars have collided into cows that decided to ride the bonnet and enter the cabin .. Not pretty

The "best" one was three horses vs Mack Truck on Wiri Station Rd... Suffice to say that even the truck was pretty stuffed

I think the farmer is liable, that's what public liability insurance is for!!!!!!!

[Chisanga]

Yeah - the cow wasn't even limping

That's cause it was wearing its leathers Bad joke I know

[Chickadee]

I'm sure if there is someone at fault, the insurance folks will find them. Otherwise I guess the insurance company will have to pay regardless, he had full cover (wise man).

[Aitch]

I'm sure if there is someone at fault, the insurance folks will find them. Otherwise I guess the insurance company will have to pay regardless, he had full cover (wise man).

Wise man, wise chickadee!

[The Joka]

Glad to hear that you guys are okay.. well nearly okay!

We had a similar accident in a car..

Going back sometime now but it was a really wet night and a friend was heading to Hahei on the coromandel! Slowly cruizing round the twisties.. They start going past a cliff only to have the bejeezus scared out of them when a Sheep falls from the cliff and lands on the bonnet of the car!

Needless to say doing some serious damage to car and Sheep...

[Chisanga]

A mate's dad hit a horse at 120km in his Galant about 15 years ago, it jumped a fence, ran down a steep embankment and straight into the right front of the car.
Luckily it was only a glancing blow and the horse didn't go over the bonnet into the car but along the side.... still wrote off the car and a farmer was quite close by with a shotgun to put the horse out of its misery

[McJim]

Talking of sheep - It was Hellraiser that supplied the trailer to bring the old smashed GSX back to Auckland - I followed along behind in case bits fell off the bike when I spotted some sheep at the side of the road - I took it slowly and took a wide line - later Hellraiser and his wife told me they saw the sheep and said to each other "I hope McJim has spotted them - it would just be murphy's law wouldn't it?" Good we could have a laff about it afterwards eh?

[Disco Dan]

Talking of sheep

[McJim]

Hmmmm - if you didn't want your seat recovered you could have just said - you didn't need to take the piss.

[cowboyz]

In 05 I had a crack at running over a cow. http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=16879

Not really as good an idea as it sounds. Hurts lots and I got away without breaking anything (on me)

The farmer is liable. He should keep his stock on his property. There is a loophole where the farmer cant be "officially charged" with reckless endangerment if he was not found to be deliberately negalgent., (for christ sake there is a lot of big words creeping into this post, probably all spelt wrong too)

The farmer , or the farmers insurance did pay out for my accident but only because I packed a real big mental at them. They tried several times to get out of it.