Harley cleaned out by BANANA SKIN

**Guitana** · 19th February 2007, 08:22

Sorry if this is a repost I noticed Beemers already got a thread running on this subject!!

**dawnrazor** · 19th February 2007, 09:07

Originally Posted by Beemer

went into a skid and crashed about a kilometre south of the crossing

Thats a long way to skid

**The Pastor** · 19th February 2007, 09:24

I better leave like a bananna and harley?

**davereid** · 19th February 2007, 09:30

You would have to be really cranked over for a banana peel to cause a crash ! You would only lose traction for a tiny tiny instant, and unless right at the limit you would be able to recover. More to the story than meets the eye methinks.

**Beemer** · 19th February 2007, 09:40

Yep, you'll get smacked on the hand! Perhaps the mods can do a merge?
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...877#post940877

**Squeak the Rat** · 19th February 2007, 09:46

Somebody slipping on a banana skin is not really funny in itself unless you like laughing at peoples misfortune. This is one of the oldest cliché slaptsick gags, yet no one has actually seen some one slip on a banana skin. So the humour is more (imho) that some one did what we’ve been laughing and groaning about for 100 years but have never seen before.

If it was rider error as suggested above, and the rider was blaming the banana skin then this makes it even funnier!

**vifferman** · 19th February 2007, 09:49

Originally Posted by alexthekidd

Haha rather amusing lol

I didn't think so.
I lowsided my VFR750 when the front tyre skidded on a squashed softdrink can as I tipped into a low-speed corner. It broke the front brake lever, holed my near-new jacket, and re-wrecked my rotator cuff. No laughing was done.

I friend of mine in Florida high-sided his VFR800 when braking hard for a corner. Apparently, he was unlucky enough to hit a Cadillac hubcap that was lying on the road just as he hit the picks. He was unconscious for several minutes, and wrote off his helmet and several body panels on his bike. He was very lucky to escape injury. No laughing was done.

**XP@** · 19th February 2007, 11:19

wonder if he is going to respray deep red or will he have a change of colour to something like yellow...

**sunhuntin** · 19th February 2007, 11:28

hope the guy is ok, and not much damage to the bike.

from my years on a push bike, im generally pretty good at spotting stuff on the road, usually when i see the event happen. i once watched someone drop a ciggy butt out, and as i went past, i could see the smoke coming off it. i wouldnt have seen it had i not watched it be put there.
coming home one night, medium darkness, i nearly lost everything when i nearly hit a street sign lying in the middle of the road. until i was nearly on top of it, i thought it was a large bit of cardboard or similar. i recognised what it was with just enough time to flick around it.

i wouldnt like to try my chances taking on a bit of fruit. they say he was cornering...chances are, the peel was in a part of the corner where he couldnt see till too late. ive whipped around a semi blind corner once, to find the footpath right next to it covered in large bits of metal [looked like engines] i know they would have been shifted off the road. that would have been nasty as well.

the whole idea of a harley being taken out by a banana skin is funny, but the actual event isnt.

**jrandom** · 19th February 2007, 11:35

It's the jandals, man. They're disguising themselves as banana peels.

Sneaky little motherfuckers, jandals. Never trust a jandal, or next thing you know, WHAM, it's pretending to be a banana peel.

And THEN it's all over.

**sels1** · 19th February 2007, 11:50

Originally Posted by davereid

You would have to be really cranked over for a banana peel to cause a crash ! You would only lose traction for a tiny tiny instant, and unless right at the limit you would be able to recover. More to the story than meets the eye methinks.

I tend to agree. The road south of McKays Xing only has a couple of corners, both under speed restrictions due to roadworks, not requiring much lean angle to get around them. Perhaps there were other factors we are not hearing about - the media not wanting all the facts to spoil a good story. Glad to hear the rider is ok.

**Guitana** · 19th February 2007, 11:51

I hope that bananas got some serious insurance cos that's gonna cost him!!!!!

**Guitana** · 19th February 2007, 11:54

Originally Posted by sels1

I tend to agree. The road south of McKays Xing only has a couple of corners, both under speed restrictions due to roadworks, not requiring much lean angle to get around them. Perhaps there were other factors we are not hearing about - the media not wanting all the facts to spoil a good story. Glad to hear the rider is ok.

Ever tried to corner hard on a Harley????
Maybe some trial runs need to be conducted!!
I will petition the land transport safety people to have an anti banana campaign to target the lethal effects of stray bananas on new zealands roads!!