ATNR (Auckland Thursday night ride) - Discussion thread

**Chrislost** · 26th March 2007, 19:10

yes yes dark is different...
so is following someone into a corner and seeing them go sideways, intresting was in the same place both tyres let go and we went sideways halfway across the road, but somehow after i realised i was on gravel i didnt crash.
infact me and my bike made it to the pub

**skidMark** · 26th March 2007, 19:18

they probably got sick of everytime they mowed the grass there a piece of bike fairing or indercater , lever footpeg etc. going thru the mowers haha

speaking of which heres a story.

i remember once a trip out to piha , with phenoix and his mate sancho (the guy with the cbr250 with red wheels and yellow tyga fairings that comes on the ATNR ) (the only time ive ever been to piha) me out front giving it a bit of gas stopped and waited for them a couple of times. at the time i had my zxr250a phenoix had his zxr250a and sancho was on a mighty GSX250 which had a week prior had a loverly paintjob in a nice blue with flake was loverly new indercators and everything beautifuly done up, so this was his first big outing on it since the rebuild, looked a million bucks, well here i am already waited a few times i went right time to just keep going because they would come into sight and away i would go again, near the end i noticed a right hander with a old driveway with a few weeds etc growing on it straight ahead and thought well if you came into the corner way to hot you have somewhere to go. and after this thought on my merry little way i went.

so i get to piha, and i wait...and wait....and wait some more...shit they should be here by now, hmmm i better go back and see if they are ok.

so here i am flying thru the piha hills trying to find them in fear that one has crashed or maybe both, up i come and i spot ben waving his cellphone at me ( it's pretty dark so he used it as a light) so i stop....there they are in somebody's driveway holding up the gsx with some cracks on the rh fairing road rash broken indicators etc...oh bugger so i pull up ...sancho was ok luckily.

then look at the lefthand side of the bike ouchhh bent levers fairing in bits ...not as pretty as it used to be.

turns out he came into the right hander with the driveway.... which has a left hander just before it came through the left hander, and went fronm the left to flick into the apex or the right hander....lost the rear . slid it into the bank / ditch he went flying up the driveway and the bike kept going hitting from side to side down the ditch , thus the damage on both sides,

so we went well shit heaps of bits are missing lets try find them, while they are looking in the ditch i go up this little driveway wondering if any bits went up there, and what did i find , indicators well broken ones of about 4 different bikes....about 6 different coloured pieces of fairing, ooo looky a zxr indicator ...complete... ooo i need one of dem

so scored that

yer um look out for that corner it seems to like to claim bikes too.

i'm done

LOL

Cheers: Mark

**skidMark** · 26th March 2007, 19:20

Originally Posted by Morcs

lol

only 2 crashes in 4 years, thats hardly often, and purely coindicence that they happended within 10 days of each other...

as for nicknames, morcs does just fine

well morcs backwards is scrom, i could call you scrotum , that or skidMorcs LOL

**slinky** · 26th March 2007, 22:38

Originally Posted by Chrislost

yes yes dark is different...
so is following someone into a corner and seeing them go sideways, intresting was in the same place both tyres let go and we went sideways halfway across the road, but somehow after i realised i was on gravel i didnt crash.
infact me and my bike made it to the pub

i didn't quite do the sideways thing. But my bike got extremely floaty. front then back - then front and back. then i realised i was in a line of gravel.... derh!

Is there an update on the bikini girls??? are they staying later to entertain us?

**Macktheknife** · 27th March 2007, 12:08

No answer yet on the girls, I might have to go early just to be able to report on the quality and maybe take a couple of photo's!

**Karma** · 27th March 2007, 12:13

Originally Posted by Macktheknife

No answer yet on the girls, I might have to go early just to be able to report on the quality and maybe take a couple of photo's!

I'll remember not to shake your hand...

**Disco Dan** · 27th March 2007, 13:47

DRINK!

GIRLS!

**ManDownUnder** · 27th March 2007, 14:00

um...

{WATCH Event 2007/1.44}
SEVERE WEATHER WATCH FOR NORTHLAND AUCKLAND COROMANDEL PENINSULA ISSUED
BY METSERVICE AT 1110hrs 27-Mar-2007

RAIN POSSIBLY HEAVY AT TIMES IN NORTHLAND, AUCKLAND AND COROMANDEL
PENINSULA ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. MetService is monitoring the
development of a complex low developing to the north of the country. The
low is expected to move south into the eastern Tasman Sea tomorrow and
will bring a strengthening, humid northeast flow onto the North Island
with rain spreading southwards. The rain may become heavy in Northland
for a time during Wednesday afternoon or evening and the heavy falls
could spread to the Coromandel Peninsula late Wednesday. Further bursts
of heavy rain are possible on Thursday. Rainfall amounts are uncertain
at this stage but may exceed our warning criteria of 100mm over 24 hours
in some places. People in these areas are advised to stay up to date
with the latest forecasts and warnings.

This Watch will be reviewed by 11am Wednesday 28 March 2007 Forecast
prepared by: Bob Lake