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Grumpyoldman
Convalescing
Joined: Dec 02, 2004
Posts: 1,329
Location: Having A Wee Nap
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| Friendly Llama wrote: | | Jesus, hope you recover quick. Just curious, did you not hear the 4WD at all? I would have assumed they'd be loud enough for at least some warning, but perhaps not? |
Modern 4WD, didn't hear a thing. I don't tend to hear much over wind and track noise when I'm descending anyhow.
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hickie
Back to the Jungle...
Joined: Nov 09, 2005
Posts: 1,994
Location: Down the Hutt
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| Posted: Thu 4th Sep 12:22pm Post subject: |
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| Grumpyoldman wrote: | | Friendly Llama wrote: | | Jesus, hope you recover quick. Just curious, did you not hear the 4WD at all? I would have assumed they'd be loud enough for at least some warning, but perhaps not? |
Modern 4WD, didn't hear a thing. I don't tend to hear much over wind and track noise when I'm descending anyhow. |
That is the one redeeming feature of the pesky MotoX bikes up there, you can hear them coming from a mile away....
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Grumpyoldman
Convalescing
Joined: Dec 02, 2004
Posts: 1,329
Location: Having A Wee Nap
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| Posted: Thu 4th Sep 12:25pm Post subject: |
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Haven't thought about insurance yet ( Have yet to get the bike back), unless the frame or forks are broken it's probably not going to be worth a claim.
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pinkmaggit
Mush
Joined: Mar 29, 2007
Posts: 1,728
Location: Wellington, NZ
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| Posted: Thu 4th Sep 12:45pm Post subject: |
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err, they ARE broken, dave, they are.
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scatter
More beige than usual
Joined: Jan 19, 2003
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| Posted: Thu 4th Sep 12:50pm Post subject: |
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Dude!
Nice work on the 4WD 
Heal fast, heal well 
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stuart_rv
Dusty
Joined: Jul 23, 2007
Posts: 63
Location: Lagging behind
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| Posted: Thu 4th Sep 1:12pm Post subject: |
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Jesus H Chirst thats an impressive mess of the 4WD 
Get well soon dude
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sweet_P
Aunty P
Joined: Dec 31, 2005
Posts: 3,945
Location: Home :+)
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| Posted: Thu 4th Sep 1:26pm Post subject: |
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I can't believe you didn't break any bones!! Jeez you're one tough fella Grumpy!!
Hope you get better real quick (And that you have lots of people bringing you ice cream for your sore tongue!)
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Grumpyoldman
Convalescing
Joined: Dec 02, 2004
Posts: 1,329
Location: Having A Wee Nap
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| Posted: Thu 4th Sep 1:28pm Post subject: |
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It was tough work getting the contrast fluid down for the cat scan.
Tongue is pretty much all good now.
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RHR_Rob
Ridden
Joined: Jan 09, 2004
Posts: 213
Location: Chch, NZ
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| Posted: Thu 4th Sep 1:46pm Post subject: |
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Once had a similar incident only other way roun.
we were on a well used one lane gravel rd in Central (Surf no bull bars) going uphill at maybe 30k/h young kid on motor bike comes hurtling round corner, i could see his life flash before him in his eys just before he lays the bike down and slides under the front.
He was OK his bike was a bit bent, my surf was ok.
his mate behind had seen me and slowed then his Dad turns up (on bike) and starts giving me tihs for driving in middle of Rd!
As everyone was ok and his dad was getting a bit aresy we decided it was time to go.
not realy sure where we/he would have stood if there were injuries as it was a paper rd and his bike didnt look like it would have had rego or wof
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Jim
Joined: Aug 30, 2004
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| Posted: Thu 4th Sep 6:51pm Post subject: |
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Legend Dave.
We will let you off from riding Dave's to scared.
Catch ya later mate.
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xcmtb
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Joined: Aug 01, 2007
Posts: 2,601
Location: Gangstaville (Manurewa)
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| Posted: Thu 4th Sep 7:36pm Post subject: |
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bugger... and here I thought the spleen was something they made up in movies when they couldn't decide what organ to talk about...
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edoubled
Dusty
Joined: Oct 04, 2006
Posts: 45
Location: racing the Auckland traffic
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| Posted: Thu 4th Sep 8:03pm Post subject: |
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Ouch.
What is it with that firebreak? If it's not murderers armed and on the run from the cops it's 4WDs set to stealth mode. (I've heard tell of a wild Welshman driving a bongovan full of rabid hounds up there too, but I think that's just an urban legend. :P )
Heal up quick Dave.
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notanotherhill
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A few yrs ago i knew a guy who was heading down a hill 'road' and went through the front windscreen of a car. Cut to bits
In the car was three nuns.
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specializedman
Worn
Joined: Jan 13, 2008
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| Posted: Thu 4th Sep 9:37pm Post subject: |
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Woah epic crash!
Did you look up in time to think "ah tihs" just before you hit it?
I remember thinking that while doing what seemed like an incredibly long endo on my dj bike after inadvertantly hitting a traffic island.
And I think that sort of muntage is a great excuse for a new bike!
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fraserb
Fixed and Free ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fast and Easy
Joined: Jun 05, 2003
Posts: 8,470
Location: tauranga. nz
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| Posted: Thu 4th Sep 9:50pm Post subject: |
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cripes! hadnt checked in for a while and look what happens!!
good that your recovering now
when I nailed the back of a car a few months ago all I really thought was "Oops. this may leave a mark...." SLAMMMM!!
BTW, your home contents insurance covers the damage to the other persons property!! and the damage to your trusty steed.
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