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BrianNZ

07-04-2007

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Posted by BrianNZ on July 4, 2007, 8:03 pm

One of the new guys at work has decided to get into motorcycing and
turned up on a Suzuki 250 cruiser fully decked out from head to toe in
safety gear/leathers, so he's off to a good start. Our Pommie import has
scored a V-Rod (Jap import with 1000km's on it,hard luggage, lowered
seat & shorter 'highway pegs') and the young guy who wrote off his
VFR400 (tailgating & rear ended a car) scored a VTR1000, which he
promptly sold because it was 'too lumpy'. He just got a CBR250RR that
redlines at 18,000rpm! Sounds like an F1 car.

Anyway, these three decide to go for a lunchtime ride over Mt Messenger
and were giving me shit for not bringing the bike to work (and I
deserved it!). Mr.CBR250RR borrowed a video camera form another workmate
who's into car racing and set it up on his tank for the ride. The
footage was pretty usual stuff, just cruising along (with the CBR
sounding like it was going a million miles an hour) until they got to
the twisty stuff. The V-Rod took the lead and seemed surprisingly nimble
being thrown from side to side by a short Englishman, followed by the
CBR, with the leaner nowhere to be seen.

They made it to the other side of the Mt. and turned for the homeward
run. All was going well until a nice downhill straight followed by a
nasty 55kph S-bend that turns into a tight right hander. the V-rod
blasted past a 4x4, the CBR hesitated then powered on for the pass, only
to find the pass finished in the S-bend and he had run out of room. he
clipped the gutter on the left and bounced back across the road (luckily
he didn't go over the side!) and into the bank by the tight right hander
before dropping it in the right hand gutter. Man, I laughed when I saw
that as I had a mate pass me there a couple of years back and he nearly
did the same into an oncoming truck.

Then yesterday a tornado came to town ripping roofs off, smashing cars &
windows. No-one hurt and it would have been small compared to 'tornado
alley' type ones.

Also yesterday we got news that some oil workers in Nigeria had been
kidnapped. My mate works over there so I tried to contact him at home
and luckily he was there. he was supposed to be on the shift that was
kidnapped but he had just been promoted and that changed his shift
rotation. He met the two NZ kidnapped workers on Friday on his way out
of the country.....very lucky for him!

Posted by BrianNZ on July 8, 2007, 11:30 pm

BrianNZ wrote:

> Then yesterday a tornado came to town ripping roofs off, smashing cars &

> windows. No-one hurt and it would have been small compared to 'tornado

> alley' type ones.

So after Wednesdays tornado through the CBD everyone was saying 'Wow,
never seen that before!' We had 8 more tornado's on Thursday throughout
Taranaki. I was driving when the Inglewood one came through. I had to
stop as I couldn't see....the rain was coming in from all angles and so
heavy the wipers were useless. A mate up the road thought the whole
house was going to go, with the walls moving and shaking in different
directions!

...and then yesterday a mates mother woke to a flash flood from an earth
dam giving way upstream from their house. Pitch black with water up to
her neck within seconds as she and her partner tried to get out with
their 5 year old grandson. They had to smash their way out through a
window and take cover in a calf shed for an hour before rescue services
could get to them!

This has to be the crappiest winter weather I have ever seen.........

Posted by on July 9, 2007, 5:05 am

>BrianNZ wrote:

>> Then yesterday a tornado came to town ripping roofs off, smashing cars &

>> windows. No-one hurt and it would have been small compared to 'tornado

>> alley' type ones.

>So after Wednesdays tornado through the CBD everyone was saying 'Wow,

>never seen that before!' We had 8 more tornado's on Thursday throughout

>Taranaki. I was driving when the Inglewood one came through. I had to

>stop as I couldn't see....the rain was coming in from all angles and so

>heavy the wipers were useless. A mate up the road thought the whole

>house was going to go, with the walls moving and shaking in different

>directions!

>...and then yesterday a mates mother woke to a flash flood from an earth

>dam giving way upstream from their house. Pitch black with water up to

>her neck within seconds as she and her partner tried to get out with

>their 5 year old grandson. They had to smash their way out through a

>window and take cover in a calf shed for an hour before rescue services

>could get to them!

>This has to be the crappiest winter weather I have ever seen.........

It's Dog's retribution for the way you ride.

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Posted by BrianNZ on July 9, 2007, 4:37 pm

.p.jm@see_my_sig_for_address.com wrote:

>> BrianNZ wrote:

>>> Then yesterday a tornado came to town ripping roofs off, smashing cars &

>>> windows. No-one hurt and it would have been small compared to 'tornado

>>> alley' type ones.

>>>

>> So after Wednesdays tornado through the CBD everyone was saying 'Wow,

>> never seen that before!' We had 8 more tornado's on Thursday throughout

>> Taranaki. I was driving when the Inglewood one came through. I had to

>> stop as I couldn't see....the rain was coming in from all angles and so

>> heavy the wipers were useless. A mate up the road thought the whole

>> house was going to go, with the walls moving and shaking in different

>> directions!

>> ...and then yesterday a mates mother woke to a flash flood from an earth

>> dam giving way upstream from their house. Pitch black with water up to

>> her neck within seconds as she and her partner tried to get out with

>> their 5 year old grandson. They had to smash their way out through a

>> window and take cover in a calf shed for an hour before rescue services

>> could get to them!

>> This has to be the crappiest winter weather I have ever seen.........

> It's Dog's retribution for the way you ride.

Well, he's keeping me off the bike again with an estimated 250mm (10")
of rain today! (a months worth in 24 hours)

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