rider killed Gembrook-launching place rd.

[Strika]

Just saw a snippet on the news, found a rider dead, 5pm today, apparently hit an object?

Condolences to his family & friends.

[LachlanMann]

Sad News. Ride Safe

[Strika]

From Vic Police Media Unit
Motorcylist dies at Gembrook
Sunday, 17 April 2011 19:21
A Motorcylist has died following a collision at Gembrook this afternoon.
The Motorcylist, a man aged about 21, was traveling along the Launching Place - Gembrook Road about 5.08pm when the accident happened.
The rider lost control of the motorcycle and he struck a wire railing and suffered a severe neck injury and died at the scene.

[dilligaf]

bugger.
linky to the police report
http://www.vicpolicenews.com.au/more-ne ... brook.html

I ride that road fairly often and there have been a lot more riders on it recently.

[dutchy]

Condolences to family & friends

[seiko1]

One of these ridiculous cheesegraters no doubt

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[GPZ_Jim]

yeh there are some of those fences up round here too.. always makes me a little squeamish thinking of the what if scenarios.. condolences to the rider's family

[funky]

no good at all, condoles to the family

[Nosferatu]

Poor bugger. I wonder if he could have been saved if he was riding with someone else. Those bloody wire rope fences might work on cars, but they're the worst invention ever for bikes. Condolences to his family

[mick_dundee]

I ride that road fairly often and there have been a lot more riders on it recently.

The spur is policed to buggery so riders go elsewhere... think you'll see more of this, sure hope not but i'm betting we will.

One of these ridiculous cheesegraters no doubt

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I'd bet your left testicle you're right about that, unfortunatley, it will make fuck all difference, they'll still roll them out in ever increasing numbers.

[dilligaf]

I ride that road fairly often and there have been a lot more riders on it recently.

The spur is policed to buggery so riders go elsewhere... think you'll see more of this, sure hope not but i'm betting we will.

Passed through the Black Spur the past two weekends and hardly a bike to be seen. On the other hand there would have been 60 or so bikes parked in the main
street of Yea on Sunday when I passed through and quite a few big group rides up that way. (At one stage it was hard to keep groups separated and I think we had someone else's tail rider for a while).

[slaps999]

There were lots of riders out there yesterday.
I was on that road about 4:30pm and thought I shouldn't have been there, that late in the day. The sun being low in the sky caused me to be unsighted/blinded in some of the corners and had to back right off. Wasn't much fun.

Sincere condolences to the family & friends.

[mick_dundee]

News just to hand, he hit a farm fence not a WRB. The gospel according to Emerald police, I did a ride by the road on google maps too, no wrb on that road that I could see, some very small w beam installations was it as far as roadside furniture.