Missing Motorcycle rider

Strika · Post by **Strika** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 5:20 pm

If you are riding around the Baw Baw or the Whittlesea or Kinglake areas, keep your eyes out for a Red Suzuki TL1000S in the bushes. A bloke from Churchill is missing.

The plod think he was travelling through these areas.

http://www.warragulcitizen.com/local/po ... baw-baw083

http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j ... ax19R8sXOw

born green · Post by **born green** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 5:24 pm

Strika wrote:If you are riding around the Baw Baw or the Whittlesea or Kinglake areas, keep your eyes out for a Red Suzuki TL1000S in the bushes. A bloke from Churchill is missing. The plod think he was travelling through these areas.

http://www.warragulcitizen.com/local/po ... baw-baw083

http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j ... ax19R8sXOw

heard that on the news today, chances are he's over a cliff somewhere

Like the time kazz and i came upon a guy on a vtr sp2 that went over the cliff on the top of the reefton, long way down if no one see's u go over.....

Strika · Post by **Strika** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 5:40 pm

Yeah the bush tends to part like the Red Sea and then close over leaving little evidence. When Vivek went over, I missed him on the first look and only found him when he made his way back up to the road. I would have eventually seen the tiny scrape marks, but, it was very difficult to find him and I KNEW which section he had disappeared on.

vivek67 · Post by **vivek67** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:29 pm

Hmm. Its never completely safe ride alone in the hills me thinks.

If you go down, at least some one would have a vague idea of where you might be. Lucky for me, Marty did.

What sorta bike is a suzuki tl100? Doesn't sound one that would get you into trouble... Unless of course you ride it off a cliff.

Possum · Post by **Possum** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:40 pm

Dam, hope he is ok and found soon. Weather is a mungrel there

tim · Post by **tim** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:52 pm

Geez hope they find him and he's not too bad.

I heard Glen and Jonno once went looking over cliffs for someone who was having a ball doing solo laps of the Oxley. :s

vivek67 wrote: What sorta bike is a suzuki tl100? Doesn't sound one that would get you into trouble... Unless of course you ride it off a cliff.

read again - TL1000s plenty of 'trouble' inducing potential

Nelso · Post by **Nelso** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 8:24 pm

tim wrote:I heard Glen and Jonno once went looking over cliffs for someone who was having a ball doing solo laps of the Oxley. :s

I can't remember Glen being there for that one.

There was a small group of us headed up for a lap of the top end and he couldn't keep up so just turned around, but instead of pulling in at Ginger's Creek, decided to keep going for a lap down the other way by himself without telling anyone. We waited for him at the top end and when he failed to turn up went back to the shop to see if he had headed back. What made it worse was the others that had just came back up from the bottom said they didn't pass him (when they had) so we assumed he must have run off trying to keep up and the search started. It wasn't until it got dark and we had to stop looking before we found him back at the shop. To say we were relieved is an understatement.

tim · Post by **tim** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 8:39 pm

Wasn't there for that one, different incident Nelso.

In this one the offender told everyone he was going to do a late lap and no one else was keen. He did a couple of westerly laps and mucked around with taking a video on his phone, then rode past gingers to do an easterly lap to the bottom and back. Someone saw his black sports bike with silver and red stickers and swore it was a white bike so the search was on. I hear he felt embaressed to arrive back at gingers to find everyone very worried and the search team out looking off the edge of cliffs.

Gosling1 · Post by **Gosling1** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 9:18 pm

the perils of riding alone......but even in a group ride you can get in trouble without anyone witnessing it....

lucky Pinchy was on the ball......and MickLC also knew something was *wrong*.....

Hope they find old mate on the tiller Marty......

Strika · Post by **Strika** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 7:31 am

Yeah, never good to hear this stuff Gos.

I remember a good 17 years or more back, riding along a road which followed a river flood plain. I was following my mate who was on an 89 ZX10. He lost the front on a 170kph sweeper and we were doing that too. His bike went down and he and it slid into the grass on the side of the road, through a barbed wire fence and into a paddock of tall grass which had loads of standing water in it. We all saw where the bike went down, saw the hole in the fence, yet it still took us 15 minutes or so to find him. When we did find him, he was unconscious, face down and was literally blowing bubbles in a puddle he had landed in

He was OK, just a few broken ribs. Bit it took ages and this was just tall grass, not thick bush.

Strika · Post by **Strika** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 7:55 am

Just heard, he reported into his mum at 7pm last night.

Post by **Wattie** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:11 am

Strika wrote:Just heard, he reported into his mum at 7pm last night.

great news

Cath · Post by **Cath** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:54 am

Top news. Thanks for letting us know. That is a horrible thing to happen

I remember the time Dave and I were coming back from PI, and were just in the northern area of some long twisties

heading towards Bombala. We came around the corner to find some guy crawling his way out of the scrub. He is so lucky he could crawl his arse out, because he would never, ever have been found. We couldn't believe where his bike ended up, very far away from the road, and totally covered over by all the ferns and bushes. Scared the crap out of me. He was the faster rider, so his mates didn't see him come off and just kept riding to Bombala. Took them a long, long time to come back looking for him. We waited with him for hours

smithy5 · Post by **smithy5** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:10 pm

Glad he is OK.....
Remember this one last year, missing for 3 years http://www.ksrc-au.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=29795

ducati_paul · Post by **ducati_paul** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 5:29 pm

I used to do a bit of search and rescue stuff in NZ many years ago, once we walked probably a couple of hundred k's looking for a couple of missing people, they'd drop us off about every 500 metres and you'd walk for 500m then you'd be picked up to leap frog to the front again, we checked every bit of road where a car could have crashed and never found a sign of them, about a week later flood waters receded and a passing motorist saw the car in the river with the two women drowned in it, there was no sign of the incident from the road apparently (we didn't do that section) it can be very easy to disappear without a trace.

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