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Rider killed (don't read if ya don't wanna)
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:44 pm
by ZX10R King
Heard on the news this evening:
A rider ion Brisbane was killed when his bike hit the bull-bar of a truck, which was turning across in front of him....
Rider was taken to hospital, but died shortly after...
He was riding a GPZ600...
RIP, and condolences to his family
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 9:07 pm
by vinze
Always sad when news comes like this, ill ditto the respect to his family,
just brings home how easily we can be taken out on bikes, ride carefully everyone and keep ya eyes peeled!!
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:06 pm
by Neka79
terrible news..wasnt ne1 from here was it??
RIP..
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:56 pm
by Barrabob
yeh post the whole thing if you can find it king, hemi rides a gpx600 so its good to hear where it happened not that i think its hemi.
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:24 pm
by Neka79
Barrabob wrote:yeh post the whole thing if you can find it king hemi, rides a gpx600 so its good to hear where it happened not that i think its hemi.
its not hemi..he posted in another thread abt 5 min after u posted this....
Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:14 am
by HemiDuty
Nah it isn't me. They have tried, but not succeded in getting me yet the bastards.
RIP dude. I really hope he did not have kids. Total shame.
Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 6:09 am
by ttc
Glenn and I rode past the scene yesterday
I saw the truck, it was a b double, and the cops were marking the lines on the road and I thought this doesn't look good.
I looked and there was a bike half hidden in the grass on the side of the road, the tank had been ripped off, it was a reddish color and there was a exhaust pipe on the left side of the bike, made me think it was a ZZR?
Apparently it was a 57yr man old from Rathdowney
He was doing nothing wrong, it so easily could have been us.
Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:42 pm
by Neka79
tanyathecheeky wrote:
He was doing nothing wrong, it so easily could have been us.
i thought that 2 yrs ago after the GP..when the guy we were ridding home with got cleaned up, 3 km from my house literally 15 sec behind me as he turned down to the freeway....
lifes full of what-ifs.....dont let it bother u Tan...
Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 5:22 am
by chameleon
like I said here before "I think" I lost a mate once to a light pole over in vic park in WA. I wasn't there when it happened but it affected me profoundly, I sort of lost interest in riding and after a month or so sold my bike. Didn't get another for 4 years. I hind sight I should have just moth-balled it, bloody thing would have been worth a lot now compared to then. A Z1R II with about 40k on the clock
One thing though, ol Darren was a thrasher, always blasting everywhere. He had never had a major stack to make him fully appreciate the dangers out there and I feel lucky that I have broken a few bones on bikes, I watch everything and everyone like a bloody hawk now!