North Island 1000 Crash!
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
- Late August this year we attempted to ride the north island 1000. Unfortunately luck was not on our side as we had numerous issues including flat tires, leaking brake lines and a bad crash that required A Inreach beacon activation and Emergency medical assistance due to a compound fracture and broken arm....
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What Ryan said about first aid a little extra training and upgraded kit goes a long way. Some of the NI 1000 and TCAT is more remote than people may realize, an end of the day accident can mean an overnight wait. SPOT, INREACH, or PLB. the PLB is best for the nuclear option will call help no matter the weather or where satellites are headed and gives position, only one reason someone pushes the button so no ambiguity. I carry a SPOT and PLB. For cell service quite often forestry companies park their first aid trucks where they get a signal.
Happy it worked out good in the end this will be one of the rides you remember.
It's great advice , very quick response from inreach after activating my old unit
I just rode my own version NI1000 on the island last week. Camped at the same place in Telegraph Cove. I hope your buddy has a speedy recovery. T7 with full load of luggage is a lot of motorcycle blasting down loose gravel roads. The simplicity of the T7 is cool but I sure appreciated having the electronic rider aids of my Norden.
Awesome! He's on the mend and in good spirits. I saw a Norden heading south on the ride maybe Aug 25 or 26th but I guess that would have been before you were around
Of all the places to go down on the route, at least you were close to town. Solo'd it a few times this year, never without the inReach. Nice vid dude
Thanks man !
That's an unfortunate ending to the adventure...we're glad everyone made it out. Hoping for a speedy recovery! Good job on trail side repairs. We've never understood people that stop or stay in the middle of the track/road...very dangerous. That 2nd night campsite looked like an amazing spot! Ride safe out there.
Thanks guys!
First may I say sorry this had to happen, never like to see things like this. BUT, I'm sorry, two important points for this new biking option, safety and the enviroment. I have over 40 years either working or recreating in the area. Many years ago my co-worker and I bumped into a guy on a street bike, close to the center of the Island, had to stop and talk. Indicated this was section of road he looked over while the trail was being deleoped, and allot of hard work went into it. We left thinking a good use of "industrial roads" given Recreation was part of my job description. At the time I recall also having an after thought about the crossing of cultures, the Forest Road user vs. the paved rider. Please consider ,in all my time, that I never never saw a cop, an ambulance, peddal bikes, and a taste of the biking newcomers off pavement, so what is different, lol. THere is a whole REgulation book on the subject of Forest Use Roads, desined because of the conflict out there as it is, for those who work there, lol. That is culture number one, crusty old guys ,that operate heavy eqipment and are just getting used to a Subaru with a couple of Kayaks on it. Now I did require a bike licence for work. But we throw them in boats, to get to islands, check in at a remote logging camp office, and listen to the logging truck drivers on the radio confirm your presence, but they add you are going to look real pretty flattedned to their radiator rolling into the sort. You drove dead slow so you could hear them, then headed into the bottom of the ditch, and you hear them on the radio as they pass compalining to the office they missed you. So now comes culture two, which honestly I know nothing about but it has me worried. Now I do not know everybodies part in this video, just providing insight into how that crusty guy might be looking at this, lol . What first stopped me dead, and bugged me till the viedo was over was, "what the hell is everybody doing standing around on the road"? And I mean everybody! Me and the crusty guy would have stopped, droppped me off while co-worker placed road markers around each corner then parked the truck at the closest pull out and walked to the site once the office was called. We all have first aid so I would have completed or confirmed it was done, then imediatly asked the bikes join the truck.....this is also a workplace, those rules apply. It may seem picky but the difference between pavement/gravel and 2wd and 4wd is huge,.Road design is sloped and domed for drainage, washboard or pot holes drives you out to the surface extremities, right where the grader deposits the loose stuff that sucks trucks off the road. First is traffic, never assume this is remote, its industrial, there are work trucks working at the ends of roads under spot lights at night to keep machines going, an engineer off the end of any road, I never assumed I was alone in an entire valley, traffic! And any time after quitting time traffic going out might be hauling butt. All of this is why the site of the filming was tough to watch, thinking how another vehicle could have stumbled into the entire clip. What I was immediatly looking for was a lay of the roads and anticipated traffic, I think a saw a double reversed turn in a short distance. What I see is a guy coming around either way around a corner which means he is waiting for anything to happen and it does. As the corner progresses he is adjusting his track however...he then notices the incident and the natural thing to avoid an accident is to go wide...you forced the truck into a position where he may not have been able to drive the center. The road is not wide enough for an adjusting truck and a bike on either side. Another huge observation was why the accident,? So we have covered those who stop in the middle of the road, poor choice. So again I ask, why have I never come across, industrial or recreational, an accident? AS most, close, but never contact.r. Im guessing here but I think its the mentality of what is a safe driving speed is, that dirt verses pavement bit. For fun an example of even if you try to do it right...I was eneteringg a long drive along a lake shore and noted heavy dust rising up about 1/4 of the way and closing. So I estimated the point to just stop was just before and bling vertical rock face with the name of a logger signed on it, that means some logger way back when did something stupid there costing the company a fortune (Forest history). THere is a pullout but facing traffic, would be off the road, but was facing traffic, or go for it. Well twenty minutes later and many thoughts of no way am I going to be the one, I see only the front end of a logging truck, all you see is the bumper, hood and the windscreen, then nothing but dust. Good thing is he sees me. Bad thing is he is holding up one finger, pointer by trade, indicating one more truck following dont move, and Im in total blindness due to dust, but IM off the road so relax and just wait I think. Next thing I see is two headlights, one on each side of me as I sat in the cloud. I figuer at 2 meters which closed to 1 as I slammed it into reverse and the whole thing stopped. He foolishly talked on the radio appologizing he could not see the lead truck so followed the rockcut ditchline, into the pull out. You cant win, lol, you come close but at least you were both on the same page. Point of this was, we both waited for the dust to settle, 20 minutes of down time for two trucks out of courtacy, a little gone wrong,lol. But also driving dusty is something that actually slows things down in the woods, except for the guy out front of course. you just accept its going to hold you up, pull over and fill the coffee cup, hope the wind is blowing, and wait tilll you can drive what you see. As mentioned ....the enviroment. I won't detail my authorities however, when employed if I had been on site to see the bike take the foot trail to the so called beach , and I will word this as legaly as I can,, at the point he left the beach I would have been, on the spot, writing out a ticket I was confident could be presented to a judge for a case of "altering fish habitat". ??? you say. Thats what the public gets when you try to stop logging from hurting fish and they want you to produce the hurt fish for proof, you get broad and gray legislation. So what most do not see as I would present it would be the bike being within the seasonal high water line of the lake, fish habitat....surprize. Point being, I actually dont even see trail bikes in the bush, so this is new, you can get there so you do, but are just new to the forest /eviroment rules as I am the joys of bikes. At this point I'm still glad this happened, sorry the interface is proving itself almost scarry to me. So please consider who and what is out there, I have no suggestions for how roads favour the trucks so you know your machines, drive the best you can under these cross over objectives.
Terrible end to what would have been an awesome trip, get well man.
He has got a great outlook and will be on the mend soon!
Thanks Ian! 50+ staples came out Friday and I still amazed that two weeks to the day later, I have next to zero pain or discomfort. My surgeon did an amazing job and things are going really well for me.
@@saryet glad to hear that man, there's always next year , maybe you guys can do that trip again.We were looking forward to seeing the whole trip.
Post up a time and date for a 2023 ride 🙏....would love to be involved with you guys for the rematch!