A collision on State Highway 1 claimed the lives of three motorcycle riders

A collision on State Highway 1 claimed the lives of three motorcycle riders: Police are looking into whether the car was on the wrong side of the road, according to the club president.
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Miller said the  cyclists were attending an  "old school  bike rally" in Mangaweka, near the crash  site.
"Our lady, from the Manawatū chapter of the Road Pirates Social Motorcycle Club, was a very  cheerful woman, very funny ... [She was] a very competent  motorcyclist."
He said the woman, in her 40s or 50s, was  "the life of the  party."

Advertisement with  NZME. Miller said one of the men killed had been riding  because he was a  "knee-jerk grasshopper." "He was  doing stupid things," he said  sadly.
Miller told the Herald he  didn't know the other man  well.
A fourth motorcyclist,  who belongs to  Rotorua's Sulphur City  MC, was still fighting for  his life in hospital, Miller  said.Not a valid attachment ID.Not a valid attachment ID.
"We're all still at my  house waiting to hear  something," Miller said  yesterday.

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"You really have to  bring our motorcycle club  social community together  now," he  said. "We had Kinsmen  [MC], Brothers in Arms [MC] with some  military, and  Lord knows how many  came just to be for us, for Pirates and Bay MC.

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