Al_Sweetman
18-01-08, 11:11 AM
Where: Salford Circus Roundabout, coming from M6/A38 south straight over the roundabout to Tyburn Road
http://www.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=17344799482879815170,52.516113,-1.869173%3B13726358236803419744,52.509881,-1.858874%3B13064011187420648069,52.509651,-1.858615&time=&date=&ttype=&saddr=M6+%4052.516113,+-1.869173&daddr=Salford+Circus+%4052.509881,+-1.858874+to:Salford+Circus+%4052.509651,+-1.858615+to:52.507765,-1.8542&mra=mi&mrcr=2&mrsp=3&sz=17&sll=52.509378,-1.855305&sspn=0.004264,0.009956&ie=UTF8&ll=52.509025,-1.857054&spn=0.004264,0.009956&t=h&z=17&om=0
When: About 6:30
What happened: Two lanes onto roundabout, two lanes off. Both lanes are 'marked' on the road and "laned" round the RB, so you can legitimately stay in the left hand lane and go straight ahead (I know you can anyway, but that's not the point). Anyway, I was in the left hand lane, waiting to set off. I clocked a car coming down A5127 (from the right) towards the RB - note he WASN'T on it yet. I started off, and was fully on the roundabout when he wast still level with "Cuckoo Road". I carry on in my lane round normally, and he comes screeching round and just after the end of the 'entry' slipway onto the Aston Express Way (ie my first exit, reference point B on the map) he drifts into my lane, without looking - I can see in one of those slow motion moments that he's looking over his right shoulder, not his left (where I am) and low and behold strikes me - feel the bumper graze my right outside of shin, and proceeds to pile into the crash bang, then to the indicator, and finally smashing the fairing. Bike almost went down, but managed to wobble/slide/hop to the hashed area direclty under the overpass, (just before ref point C on the map), shaking and shouting loudly. Needless to say he didn't stop, but a couple of blokes came running over from the pub to check I was OK - sadly none of them got his number plate. I wasn't too worried about the bike - the crash bung absorbed the worst, and my fairings held together with fiberglass mapping and super glue from last years incidents, but I was bloody glad I had the crash bung otherwise I think my leg would have been badly damaged...
So, if you're riding around BHam and see a black civic or similar car with a bit of damage to the left side wing/bonnet, grab his reg and let me know!
Cheers,
Al.
http://www.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=17344799482879815170,52.516113,-1.869173%3B13726358236803419744,52.509881,-1.858874%3B13064011187420648069,52.509651,-1.858615&time=&date=&ttype=&saddr=M6+%4052.516113,+-1.869173&daddr=Salford+Circus+%4052.509881,+-1.858874+to:Salford+Circus+%4052.509651,+-1.858615+to:52.507765,-1.8542&mra=mi&mrcr=2&mrsp=3&sz=17&sll=52.509378,-1.855305&sspn=0.004264,0.009956&ie=UTF8&ll=52.509025,-1.857054&spn=0.004264,0.009956&t=h&z=17&om=0
When: About 6:30
What happened: Two lanes onto roundabout, two lanes off. Both lanes are 'marked' on the road and "laned" round the RB, so you can legitimately stay in the left hand lane and go straight ahead (I know you can anyway, but that's not the point). Anyway, I was in the left hand lane, waiting to set off. I clocked a car coming down A5127 (from the right) towards the RB - note he WASN'T on it yet. I started off, and was fully on the roundabout when he wast still level with "Cuckoo Road". I carry on in my lane round normally, and he comes screeching round and just after the end of the 'entry' slipway onto the Aston Express Way (ie my first exit, reference point B on the map) he drifts into my lane, without looking - I can see in one of those slow motion moments that he's looking over his right shoulder, not his left (where I am) and low and behold strikes me - feel the bumper graze my right outside of shin, and proceeds to pile into the crash bang, then to the indicator, and finally smashing the fairing. Bike almost went down, but managed to wobble/slide/hop to the hashed area direclty under the overpass, (just before ref point C on the map), shaking and shouting loudly. Needless to say he didn't stop, but a couple of blokes came running over from the pub to check I was OK - sadly none of them got his number plate. I wasn't too worried about the bike - the crash bung absorbed the worst, and my fairings held together with fiberglass mapping and super glue from last years incidents, but I was bloody glad I had the crash bung otherwise I think my leg would have been badly damaged...
So, if you're riding around BHam and see a black civic or similar car with a bit of damage to the left side wing/bonnet, grab his reg and let me know!
Cheers,
Al.