dizzyblonde
09-07-09, 12:14 PM
SO, I went up the lakes yesterday with my friend Mark. We did the magical mystery tour route. Skipton, Grassington via Burstall, Hawes via kettlewell:cool: somewhere around Dent then Kendal, and up to Ambleside Backpackers via Ullpah and Wynrose Pass:p:smt107
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2036/1552092186_906ab71f68.jpg?v=0
Not my pic, but yes that is a road:lol:
Anyway, on our way on the A590 or something, Mark had gone off ahead, and I start to pass a blue pointy SV facing the wrong way on the other side of the road, closely followed by an epic traffic jam. I carried on for a while thinking should I stop....then I see Mark passing me. SO I turned round, filtered through the line of traffic and parked up.
A few people on mobile phones, scratching heads. No rider..where is Mark? Where is rider? Theres a stone wall with a fence on top and I just see the top of Marks head. Oh plop, this ain't going to be pretty:( So off I go to help, not that I needed to as mark is an ex ambulance man. Theres an old geezer layed flat on his back on the other side of the wall(which is fairly lower than the road), concious. Mark does all the usual things of checking him over, and keeping him talking, so I popped over the fence, and said 'now then we seem to have an evil kinevil here' to which the man said he didn't know how he got there!
The man was called Alan and he was born in 1931:smt107 yes thats right 1931! he'd been riding since he were in his teens. He was very very chatty considering, we got his lid off, but even though he thought he'd be able to get up, we made him lay, until the ambulance came. He had no injuries as far as we could see apart from where his glasses had pushed into his nose. This young man was an extremely lucky man indeed.
The people that were standing around owned a car with a flashy light on top, and as we were on a bit of a blind bend, I asked for the owner if he could park behid Suzy.....didn't want her bashed from the rear, so I played traffic cop and held up the traffic and the car with the flashy light on top reversed, which really did slow the traffic down. Many many people stopped to help, which I found lovely, as round here nobody stopped.
I think Alan had just overcooked the bend, and crashed into the rocks at the side of the wall, which threw him into the field, however he'd done it was spectacular as he landed literally the other side of the wall, and didn't touch the fence. The police came and we moved the broken SV, which was only scratched on the can and the brake lever was broken, but also the gear lever had come off, but no evidence to how the bike had flipped. It was to us rider only accident nothing involved, as the people in the car with flashy light were first to attend, and they found the bike sat in the road.
The ambulance came, Mark handed over to them,
GWS old dude, you really are a lucky fella.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2036/1552092186_906ab71f68.jpg?v=0
Not my pic, but yes that is a road:lol:
Anyway, on our way on the A590 or something, Mark had gone off ahead, and I start to pass a blue pointy SV facing the wrong way on the other side of the road, closely followed by an epic traffic jam. I carried on for a while thinking should I stop....then I see Mark passing me. SO I turned round, filtered through the line of traffic and parked up.
A few people on mobile phones, scratching heads. No rider..where is Mark? Where is rider? Theres a stone wall with a fence on top and I just see the top of Marks head. Oh plop, this ain't going to be pretty:( So off I go to help, not that I needed to as mark is an ex ambulance man. Theres an old geezer layed flat on his back on the other side of the wall(which is fairly lower than the road), concious. Mark does all the usual things of checking him over, and keeping him talking, so I popped over the fence, and said 'now then we seem to have an evil kinevil here' to which the man said he didn't know how he got there!
The man was called Alan and he was born in 1931:smt107 yes thats right 1931! he'd been riding since he were in his teens. He was very very chatty considering, we got his lid off, but even though he thought he'd be able to get up, we made him lay, until the ambulance came. He had no injuries as far as we could see apart from where his glasses had pushed into his nose. This young man was an extremely lucky man indeed.
The people that were standing around owned a car with a flashy light on top, and as we were on a bit of a blind bend, I asked for the owner if he could park behid Suzy.....didn't want her bashed from the rear, so I played traffic cop and held up the traffic and the car with the flashy light on top reversed, which really did slow the traffic down. Many many people stopped to help, which I found lovely, as round here nobody stopped.
I think Alan had just overcooked the bend, and crashed into the rocks at the side of the wall, which threw him into the field, however he'd done it was spectacular as he landed literally the other side of the wall, and didn't touch the fence. The police came and we moved the broken SV, which was only scratched on the can and the brake lever was broken, but also the gear lever had come off, but no evidence to how the bike had flipped. It was to us rider only accident nothing involved, as the people in the car with flashy light were first to attend, and they found the bike sat in the road.
The ambulance came, Mark handed over to them,
GWS old dude, you really are a lucky fella.