Bikerchick82 - Not Down but Out!

[Von Teese]

Just for those of you who know Bikerchick82 (Kate from Girls Bike 2 -Hitchin).

She was hit by a car, fortunately being a fabby rider, she managed to stay on but the wing mirror of the cage that hit her has broken her wrist.

GWS hon :(

[rictus01]

I don't think I've met the lady in question, but am glad it wasn't any worse, if well wishes ease the pain or speed recovery, you're most welcome to mine.

GWS

Cheers Mark.

[Fizzy Fish]

GWS Kate! x

[speedplay]

Hope you get well soon Kate.

[jamesterror]

Get well soon Kate

[plowsie]

Fook, haven't met you yet but GWS :( ****ing cagers!

[bikerchick82]

VT....Start running cos I'm gonna kill you :oops:

Thanks guys, the docs reckon I've got a fractured scaphoid (bit at the base of your thumb) I've done it before and it took me 12 weeks to heal :(

All down to a cager deciding he wanted to be in front of the bike...

I was heading home after work and was on a straight bit of road, as I came up to a junction on my left, I could see the car there and luckily I started slowing and moving out to the centre of the road when I saw him.
Then, whaddya know! He pulls out :roll: Well, I went from 6th to 2nd in one swift movement and started to swerve to avoid him, there wasn't any point in braking cos I'd have gone into the back of him.

All was going well until I was almost passed him, he could see that I was almost around him and God knows what went through his head but he bloody pulled further out towards the central line! :smt093
That's when I hit his wing mirror (I think it was the mirror anyway) My first reaction was to put my hand out to stop him coming closer (yeah cos I'm that hard I can stop a moving car with one hand! :roll:) That's when I got that horrible sicky feeling....

Maybe it was wrong of me but I didn't stop....He wasn't stopping (would you if you'd just tried forcing a biker off the road?) I knew that if I stopped then I wouldn't be able to start again and I was still 6 miles from home....

So ummm yeah....I carried on....

I did as little with the clutch as possible (I didn't realise there were four traffic lights coming back from there....I do now!) I do clutchless up changes anyway so that wasn't too much of a problem and I did a few clutchless down changes as well. I'm not hard though, there were a couple of roundabouts/traffic lights where I was in tears :smt087

I got home by telling myself that if motogp racers can race with a bust wrist then I could ride home!
Pulled up on the drive (on a slope so more clutch needed!) turned the bike off and slid off the bike - got inside and almost passed out when I took my glove off....Told OH that I needed to go to hospital, went, got xrayed, got plastered in a bad way, got told to go back in two weeks and that's where I'm at!

Jesus, that lot took me ages to type out one handed! :smt044

[Von Teese]

VT....Start running cos I'm gonna kill you :oops:


Now now Katie! At least you're ok hon!
Im sure that everyone would be asking why you didn't turn up at Soho on Friday night, so I thought I would pop this up so they knew.

By the way, if Plowsie comes down in the car, you could always try and bum a lift and come along?????

[bikerchick82]

I won't say yes but I won't rule it out either....I've been popping pain killers like they're going out of fashion so I'm not always with it....

The last time I did my wrist I at least gave myself a bit of concussion so I couldn't register how much it hurts!! :smt044

[Von Teese]

Oh God girl, you take care!
Im guessing you are off work then?
Maybe if you are feeling strong enough and Plowsie does a no-show you can pillion with Mr VT or get Mr BC to bring you? (although I know you dont like to pillion...its better than nothing)

[sv-robo]

Fook, haven't met you yet but GWS :( ****ing cagers!
+1:smt056

[speedplay]

I broke the same thing when I came off the KTM a while ago.
Bloody hurts like hell and cant believe you managed to ride home!

[speedplay]

Oh God girl, you take care!
Im guessing you are off work then?
Maybe if you are feeling strong enough and Plowsie does a no-show you can pillion with Mr VT or get Mr BC to bring you? (although I know you dont like to pillion...its better than nothing)



I did notice that your bike has 2 seats VT....;)

[Von Teese]

Where?

http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv322/Art_of_The_Teese/Forum%20pics/rideout9.jpg

Besides, the girl's already had a broken wrist...what do you want to do....Kill her??????

[bikerchick82]

I broke the same thing when I came off the KTM a while ago.
Bloody hurts like hell and cant believe you managed to ride home!

Yeah I've done the scaphoid a few times now....Although I do usually manage to hit my head at the same time to take my mind off my wrist!

I don't think I could do that trip again, I knew I couldn't start again once I stopped which is why I kept going, I couldn't ring OH either to come get me on the trailer because he'd been up since 3am that morning and out on the wagons all day so I knew he'd be tired......Guess I'm just kinda stubborn :oops:

[Von Teese]

Guess I'm just kinda stubborn :oops:

Isn't there a shirt in your shop that says
'You don't need balls to ride a bike'...?

Well if you had 'em, yours would be made of Steel (remember ..Ive seen you ride!)

[Spiderman]

Wow, thats an extreme move to get out of coming to Soho you know Kate. We'd have accepted an "i'm washing my hair" type excuse you know.

GWS :grouphug:

[speedplay]

Where?

http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv322/Art_of_The_Teese/Forum%20pics/rideout9.jpg

Besides, the girl's already had a broken wrist...what do you want to do....Kill her??????


Plenty of room on that seat for 2 girls in leather to get all up close....=P~

[bikerchick82]

Isn't there a shirt in your shop that says
'You don't need balls to ride a bike'...?

Well if you had 'em, yours would be made of Steel (remember ..Ive seen you ride!)



LOL! there is indeed!

Hmmm maybe I should get one? ;)

Dammit spiderman, if I'd have known that then I would have just used that one! :rolleyes: Oh well....I'll know for next time ;)

[Von Teese]

Dont worry , the hair washing thing didnt work for dizzyblonde at the AR09 either !

[yorkie_chris]

Did you get the cockweasels reg number?

[bikerchick82]

I didn't :mad:

To be honest I was too busy trying to get out of the way and then trying not to pass out/up chuck in my helmet....

I'm such a girl sometimes, the thought of getting his number didn't even occur to me until I was sat in a&e :evil:

[TEC]

I'm such a girl sometimes....
But what a girl ;) Riding home with a bust scaphoid :shock:, well done you, heal soon :thumleft:

[bikerchick82]

Shhhh....It's not really that big a deal :oops: I didn't have any other way of getting home so it had to be done!

And really, I'm a girl, there were a few tears and lots and lots (did I mention lots?) of swearing! If my helmet hadn't already been blue then it would have been by the time I got home :smt005

[TEC]

Shhhh....It's not really that big a deal :oops:
Not that big a deal :rolleyes: most of us would have been screaming for an ambulance :oops: :oops: :oops:

;)

[Jayneflakes]

Get well soon BC82, I had a friend who fell off his BMX (when he was in his twenties) and saw how painful that break can be.

Pretty cool to have ridden out of it, I doubt the driver even realised you were hurt. Well, if that does not make you a heroine, I don't know what will. I think I would have cried lots and made the wife come and get me.

Anyway, heal fast and get back on the bike soon.
Hugs and smiles,

Jayne
xxx

[Milky Bar Kid]

Sorry to hear this! glad you are relatively ok!!! Hope you have good painkillers!!!! xxx

[bikerchick82]

Sheeesh I wish I'd said that I stopped and cried like a baby now :oops:

Really, it's no big deal, I'm just a stubborn cow when I put my mind to it :smt044

Seriously though guys, thanks for the get well messages, especially as there's only one person on here who's actually met me (poor cow!!)

Means a lot :smt054

Good news is that I'm back at work tomorrow, I've even got my big boss (Mark Neate - No Limits) picking me up Friday - *sigh* what it is to be in demand :smt044:smt044

[Von Teese]

Really, it's no big deal, I'm just a stubborn cow when I put my mind to it :smt044


I can totally vouch for that...but in a nice way :)


Seriously though guys, thanks for the get well messages, especially as there's only one person on here who's actually met me (poor cow!!)

Moooooooo! :smt058

Means a lot :smt054

Good news is that I'm back at work tomorrow, I've even got my big boss (Mark Neate - No Limits) picking me up Friday - *sigh* what it is to be in demand :smt044:smt044

Lucky you !!!:smt043

[xXBADGERXx]

Jesus Kate ,your Nails you are :) GWS

[Von Teese]

Hehe, I like that ...I want to see that on your FB Katie...
Kate 'Nails' O'H ! lol!

[bikerchick82]

Name change request submitted ma'am ;)

I wonder how long it'll take to get done by trading standards? :-dd

[Speedy Claire]

Glad you`re not seriously hurt! and hope the injury heals soon. Well done on managing to stay on the bike.

[TEC]

... especially as there's only one person on here who's actually met me
How soon they forget :rolleyes:

Or have I got the wrong person who works in Highgate

[Von Teese]

Name change request submitted ma'am ;)

I wonder how long it'll take to get done by trading standards? :-dd
I saw it on your FB....excellent...its a great nickname !




Or have I got the wrong person who works in Highgate

I think you mean Shop_Addict who has the Highgate branch, Kate works at the Hitchin branch....unless Im missing some private joke or something here.

[TEC]

I think you mean Shop_Addict ....
You've missed nothing, I'm the one who was confused :oops: must be an age thing ](*,) No confusion now though :-dd

[bikerchick82]

LOL What she said....I'm at Hitchin ;)

[Milky Bar Kid]

I think we should have an "Injured Org memebers night out" - there would be plenty of us there! hah!

[Owenski]

Glad to hear you held it and remained calm, many people would just pannic grab a handfull and be looking at an instant street fighter conversion. Hope it heals up quick enough for you :)

[Foxy]

Sorry to hear about this, I hope your injury heals soon. You seem to remain in good spirits which is great to see and especially how you managed to ride your bike :notworthy: GWS Kate. Foxy :D

[bikerchick82]

I have to admit that the bike kraft that I did in Northants probably had a lot to do with me not being as bad as I could have been.....

Before I did the course I would have been riding a lot more aggressively than I was, as it was when I saw the car I'd already started moving out towards the centre of the road before it registered that he wasn't going to stop.....I'm certain that I was only able to avoid him because I'd already taken precautionary steps to miss him.

I'm definitely in favour of taking advanced lessons/courses these days, you never know when they'll come in handy!

It's funny because my very first accident was in a similar situation - Brake or avoid? - and that one had a very different outcome, the bike got written off, the car got written off and so did I. I was actually riding faster on Monday night than I was back then as well.....Goes to show that experience really helps as well lol!

Doesn't stop me looking like a complete gimp when I'm trying to do up my trousers though :smt044:smt044

[TEC]

Doesn't stop me looking like a complete gimp when I'm trying to do up my trousers though :smt044:smt044
Dare I say, volunteers could be found :smt023

[bikerchick82]

Form an orderly queue please :smt044