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Picked it up and this happend!....
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh30/AW_06/4F32D52D-3038-4FC2-B552-07B62F95B8F6-3117-00000409145C66EB.jpg
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh30/AW_06/3E52D580-F14D-4098-8E36-BFF83164725B-3117-000004091FBF5968.jpg
(I'm fine btw, just broken collarbone)
Nobbylad
29-04-13, 07:24 PM
Ouch! Impressive skillage
andrewsmith
29-04-13, 07:25 PM
How??
Me along with the bike hit a kurb, bike carried on into a lamp post, it was a heavy impact!
andrewsmith
29-04-13, 07:32 PM
Bloody hell
You've been lucky!!!
Lucky as hell, Not lucky enough to win on the scratchcard I bought though!
SuzukiNess
29-04-13, 07:50 PM
ooh, ouch ..
at least you ok (ish) GWS
Brettus
29-04-13, 07:53 PM
Oh dear, sorry to see this, glad you are OK though! Damage looks like it'll buff out ;)
mister c
29-04-13, 07:58 PM
Must be a common place to snap. That's where mine split too lol. Glad youre ok
Wildkid
29-04-13, 08:14 PM
GL with the recovery mate!
Holy Moley... Glad your ok, that could have ended loads worse...
Good to hear you're ok fellow SVer. Would you mind telling us how your crash occurred? All the best with breaking the bike fella.
Well if your going to mess something up, might as well do it so epically that people wonder how the F you did it!
GWS!
yorkie_chris
29-04-13, 09:26 PM
It'll T cut out...
The Idle Biker
29-04-13, 10:00 PM
You win the understated post of the month award. Congratulations ya bucky lastard. Phew!!!!!!
It might just be the camera angle, but I think the forks might be slightly bent...
Glad you're ok, that's pretty dramatic stuff!
Jambo
Sent from my thingie
Geodude
30-04-13, 05:39 PM
Bugger :( glad you're okay GWS
Lucky it wasn't you who hit the post.
Looking at it, that's ripe for rebuilding - curvy frames are cheap enough and the rest could be bought on here for not a great deal of moolah. A couple of weeks of working on it after you get home and you'll have it back on the road for less than the cost of a replacement.
Now I have a spare moment to reply...
Thank you all very much, Recovering quite well.
As for how, I entered a bend too fast and without enough lean, drifted across the other side of the road, hit the kurb, I went sliding down the footpath, and then the bike hit a lamp post, across the forks, I'd guess it hit the lamp post at about 30mph (although this is a guess).
I'm damn lucky the lamp post stopped the bike from carrying on in the direction it was going, or I would have been stuck under it, also lucky that it stayed together (cables/wiring held the front on), and then I'm also damn lucky that I wasn't 20secs later and in the front of a Discovery, or 1ft to the right and I'd have hit the lamp post with the bike, or had the rear wheel slipped, as a high side would have likely put me over the fence.
Lozzo - I thought about this while sat in A&E, But I wrecked so much of the bike, I'd need new frame, forks, fairings, tank, seat, rearsets, exhaust, and then theres the stuff I'm not sure of, like clipons etc. So very quickly ruled out that idea.
Plus, I'm in need of all new gear now, Thats a high price too.
My plan is now to sell whats left of the bike (Engine already sold), keep a few reminders of my first crash (Other than the bump on my shoulder from my collarbone) and slowly replace my bike gear through summer, with the intention of getting another bike in winter/early next year, I won't let this beat me, I just need to save up some money and get fit again!
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