luck :/

[heros]

well am loving my sv which iv now owned for 2 weeks from new, but in those two weeks iv had a stone hit my tank n chip it :( and have now dropped it scratching the exhaust!! :( surely my luck can only get better?

[fraser01]

Bad luck comes in 3's, so you got one more piece of bad luck...sorry dude... :?

[Banus]

They call it "Sod's Law". If you'd have bought an old knacker it would never have happened.
Tidied my garage in preparation for the arrival of my new MX5 not long ago. The day it arrived I brushed past my newly tidied shelf and knocked a tin of T cut onto the rear wheel arch denting it !! At that ppoint I had owned it about 4 hours and it hurt :cry:
Needless to say that was the one and only incident - not a problem since - just had to get that one out of the way. :wink:

[swamp]

Driving back with my new car years ago having just paid 10K, took a chunk out of the alloy wheel on the kerb. That hurt. I was not used to the width of the car having been driving an old austin A35 for years which was a narrow car. I'd never buy a newish expensive car again (unless I won the premium bonds of course)

Also dropped my 2 week old bike at a t-junction and cracked the indicator. Sometimes having an old hack, run-a-round seem more sensible.

[lynw]

well it could be worse. There are some on here whos bikes are held together with gaffer tape :oops:

And have huge great dents in the tank rather than minor chips...

However, I have no fear of lobbing it down the road as it cant exactly do much more damage than whats already been done to it [famous last words... :wink: :P :lol: ]

[Ed]

However, I have no fear of lobbing it down the road as it cant exactly do much more damage than whats already been done to it [famous last words... :wink: :P :lol: ]

Lyn - your bike looks well loved :wink: :lol:

[northwind]

"well loved?" Well ****ed, I'd say :) Similiar, but not quite the same :)

I actually miss having my bike ratty... I just put the nice plastics back on it last week, and the extra care it takes is already irritating me. I babied mine until I first cracked a panel, it was only after that I started really using it instead of worrying about it all the time.

Instead of luck, you might want to invest in some crash bungs too! Occasional drops aren't inevitable, but they do happen and good bungs are good insurance. I dropped mine in a car part on the way to the AR and all it took was a slight scratch to the mirror- without the Motosliders, it'd have been far worse, and might have left me stranded in hte Lake District with no brake levers.

[heros]

yeah was gonna get some crash bung this week when i get paid :p thank fully the exhaust scratching isnt too bad (as bro says hardly noticeable) and getting a new end can soon neway :)

[northwind]

Now you have an excuse to change it :)