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timwilky
22-07-07, 12:38 PM
So I felt the need for a brew and thought I would nip up to Rivvy. So bimling along towards Belmont Village, I let a TDM and his mate overtake me. Next thing a load of plastic shoots into the air. and a big lump flies out to the right.
WTF as I pass the lump, it is a pheasant. They pull into the carpark across from the pub in Belmont and I get off to check the guy is aright.
Damage to his TDM. The front fairing has disintegrated taking screen with it and snapping the top plastics, and wrenching off the clocks.
It is going to cost the owner a pretty penny though no fault of his own.
Thank god I had let them overtake me
ASM-Forever
22-07-07, 01:45 PM
See.....it always pays to be courteous :)
kwak zzr
22-07-07, 03:40 PM
them pheasants may look soft and docile but they feel like a bag of sand at 60mph.
Wideboy
22-07-07, 03:42 PM
they know what they're doing :smt117
markmoto
22-07-07, 04:13 PM
Hence why i let others go in front i like to sit near the rear for reasons such as this! i remember reading an article in a bike magazine years ago and some bloke was knocked out cold by a pheasant while riding his fireblade both him and his bike where quite a mess.
mister c
22-07-07, 04:15 PM
I got hit by a pheasent a few years ago. I had a headache for 2 days afterwards
I bet that was an unpheasent experience....
TAXI!
Dan
Wideboy
22-07-07, 05:37 PM
I bet that was an unpheasent experience....
TAXI!
Dan
:reaper:
Captain Nemo
23-07-07, 08:11 AM
you LET a TDM pass you Tim???
come clean son, he was all over you for miles, hed been lining you up for the last 1/2 mile and got you on the straight when he could use his higher rev limit...........
lol
you got passed by a TDM..............................
timwilky
23-07-07, 08:26 AM
you LET a TDM pass you Tim???
come clean son, he was all over you for miles, hed been lining you up for the last 1/2 mile and got you on the straight when he could use his higher rev limit...........
lol
you got passed by a TDM..............................
Firstly I was out on a bimble. The first time I had ridden for 2 weeks and took advantage of a break in the rain. I was not interested in willy waving as the section of road I was on claimed my mates left arm several years ago. and secondly it is a well known spot for the little man with his hair dryer. So I was riding in accordance with the speed limit.
Additionally, you need to do a north south mate. Then you would find out just what a TDM is capable of.
you LET a TDM pass you Tim???
come clean son, he was all over you for miles, hed been lining you up for the last 1/2 mile and got you on the straight when he could use his higher rev limit...........
lol
you got passed by a TDM..............................
Additionally, you need to do a north south mate. Then you would find out just what a TDM is capable of.
That is if he gets to see that particular TDM at any point after it has left the carpark!
:twisted:
Lucky escape there Tim!
I got hit full in the face by a pigeon last weekend - the blooming thing actually broke my tinted visor in two! Apparently it was a wall of feathers behind me!
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