SVs are indestructible! Good news, so am I!
 

So, I've joined the crash club. Again. Do I get a new membership number or can I keep my old one? Do you get nectar points? Last time I tried to add up how many crashes I got into double figures and lost count, so no idea what number this is.

Anyway, 30mph slide down muddy wet main road (new housing development = big muddy trucks = should have paid more attention and learnt lessons from the last four or five times I've crashed in exactly the same way).

Damage to SV is really minor, I'm amazed actually. Mirror, rear brake lever, bar end cap, slight scuff to upper fairing, scuffs to exhaust (is it just me, or do you somehow stand more than a 50% chance of landing exhaust side down?)

Damage to me is also really minor. Touch down areas were hand, hip and head (doh, my neurology consultants are going to be really chuffed about that one). Alpinestars gloves (plus inner gloves) have barely a scratch, hood jeans (+ regular jeans underneath) show no signs of tears or even a caught thread, just caked in mud, jacket has a fresh set of scuffs and helmet, well I've been looking for an excuse to get a new lid for a while :D Only damage to me seems to be a big bruise developing on my palm and a grazed and bruised hip (hip armour took most of the fall thankfully). And my ciggies got squashed. More annoyed about that really :D

Pushed bike back four miles in full thermals (more and more layers progressively hanging off the back!) as the ignition barrel seems to have borked - it'll go to lock, and off, but not to "on", otherwise it would have been ridable.

Going to get a taxi down to the hospital after a coffee and a (squashed) ciggie but only because I'm down there every week anyway and the docs freak out if I so much as have a slight headache (and I've now got the obligatory post crash head-thumper).

So nowt to see here, move on.

Oh, btw, SVs are bloody heavy to pick up, until a sleight young lass on a Bandit 600 came along to help me :D

Re: SVs are indestructible! Good news, so am I!
 

d'oh! How many off's is that now this last two months??! Glad you are relatively unscathed :)

Re: SVs are indestructible! Good news, so am I!
 

Glad you are ok!

The building site has a duty to keep the mud off the road for exactly this reason, so you should have a good chance of claiming (or settling).

Re: SVs are indestructible! Good news, so am I!
 

oh dear:( had we better start the off's Christmas club early? glad your ok.

Re: SVs are indestructible! Good news, so am I!
 

Yeah, sorry to hear about this m8 :( but at least there's not much damage ;-)
Just to be on the safe side though, I think they should give you MORE nectar points for NOT crashing - safer that way ;-)

Re: SVs are indestructible! Good news, so am I!
 

Ar*e. well, not too much damage to you or your steed though. Go and check if they have put up "mud on road" signs. If not, then you would have a good case to claim as someone has already pointed out. Take a camera quick and try and get a pic before it all gets washed away.

Re: SVs are indestructible! Good news, so am I!
 

My SV too seems to be indestructable.

Bad news for you, YOUR NOT so stop thinking it and stop crashing. :wink:

Re: SVs are indestructible! Good news, so am I!
 

To be honest I'm not one for finding blame for something that is really purely my own fault. No mud warning signs, but to be honest it was plainly visible, I've got enough experience, years and miles under my belt now that I've really not got any excuse. I was in pootle/semi cautious mode, but sometimes with zero traction there's not really anything that could be done. With hindsight, I think if I was doing 5mph I'd have still fell off, difference being at 5 I might have been able to catch it with my feet. Sometimes sh*t just happens, no point adding to everyone's insurance bills by claiming against the developer.

Re: SVs are indestructible! Good news, so am I!
 

GWS mate. Too many crashes at the mo...

Re: SVs are indestructible! Good news, so am I!
 

Jesus, you go down more times than a <blank> in a <blank>. (10 nectar points for each missing word).

Almost dropped it myself yesterday, 25mph tight 90 degree right hander, front hit something very slippery, but thankfully a very small patch of it, so it was only a momentary "oh ****! ahh it's over".