Man down

Me

First off, I'm not hurt - at all. Perfectly OK in fact. My bike is not so fortunate.

Happened on the way home from Liverpool this evening on the A41 at Milton Green - about 6 miles east of Chester. It's a single carriageway, relatively poorly surfaced 40 limit.

Was following a foreign registered artic (turned out it was a British driver) through the 40 when suddenly he braked damn hard. The car in front of him had done an emergency stop and then turned right. Anyways the back of the wagon was getting closer and I squeezed a bit harder - by no means an emergency stop as I always leave plenty of room. I had new tyres fitted yesterday - and I braked a bit too hard on new rubber, the front washed out and over I went on the right side, hit the road at oh about 30 I suppose, had put out my hand and landed on my right hand, right elbow and right knee.

The Range Rover behind me stopped. The trucker and the lady driver helped me pick up the bike. Anyway while all this was going on, the traffic going the other way had slowed down to rubberneck and a Land Rover Defender hit the kerb as the driver didbn't see the car in front slow down. All spectacular stuff!!!!

Damage to bike - offside fairing scraped, brake lever end scraped (I need those Pazzos now, Si), bar end scraped, T3 crash bung bent and scraped beyond recognition, stator cover scraped, rear seat unit scraped (badly), paddock stand bobbin scraped, rear brake lever snapped off, front right indie shot, mirror housing a bit mashed.

Damage to kit - hole in right glove, elbow through leathers, right knee of pants a bit mashed. I'm not sure if my lid hit the deck.

Damage to knee - nothing.

Some pics

Knee



Jacket



Rear brake



Mirror housing



Bar end and lever



Fairing etc



And again



Back piece



Paddock bobbin



Oh ****

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your safe and well so thats what matters mate

Bad luck

Ar$e.

Glad you're ok though, it could have been a lot worse.

The bike will mend.

[fizzwheel]

Oh dear shame about the bike, but glad you are OK Ed.

[dizzyblonde]

Oh dear oh dear Ed

You are unscathed and not under said truck so hats off to you for that.
Leathers didn't hold up for much though, I'd be really disappointed in them TBH,

Glad you are very very ok in honesty.

Oh gutted for you mate. Quite a bit of damage there to sort out. Leathers look like they did there job pretty well.

you got off lightly there mate, glad your well , better dented wallet than dented head

Bummerooney. Glad there is no physical damage to the body.

[christopher]

Silly thing... least you're alright, as much of an annoyance it is about the bike though!

Are they holes in the leather jacket? At 30mph? Don't look too good from the pictures.