incredible exploding TDMs - SV650.org

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

22-07-07, 01:45 PM

See.....it always pays to be courteous

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

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

22-07-07, 04:34 PM

I bet that was an unpheasent experience....

TAXI!

Dan

Wideboy · 22-07-07, 05:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sudoxe

I bet that was an unpheasent experience....

TAXI!

Dan

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by Captain Nemo

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.

22-07-07, 12:38 PM	#1
timwilky Member Mega Poster Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Not in Yorkshire. (Thank God) Posts: 4,116	incredible exploding TDMs 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 __________________ Not Grumpy, opinionated.

22-07-07, 01:45 PM	#2
ASM-Forever Guest Posts: n/a	Re: incredible exploding TDMs See.....it always pays to be courteous

22-07-07, 03:40 PM	#3
kwak zzr Guest Posts: n/a	Re: incredible exploding TDMs them pheasants may look soft and docile but they feel like a bag of sand at 60mph.

22-07-07, 03:42 PM	#4
Wideboy Evel Knievel Mega Poster Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Eastleigh Posts: 4,641	Re: incredible exploding TDMs they know what they're doing __________________ 05 DRZ400E RIP hovis

22-07-07, 04:13 PM	#5
markmoto Guest Posts: n/a	Re: incredible exploding TDMs 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.

22-07-07, 04:15 PM	#6
mister c Member Mega Poster Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Crewe, Cheshire Posts: 2,326	Re: incredible exploding TDMs I got hit by a pheasent a few years ago. I had a headache for 2 days afterwards __________________ Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/croozenooze/ Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/colin.hughes.1213?ref=tn_tnmn Yoo Toob https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjG...eMWUx4Ud2dK-yA

22-07-07, 04:34 PM	#7
Sudoxe Guest Posts: n/a	Re: incredible exploding TDMs I bet that was an unpheasent experience.... TAXI! Dan

23-07-07, 08:11 AM	#9
Captain Nemo Guest Posts: n/a	Re: incredible exploding TDMs 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..............................

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