1st Accident

I'd previously had a SV for a good year, sold it to a chap on here and regretted doing so ever since. So Friday I took a 3 hour journey up to lancashire and purchased a beautiful sk8 sport pointy in black. Had some great little extras on it including a lovely carbon fibre scorpian can and lots of other little things here and there.
So yesterday I took the bike out for probably only the 6th time, the tyres weren't feeling too confidence inspiring (in addition to them being the crappy stock d220s) so I thought I'd check the tyre pressures and they were down to 28 both front and back. I hiked the front up to 34 psi and the rear up to 37 psi and straight away it felt a bit more stable. anyway...

It started to spit a bit so I thought I'd head back before it really started tipping it down coming back from Warwick to Solihull. I got about 2 miles from home and hung the bike over on a long right hand corner at aprox 50 miles an hour, a speed comfortably slow for the corner and everything was good... that is until the handlebars suddenly dropped into the turn and the front tyre slipped underneath me.
I head straight into the ground knees and hands making impact first and I started to slide, and I carried on sliding forcing myself to stop by forcing my gloves into the ground. Everything was happening so quickly and I could see the bike slide further down the road away from me... then bang, bang. The side of my body collides with the curb shortly followed by my helmet. Straight away I was in agony. I couldn't lift my body and there was no one one the road nearby, I started to panic only a few seconds passed by before a DHL van pulled up and the chap phoned an ambulance. Slowly more and more cars turned up trying to help out in anyway they could (if there was anyone here who knows of the people that helped me or even if they were there, Thank you!)

Anyway, ambulance came (50 mins later!) topped me up with morphine, strapped me up to a spine board and beckoned an air ambulance, that gets there a short while after (all whilst enduring my whining and moaning) and ships me off to the QE in birmingham.

So it's the next day and I'm out, no broken bones just a lot of soft tissue damage... that'll heal iA and a fractured heel. Which I can't understand? but anyway I'm out the other end and only on crutches for a short while. I can't ask for any more, I know there are a lot of atheists out in this world but for me, I can't thank god enough.

The leathers are all cut up (by the ambulance crew), the gloves are surprisingly only slightly damaged (Very impressed by BKS Stingray gloves, a bit expensive but they took most the impact and sliding and they held together!) and the helmet got a good mashing but surprisingly looks as it was just a bit scratched (thus I'd definitely be weary of buying a second hand helmet) but all in all, Not a scratch on my exterior, only a bit of damage inside!


One reason for me posting this on here is a request for a bit of advice - I've yet to see the damage to the bike, it was taken away and it should be dropped off sometime today. But depending on the extent of damage to the SV, what we be the best course of action? sell it whole on eBay, get it scrapped, sell it to a scrap dealer? or sell it for parts?

any advice would be appreciated. In all honesty I don't see myself riding again soon, mostly not for my self but for my parents. they were very against me getting a bike in the first place and I'm surprised they let me get the same bike the second time round. I just proved their worries but more so I can't put them through that again. I appreciate many of you will be completely against that and tell me to get back on the bike straight away, but I think while they're still around it's best if I don't.

Dan

ah sorry to hear this mate sounds pretty damm intense, crashing definately isn't fun but atleast your ok still, i'd see what prices you can get for spares and also what you can get for scrap, well done to the people who helped you out though, shows not everyone are dicks glad to hear your okay though

Originally Posted by granty92

ah sorry to hear this mate sounds pretty damm intense, crashing definately isn't fun but atleast your ok still, i'd see what prices you can get for spares and also what you can get for scrap, well done to the people who helped you out though, shows not everyone are dicks glad to hear your okay though

Oh everyone who came by stopped, the bit that got me into a panic was that there was no one around at all, road was empty until that DHL van stopped then more and more cars came by one by one. thank you too

i lowsided on a long ish left and the road was busy ish and no one stopped until i flagged a friend down to stop, some people are not nice

Originally Posted by granty92

i lowsided on a long ish left and the road was busy ish and no one stopped until i flagged a friend down to stop, some people are not nice

Flipping heck, that is a bit crap! I guess I was lucky then!

[Fallout]

Warm weather plus spitting = greasier than you expect it to be. Glad you got away with it mate, injury wise. Very lucky.

Originally Posted by Dr. M

Flipping heck, that is a bit crap! I guess I was lucky then!

tbh i think i was lucky as i got up and walked off and only needed light repairs, no hospital treatment or anything

Ive done very similar mate and I looked at what to do.

Its not economical to repair if its more than just fairings. So split it, I've made a fair wack of money from selling as parts.

If it is just gravel rash etc it'll be fine just repair it bit by bit

tbh i think i was lucky as i got up and walked off and only needed light repairs, no hospital treatment or anything

That's the thing, I couldn't get up. I tried as much as I could but my body wouldn't listen!

Warm weather plus spitting = greasier than you expect it to be. Glad you got away with it mate, injury wise. Very lucky.

I totally agree, Definitely didn't help and yeah feel very privileged to only be as bad as I am AH

Glad you're ok! don't give up on riding mate, you will regret it!