An awful day, mate badly hurt :-(

[keith_d]

If I ever drop my bike in a big way, nobody - I mean nobody - is to tell LPH which hospital I'm in!!!

Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

When my mate was in hospital with a broken leg, arm, jaw and thumb after being run over I posted him some gay porn mags (he's not gay), knowing full well that the nurse would have to open the envelope on his behalf. As if that wasn't bad enough, she then left them on his bedside table which of course he couldn't reach as he was in traction. He had to press the emergency button when he heard his very religious Italian Catholic mother arriving as he realised that if she spotted them he'd have a lot of explaining to do!

On reflection, he might have preferred grapes.

That's class, I may have to do something similar

Originally Posted by keith_d

If I ever drop my bike in a big way, nobody - I mean nobody - is to tell LPH which hospital I'm in!!!

That's ok, I'm sure there are other orgers who'd oblige on her behalf

[yorkie_chris]

Good to hear he's on the mend. How's the bike?

Originally Posted by Sally

Recovering

Not much put me off my food.

Except the hospital food!
When carnivore was having his hip replaced we took him a chinese in.

Bike is remarkably repairable. The basic structure is straight and the only really bent thing is the square air intake tube on the front of the frame. That alone would write the bike off, but it's repairable by someone with a clue. We still have the clocks and it needs a new front airtube/fairing frame and a headlight assembly. Neither handlebar is bent or broken, and the footrests are undamaged, forks are straight with no damage to wheels etc.

Aside from that all it needs is a full set of plastics and the tank repainting. I reckon it'll be perfect for under a grand if using used parts.

It pretty much knocked an overhanging tree trunk out by taking a knock directly on the front of the fairing, then wedged itself inbetween the ditch and the fallen tree. At no point did it hit tarmac or even fall over until it stopped. When I saw it in the ditch it was laying on the left side, and the only painted fairing panel that survived intact is the one it was laying on, there's not a scratch on that or the matt black belly pan

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Except the hospital food!
When carnivore was having his hip replaced we took him a chinese in.

haha yeah forgot about that.
No wonder he got out of there within a day, they took away his self pump morphine drip, and he couldn't mong out the old man snorers!

[Jayneflakes]

Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

When my mate was in hospital with a broken leg, arm, jaw and thumb after being run over I posted him some gay porn mags (he's not gay), knowing full well that the nurse would have to open the envelope on his behalf. As if that wasn't bad enough, she then left them on his bedside table which of course he couldn't reach as he was in traction. He had to press the emergency button when he heard his very religious Italian Catholic mother arriving as he realised that if she spotted them he'd have a lot of explaining to do!

On reflection, he might have preferred grapes.

Now that is the most awesome thing I have read to date. You are a monster, a brilliant monster, but a monster none the less!

When I was in hospital a while ago, my sister came to see me and saw that the food I was getting was pretty poor even for a Nuffield hospital. On the day she collected me, I was still very broken, but had not eaten for a couple of days. so she drove us straight to Burger King. That was the only time I have almost had a spiritual experience eating a spicy bean burger!


Hope that your mate is doing well now and will soon be back on his feet and then his wheels. Take care out there folks.

good to hear he will be back on his kawa soon then unless his wife has banned him from bikes?

[yorkie_chris]

you never said it was a kawa! In that case hope he's in there for a while to get his taste surgically enhanced :P

Originally Posted by Lozzo

Bike is remarkably repairable. The basic structure is straight and the only really bent thing is the square air intake tube on the front of the frame.

Tell your mate well done for preventing his bike being damaged by using his body to absorb the impact

SRSLY though, very glad he's doing well and is on the mend.