Sammy Down :(

On my way to the bike meet tonight and had an oops on the bike

Going round one of those stupid mini roundabouts (going straight on), and managed to drop the bike, was doing between 10 and 15 MPH. Bike hit the curb and i landed on my left knee. I'm fine, if a little disapointed in myself mainly... guess i thought after 2 years i was passed the falling off stage, silly i know but its how i feel and pi$$ed off that a stupid 15mph spill has done so much damage!!!

Had chance to calm down and look over what happened and it was a combination of factors... 1, Wet greasy road, 2, freshly painted roundabout (painted a week to 2 weeks previously) 3, fresh tyres, only had 100 miles or so on them and hadn't worn in the edges of the tyres yet. I basically went round the roundabout instead of straight over it like most cars do, and must have clipped the outer edge of the paint as i have white paint on my tyre, flicked the bike to the right to avoid the oposite kerb, and the front just slide out from under me and the bike hit the kerb.

Damage to the bike... cracked front fairing, bent right hand side fork, possible bent front spindle, possible bent front subframe, scuffed rear (seat) plastics, scuffed front mud guard, broken front break lever, broken rhs foot peg and rear break lever, snapped rhs mirror. Forks are also twisted in the yokes, and also got a new dent in the tank oh well glad i didn't put the new tank on there Bike is also doing something weird... it will roll forwards but will not roll back but Adam said he'll have a look tomorrow and strip bits to get it moving so we can roll it back off the van.

Will have a proper look over the bike in the light of day, once i have also sleep and calmed down. I thought i'd be more upset about it, i really love my bike, but since i have been contemplating getting something else, i guess my feelings about it all have changed, the only real thing keeping me attached to my bike is the sentimental value, of the freedom she gave me and gives me and without her i would not have the friends i have now and the main thing.... i wouldn't have met James.

Luckily Rictus came to rescue me and get the bike rideable so we could get to the pub where we meet and have a look over it and get coffee. James ended up riding my bike to the pub and i rode his. Then Adam picked me up in the van (drove up from Guildford to Croydon and back again) to drop me off home.

The most annoying thing is that i am thinking what if i did that or what if that hadn't been like that.. but its always easy to look back. But at least i was able to walk away, although my knee may have other plans in the morning

I just want to say a huge thank you to Rictus for your help getting it "rideable", To Law for stopping and standing with me until James and Mark arrived, just having someone there to stop me from getting worked up and just someone i can talk to really helpped. Dirty Dog, thank you so much for coming to get me, you're a true star. And James... i'm sorry if i'm a grumpy cow for the next couple of days And to all of you sorry i am rambling on, i just need to get it out of my system.


Thank You

Sammy

[Richie]

Crap news, Sammy
Glad your okay, also a feel good factor that your helped out by load of people on this site.

[_Stretchie_]

Ouch, glad you're ok..

I've had 2 near misses in the past week myself, one was where they put some new shell grip down or whatever it is called but no signs up.. Oh and it was on a roundabout entrance... Tucked the bike in and then had a moment where the front end slid out, me foot went down and managed to stay up, knee's a bit sore from the impact but I'm still upright

And the other day was round a junction, not fast, barley any lean but the bike slipped out as I went over the yellow grid on the junction but only enough to make my R's twitch a bit then it was fine

WOOHOOOO, lucky eh....

Hope you feel OK tomorrow hun, let me know how its going

The main thing is you're ok.

Time to get a Gixxer.

[dirtydog]

I reckon with a bit of T-cut it'll look good as new...













maybe

Hope you're not too sore tomorrow

Sorry to hear about the off Sammy, hope you're feeling better in the morning & hope the bike can be sorted relatively easily

oh Sammy hope you feel OK

Bugger

Oh no!

Bikes can be fixed.

I hope the knee is okay!