Bad day in Derbyshire
 

Went for a run around some of my fav roads today. I've been riding the Cat & Fiddle for twenty five years and never seen a bike down, but today there were two. A newish GSXR close to the pub on the Macc side. Write off. Then while we were sat at the pub having a brew, lads coming in were talking about an off down at the Buxton end. We went off this way heading towards the Snake and saw the aftermath. Looked like a CBR600 into the armco. There was a red curvey S leaving the scene after the ambulance. Shot across to the Snake and the road was closed in the Sheffield to Manc direction. The guy at the barrier told me it was another bike shunt with a car. Road had been closed for hours.

Hope the riders are all ok. Take it easy guys. Ride safe, we don't have to fit it all into these last few good days of summer. Plenty more summers to come.

Ratty

i love the cat and fiddle but like has been mention'd above ride it carefull.

That was one of my mates, it was a VFR400. Broke his leg in at least 2 places. The SV will have been Biker-Dene off this forum. It was a bad accident, but I didn't see it because we had decided to hang back. It's been a **** day :(

I hope they are all ok :cry:

I managed to drop my bike for the first time today. Partly my own fault, partly a greasy road and party bad signs. I was approachin a bend on a road I'd never ridden before at a reasonable speed and started braking. As I rounded the bend there was a level crossing. I knew the bike would go out on me the second the tyres hit the rails so I braked harder and tried to get the bike as close to upright as possible. The front wheel didn't sgree with this dcision and decided to slip out on me and allow me to meet the road! I was only doing about 20mph when I dropped it and I'm fine apart from a slightly bruised knee and a little dented rpide. The bikes going to need:

New upper right fairing panel
New RHS front indicator
New rear brake lever

And that's about it. So it's not too bad to be honest.

Glad there's little damage on your bike mate, my mate wasn't so lucky. He's smashed his hip to bits, broke his ankle + leg, internal bleeding + he's on a chest drain now in hospital. They had to resus him in the ambulance on the way :(

Thats terrible! Hope he is ok. :(

That's terrible.

I hope he makes a good recovery.

Matt - sounds nasty, but we've seen folk on here suffer similar injuries and go on to make a fairly good recovery if that's any encouragement to him. Wish him my best.

Any news on our Biker-Dene anyone :?:

I used to live on the Sheffield end of Snake - nice/nasty road depending on what way up your bike is and how numpty the car drivers are being.

Thats terrible Matt :( - hope your mate will be OK

Thats awful, hope both riders are ok and make a speedy recovery.

Glad you came out of that reasonably unscathed Heed

Dene's fine, got home ok. Just learned he's got a collapsed lung and 3-4 breaks in his leg as well as his ankle and hip :( I shall pass on your wishes of a speedy recovery, cheers

:( Sorry to hear about your mate. Hope it all goes well.


As for BikerDene also glad(sincerely) that he is ok. Hope he now remembers that he still owes me money for the brake lever he had off me(over 8 week ago now) :x :thumbsup:

I was beginning to worry that all was not well(hence the non-contact) but obviously that is not the case. Mate, it might be best if you sort the money out as it's not out of the question for me to make sure I get it. All the best

Cheers
Ben

Sorry to say that my mate Jack passed away during an operation earlier this evening :( RIP mate

Our thoughts go out to his parents at this awful time for them. Matt says he would have turned 20 next week. What a tragedy.

:( :( :(

RIP Jack



Cheers
Ben

:cry:

RIP

There's nothing that I can say other than RIP.

I am so sad to read this. Matt, I pray that you will find the strength to cope with this shocking tragedy.

:cry:

Ed

Gutted to hear this Matt. Please pass our condolences onto Jack’s family. Really feel for you guys tonight.

RIP Jack.



Alan

Very Very Sad News RIP.

Just read this post, it's very sad news :( .

RIP your mate and hope your OK Matt

R.I.P Jack

That's terrible news :cry: R.I.P. :cry:

RIP Jack

Just read this also

RIP Jack

David

How awful - my thoughts are with his family :(

Very sorry to hear about this. RIP Jack

Really sorry to read about the loss of your mate Saint Matt.

Sorry to hear that mate. RIP Jack.

Had heard about this earlier today from another lad who was there, but hadn't realised that he was your friend also, Matt.
:cry:

I don't know you guys but my heart goes out to family and friends.

:cry: :(

Crikey. I was up there only a week ago with my m8 and I took a corner too fast but had an escape route purely by luck though. Stories like this put in into perspective the risks we take. Always sad news when a biker dies :cry: That area has claimed many bikers

R.I.P.

I hate these threads.

RIP

R.I.P.

RIP.

Sorry, Never saw this post till today. RIP.

Hope your OK Matt

Been quite busy with work and not been on forum so much

I'm alrite now malc, cheers for everyone's kind words. I was a wreck on monday-wednesday after it happened, went to work but shouldnt really have done, any time of the day I didn't have anything to do I kept thinking about his crash and crying. His funeral was the thursay before last, it's still wierd to know that was the last thing I'll ever do with him, just never had it happen where you're talking to a guy, next minute he comes off, is in major pain, then the next minute he's no longer alive, makes me feel a bit sick :(