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Well its happened again :(

I took a friend out for a ride today, set off from baston near peterborough, headed over to melton mowbray and then onto market harborough via the B6047.
We got as far as Great Dalby, through the tightish left hander to find a car on our side of the road.
We were close to the white lines to avoid the manhole cover thats in the centre of the road so were fairly far over so didnt have much chance to pull over.
I think the car was cutting the corner and took us out.
Gemma was thrown past me as the bike dropped but is fine.
I have some deep bruising and a sore left nut :(
The police were involved and the car driver pointed out to them that we (on the bike) wernt speeding and neither were they.
The bike is going to need more than a T-cut though.
Time to retire from the roads.
I promised Jenn after my last off that I wasnt going to get a bike again and she talked me into it.
I let her talk me into it on the provision that if I so much as dropped the bike again, I would walk away from road biking for good.
So we will see how long its going to be before she wants me to get another one...

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glad you all ok m8 ,remember you can fix a bike ....wow the org is having a bad 2009 we are dropping like sh** !!!

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Sh#t.

I hope you two are ok :(

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Sorry to hear mate, at least you both walked away.
Did the car side swipe you?
Looks like little damage to the car.

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Sorry to hear of your off just glad you are both ok its a shame you could miss out on a great summer !!

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glad to hear no injuries, bike looks a little sorry for herself though:(

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Originally Posted by specialone (Post 1918976)

Sorry to hear mate, at least you both walked away.
Did the car side swipe you?
Looks like little damage to the car.

Was a head on :(
Just managed to get far enough over to take out the wing instead of right in the middle of the bonnet :(

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:-( Really sorry to hear another .orger (and friend) down. Glad you're both relatively ok though.

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Blimey lucky escape, that could have been alot worse

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how easy does the insurance look? was the driver cooperative? must've been some indication of where you were at the time of impact?