Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

IMO just shake it off as a laugh, don't give him a dead serious chat about how you've got a carbon fibre helmet to stop your brain being smeared across the tarmac and a nice back protector to stop the armco ripped your spine out chunk by chunk. As that does not create a nice image!

Try "oh yes, I fell off my bike, what a jolly fool I am... don't I feel silly" etc. You gonna fall off the bugger at some point.