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on way home from work, about 5.30pm....honda crv pulls out in front of me from a side street to my right, i swerve around it as road was clear on other side rather than slam on brakes and fly down the gears...usually this would be problem avoided...but no...crv then turns immediatly right into a pub carpark...no indication...bet he didnt even check his mirrors....smash...

snapped mirror....bent crash bung (not bent as such but think it was a bit loose and slipped on the bolt)

not sure what its called....but the footrest on the gear pedal side has snapped off...so the foot rest, gear change pedal are hanging down on the floor...thats about it for the damage bar a few scratches so nothing to major...i have pics but bit hard to sort it out with one hand atm so will post soon so i can find what the part is i need!!

just got back from A&E, have a fractured radial head (elbow), hurts a bit, gotta go to orthopedic place tomorrow to have pins put in and cast done...bit gutted as i would have got a nice new hire bike tomorrow from the insurance company and the sv's the only "big" bike ive ridden so wud have been cool to try something else

even more gutted as was stubbying my can this weekend got all the tools i need etc and itll have to wait now

anywhoo...apart from the elbow im alright, dosed up on painkillers, bike should be easy enough to fix so all in all could have been a lot worse.

Dappa D

[Biker Biggles]

Whoops
Did you get any witnesses and was the other car insured?

[Wideboy]

no , get it fixed up soon mate, you and the bike

**** mate. GWS. I work in an Orthopaedic theatre. Fractured radial heads are quite rare, and a bit of a pain to fix. The Olecranon (elbow end of Ulna) is usually more prone to breaking. Hopefully it's quite a simple fracture and you'll be back on the SV in a month or two.
At least it'll give you plenty of time to stubby the can. Maybe santa will come early and you can get the lowers sorted too!

sounds like you got off pretty light there?

gws.....

poo sticks

not good at all!!!! I hope you made it clear to the car that he does have 3 mirrors USE THEM.

Hope it goes ok at the hospital tomorrow and that your back on your bike soon

Get well soon

Lily x

bad news dude-least your ok

thanks guys

yea very lucky could have been much worse, will be slamming on brakes if anything like that happens again!

have a witness, an older lady was driving behind me, she saw the whole thing and comfirmed what i said above. very nice she was too, my bike is in her garage now, she was on her way home, she lives next door to the pub!!

the car was insured, bloke was apologetic and wheeled my bike to the womans garage as i couldt lift/push it.

paiste1 - just suggested to the mrs that santa could come early - on ur bike was the reply!! think shes being funnylol!!

Bad news and glad you`re not too badly hurt... take it easy and get well soon

Glad it wasn't worse dude!