Dissuade Down

[Gazza77]

Hope you're all ok. GWS.

[Sid Squid]

Originally Posted by BigApe

oops

My thoughts exactly - hope you and it are well again soon.

[Paul the 6th]

flippin heck... who's gonna be next? I'll put a fiver on it being me with brand new tyres on saturday morning if there's snow or rain... Sorry to hear this mj! hope you're not too sore and get back on the road again soon!

Damn! GWS mate...
Time to start a Pennine Crashy Mcgee methinks!
Too much Peanut Butter Jelly on your tyres perhaps???
Steve

Originally Posted by startrek.steve

Too much Peanut Butter Jelly on your tyres perhaps???
Steve

I was wondering how long it would take before someone mentioned the peanut butter jelly! 4th page, tut tut

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by Paul the 6th

flippin heck... who's gonna be next? I'll put a fiver on it being me with brand new tyres on saturday morning if there's snow or rain...

Now then....don't be silly

Hey guys,

Cheers for all your well-wishing. I'm quite concussed and have a very sore back/neck/shoulders/head/everything.

So here is how it really went:

I was travelling at about 670mph when a kitten ran out into the road. I had to stand up on the bike and jump over the kitteh to avoid it. In the process I slipped on some ectoplasm that the Ghost Busters had left lying around, pivoted the bike in mid-air, and landed on my head so hard it left a crater in the road and the shock of my landing could be felt all the way to Devon.

Yes. That's the opiates talking.

Actually, I took a right out of the Dental Hospital, slipped on some ice/diesel goo, was going to lowside into a bus shelter (I made people run!), caught it, wobbled, almost highsided, caught it, proceeded to consider lowsiding again on more goo, caught it, and then off I flipped, over the bars, cleared some air and launched myself over to the other side of the road, head connected with road and skidded along. Didn't even bother bracing for impact with my hands (the TOPS of my gloves are scuffed from where the rest of me landed on them and skidded some more). Bounced down the road on my head with bike following me, then when I stopped I remembered the massive bus coming in the opposite direction, so there was no time to count limbs. There were two guys running at me at this point who helped me pick the bike up, there was oil EVERYWHERE.

This happened at a heady 20mph-ish. I am SO rock n roll.

Got everything tidied up (ie. picked up bike remnants from the road) and got myself off to A&E, who said I was concussed. Well done, Sherlocks. Had to go back to A&E later for a CAT scan as I was dizzy, seeing double and aboarding the chunderbus. But apparently there is nothing wrong with my brain case or its contents. There was much rejoicing.

Bike is now at Hunts for assessment looking very poorly. The entire left side is binned. Cracked engine casing, all fairing panels on the left, nose cone, fairing brackets, indicators, footpeg, gear lever, bar end, bent bars, screen.... The list goes on. I'm pretty upset about it. Might well be a write-off.

If any of you have any top tips regarding insurance lark and what to do I'd appreciate them. Looks like I might just ask Hunts to make it roadworthy again and then just get plastics on ye olde eBay. Good job I got myself the MOST COMMON COLOUR EVER. Grr. Stupid American paint job.

Anyhoo. Reading all of that I realise the drugs are still talking, so I'm pretty glad I took the day off from delving into people's mouths with high speed rotary instruments and I shall now rest my aching self.

Cheers dudes, you rock many a sock.

MJ xx

Ouch, sounds like it wasn't for lack of trying anyhow!
hope the bike and you GWS

Originally Posted by dissuade

I am SO rock n roll.

Lol!

Sounds like you were very lucky, especially with a bus close by! Glad to hear no major damage to your noggin though, always a worry! Real shame about the poor bike though

p.s. you tell a good story

[dizzyblonde]

Well done girl, so you did a MotoGP highside like FG1 did

Oil everywhere? likely to be petrol too flinging out of the carbs( or whatever the equivalent is on injections) mine did the same, it had a big wee up the pavement!

At least you had an audience of old ladies in the bus shelter(probably the most exciting run of their lives for a while) oooo girl on a bike its preposterous

Get it assessed for damage, it''' be a defo write off, with plastics shagged, n the usual levers, if its engine casings are peeing oil, it depends where from and if its worth repairing. You can buy bike back and rebuild em, but if its custom paint job is it really worth it.
Glad yor sense of humour has not taken a beating, you'll be ok in a day or two......rock on lass!