Its just started raining here but hasn't done for a good few days, so the roads are really greasy, was following my sister to mine when a feckin scooter in front of her decided he wanted to park the thing and stopped dead in the road. My fault as I should have been paying more attention.

I touched the brakes and the front wheel locked up and I could see I was heading towards her car so I jumped off, bike smashed one side of the bumper and I did the other side with my shoulder...

All I can say is thank fook for crash bungs... all I've got is a small scratch on the can (not noticable to anyone except me really) and a scuff on the front fairing which will be easy to touch up. Theres a bastard great piece of the crash bung missing!

My shoulders starting to really hurt now, got a feeling I'm gonna feel it in the morning....

Luckily my sis was fine about it, I'm lucky theres nothing more than pride damaged really...

 

shit news - hope your feeling better soon and your pride isnt too hurt!!

 

sorry to hear this mate,

hope its not too bad in the morning

dave

 

dont agree with bikes personally

too dangerous.

glad ur ok mate, could have been worse.

 

shite buddy!
not good

 

Glad your alright mate.!!!! I had an off end of the summer, NOT good.

Although i put mine away when the weather starts turning bad.

 

shouldve smacked the shit outta the spotty scooter riding gimp

 

bummer m8

i just bought my new bike last weekend and even picked it up in the snow only ridden once more since and im itchin to get back on. considerin goin out just now...mmmmm

what kinda bike you got then?

glad the mushrooms worked i got me some already but only 1 side is on cos you have to trim the fairing at the other

 

You could take Glucosamine and Chondroitin supplements if your shoulder gives you problems as you probably got a bit of cartlidge damage there but sounds like you ain't too bad

 

chop, got myself an FZR400, not the most powerful bike in the world but its enough...lol

 

wes is this your excuse why you ache after the gym last night!!!

see supplements for everything!!!


John.

 

you gunna be phoning in sick i can see it mate.
come in, start ripping the upstands off and let one hit ya sholder, accident at work and more compo to go with the finger

 

400's are no too bad m8

m8 had a cbr400rr which got nicked but that bike was ace to ride!i'm far too big for it tho cos im 6'4". couldnt ride for long or it got uncomfortable

the gsxr is perfect tho. v surprised!just as well cos i didnt want ANY other bike lol

went out for couple hours tonight.only like 3rd time on it and im in love


chop

 

sorry to hear it mate, hope you get better soon.

that's why as a beginner i got me a cbf600s wit ABS. i wouldn't be without ABS on a bike, it's the greatest safety feature that you can have, and probably would've prevented your crash (if you weren't following too closely).

the tendency in an emergency is to snatch the front brake, no matter how experienced you are, and i won't hear it from experienced riders that they don't need ABS as they can stop quicker without it. maybe they can under controlled conditions when you know you will be braking, but when it comes to the panic brake, give me ABS everytime.

i think that ABS should be compulsory on all new bikes, and i don't want to change to one without (although the options are currently quite limited if you want a sports bike). my next bike would probably be a VFR800.

 

Only messing wes hope you and ya bike are ok.




John.

 

Yeah no worries John, I know you were

I'm really hurting this morning, back is really stiff

Took the day off work today, will go back 2moro, if anything I can just use the crane all day and keep out the way.

ABS would have been nice, I braked at about 15mph and the wheel locked up almost straight away cos of the road being so greasy, I think there would've been a lot of damage if I'd have been going too fast or too close...

 

get yourself to the docs wes if it doesn't ease up mate.

 

hope you get better soon mate,


sorry to hear it tho

 

foreign rs
cbf600 to a vfr8? are you an old man?
my hirebike went away yesterday that i had off the ins.it was an 02 vfr8.pretty good bike to ride.vtec is VERY interestin when ya hit 7k revs lol BUT can also be V nasty cos if you on v slight throttle edgin towards 7k takin it easy cos of rain etc the bike can get a horrible jolt as the vtec kicks in. havin spoken to some1 about it he said 2 of his m8s had crashed vfr8's this yr!
They reasonably quick but not as fast as my cbr6. comfortably saw 149 on speedo tho only prob i had was that you cant get the balls of your feet up on the pegs with out standin on rear pegs/exhaust which is v annoying

anyways get yersel a sports bike

 

hi lambchop, i'm not getting any younger that's for sure. i'm 31 which may or may not be an old man, i don't know. at least i'm not talking about bmw's

i only started riding last year, mostly because i was too lairy when i was younger and probably would've killed myself quite quickly if my accident record in cars is anything to go by. i want to get a lot more experience before i get a sportsbike and go wheelying off down the road, and i see the vfr as a logical step between my current bike and a sports bike. and best of all, it has abs which could be a lifesaver. then hopefully in a couple of years time, more sports bikes will be available with abs and be on the secondhand market.

 

wes, thats what you do anyway!
had a shitter of a day mate, you lucky to miss it, murf grouinded out a blade oushing it out and ryan went ape shit and made us stay back longer, had hour tea breake b4 we could move 2 blades, didn't leave till 5.50 gone