Wrote it off!

[GunZenBomZ]

Ah-haarr that made you look further!

Okay the crux of this thread is my latest greatest crash. Heeling it over from M6 going onto A46, thought I'd open it up & cleanly swoop into the clear road ahead.


Bike thought otherwise & decided to take me on a little off road adventure at *Coughs* 60; within the speed limit stipulated for the road.

Banking over the bike didn't follow my imagined line so I straightened up & went into the hedge row. Ended up in a thorn bush (the only fking bush I've been in for a while!) still in 6th gear. I lost a lot of speed thankfully & no abrupt sensation or banging into objects.

My mind was like "Ow here we go, brake brake..shyte!"

The f8 stood proud wedged into the thorn bush, I quietly waited while all the cars I'd passed, went by. One guy stopped & got out with a big cheesy smile & said "I did wonder where you were going".

It's all good, chap helped me pull the bike backwards which due to how it was would of been a biatch to do by myself. Balancing & pulling from the rear end was my plan also. Got my beast back on the road & only found the nose had snapped itself on one side. So tool kit appears & quickly remove the screws & stow beak. I had gaffa tape/zip-ties but it looked a safer bet just removing it.

Looks like I can salvage the nose with some Plastic-weld or Araldite.

I was laughing with this guy because he fixes police-motorbikes, he parted with the wise words of 'slow down'


PS: It's frosty tomorrow you can get some nice back-end weaving practice in at slow speed.

 

[Toad]

Take care of yourself Paddy

Glad to hear your OK.

 

[flatdog]

Nice ride report, short and to the point.

Looks like the hedge has been previously removed by something heavier, good job too as thats where your run off was.

Well done on surviving that.

 

[PW Cymru]

Glad it's only a beak.

 

[mr_magicfingers]

Glad you're ok dude,

shiny side up

 

[rce]

Bet Dec 12 looked a long way off as you hurtled towards the bush.

Glad it worked out fairly well.

 

[HTB1]

Paddy, Glad your OK and the Purple Rinse machine stayed right way up. Harry

 

[abrasion]

When the training manual says cut the corner......................

 

[Mr K]

Back off a couple of notches matey.

Could've been very different on a left.

 

[hughguzzi]

close to the barbie fence !! - youre a lucky bunny !!

 

[SERVDAVE]

Glad to hear you ok mate!

 

[Farmer Palmer]

Buy a lottery ticket......!

FP.

 

[von K]

I do like to read a good off-road report

 

[Dean]

Hi Paddy,

Must admitt when I read your title I feared the worst never the less quite a moment no doubt , but glad to know you and the bike are ok it can allways be a so different scenario hope all mends OK.

And dont go leaving the beak off just to be different , that is an option you know on the road version triumph tiger 8






they do look a bit femenine without the beak

 

[Bury_Dave]

"Latest, greatest crash ..."

Maybe you should learn to ride Or at least learn from this.

There are old bikers and bold bikers ...........

I would hate to be reading your next ride report via a ouija board

Ride safe fella or you'll soon be a

 

[GunZenBomZ]

The quieter you are the more you will hear.

..but there are no old bold bikers!

Cheers for all your responses, going to change my front-tyre as its gone to the limit. As I do ride on both surfaces a fair-amount, I knew how the bike should react.

Ride to the conditions of both the road & my bike is what I have been reminded. No adrenaline or nervous close call, simply a cold low thread tyre losing grip on semi-fresh laid tarmac, at an acute angle.


How can I describe this, instinctively I recalculated the knew line of travel? The lower bend of curvature?, I'm mulling over how to seemingly the best way too say it...fk it.

The hold your breath moment was whilst been heeled over I had very little chance to slow it down until I tipped it near to upright-position (I have practiced braking whilst been low & can both counter-steer into a new line or out from my current line to avoid an object). Which was why I was still banking it over when mounting & then slowing down on the muddy clay grass verge. The barb-wire did remind me of my youthful leg scars. It was less than half-a-foot away from me perched on the bike.

I MANNED IT!

 

[Goose]

one of those "silly-regret-it-later" moments then....?

Glad you're ok mate...!

 

[Richie N]

I would never do anything like that

You were lucky, and its great that you're ok.

Rich

 

[old-man-andy]

Glad you're alright. 3 cheers for the driver who stopped and helped.......after he'd stopped laughing!

 

[Ash]

Back off a couple of notches matey.

Could've been very different on a left.

And boy does it hurt,when it goes wrong Big Time
Glad you're OK.