You don't want to do this!

[thornley]

Beautiful day, clear road (A26) 130kph (80mph) not a care in the world. Long column of HGV's coming up so mirror signal move out accelerate to pass asap. BANG!!! A rather nice piece of 8cm x 8cm by a metre long piece of wood flicked up by one of the HGVs

Result front end blow out and a case of the shits. The impact was massive the bike all over the place but upright.

Lessons learned

1, Have recovery insurance. 184 Euros for the recovery to the nearest Triumph dealer

2, Make sure your phone is charged

3, If PAYG have at least £20 credit

4, Carry spare undies

5, Have all insurance details readily available, not somewhere in the luggage.

The Triumph dealer was superb. The took the front wheel from a new bike in the showroom and swapped the wheel, Accident at 9.20am back on the road at 12.15. 924 euros for the wheel and new tyre. Expensive but I'm alive!

 

[Monsieur]

Expensive morning

Glad you're ok

 

[Our Gee]

Wow, that's a close one John. Somewhere between Calais and Troyes then I take it ?.

 

[johnnyrep]

Glad you made it sounds scary.

 

[David Lee]

It's only money. Keep Lucky and safe

 

[Deleted account 181015003]

At least you found the timber I might be on that road in a few days. It could have been a lot worse glad your ok bikes mend quicker than people

 

[Cook1e]

Feck! Hope a fright and a lightened wallet is all you got and bike is OK.

You just can't prepare for the unexpected:

http://youtu.be/OgqChIRJsX8



Cheers,

Ian

 

[Wapping]

Reminds me of trundling up the M20.... When a large sheet of plaster board lifted off the back of a builder's truck, spinning edge on at about head level as I rode towards it.... Thinking to myself.... "This going to be a strange way to die" ..... Somehow it then dropped straight down, exploding in a huge cloud of plaster dust just ahead of my front wheel.


Bloody jobbing builders!

 

[thornley]

Wow, that's a close one John. Somewhere between Calais and Troyes then I take it ?.

kilometre marker 320.4 A26 south of Challon. Luckily only 20 kilometres from the Triumph dealer who was superb. They could tell I was a bit shaken and I was treated superbly. Coffee and a fag time. They checked the bike out front to back and set the forks up on v blocks and checked they were straight. I will try to post a photo.

 

[thornley]

kilometre marker 320.4 A26 south of Challon. Luckily only 20 kilometres from the Triumph dealer who was superb. They could tell I was a bit shaken and I was treated superbly. Coffee and a fag time. They checked the bike out front to back and set the forks up on v blocks and checked they were straight. I will try to post a photo.

Should read A6 not A26. Won't allow me to load a photo but I can e mail the pictures if anyone wants to see what happens to a cast alloy wheel when it hits timber at 80mph. Maybe someone could then post the photo for me.