A friend of mine recently picked up his new 1290 GT and crashed on the way home. He's now laid up with a broken wrist, broken ribs and a C2 fracture in his neck.
"After collecting the bike, on the way back, on a road I know really well, I managed to come off the bike, on a straight road, nothing else involved, without speeding (the bike was still being run in).
I have no memory but the police tell me that my helmet hit the bike instruments extremely hard, and I went over the bike, presumably landing in the road (I’ve not been back to where it happened yet) and I have very little recollection from this.
I had the police on last week & because of my perceived injuries they did some basic investigation, I’ve not really been fit to go back. However their findings, bike slid around 17 metres, indicative of 50mph, they say the first point of impact for me was the display screen, it’s like an iPad and my helmet went straight into it - hard! Straight road?? No other traffic saw anything and I remember nothing.
With it being a massive twin, even if the engine had cut out it would have been like braking unexpectedly out of nowhere, so this was the copper's first thought."
I've suggested to him that he should request a forensic interrogation of the ECU. What's really bugging him is that he can't remember a thing.
Has anyone heard of any issues with the 1290 that might have contributed to his crash?
"After collecting the bike, on the way back, on a road I know really well, I managed to come off the bike, on a straight road, nothing else involved, without speeding (the bike was still being run in).
I have no memory but the police tell me that my helmet hit the bike instruments extremely hard, and I went over the bike, presumably landing in the road (I’ve not been back to where it happened yet) and I have very little recollection from this.
I had the police on last week & because of my perceived injuries they did some basic investigation, I’ve not really been fit to go back. However their findings, bike slid around 17 metres, indicative of 50mph, they say the first point of impact for me was the display screen, it’s like an iPad and my helmet went straight into it - hard! Straight road?? No other traffic saw anything and I remember nothing.
With it being a massive twin, even if the engine had cut out it would have been like braking unexpectedly out of nowhere, so this was the copper's first thought."
I've suggested to him that he should request a forensic interrogation of the ECU. What's really bugging him is that he can't remember a thing.
Has anyone heard of any issues with the 1290 that might have contributed to his crash?