Friday 15 June, 3am bin pictures

[ZeroIndex]

NOT SURE WHY THIS ENDED UP IN PRODUCT REVIEWS: SO I'LL MAKE IT A PRODUCT REVIEW

HJC CL14 helmet: Not the most comfy helmet, but in a crash, it works relatively well, see pics in post #2...

Acerbis Cyclops Headlight: While it may look cool to start with, the lights aren't that bright, and in a bin, well... look for yourself (pics below)

Non-labeled Warehouse Winter jacket: Makes me wish I had been wearing my Quasi Leather jacket... (see pics)

ProTaper handlebars: while feeling very different to clip-ons, they can take WAY more punishment than clip-ons, and after an apparent high-side, the only damage to them is the little colored aluminium bar-end tip, which is scratched

Now to the normal post:
Hey, most of you who know me have probably already heard about my crash.

Still not sure on the details (took a pretty nasty smack to the head - see photos - none gruesome BTW)

See map picture... Left David's new flat (Carver's brother) on Friday morning about 3am, stopped at the red traffic light, corner of Ruakura and Peachgrove Rd, 5 metres outside his house, then I woke up 5 or 6 km's away lying on the ground, with my helmet still on, facedown on the ground in pain, with a cop asking me random stuff, including "Why didn't you stop"...

It's f**ked up, cause I had just put my Moto-X bars on earlier that day (Thursday), and I remember from previous experiences with those bars, with any decent amount of speed, the front became very unstable, so no idea why he was talking about "stopping" in the first place, if he was implying that I was running from them?

Yeah, so left David's place, woke up on the ground in Churchill Ave, then woke up in hospital... had stitches in my chin, from where my helmet musta lifted after scraping the ground for a while.

Apparantly the Police were at the hospital for a while when I first got there, and the report was that I high-sided / went over the handlebars... looking at my bike, they must be right.

Quite a few bruises, and hurts to move around. Nothing broken fortunately. Gotta get a new helmet, obviously... Had my eye on a nice Shark RSF helmet for a while at Boyd Honda, so might snatch that up if it's still there...
As for my bike, needs the usual brake lever, plus I'm probably gonna have to get a new headlight cover thingy (the acerbis one is screwed)... gotta straighten the headlight/gauge holder bracket, fix some of the gauges, get a new bar-end tip, throttle grip (scraped up). Then there's the hard bit: Gotta get the right-hand engine cover-y thing repaired or replaced (see pics)

[ZeroIndex]

Pictures of my helmet after the crash, and a pic of my chin after the bit of scrapage that my helmet felt like handing onto my face

[MSTRS:Me]

Coulda shaved before the photo. I don't know - you young people these days - no pride.
Sounds like you got off lightly, but still...no prang is good. And take it real easy for the next week or so. a KO means concussion

[ZeroIndex]

Some pics of my bike, after the day before where I spent the whole afternoon restoring it to Streetfighter mode (maybe I was just asking for it... fighting the streets since 2007....) Includes random tire-wear pics...

[ZeroIndex]

Here are the other pics...

And MSTRS, I'm glad I didn't shave before the crash... My friend once ended up in hospital for being a silly little bomb-maker, and the facial hair which grew (since he had shaved before the incident), stayed under the scabs, and apparently hurt a lot...

[Mom]

Coulda shaved before the photo. I don't know - you young people these days - no pride.
Sounds like you got off lightly, but still...no prang is good. And take it real easy for the next week or so. a KO means concussion

Yeah I will second that! Not so much the shaving thing (come on MSTRS doncha know that look is cool ) but the take it easy thing, Like I said last night rest up and dont spend too much time tiring your brain on here eh? Let us know if you work out how you managed to high side off too. Sorry you cant join us tomorrow Rob, we will be thinking of you

*Edit * You got insurance for that Rob?

[Hitcher]

You're still alive and largely unscathed, well done. It sure is frustrating when one takes a bang to one's head and ends up with no memory of what happened and why. Just as well you were wearing a full-face helmet, eh?

[tri boy]

Re engine side cover: I've used a product called Devcon many times to patch/repair different assemblys including holed crankcases, heavy machinery water pumps etc. A pot of it costs about $60, and sets like steel, is machinable etc. Available in Hamtown from Paykels Te Rapa. Good patch job until a better option turns up.
Loss of memory is quite common, interesting to hear what the coppers say.
Blood samples taken? Tickets issued?
Chin up mate... oh sorry, it already is.

[ZeroIndex]

You're still alive and largely unscathed, well done. It sure is frustrating when one takes a bang to one's head and ends up with no memory of what happened and why. Just as well you were wearing a full-face helmet, eh?

Yeah, very glad I was wearing a full-face helmet... can't imagine wearing a non-full-face helmet... probably wouldn't be much left...

Re engine side cover: I've used a product called Devcon many times to patch/repair different assemblys including holed crankcases, heavy machinery water pumps etc. A pot of it costs about $60, and sets like steel, is machinable etc. Available in Hamtown from Paykels Te Rapa. Good patch job until a better option turns up.
Loss of memory is quite common, interesting to hear what the coppers say.
Blood samples taken? Tickets issued?
Chin up mate... oh sorry, it already is.

Blood samples taken, nothing from the Police yet though... thanks for the advice... will look for that Devcon stuff

[Maha]

Rob what were you doing out at 3am?....i know you are young and full of beans but i have seen you hit the hay on occasions way before 3am... glad you are ok tho'....and if i had a sidecar on the Triumph we would pick you up tomorrow......

[Mr. Peanut]

Yikes Zero. That's a fancy bin there.

[ZeroIndex]

Rob what were you doing out at 3am?....i know you are young and full of beans but i have seen you hit the hay on occasions way before 3am... glad you are ok tho'....and if i had a sidecar on the Triumph we would pick you up tomorrow......

Thanks for the offer dude, do they make sidecars that would fit a 6'4" person? Was visiting a mate who had just moved into a new flat (and even on a thursday night, a 6-bedroom house with 7 people living there and up to 9 people staying there a night, it was quite lively)... must be something about the air in Norfland that makes me sleepy

In hindsight, I shoulda drank a whole bunch there and slept there instead of 2 beers over 4 hours, and not making it home...

[The Flux Capacita]

i'll be gettinga new helmet soon to so let me know if theres any other good deals out there...hope the cops don't giva ya any tickets

[Mr. Peanut]

Gotta love traffic police.

Now how can we screw over this unfortunate person?

[deeknow]

Jeeze Rob, take it easy mate, glad to see you and the bike aren't total write-offs, BTW I notice the most-bins-wins sig has gone??? does that mean you're the winner?

Its weird you know, I was comin home on me bike last night along Kahikatea Drv and see a big tail-back, sneak my way past to the front and here's a bike smashed into the back of a 4x4... at 1st glance I thought it was your FZR, there were loads of people out an about tending to the scene and looked all under control so I kept rolling, hope the poor fellah's all right