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On May 17th 2008 I survived a near fatal accident in the Wellington Terrace tunnel, after a rouge trailer with cage uncontrollably swung into my path after dislodging from its towing vehicle, I was riding my Triumph Tiger 955cc motorcycle.

The impact of the trailer hitting me severely crushed my right leg, catapulting my body thru the air, dumped roadside continuing to skid, my thoughts were ‘will I be taken out by oncoming traffic - is this the end’.

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Have been doing some research into f3 racing regulations.

From what I can gather it will be eligible to race in club level f3 racing !! Competitive ? Probably not, but I'm gonna do it anyway.

Made some small changes to the chassis, nothing major as my financial situation is about the same as a bath that has just finished emptying, there is nothing left..

Things are on the up however and the future is look brighter..

Stay tuned..

I have eventually got round to looking up the frame number to find out what year the bike is. It seems they started numbering their frames in 1929 with a prefix of "A", they changed this every year to B in 1930. My frame is a "H" therefore it was born in 1936, 63 years older than me! The ending is still a 1931 (or before), but as things didn't change much in those days, it fits and would work without a problem.

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OMG, what a freaking nightmare. Picked up the pipes from shop. They had undone nuts, then put them back on, presumably so they wouldn't get lost. Has just taken me an hour to get the friggin things off again. And I didn't need them anyway because the pipes came with new ones. Got that done, then took the mounting rings off the old pipes and WTF I can't get them on the new ones. Anyway, they are all marked up and tatty looking, so think I will just get new ones tomorrow and get them ...

Have now discovered a split in the side of my drive belt as well as the stone hole in the middle. Will have to get onto this sooner, rather than later. Still trying to find a cheaper drive belt.
Anyway, finally decided to have a go at fitting the drag pipes that I have had for about two years. Bought these soon after I got the bike but then heard that the performance is not very good so have held off. Finally sick of looking at the stock ones so trying the drags. If they're no good will have ...

So through the Chch maintenance night last week I was told about the St Johns Ambulance run to Little River. Thank you Wayne!!!

Wayne said the magic word "spare helmet" He offered to let me ride pillion to which I jumped at the chance! So we organised to meet at the mall at 12.

My DF, my DD and I were there at 11am, just enough time to get some breakfast. I had a severe case of butterflys and as the departure time loomed, the stomach was doing flips!

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whoever said that Chch is flat obviously hasn't ridden a mountain bike through the city!

So let me explain.....

... as you know I borrowed a friends mountain bike to get get back in the saddle, which was fantastic. I have been down to McLeans quite abit and I'm getting faster! So anyways, I decided that since I was going to a work course, which started at 7am, I would cycle into work. DF dropped off DD at pre-school so I didn't have to worry about that, hence ...