aaaaaaaaaaaaarh Shit..(silence) Bang !

[brit_vtr]

Went for a "little" run around some of the country roads near home tonight, nothing new there its quite normal thing to do........
except was accelerating reasonable hard when the back tyre let go, no warning no nothing just bang..ever tried stoppingh a bike from 100+ mph witha shredded back tyre no nor had I until tonite !!!.
Anybody got any titanium and kevlar underwear for sale ??.

[riffer]

Oooooh. not good. What caused the problem - worn tyre or bad road?

Hope you're okay.

[brit_vtr]

Oooooh. not good. What caused the problem - worn tyre or bad road?

Hope you're okay.

Nerves Shot, pants need changing....its amazing how well hedges can act as airbags !!!.

Filthy great screw about 3 inches long and 1/8 inch diameter with a very sharp point (went through the tyre and out the side wall)

[NordieBoy]

Anybody got any titanium and kevlar underwear for sale ??.

Hmmm, a new product line here...

Draggin Daks anyone?

[What?]

Elsewhere in this site is a piece on stopping with the rear wheel completely off the ground...

[toads]

OMG, how scary, I hope you get yourself checked out by a dr, you need to make sure nothing is broken, and get an acc form filled out justi n case, this is quite important as broken bone fragments can cause trouble years later and cost heaps in cat scans etc. I hope your bike isn't too badly damaged, I'll be checking my tyres over each time I ride from now on, cheers L

[dss3]

I know the feeling, i was riding along one day, thankfully only doing around 50k, when my rear tyre let go. Went totally flat, but strange thing was it had no puncture, seemed that the bead just let go. I reinflated the tyre and after a week of so of catious riding I never had any trouble with it for the rest of its life...... wierd!!

-Daryl

[Ms Piggy]

Bloody hell! That sounds like pants changiong stuff alright!! Are you ok? Well I guess you but do go to a Doctore (as Toads said) & get yourself checked over.

Any permanant damage?

[ManDownUnder]

I know that when there is an accident and you hear the bang and a bit of noise (often arguing) - it's minor and people are trying to deal with it ... often beating the crap out of each other, or talking about it, but they are dealing with it...

It's when you hear that crunch noise followed by nothing.........

That gets me every time !

Hope you're ok dude.
MDU

[Big Dog]

Hope we see you back on the black stuff soon.

[dangerous]

Ohhh...... dats nor good, but its your falt as you were the one asking about parts the other day were you not? I guess that you will be putting the info you recieved into pratice 'bugger it'

The same thing happened to me in 2000 on my CX5oo turbo while in rd works @ 80 odd kmph It sure does get a bit loose on things aye? But my worst fair is a blow out up the frount end....... stuffed if I'd no what ta do if that happened but quitly crap

[Skyryder]

Dragged this from another site that I post on.

Sometimes Lady Luck is out there looking after us all. On this occsion seems she and my guardian angel were of one mind.

I had known for some time that the Drake needed a new set rubbers but as he was being shimmed that took a little longer than anticpated his legs were neglected a tad. When I got him back I went for wee ride up to Hamner (hot pools) and then up to Reefton (town of light) and back home a trip of about 566k's (351miles). With winter coming on thought it would a good time to give the Drake a new set of shoes. When I got back to the shop after the new wheels had been fitted I saw my old rear tyre. About a third of the circumference of the wheel had the canvass showing. Scared the heebejebees out of me that's for sure. To think that I had unwittingly travelled over 500 k's on this wheel left me a little cold to say the least. Offered a little prayer to Lady Luck and excused myself for not wanting to rely on her in the future. Think she understood.

Guess she blinked somewhere. But then Brit_VTR if it had been the front......???????? Perhaps she was just giving you a warning. She's one lady you can not rely on.


Skyryder

[LB]

Holy shit mate. I agree about getting yourself checked out by a Dr. And hows the bike?

[Lou Girardin]

OMG, how scary, I hope you get yourself checked out by a dr, you need to make sure nothing is broken, and get an acc form filled out L

They don't have ACC over there.

[brit_vtr]

Holy shit mate. I agree about getting yourself checked out by a Dr. And hows the bike?

Being basically round in shape and having good gear saved the day, sprained wrist....but the worst damage was to my pride (us 40 year old Rossi wannbe's dont have too much of that).

Well new front fairing, R.H.S rad & fan and some minor other parts was all thats needed....so 2 days of "sick" (damned uncle died ...again), shes all back together...also took the opportunity to fit new disks and pads and revalve the front shocks.

Gotta go back to work tommorrow to pay for it all


Thanks to all for your wishes.........Kiwi's & Kiwi Biker folk much friendlier than most people here !!.