Your know getting withdrawl symptoms when..

[Mr Skid]

Oh no!

Didn't realise you'd had a spectacular off!
(When you've figured out how you managed both sides, please let us know..!) So: typically you should be out of plaster in 3 weeks.
I know this sounds like the ravings of a foolish hippy, but tincture of Comfrey (ask your herbalist and get the right dosage, too) helps your bones to knit better/faster. Plus a calcium/magnesium complex; there are good ones for people with crappy bones. I've done my scaphoid twice: it's no fun at all- make sure you get the right physio, too- it's really easy to end up with a weakened wrist. And we wouldn't want that, now would we... especially not your right wrist; so important for throttling and...er... other stuff...

Bloddy pot smoking hippy stoner
Thanks for the advice, I'll look into that herbal stuff you've mentioned.

How did I manage to do both sides of the bike?

Well to recap I went straight through a left hand corner without really trying to turn for some reason (don't seem to recall entering the corner). I remember being on the grass gravel on the right hand side of the road, then riding / sliding / tumbling / flying (delete where applicable) down a 4m bank. I have a sneaking suspicion that myself and the bike bounced off the fence at the bottom of the hill.

The bike ended up on it's left hand side, and the left fairing had removed itself from the bike at some point down the hill, and neatly deposited itself beside me, behind me, on the bank etc. The bike had also recieved a hit on the right hand side, which wasn't as severe.

This suggests that it was upright for a portion of the journey, but I suspect that when it went over a drainage ditch thingy that it went pear shaped. Probably fell onto the right hand side there, then flipped onto the left when right hand clipon touched down or something. Whatever happened it recieved a good enough knock to force the left fork about 5-10mm up through the tripple clamps, which in turn allowed the left clipon to rotate through ~20 degrees when it hit the deck.

So the plastics are a bit rooted, but I think I should be able to salvage the top fairing and blade. Didn't break a mirror or indicator though, which I found amusing as I managed to bend the number plate, but not break the indicator on either side of it.

As for me I'm comming along ok, thinking about it, I'm still getting over the concussion a little bit. I'm sleeping more than usual, and am tending to get angry / depressed a bit more readily. However the brain does do a pretty good job of putting itself back together, so I'm sure it'll come right eventually.

[vifferman]

Didn't break a mirror or indicator though, which I found amusing as I managed to bend the number plate, but not break the indicator on either side of it.

Yeah - what's up with that? When I dropped my bike a couple of weeks ago, I managed to bend the number plate too. Even though the rear indicator was damaged, I still found it a bit weird...

As for me I'm comming along ok, thinking about it, I'm still getting over the concussion a little bit. I'm sleeping more than usual, and am tending to get angry / depressed a bit more readily. However the brain does do a pretty good job of putting itself back together, so I'm sure it'll come right eventually.

Take it easy, won't you? I know what you mean about the grumpy bit, as my brain's a bit fooked and gets that way, and when I banged my head I felt irritable too.
How long's it been?

[Skyryder]

Might be up in Feb. but I doubt if you can wait that long.

Skyryder

[Quasievil]

Boo Fucken HOO I cant ride or even see my bike, I cant even see A BIKE tho in saying that I saw a 2004 ZXR600 today in Muscat that took me by surprise, they say its to hot to ride a bike here so they tend not to and stick to a/c cars.

anyway im off back to the pool I mean its 37 deg why would I be in here talking to you lot

[erik]

Hey Pararazzi, if you need some (inexpert) help with straightening the subframe or maybe plastic welding the fairings, let me know.

I'm feeling like a right lucky bastard that I came off so lightly in my crash and you and the other people that have crashed lately haven't been so lucky.

[Mr Skid]

Boo Fucken HOO I cant ride or even see my bike, I cant even see A BIKE tho in saying that I saw a 2004 ZXR600 today in Muscat that took me by surprise, they say its to hot to ride a bike here so they tend not to and stick to a/c cars.

anyway im off back to the pool I mean its 37 deg why would I be in here talking to you lot

[Mr Skid]

Hey Pararazzi, if you need some (inexpert) help with straightening the subframe or maybe plastic welding the fairings, let me know.

I did think of just modifiying the mud guard so it looked straight in relation to the tire, but I think it'll be an idea to have a go at the subframe at some point, just to tidy it up. I don't think it'd affect it's ridability though.

I reckon a stout tree, some rope and a bottle jack should just about do the job for the subframe.

I'd really appreciate a hand with some plastic welding. I've got all the bits for the top fairing (which is more than I can say about the sides, even after FF's valiant attempt to find the missing pieces) I think the biggies are going to be getting the top fairing brackets back into shape. If it's ok I'll PM ya in a week or we can have a tutu with it.

I'm feeling like a right lucky bastard that I came off so lightly in my crash and you and the other people that have crashed lately haven't been so lucky.

I found it quite funny, I was feeling so sorry for you that you'd damaged your crank case and had hit your head on the road.. I was feeling quite ok, thought I just had a slightly sore wrist and ankle..

I reckon I did come off quite lucky, there were some trees on that bank that could have been the end of me, and I was lucky I didn't bend the frame or forks.

[erik]

I'd really appreciate a hand with some plastic welding. I've got all the bits for the top fairing (which is more than I can say about the sides, even after FF's valiant attempt to find the missing pieces) I think the biggies are going to be getting the top fairing brackets back into shape. If it's ok I'll PM ya in a week or we can have a tutu with it.

Yep, that sounds good. We'd need to find some similar plastic to use as a filler, maybe a wrecker might have some broken fairings or something. Or if the side fairings aren't going back on the bike, we could use them.

Keep in mind I'm a newbie with plastic welding. Pretty much all I've done is weld the mudguard on my bike where the indicator broke off. I haven't ever seen anyone else's plastic welding, so for all I know I could be making a mess of it... See the attached photos of the mudguard. I could probably get the weld seam on the outside to be a bit narrower than that, I was kind of trying to smooth it out with the soldering iron. I attacked the weld from both sides, to make sure it was melted right through, I'm not sure if that's standard practice or maybe it would work/look better if I just welded it from the inside.

Logan (or anyone else that's done this before), have you got any pointers?