Fell off

**James Deuce** · 9th December 2004, 14:20

Fell off on Diesel.

Broke bike.

Own fault. No sympathy please.

Donations gratefully accepted.

**Hitcher** · 9th December 2004, 14:22

You silly bunt!

Damage report please, starting with the bike... [You said you didn't want sympathy!]

**merv** · 9th December 2004, 14:27

Yeah you'll mend, the bike won't, so what's the damage?

**vifferman** · 9th December 2004, 14:33

What!?!? You broke that beautiful shiny TRX?!?

You silly sossij!!

(errr... was that unsympathetic enough, or would you prefer more explictly expletive chastisement?)

I hope you didn't get it dirty as well as broken....

**James Deuce** · 9th December 2004, 14:33

Accident report as follows.

Round left hand 70km/hr corner on 'takas at 50km/hr. Road damp and can see diesel slicks on the road. Stand bike up in preparation for following right hander, think about tipping in, bike up and slides into the bank without me. Low side crash from near vertical.

Mystifying.

Lovely woman called Julie (with two Jack Russel Terriers with their own Thomas the Tank engine couches in the back of a RAV4) takes me back to Featherston so I can get phone reception and call Wife, Bike Shop, and Insurance. Also agrees to provide eye witness account for Insurance company.

Trousers rooted, Jacket needs repair. Gloves, helmet, boots (saved by toe slider) OK.

Fairing rooted and in about 5 pieces and only held together by mounting bolts. Fork sliders bent, right hand side braking mechanisms both removed (made loading the bike on the Sawyers ute appear interesting - was acutally straight forward), right hand footpeg broken off, right exhaust canister and bracket rooted. Oil and water pump casings scratched to buggery but not holed (wasn't going any faster than a bloody push bike). I would suggest the damage would have been limited to the fairing, muffler, peg, and levers if it hadn't slid across the gutter a ditch and slammed into a cliff face.

Ain't nuffink wrong with me at all, 'cept large dose of self-chastisement.

**vifferman** · 9th December 2004, 14:40

That sux the big kumara.

Are your jacket and trousers textile, Jim?

**James Deuce** · 9th December 2004, 14:46

Originally Posted by firestormer

That sux the big kumara.

Are your jacket and trousers textile, Jim?

Trousers were, Jacket is leather. Surface is well scuffed and some stitching worn away, just on the right elbow. I was going slow enough that I could jump to my feet as the bike and I separated, so they weren't on the ground long.

Did the normal lift the bike up with my teeth, moon-gravity-level-type-leaps-to-gather-widely-scattered-broken-bits, adrenalin fuelled dance afterward.

**Motoracer** · 9th December 2004, 14:56

Ah shit... That really sux man.

I just had flash backs from my past bins and I know how you might be feeling like right now.

The main thing is that you are OK.

It could have happened to anyone. Bloody diesel spills!

**Two Smoker** · 9th December 2004, 15:13

Ah shit Jim, glad your ok, and the insurance will sort the rest of the shit out

**scumdog** · 9th December 2004, 15:26

Was it BP diesel?????

:confused2

My condolences, sometimes you just can't avoid shit like that no matter how vigilant you are.

**festus** · 9th December 2004, 15:34

Know the feeling mate. Onwards and upwards

**StoneChucker** · 9th December 2004, 15:36

Sorry to hear that Jim.

But, was it your fault? Diesel spills are starting to scare the crap out of me. If you slide off no matter what, then it isn't really your mistake is it? Either way, glad you're ok.

What part of the Taka's exactly? So I can watch out this weekend...

**crashe** · 9th December 2004, 15:37

At least you are ok....and thats the main thing.

The bike can be fixed.....

I dropped my bike (right side down) last saturday on Newton on ramp entrance, I spun the back wheel out.... and I was pinned underneath it.... My right leg took the full weight of the bike.... so now have bruising coming out on my inside leg (near the knee) and on the top of my right hand. No Damage to my bike at all. It had been drizzling all morning.

I have since found out another bloke almost lost it on the same spot on Friday... blardy diesel spillage plus the metal strip across the road by the islands.