I fell off and it hurt haha !
Ok ok i'll elaborate a bit !
Got to the track feeling great after having had some old man hassels with the gammy knees for a few weeks prior and was looking forward to knocking some laps off on the new toy !
Hadn't really looked at the tyres closely, as i'd only done a test day and 1 day of round 2 due to a sad state of fitness and cramping up early on day 2 so just checked the cold pressure and chucked the warmers on !
Plan was to just go out and pootle round for a while, wasn't too worried where i was placed on the grid as i'm not in the points, so it was all about track time and ride fitness !
So when F1 quallifying came round i was keen as catshit (where does that saying come from) to get out there and ride !
1st lap or two i used to regain the feel of the bike seeing i'd only ever ridden it once before and was taking it nice and calmly around splash and higgins due to the water oozing out of the track !
But unfortunately the old "got to push boundaries" kicked in and i started tagging on to some faster guys, trying to pick up the pace !
Bike was feeling good, nice and stable and i felt like i could really go for it (my go for it lol) so i did !
But like a true noob i thought i could push the same in every corner and Splash got me good !
Thought the last lap was a good one, qualifying wise, but decided on one more hot lap as i wasn't feeling sore in the hands at all and thought to myself i hadn't felt any movement on the wet spots, so fear was the only thing holdng me back and flew into splash, flew down on my side, flew across the track, spinning and sliding backwards onto the grass ! The front had just washed out on me, tucking my (obviously far too tense) arm inward to the tank, which is how the bike and i hit the deck !
It is truely amazing how much can go through your head in those seconds your sliding like, Aaaaarrrrg my bike, wow the leathers are working, i can hear the scraping but cant feel it, Aaaarrrrg my bike, then grass, waaagggh my bike !
Got up and uggh it hit me, felt like id been kicked in the side by a horse (while using my little finger as a block)
Ran over to the 675 and struggled to pick it up as i was truely winded ! Went and sat out the rest of the session on the slip way !
A check of the bike back at the pits revealed no real damage, other than a knarled up bar end and lever, a side casing looking all scraped up, so washed her down and took it over to AJ (steward) for clearance to take it out again !
He suggested i go out in Clubmans to see how it handled and make sure it was all tikity boo, so i did that for a half doz laps !
Bike was sweet as, but after 6 laps i was feeling like shit, sore as hell in the ribs and the more i started blowing the more it hurt !
Back into the pits and had a hell job even getting off the bike or pulling off the gloves and jacket, but was determined to HTFU and get out there for F2 qualifying, had to be just bruising !
So i did just that, got back on the horse and qualified second to last haha, the confidence i had that morning was smashed and i was screwing up near every time i came into splash or higgins ! Lost 4 seconds on the F1 qualifying time i'd set !
Was pretty determined that i wasn't gonna let being a pudding stop me from riding the bike all day so lined up for F1 race 1 and the adrenylin of the start and lap 1 was all i felt, but by lap 5 (and a blue flag, shit was i going that slow) i was blowing hard and every breath was a moan so yep ANOTHER DNF
Got back into the pits and said to Heidi, you win !! Lol she had had a serious face on since i went down and was hard to get a smile out of her !!
So had her help me out of the leathers and went over to ask Terry gallway if he had found a battery for Jamies bike he was on the hunt for !
He hadn't so that was stripped out of mine and after F2 race one we also stripped the rear mount bolt (which had sheared during race 1 and left his gear lever sliding out) !
So there i was 2nd round in a row being the spectator lol Great to watch, but rather be out there and here i am now off my nut on morphine based pain killers rambling endlessly haha !
Have succumed to nurse Heidi and will go have some xrays tommorrow
No excuses ! I went into splash far too hot, too early in the day, on a tyre which i see now should not have been on there !
Still have a hell of a lot of fitness work to do and some running into brick walls wouldn't go astray to HTFU
Thanks to the guys and gals who give their time to marshall things out there so we can endulge !!!
Cheers !
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Originally Posted by Kickha
Karma ... Justice catches up eventually !! 
That's not good you sexy thing....the only good thing about a wee spill though is the drugs are goooooood!!! Heal up soon, stoked the bikes okay - it is funny when you're laying on the track unable to move and the only thing you can think about is 'how the fuck is my bike'!!! Been there ha
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