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Hi Matt

Sorry to read about your ground hugging episode..... here is a sick tale to make you feel better about not having a helmet on...

Up to a year ago I rode a Honda Fireblade motorbike......for a 60 year old it was a bit of fun that perhaps I should have thought about in depth a lot more than I did.

I pulled a few wheelies (by accident) that got me noted at the bike club, and entered corners far to quickly many times, but the Fireblade is a bike bred from the racetrack so it was kind to me....it never threw me off even when I deserved it.... I was soon to ride my luck too far....

I rode past a garage one evening where someone had overfilled his car with diesel and it spilled out onto the road, needless to say I discovered it......

I was about to lean the bike over and scoot round a roundabout in style when all traction was lost...
The bike sat up, tried to "high side" me...failed...then took a short cut over the roundabout and associated flower beds. Not bad so far...I came off the other side of the roundabout and just missed the back of a bus.....still luck is with me....I pulled over sharpish and shock hit me big time.

I felt very ill and threw up before I could get my helmet off....nice.....

It cost me about £600 for two new wheels and tyres plus £300 for a new helmet....I always raised my visor and smelt the air around garages and roundabouts from that day on.....

I have no doubt you will never forget to un lock your forks again.....better still get the lever on your handlebars like wot I got.....

Anyway it is haloween so you will fit rite in with the munsters on the streets over the weekend

Seeyah saturday

Mike

ouch sounds painfull, go on matt post a pic , hope you heal quickly
all the best, cliff

Hi Matt Happen as well you landed on your head otherwise you might have hurt yourself

Hope you get better soon


regards pete

I won't even begin to go into my escapades, you might be eating and it would only make a mess in your lap. I think the repair bill on my last (road) bike was in the region of £4k, the bike only cost £6.5k new??

Glad to hear that you are up and about, the internal bruising usually hurts more than the external stuff, but a couple of weeks and it will be a distant memory. We learn nothing from getting it right, we only learn from our mistakes, and experience is what you get right after you needed it.

You can always tell people that the injuries were sustained during hand to hand combat with 12 Taliban insurgents during a recent cloak and dagger operation at a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Bognor Regis, no one will be any the wiser. :~

See you tomorrow!! (I won't laugh...much! )

Rob G

ill post a picture when i have healed, i'd like people that havent met me before to know what i looked like before i had my slight whoopsie loL!

@mickyb ..... EWWWW!

@971wright ..... gee, thanks for that mate.

@ICEmonkey..as i said when im better ill take another as a sort of revursed before / after

@wibbly...... don't worry, you laugh at me normally anyway

cheers guys,

Matt

It,s ok for you guys i,ll see him at 5.30am tomorrow ..
Fleshy................................

eek LOL

see you tommorow pete, and don't ask me to take off my mask when i see you please

LOL

cheers mate,

Matt

Mat get well soon road rash is no fun best wishes Joe

Sorry to hear that Matdragon. Hope the wound heal quick.

What no video? You tube's loss. The lady's love a scar Matt