Martyh 1. Kangaroo 0

It seems that Martyh Managed to kill a roo with the front of his bike on
the way to Hotham. Stayed upright, still riding.

Moike

 

Sheesh that bike has to go it is jinxed.

 

Naahhh, Marty's just getting the hang of this crashing thing!

Moike

 

Trust bloody Theo to start a trend...

Johno

Beer mate?

 

Struth, Marty. You've really got something against new paint jobs!

 

it wasn't a good weekend at the office.....

after doing the St Andrews/Kinglake Rd in the wet on Sat morning on the way
to Hotham, about 3 kms into the Kinglake Melba Hwy road I came around a left
hander at about 80kmh and as I exited there was a Wallaby about as tall as
the headlight just every slowly hopping across the road, From first seeing
it to impact was about 2 seconds.. I just held on for the ride, then WAM!

Joe(BVR) was behind me and saw the roo fly a good 4 mt back from where it
came and over 5mt forward, it was killed instantly and collected my leg with
its leg(I think) on the way through, I have a nice bruise on my shin

held it upright, cant even remember if I rolled off the throttle or not,
didn't apply any brakes.
I obviously did the right thing, there was no thought process just a
reaction and that was to hang on... none of this, well I could have do this
or done that.

bike is missing a good part of the nose cone, front guard is cactus, left
fairing is cracked but in one piece (that is fur sticking out of the cracks
and shit down the side) the front subframe might be twisted and the
thermo-fans are not working

http://www.martyh.com/temp/roo002.jpg
http://www.martyh.com/temp/roo007.jpg

so to top things off, got pulled over by Victoria's Finest, for doing
123kmh, he saw the damage and took pity on me and knocked it down to 111kmh,
he could have got me for having no indicator, I was just small bait, he was
after the Audi Turbo that was doing 160kmh on the Alpine way

Marty

 

Glad to hear your OK Marty, Even if the Roo & the Vifer aren't.
--
Aido. >
Bikeless. >

PS: Dunno why, But I thought the Vifer was Yella.

in message:

 

I mananged to go down with mine... I am sooo jealous of you Mine took
the front wheel out as it bolted across the road at the last minute, you
can see him dead at the end of the skid mark on this side of the road

http://members.iinet.net.au/~tgs7/trev/dscn1092.jpg

http://members.iinet.net.au/~tgs7/trev/dscn1094.jpg


--
Trevor S


"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
-Albert Einstein

 

Did you pick up all your bits of plastic? $15 worth of fibreglass and
she'll be right, mate! ;-)


BTH

 

The plastic has been strategically hidden for later pick up.

 

picked up last night and bloody useless, way to many pieces and to many
pieces missing

I now have a second hand nose cone and a front guard

mh