Newbie Thoughts

Hello all.

When I last wrote in July, I'd just completed my DAS and with 5 biking
days under my belt in total, went out and like a loon, bought a
CBR600F. Some of you wittily joked about seeing me in casualty.

I had several pleasant months, did 130ish on the deserted old A1 near
Wetherby, had plenty of fun in the sun etc.

And in December I lost the back wheel while doing about 15mph on a
damp bend in a retail park, highsided, broke my radial head bone in my
right arm, and did 1300 quids worth of damage to my third-party
insured, £2700 o.n.o beastie.

So may I say this to whom it may concern:

1) Even if you break an arm cleanly, it still takes at least 2 months
to get back to anything like normal, and the pain, inconvenience and
worry is NO FUN AT ALL, specially when you need to drive yer car to
get to work / the shops / the nursery etc. Maybe I should have learned
how to fall properly

2) If you think 1300 quid is a lot of money, get fully comp insurance.
Shit happens when you least expect it. But it certainly happens to
newbies!

3) Get some decent tyres.

That is all. I'm gonna pick up my newly fixed bike on saturday, having
heeded my own advice. But I might get something a bit more laid back
for the rest of this year. Anyone here had fun on a Honda Shadow?

Nighty night and take care.

 

Congrats !!!
Now you're a "real" biker ;-)

 

zootius wrote

Yes thanks but not the badly styled piece of crap you will be
considering.

 

Don't try to fix your bike too soon because it doesn't take much torque
on a typical spanner to reopen a partially healed fracture.

 

Ouch! What do you think of this? http://qurl.com/s8n1g

 

Very Herleigh-esque. Bit high mileage for a 52-plate cruiser, though.

--
platypus

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to
give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise
bald and unconvincing narrative."

 

platypus wrote

It is supposed to be innit. Poor man's Hardly and all that shit but
with added reliability

Import?

 

, Bear U bastard wrote

Dont you just hate that coffee-- brand new keyboard interface

DDastardly

 

No, but I had a blow job in a Ford Capri once if that helps.

 

Thats awful - Sir wants a nice Kawasaki Drifter:
http://www.kawasaki-online.de/catalog/images/vn800drifter.jpg
Just like the one i'm selling in fact.....

Steve

 

Slower Than You wrote;

I once had coitus interruptus in the front of a Ford Anglia.
The interruption was caused by the seat falling through the floor.
My how we (I) laughed...

 

Champ says...

There's a woman I know itimately who calls it a blow job when I go down
on her. I don't have the heart to try and correct her.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique,

I thoroughly recommend buying motorcycles from this man.

100% of the motorcycles I have bought from him have been a right fucking
laugh.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in
Performance Bikes and Fast Bikes

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer

 

Wicked Uncle Nigel says...

Oh come on, that's not saying much - I look at the list of bikes in your
..sig and piss myself laughing every time.

 

bzzt.

all it suggests is that it was a bloke at some point in the past -
around here I wouldn't make any assumptions.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lozzo

<haughty sniff>

You know *nothing*.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in
Performance Bikes and Fast Bikes

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer

 

You mean you don't blow as well as.....?

Ali

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, darsy

LOL. *Exactly* the same thought crossed my mind.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in
Performance Bikes and Fast Bikes

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer

 

Oooh ta - I'll put it on me CV.
I'm glad to see you're not dead yet - I take it you sorted the brakes
out?

Steve

 

one would assume that in an own-fault accident on a TP-insured bike,
the OP wouldn't be stupid enough to inform his insco...