Oh bollocks!

Arse. Went to gf's place tonight, pulled up outside her house on the
B12. Brakes on, neutral, foot down, WOOPS! mud on road. A slow,
gentle fall to the right. Minor scratches to the end can and pulse
generator cover [1], and the sacrificial end of the front brake lever
went "ping" somewhere. I've only had the fucker three weeks, if there
is a god listening you don't want me to die matey 'cos when I do I'm
coming for you.

On a positive note two of Carlisle's finest thieving scrotes are
currently languishing in the Cumberland Infirmary after being knocked
off the Yamaha trailie they'd nicked earlier in the day. Maybe there
is balance after all.
http://www.news-and-star.co.uk/viewarticle.asp?id=60899

[1] Which almost exactly match the ones which the B6 had when I bought
it, and now I know how it got them.

 

Ah well; that's the first one over and done with. Now you don't have to
worry about it.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

Darren Robinson said...

Damn shame,

Oh well, now it's fucked you may as well chuck a bucket off matt black
paint over it now and enjoy it without worrying about any further
damage.

 

Indeed. Buy some fucked up panels and tank from a breaker and do a swap.

 

It says that they are in serious but not life threatening condition.
Damn. Anyone want to help change that statement please?
I hate bike thieves, I really do.

 

How annoying.

 

Bugger.

I did the same within the first week of owning the 9R.
It was a tad embarassing walking into the dealer:
Dealer: "Hi, how are you enjoying the new bike?"
Me: "Er, have you got a r/h indicator stem and brake lever in stock?"

 

Clumsy bugger.

Does that count as a "bin"?

 

Bandits *really* don't like to be upright, do they.

 

In the context of FBOTY, you mean? I fear not - wasn't there talk of
_serious_ damage to the bike/broken
bones/hospitalisation/death/writeoff being required to qualify?

I think it should, personally, but there you go.

 

I'll second that.

Darren: pop over some time if you want the scratches polished out of the
can.

I thought the rules said that there had to be some actual bodily harm
involved?

 

On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 00:08:33 +0000, Darren Robinson
<> bored us all completely to death
with wittery prose along the lines of:

Ooops. Mined Ewe, I liked your last sentence...

 

CT said...

I had to do that within 10 minutes of buying my Firestorm, the first
brand new bike I'd bought in 18 years. I dropped it on a manhole cover
within one mile of picking it up.

 

Might take you up on that, although the can isn't polished anyway, and
it's a small scrape on the leading edge. Needs a run of >20 miles as
well. Running in at this time of year was not a good plan.

 

Could be worse. You could have dropped your brand new bike inside a
garage, hitting your brother's bike in the process. That would have been
really embarrassing.

Believe me, I speak from experience.

 

Part of my reason for buying an unfaired bike was that I'd drop it and
I wouldn't want to spend a grand replacing the bodywork.

So some **** drove into it instead. Ah well, there goes a tenner, and who
needs working indicators anyway?