Went out this morning and decided to take the Bindit to work. rearranged the garage, got it out, would the bugger start? nope. rearranged the garage again, got the trumpet out, bimbled off down the road. Got to the end to the bugger of a junction. downward slope, pulling out to adverse camber and almost a u-turn onto a bend in the road which you can see nothing either way. go to pull out, glimpse out of the corner of my eye something approaching, stop. only to find my foot waving in mid air. *thump* I'm on the floor with the trumpet on top of me. bugger. Two nice blokes stop and pick it up only to find there's no-where flat enough to put the side stand down so on I get and bimble off to work swearing profusely. Damage to bike - scratches & crack in RHS fairing panel, slight scratch to top fairing, scratched engine casing and rear footrest hanger. Damage to me - sore hip Bound to happen sometime, could 've been worse. -- Adie (replace spam with nickname to reply) UKRM FAQ: http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ Triumph 955iSS / GSF1200 bandit (pending) / GSF600 bandit (for sale) / CG125 MRO#11 BOTAFOF#7 BOTAFOT#130 DIAABTCOD#17 MIB#24 YTC#16 BOB#15 ex-UKRMMA#22 BOMB#11
Done that myself - put foot down on top of a crisp packet. Apparently there is zero friction inside a crisp packet - it rolled under my foot and slid far enough to get me from a "normal vertical" position to "can just hold it up", then on through "probably a groin strain here" and on to the "bugger" position.
So what happened? I know you ended up on the floor but how did you get there? What was the thing you saw out of the corner of your eye? That is a bugger. When the nurse at A+E said that last time I needed to go, I said "yeah, I could've been riding a scooter" ;-)
*snort* thanks Platy, thats just what I needed. -- Adie (replace spam with nickname to reply) UKRM FAQ: http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ Triumph 955iSS / GSF1200 bandit (pending) / GSF600 bandit (for sale) / CG125 MRO#11 BOTAFOF#7 BOTAFOT#130 DIAABTCOD#17 MIB#24 YTC#16 BOB#15 ex-UKRMMA#22 BOMB#11
depends if I fix it or not. its only cosmetic which means as soon as I fix it it'll happen again. knowing that junction it'll happen again soon. no painkillers, just a bit of discomfort. -- Adie (replace spam with nickname to reply) UKRM FAQ: http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ Triumph 955iSS / GSF1200 bandit (pending) / GSF600 bandit (for sale) / CG125 MRO#11 BOTAFOF#7 BOTAFOT#130 DIAABTCOD#17 MIB#24 YTC#16 BOB#15 ex-UKRMMA#22 BOMB#11
as I started to pull forward I saw something coming. things along there tend to be going quickly and given I need to do almost a U turn to turn right on a fairly narrow road, doing it into oncoming traffic isnt a good thing. so I stopped. unfortunately that meant that the front wheel was now just about onto the road and higher. my leg was now in the gap (think of a V with my foot at the lowest point and both wheels at the highest). nice. -- Adie (replace spam with nickname to reply) UKRM FAQ: http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ Triumph 955iSS / GSF1200 bandit (pending) / GSF600 bandit (for sale) / CG125 MRO#11 BOTAFOF#7 BOTAFOT#130 DIAABTCOD#17 MIB#24 YTC#16 BOB#15 ex-UKRMMA#22 BOMB#11
You want one of those concave mirrors on a stick, you do, help you see what's coming round the corner(s) Oh shit, I've done that as well. Hurt me wrist trying to keep the bugger from falling but failed. Get Andy to rub stuff into your hip
I had a moment like that with the Trophy once - turning left off the B4070 to go down Birdlip Hill, roll up to the stop line and find there's about six inches of clear air between my outstretched left foot and the floor. Eek. A few seconds of wobbly trials-rider stuff while I determine that it's safe to emerge, then off down the hill, cursing...
Indeed, my first perpetual motion machine made extensive use of crisp packets. -- AndrewR, D.Bot (Celeritas) Kawasaki ZX-6R J1 BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL) BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, TEAR#3 (and KotL), DS#5, COSOC#9, KotTFSTR# The speccy Geordie twat.
*cough* not when he aint around it wont. Marmite is going *nowhere* near my body. its bad enough that there's some in the fridge. -- Adie (replace spam with nickname to reply) UKRM FAQ: http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ Triumph 955iSS / GSF1200 bandit (pending) / GSF600 bandit (for sale) / CG125 MRO#11 BOTAFOF#7 BOTAFOT#130 DIAABTCOD#17 MIB#24 YTC#16 BOB#15 ex-UKRMMA#22 BOMB#11
What sort of consistency though? Could it pass for cream (that's real cream, out of a cow originally, before anyone says otherwise) ?