Paging Ogden

I dropped it <G>

Not because of the new tyres[1]. Oh no, that would've been too easy.
Instead I was taken off by some Italian **** of a bus driver that didn't
know the length of his vehicle.[2]

[1]Fancy seeing you at FWR
[2]Waiting at the front of a queue and the bastard cut the corner.

 

<snigger> It must be the weather for it. When I came home from Brighton
last night I had a weird sense that something "big" was about to happen.
Luckily for me I got home in one piece.

Censored because you were going fast or censored because you cable
failed. I don't think I got to more than 40mph the whole way home.
There's about two inches of chicken strip on each side as well. Must do
something about that.

Actually yes. I was worried the bars would break like Bakelite if it
ever went down but even the levers escaped unscathed. When he did
finally stop the bike was under the bus. If he'd have carried on he
would've run over it, reversed and he'd have dragged it backwards. The
good thing is that I just got hold of the back of it and dragged it into
the middle of the road and picked it back up. A few scratches on the
casings but a bit of exhaust paint and it will be "good as new". Had it
had a fairing I'm almost certain I'd be looking at a write off.

 

ogden wrote

Last night going along in traffic and the cage 5 in front puts on his
stopping lights, I slip to the inside lane, like you do, as the cage 3
in front puts on his stopping lights. I was just drawing level with the
front of the cage 2 in front when he hit the back of the cage 3 in
front. All slow motion glass and bodywork and smoke from his tyres and
stuff it was, like a ninja movie and happening right next to me. I
laughed so much that I fucked off.

 

Not sure I'd have done it that quickly but if an emergency stop happens
and your wheels lock but the tyres still go round I'd say you need a bit
more time running them in.

Yeah, it was a bit weird not having to haul it over just to go round a
car.

I heard that, brother.

 

steve auvache wrote:
[...]

So what happened to the cages 1 and 4, out of curiosity?
Did they just vanish?

 

Sounds like DP, out to prove a point.

 

the cont known as Salad Dodger says...

Heh, you seem to know him so well.

 

Crumbs... Hope everything is ok mate.

 

My life's a bit boring atm[1] but apart from that everything's peachy.

[1] Let's see what fate deals me between now and 5th April.

 

Marc D wrote

Dunno, I had issues of me own to deal with as my filtering skills go all
to pieces when laughing hysterically.