well guys I did it !!

Stacked my pink bike in a car park on gravel and busted my knee.

No broken bones, but cartlidge and muscle and tendon damage.

aren't wheel chairs a great invention.
I guess some of us aren't meant to ride. :-(

So much for going on the toy ride on December 4th.
Can someone take a toy for me please ?

My thoughts are with you all

Happy riding

Charmayne

 

Charmayne is of the opinion:

Ouch, bugger bugger. Gravel always sucks.

Bollocks. Everyone will stack it at one time or another. Get your knee
back into shape and jump back on.

Take your own toy, dammit! Jump on the back of someone else's bike. You'll
have no shortage of takers. You can even stick those half-stick crutches on
a bike (mate of mine does it all the time).

- Matt

 

PINK??????????????????????????

 

You just need to find someone with a pink trike who has room for a passenger.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R

 

Amazingly slippery stuff, that gravel. You'll be more careful next
time, won't you. (I know I was.)

It hurts, It heals.

Just wait till you qualify for one of those natty electric thingies.

That may be true, but if a single low-speed stack in a gravel carpark
were a fair basis for the judgment, there would be precious few of us
out there.

Do you like riding?

If you can't get back on the bike by then, I'm sure you would be able to
find plenty of volunteers to take you pillion. Some might even behave
themselves. Dirty old men are usually harmless.... ;-)

ah... that's noice

Thank you, I will.

Moike

 

Woohoo! Silly you, hope you mend. How's the bike?

(The important question for you to consider: gravel doesn't lead
to inevitably falling off. What could you have done better?)

Bollocks! If I had a dollar for every time I've fallen off,
I'd have, uh, not very much left because I would have spent
it on beer if I'd had it anyway. But, uh, it would have
been a reasonable amount of beer, especially since I mostly
fell off while I was learning, and a dollar was worth more
then.

Now, a fellow I know who wrote off his Spada in the second
corner he'd ever been 'round, and then fell off during his
rider training course and (compound) fractured his leg,
he, arguably, wasn't meant to ride ...

-----sharks

PS: FOR SALE: 1999 VTR250, VGC, Red, 37kkm, Melbourne, $5500 ONO.

 

You shouldn't try to stack bikes. It's much safer to just put them side by
side.

 

I tell you what, I don't think I've ever encountered anything quite so
slippery as the dust on the cement of the Beaurepairs joint I used to work
next-door to. There was an area of concrete under cover, where we used to
park our bikes, which was right in front of where they did most of the truck
tyres. It was just ridiculous how easily the front would lock under brakes.
I dropped my KR250 at about 10kph on that stuff. No idea why it was so
slippery though......if you went around the other side of our building, it
was the same concrete but nowhere near as dodgy to ride on.

MrBonk
www.mrbonk.com

 

I wouldn't let one off stop you Charmayne, not if you want to keep riding.

I bounced off a car at 80kph (a long time ago now) when it came straight
through a stop sign in front of me... and I'm told I did a great
superman impersonation for several seconds as I flew through the air
afterwards.

It took many months before I got back on a bike, and even then the first
time I rode I rode for about 2 minutes and got off shaking.

Sometimes the mental barrier is almost as hard to overcome as the
physical injury.

It is still your choice if you are meant for riding or not


G-S

 

...and what's wrong with that?

regards,
CrazyCam

 

Cue Pisshead

TB

 

The bike suffered a broken headlight and broken blinker.

I'm afraid thats all I seen before being carted away in the ambulance.

I'm not going to give up yet. But I've been advised that its going to take a
few months to heal.

I just hope I can get a chance to practice before I'm due to do my P's test.

Otherwise I'll have to start again at the pre learners ;-(

Thanks for all your support, and I'll probably chatting here alot while I'm
recuperating.

Cheers
Charmayne

 

Bugger! :-( Although I must point out that you still haven't got the
hang of being a motorcyclist.

The correct form is to annouce the gravity attack, then list the damage
to the bike, _then_ (and optionally) list the damage to yourself.

Otherwise you get postings like: "Never mind the knee, how's the bike?"

Nothing too lasting, I hope.

Actually, I'm not sure about that. They dead set beat being stuck in
bed, but, I suspect that they really could do with some serious
modernizations.....they really don't handle (unless it's your long term
one, and tweaked) they don't stop too good either, and getting them up
half the ramps in shopping centres can be a challenge.

As a general statement, yes, I have to agree with you...there are folk
who probably should give it away. But, in your particular case, one
has to suspect that you might be giving up just a mite prematurely.....

Dunno....it is your call.

There are other toy rides.....

Thanks.


regards,
CrazyCam

 

You've had the bike less than three months I assume?...

Toosmoky
Ride the Penguin...
http://toosmoky.d2.net.au

 

Less talk.. more recuperating

TB

 

Plenty of room on the trike for pink bits, TB!

 

Second or third time around the clock?

 

I've had the bike about a month.

Thats sad isn't it :-(

 

Why is mine the only bullshit detector going off here?

--
Cheers
Dave (Mojo67)
FZR600 >> ZX6R >> ??? Brisbane
http://users.bigpond.net.au/mojo67/mojo67.htm
I used to never be able to finish anything but now I

 

Hear that Charmayne

TB