About an hour ago, on the way to work. So far as I can tell I either
took too long for a lane-change head check or chose precisely the
wrong moment to make it, because when I looked back ahead the queue of
traffic had abruptly stopped.

I *almost* made it, too. I swerved hard to the left of the car in
front but clipped the guy's left taillight and hit his back bumper
with my right fork leg, which snapped off the AVDS doohickey:

http://www.khi.co.jp/mcycle/museum/g...ges/p_avds.gif

That pretty much sealed the deal for a relatively low-speed lowside, I
took a tumble down the road and just for once didn't end up with 250kg
of motorbike lying on my leg.

So the damage amounts to a broken left taillight and a plastic bumper
with a gouge out of it on the car (a Peugeot hatchback). My bike has
a broken front indicator, a chunk snapped off the top of the fairing
screen, and the anti-dive unit cracked off the right fork leg. The
forks are slightly twisted in the triple clamps, hopefully the
stanchion tubes aren't bent.

Oh, and my long-suffering left ribs have taken another bruising, but
they're not hurting enough to indicate cracks or breaks this time.


BTH

"BT Humble" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1428fa04-9d9f-4ad9-8c73-(E-Mail Removed)...
> About an hour ago, on the way to work. So far as I can tell I either
> took too long for a lane-change head check or chose precisely the
> wrong moment to make it, because when I looked back ahead the queue of
> traffic had abruptly stopped.
>
> I *almost* made it, too. I swerved hard to the left of the car in
> front but clipped the guy's left taillight and hit his back bumper
> with my right fork leg, which snapped off the AVDS doohickey:
>
> http://www.khi.co.jp/mcycle/museum/g...ges/p_avds.gif
>
> That pretty much sealed the deal for a relatively low-speed lowside, I
> took a tumble down the road and just for once didn't end up with 250kg
> of motorbike lying on my leg.
>
> So the damage amounts to a broken left taillight and a plastic bumper
> with a gouge out of it on the car (a Peugeot hatchback). My bike has
> a broken front indicator, a chunk snapped off the top of the fairing
> screen, and the anti-dive unit cracked off the right fork leg. The
> forks are slightly twisted in the triple clamps, hopefully the
> stanchion tubes aren't bent.
>
> Oh, and my long-suffering left ribs have taken another bruising, but
> they're not hurting enough to indicate cracks or breaks this time.
>
>
> BTH

Bugger **** bum. Glad you're ok, if a bit sore.

betty

On Mar 15, 7:07*am, BT Humble <b...@humbletown.org> wrote:
> About an hour ago, on the way to work. *So far as I can tell I either
> took too long for a lane-change head check or chose precisely the
> wrong moment to make it, because when I looked back ahead the queue of
> traffic had abruptly stopped.

Oh, with Bingle constantly in the news this week I thought you were
talking about Lara.

> So the damage amounts to a broken left taillight and a plastic bumper
> with a gouge out of it on the car (a Peugeot hatchback). *My bike has
> a broken front indicator, a chunk snapped off the top of the fairing
> screen, and the anti-dive unit cracked off the right fork leg. *The
> forks are slightly twisted in the triple clamps, hopefully the
> stanchion tubes aren't bent.

That looks expensive.

> Oh, and my long-suffering left ribs have taken another bruising, but
> they're not hurting enough to indicate cracks or breaks this time.

Sounds like a reasonable outcome.

Theo

"BT Humble" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1428fa04-9d9f-4ad9-8c73-(E-Mail Removed)...
> About an hour ago, on the way to work. So far as I can tell I either
> took too long for a lane-change head check or chose precisely the
> wrong moment to make it, because when I looked back ahead the queue of
> traffic had abruptly stopped.
>
> I *almost* made it, too. I swerved hard to the left of the car in
> front but clipped the guy's left taillight and hit his back bumper
> with my right fork leg, which snapped off the AVDS doohickey:
>
> http://www.khi.co.jp/mcycle/museum/g...ges/p_avds.gif
>
> That pretty much sealed the deal for a relatively low-speed lowside, I
> took a tumble down the road and just for once didn't end up with 250kg
> of motorbike lying on my leg.
>
> So the damage amounts to a broken left taillight and a plastic bumper
> with a gouge out of it on the car (a Peugeot hatchback). My bike has
> a broken front indicator, a chunk snapped off the top of the fairing
> screen, and the anti-dive unit cracked off the right fork leg. The
> forks are slightly twisted in the triple clamps, hopefully the
> stanchion tubes aren't bent.
>
> Oh, and my long-suffering left ribs have taken another bruising, but
> they're not hurting enough to indicate cracks or breaks this time.
>
>
> BTH

Bugger, thought you had got hold of another shower photo of Lara

On 15/03/2010 1:25 PM, George W Frost wrote:

> Bugger, thought you had got hold of another shower photo of Lara

Funny, she's got her tits out all over the net in high-def professional
photos and a grainy shot of her in the shower is the biggest thing since
WWII...

--
Toosmoky
Work to ride, Ride to Work...
http://users.tpg.com.au/smokey61/cafe

On 15/03/2010 1:25 PM, George W Frost wrote:

> Bugger, thought you had got hold of another shower photo of Lara

"So where the bloody hell are you?..."

Keeping our distance Lara, keeping our distance.

--
Toosmoky
Work to ride, Ride to Work...
http://users.tpg.com.au/smokey61/cafe

Toosmoky wrote:
> On 15/03/2010 1:25 PM, George W Frost wrote:
>
>> Bugger, thought you had got hold of another shower photo of Lara
>
> Funny, she's got her tits out all over the net in high-def professional
> photos and a grainy shot of her in the shower is the biggest thing since
> WWII...
>
Highly pixilated

On 2010-03-15, theo (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> On Mar 15, 7:07Â*am, BT Humble <b...@humbletown.org> wrote:
>> About an hour ago, on the way to work. Â*So far as I can tell I either
>> took too long for a lane-change head check or chose precisely the
>> wrong moment to make it, because when I looked back ahead the queue of
>> traffic had abruptly stopped.
>
> Oh, with Bingle constantly in the news this week I thought you were
> talking about Lara.

Nah, they've been talking about a trainwreck.

BT, I do hope you're not practising to win the hardluck award at the
unaugural.

I had my first o-**** moment yesterday. It'd be nice if all car
drivers reliably did headchecks before pulling out to overtake. No
use sticking the indicator on and finally doing the headcheck when
you're already halfway into the opposite lane and the rider beside you
is making a frantic effort to stay out from the ditch.

--
TimC
> Bugger you guys.
> The babelfish is idempotent on the set above.
I'm afraid that isn't a very good pickup line either, Tim. - MaryG

On Mar 15, 3:06*pm, Toosmoky <toosm...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 15/03/2010 1:25 PM, George W Frost wrote:
>
> > Bugger, thought you had got hold of another shower photo of Lara
>
> Funny, she's got her tits out all over the net in high-def professional
> photos and a grainy shot of her in the shower is the biggest thing since
> WWII...

Lack of consent tends to interest people... and then the hypocrites
pile on...

JL

JohnO wrote:
> Ouch! you be careful mate - you have that mad mob to look after in
> May.
>
> Johno
>
> Girly drink?

No thanks Johno, I'm on the Strong Drugs. It's beginning to feel like
a cracked rib, rather than just a bruised one. (My left side ribs are
a bit weak, having been broken twice before).


BTH