Andrew wrote:
> I did exactly the same thing myself this evening, except when I swerved I
> missed the car in front by millimetres. Glad to hear you're (relatively)
> undamaged - ribs are supposed to heal well if you don't alter the
> positions of the broken bits by doing something silly, like e.g.
> breathing.
>
> What I did wrong was starting to accelerate to make the lane change as I
> was doing the head check. If I'd just pootled into the adjacent lane like
> some of the car drivers further up, I wouldn't have got so close to the
> suddenly stopping car in front.

While it would be nice to have somebody else to commiserate with (in
an "I know how you feel!" kind of way), I'm happy that you avoided the
same fate.


BTH

VTR250 wrote:
> On Mar 15, 10:07 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.
>>
>> 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
>
> Bad luck, Mate. It could have been worse though -- you could've hit
> a Rolls Royce (tail light sections cost $2000 each). How fast wast
> the traffic moving?
Bentley tried to t bone me this morning on the GC
nice red one driven by a very small woman , barrelled the stop and
ignored every one of the screeching stops around her

Yeebok wrote:
> Ouch - not good BT, As others have said though, long as nothing on you
> is broken it's not so bad an outcome. May the expense of repairs be
> minimal

My own repairs will be practically $0 - I can strip all the
replacements off my "parts bike".

The other guy's car will be the nasty one, seeing as how I'm self-
insured. His insurance company called today, so I should know by the
end of the week.


BTH

"Nev.." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:-(E-Mail Removed)...
> atec 77 wrote:
>
>> Bentley tried to t bone me this morning on the GC
>> nice red one driven by a very small woman , barrelled the stop and
>> ignored every one of the screeching stops around her
>
> There may be a bounty to whoever can decipher WTF WTF77 is trying to say.
>
> Nev..
> '08 DL1000K8

I wont try because you say Nev, that I can't even decipher what you say.

"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.

Fixing bikes is fun. At least you are ok mate.

Fraser

"BT Humble" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:d1e696e0-1a02-4c1b-985a-(E-Mail Removed)...
> 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).

Cracked ribs suck. Forget about laughing/sneezing/coughing/orgasming for the
next few months.

Fraser

Fraser Johnston wrote:
> "BT Humble" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:d1e696e0-1a02-4c1b-985a-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> 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).
>
> Cracked ribs suck. Forget about laughing/sneezing/coughing/orgasming for the
> next few months.
>
Not to mention breathing.
Commiserations BT.


--
Elsie.

Fraser Johnston wrote:
> Cracked ribs suck. *Forget about laughing/sneezing/coughing/orgasming for the
> next few months.

This isn't my first time with cracked ribs. At least this time I
don't have the broken nose and concussion to go with it.


BTH

BT Humble wrote:
> Fraser Johnston wrote:
>> Cracked ribs suck. Forget about laughing/sneezing/coughing/orgasming for the
>> next few months.
>
> This isn't my first time with cracked ribs. At least this time I
> don't have the broken nose and concussion to go with it.
>
>
> BTH
Well it might be arranged

BT Humble wrote:
> Fraser Johnston wrote:
>> Cracked ribs suck. Forget about laughing/sneezing/coughing/orgasming for the
>> next few months.
>
> This isn't my first time with cracked ribs. At least this time I
> don't have the broken nose and concussion to go with it.
>
>
> BTH

I really really don't recommend sneezing with concussion and broken ribs
(and I'm sure having a broken nose would only make it worse!).



G-S