on me way home from…braked…very lightly anyway due to the weather, and the next thing i knew i was sliding down the road with my bike towards a car:w00t: i missed the car but my bike didnt…slammed into the under side and destroyed the front platics and few other bits i slid 3oft in a pair of teddy smith jeans, they held up well, but i have bashed my knee, same on hurt in a previous off…bugger
god knows what happened, happned fast i know that, from quite low speed too,.
Awwww mate so sorry to see this:crying: even more sorry is our Zak he’s actually crying! he too sends you his best wishes and hopes thumper2 can be repaired.
Argh, very sorry to hear this, but I hope you and the bike get healed quickly.
Incidents like this are the reason I think ABS should be compulsory on all bikes. When I did my DAS some years back, the other guy who was doing his at the same time did his braking practice during the morning of the test and, without warning, the front locked up and whack, he was down. Dry road surface, no diesel or anything.
That incident properly dented both our confidence (didn’t stop us from passing though).
thanks for the messages, feelign rather down at the mo, im 3PT&F only, so i am hoping the forks and front wheel are straight;)
i’m pretty sure there was no diesel, maybe oil, maybe just a case of a cold damp road and a cold tyre and somnething i done, or maybe not, i have noidea, but in the main im uninjured so its all gooooood!
Or maybe it was a sticky caliper. I’m hearing of a few this winter with all that salt about, corroding and gumming up the pads and pistons… anyway good luck with it.