Hit from behind at the lights on the A11 roundabout under Bow flyover this morning on my way to work. I came round from the A12 slip, first set was green so I went through, second set went amber as I approached so I stopped at the line, guy in a Peugeot behind didn’t. Rear subframe’s bent up, mudguard shattered, seat unit and undertray cracked. Silencer was pushed up and separated from the headers (very loud!) so may have damaged them too. I reckon that’s going to make a '99 with 74k on it an uneconomical repair. His car and insurance details checked out so over to the legal services.
damn shame… hope youre ok…
Hope your ok, and I have a yellow bike too, they are car magnets, never again will I own a yellow bike, never had so many near misses and people just driving into me. It got so bad a little while ago I was considering a halfords spray can of matt black paint.
Just been to get checked out, have typical whiplash-type back muscle injury, not serious. Painkillers and alcohol don’t mix, do they?
That’s not the same as typical whiplash injury, which you normally have to pay a lot for. 
This has happened to me three times, once with a pillion on the back who suffered back pain for months and got a £3k payout from the driver’s insurers.
Very sorry to hear this, and I hope you make a speedy recovery. Sounds like your bike is a writeoff, but at least now you can start choosing its replacement…
Sorry to hear this. Hope the injured back is okay in the long run. Traffic light phasing can be a biatch eh? Had a yellow car once and never had anyone drive into it. Apparently black (for cars) is the colour most likely to be crashed.
Hope it all goes your way for ya. GWS too.
MickyWiz
Just been to get checked out, have typical whiplash-type back muscle injury, not serious. Painkillers and alcohol don’t mix, do they?
So throw out the pain killers, they’ll do you no good at all.
Pain is natures way of telling you to take things a bit easy or not to do something. Mask those messages and you can end up like a lot of American pro football players living on steroids, cortezone, and Nembutol.
Stick with the alcohol. That wears off the next day and nature reminds you you’re crocked.
Better yet, hot baths and pile in the Zeds.