i crashed :(

Adam K · Post by **Adam K** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:32 pm

ouchy.

Post by **masterofinsanity** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:33 pm

roadkill? how bad?

Adam K · Post by **Adam K** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:36 pm

errrr, well i picked up the new bike at 1pm and had crashed it by 2am that night

fucking oil on a dark unlit country road near my house.

holed the genny cover so the bike spunked its oil all over the road to add to the stuff that was already there, and it's fecked the lower left fairing.

that is the main damage, but other stuff has minor damage like the top fairing and mirror.

glad it wasn't on the exhaust side of the bike.

unfortunately cos these triumph tt's are so rare there is no spare parts on ebay.

triumph want Â£290+vat for a new lower fairing

RedexRobB · Post by **RedexRobB** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 4:01 pm

Oh you crashed the TT, f***! Least your ok, your wallet might not be tho!

Adam K · Post by **Adam K** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 4:15 pm

on the plus side i didn't hit my Â£450 arai on the floor, lol.

that was my first day back riding after a 3 year rest.

nice start to the season :smt013

RedexRobB · Post by **RedexRobB** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:54 pm

first time back?! oh dear, thought you still had it then???

superman · Post by **superman** » Tue May 01, 2007 9:10 am

if the farin needs bits of plastic fixing or made up you can get some stuff called plastex from e bay its like 30 quid but its good stuff you could fix the damaged plastics an get a respray for a bomb lower than 290. iv done it with my sp seat an its worked a treat all i need now is the respray.

dan76 · Post by **dan76** » Wed May 02, 2007 10:50 pm

i nearly crashed on sunday. rounding a long sweeping bend around the 100mph mark that i thought i knew very well.it tightened up and i had no choice but drift across the white line and just missed a merc comin the other way. i'll watch that one the next time

superman · Post by **superman** » Thu May 03, 2007 8:55 am

I had that about a month ago, except i pulled the brake overshot the corner an just missed 2 cars
shat myself good an proper

Hellzone · Post by **Hellzone** » Thu May 03, 2007 10:07 pm

are you ok?

dan76 · Post by **dan76** » Thu May 03, 2007 10:44 pm

it has that effect on you. i'm never goin to live it down though cos the guy behind had a camcorder mounted on the tank an got the whole thing. next club meeting i'll be expectin to see it all on tv in the club house

superman · Post by **superman** » Fri May 04, 2007 8:35 am

lol at least you can laugh about it thoe just think if it went the other way an u came off
A/ you could have died or
B/ you survived made a full recovery an then the bloke shows the vid of you binin it (even worse)

bit like richard hammond everyone laughed at him when jeremy clarkson interviewd him but if he would have pegged it.

dan76 · Post by **dan76** » Fri May 04, 2007 11:54 pm

true, i rekoned it would have been better hittin the side of him with a glancin blow compared to droppin it and goin underneath him, ouch. luckily neither happened.

Adam K · Post by **Adam K** » Mon May 07, 2007 1:56 pm

back on the road again. damage repaired and i'm pretty sure it's running better than it was before now it's had an oil change!

dan76 · Post by **dan76** » Mon May 07, 2007 11:23 pm

you'll take it a bit easier in the dark from now on then.