So there I was at Brands.........

[The Tramp]

Now you've had time to chill, drink an Ironbru and consume a couple of packets on Jaffa cakes....

Where's your head at Neil?

Ps can we start joking about it yet?

[mckeann]

its never too soon to joke about it.

Infact, the guy who ran over to check i was ok said:

guy: are you ok?

Me: yes. fk. fk. fk.

Guy: THAT WAS fkING BRILLIANT.


It did make me chuckle immediately.

[R1 Loon]

At least your damage is just superficial. Maybe we could come up with a working bie between us.

[mckeann]

i'm not sure i could be seen dead wearing your fairings

[R1 Loon]

mckeann said:

i'm not sure i could be seen dead wearing your fairings

Ahhhh, a Celt then, as otherwise you'd be ecstatic with it.

I'm in Glasgow at the moment and the office banter is bordering on death threats

[mckeann]

they're just being friendly. Unless its about football

i could do a saltire on my new fairings, and we could have a race. Winner gets independance and the oil money

[The Tramp]

You could be on to something here....

The two of you could joust in the pit lane during lunch for our entertainment....

[R1 Loon]

mckeann said:

they're just being friendly. Unless its about football

i could do a saltire on my new fairings, and we could have a race. Winner gets independance and the oil money

Thing is I've got the Union Flag not a St Geroge's Cross on mine, so at least it's all inclusive, hell I've even got room for the Welsh on there (Ryan Giggs is a Manc, so I can't even give them credit for that).

I'm guessing you've got all the oil money already if you can afford £3,000 for the US CSS course anyway

[mckeann]

says the man with soon to be 2 horses. I have to make do with riding the dog (ooh eer)

[Biker's Nemesis]

Its funny watching the rich arguing about who has the least money

[Castrol Craig]

Biker's Nemesis said:

Its funny watching the rich arguing about who has the least money

its even funnier, and even more ironic, seeing a man richer than the pair laughing at them...

[R1 Loon]

mckeann said:

says the man with soon to be 2 horses. I have to make do with riding the dog (ooh eer)

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Biker's Nemesis said:

Its funny watching the rich arguing about who has the least money

See below

Castrol Craig said:

its even funnier, and even more ironic, seeing a man richer than the pair laughing at them...

[Castrol Craig]

R1 Loon said:

mckeann said:

says the man with soon to be 2 horses. I have to make do with riding the dog (ooh eer)

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Biker's Nemesis said:

Its funny watching the rich arguing about who has the least money

See below

Castrol Craig said:

its even funnier, and even more ironic, seeing a man richer than the pair laughing at them...

O/T did you hear anything about that s1000rr at the part of co?

[mckeann]

Biker's Nemesis said:

Its funny watching the rich arguing about who has the least money

can i just say, i'm really not that rich, and at £700 per 25 minutes on track, i'll be very poor shortly.

[Biker's Nemesis]

mckeann said:

Biker's Nemesis said:

Its funny watching the rich arguing about who has the least money

can i just say, i'm really not that rich, and at £700 per 25 minutes on track, i'll be very poor shortly.

I've had a few days like that.

All you can do is laugh and shrug it off.

[R1 Loon]

Castrol Craig said:

O/T did you hear anything about that s1000rr at the part of co?

Yep. The one I was looking at went for £9800, which is a bit bizarre, as you can pick up an undamaged road one for around that.

Too many people getting giddy with their bids to make anything worthwhile currently.

[Castrol Craig]

R1 Loon said:

Castrol Craig said:

O/T did you hear anything about that s1000rr at the part of co?

Yep. The one I was looking at went for £9800, which is a bit bizarre, as you can pick up an undamaged road one for around that.

Too many people getting giddy with their bids to make anything worthwhile currently.

nuts. i was the same when watching the blades go on friday...astonishing prices.

[mckeann]

Holy thread resurection batman


Details to follow tomorrow. And pictures

[mitzy]

Laugh out loud x you found it

[bennyboysvuk]

mckeann said:

i put 16 stone of me thru the screen, which took most of the left hand side fairing with it. I snapped a rearset too.

Was overtaking a slower rider round the outside at clearways, obviously off line, realised i was running wide, froze, ran wider. Sat bike up and went into gravel at mega mph. Got a death wobble on in the deep gravel, and the bike threw me through the screen. Supposedly the bike followed me in a perfectly coordinated front roll.

I lost the front going round the outside of a slower rider on the dirty part of the track at Clearways on my first trackday. The bike was mostly in one piece after the resulting crash, but scratched to hell and I'd bent the forks too. I got it repaired and then promptly wrote it off on the road about 2 months later.

Get back on and enjoy. You'll find that with more track time, when you make a mistake or mis-judge something, it's by far less and you usually just have a moment or run off track a little rather than have a crash like the one you just experienced. Good luck with getting it fixed up.