Over the bars!

[Taita]

Tarmac. Hard.

Pootling along at 40 along the Nantwich Crewe (IIRC) road, near Bunbury, going round an medium left leading into a long right. Was wet grass on the road and it started to slip away (only just scrubbed new tyres in). Managed to recover that by getting upright, but that cocked up my position on the corner and I ran wide into the verge, snapping a roadside sign in two and going over the bars and to the right then for a trip along the tarmac. Have left the bike at my uncles house until I can source a van this week.

On reflection, if I had kept my bottle and stayed on I think I could have ridden it round and just scared myself. However, if I'd tried that and failed, it would have been me snapping the sign with my body rather than the bike. I am SO lucky. Can't stop reliving it with 'what ifs'.

I'm OK apart from my shoulder which is really stiff and sore, might pop down the hospital on monday if its still bad. Hein Gericke leathers, fantastic. All I could think whilst I was somersaulting was 'mustn't bang the ****in lid' which I avoided . Hated lying in the road with my head spinning and unable to move. Was trying to do a 'can I move everything check' when I heard a tractor engine and I realised just where I was in the road: smack bang in the middle after a corner.

Should have got more pics tbh.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Mum cried . I was tempted to get my uncle to take a pic of me lunging next to the sign though! Thought it would have been a bit much having woke my Uncle up with:

'Alright Steve, how are you'
'Fine where are you'
'In a hedge'
'Oh'

Thanks to the couple of people who pulled me together and got my P&J out the hedge.

I THINK if the forks are straight it might be repairable. What does everyone think? If not, I'll break it then get another. Only done 6000 miles, 150 miles on these tyres. I love my bike

Sorry for the long post, my head is quite busy atm. Some wr wound down the window and had a go at bikers in general, tit.

Hand over the hedge crown then gents!
http://img217.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00148f...
Look at the bloody tank!
http://img223.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00147v...

Edited by Taita on Saturday 17th May 17:44

[Craphouserat]

main thing is you are ok !

[RemaL]

can't agree more. a pisser but glad your OK

[TPS]

Taita said:

it might be repairable. What does everyone think? If not, I'll break it then get another. Only done 6000 miles, 150 miles on these tyres. I love my bike

The main thing is as above that your ok.
In terms of the bike what value do you put on it.Looks a easy write off if you go insurance route.
If you use second hand parts and get a local crash repair garage to do a respray of all the parts and panels you could possibily fix it.
What is damaged other than the tank,fairing,headlight and indicators.

[Taita]

Don't really want to go down insurance route

New subframe, mirrors, lights and mountings. I'll get some more pics when I pick it up.

Sinking in just how lucky I was not to hit the sign myself! Going to the walk in centre tonight to get my shoulder looked at as its making my eyes water!

[TPS]

It might be worth keeping an eye on ebay for parts
eg

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/99-02-Suzuki-SV650-SV-650-BR...

Fairing

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Suzuki-SV650-03-yellow-plast...

Tank

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Suzuki-SV-650-petrol-tank_W0...

Price wise you will probably be looking at around £500 to £1000 to fix.

[RabD]

Lucky bd. You walked away is the important thing. Hope you recover quickly and get back on a bike soon to enjoy the rest of the good weather.

[black-k1]

Thank goodness you walked away from that one. I think had you, rather than the bike, taken on the sign post then the result might have been a little different.

[supersingle]

Ouch!

Hope you heal up ok and you're not scared off biking. Might not have happened if you'd had a bigger, more stable bike.

[Chilli]

Mate, I'm gutted for ya, but thank god you're not seriously hurt. As has been said, if you'd taken that sign out it would have been very nasty. Re the "wht if's" life is one big "what if". There's a load of reasons why it happened, and there's a load of things that contribute to thngs like this. Just wrong place at the wrong time. Chun up though,you sound quite positive in general, and I hope you're back on the road sooner than later.
Don't forget if there's anything you need to let us all here know.

Cheers,

Nick.

ps - Nice hedge...welcome to my world!!

[Taita]

Starting to sink in how lucky I was, just back from the hospital now, shredded my rotator cuff. Whoops

Might break it and buy a CBR, the SV wasn't liking being kept outside anyways!

Thank fk I didn't ride it through and hit the sign!

[Hooli]

ouch that was a good one to walk away from. glad to hear your ok & shame there was no one there to tt the prat shouting out his window at ya.

[Sossige]

Glad to hear you are OK, that's the most important thing.

[juice]

Sobering to see that amount of damage at 40MPH..Glad you're OK.

[SpydieNut]

glad you're OK (rotator cuff aside )

sorry but this bit made me chuckle

Taita said:

All I could think whilst I was somersaulting was 'mustn't bang the ****in lid'.

[WestYorkie]

Glad your ok mate. Looks like your not going riding for a few weeks
What's done is done and if you keep thinking "What if" you'll never get out of bed. Learn from the experience and try not to do it again .

BTW I've seen the Grass around the rear brake. I've already submitted a report to the enviroment agency.... Don't you know it's illegal to collect wild Fauna and Flora

[Wasted Bullet]

Glad too hear your OK. The main thing is you walked away...

Try to avoid the what if's... the fact is it didn't happen... if you had tried to ride through you can not know what would have happened, all you know is what did happen...

[Taita]

Went out and had a drinky last night as I was gutted.

Woke up this morning couldn't move for 15 minutes.

[Howitzer]

Definitely get yourself to casualty. My shoulder was painful but it felt like it would be ok in a few days, the paramedics took me to A and E and I had surgery on Thursday and a load of screws and a plate put in it, recovering now.

Get yourself sorted first, then think about the bike, i'm not sure where you would stand insurance wise but I just started removing anything broken from my bike and then decided what to do with it.

Glad you are seemingly ok, I had a Hein Gerricke jacket on and it really did the buisness too.

Dave!

[makatya]

Lucky, lucky, lucky! Glad it hasen't made you loose your love for bikes. I got T boned by a car driver at 60 and I was wearing an open faced helmet. Can remember waking up at the side of the road with a med holding my face together! Full faced lids all the way for me now! A lesson indeed!

Hope you get your wheels sorted soon mate and glad you are okay.