Joined Oct 2010
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Bristol
maldroid - you're not alone.....
Had new Dunlop Sportsmarts fitted on Wednesday and did about 5 miles riding home. Today I had to pop into work for a couple of hours so decided to take the T and go for a spin afterwards to scrub the new tyres in.
Warmed the bike up on the drive, got on, up the slight hill, tight left turn in front of my house (we're on a corner plot) - quick look to check nothing's coming, lean it in and start to open it up........ back starts coming round - fast but in that slow motion "ohhhhhh shiiiiiit" kind of way. Bike does a complete 180 and goes down with me underneath it.
I was lucky really, damage isn't too bad - small scrapes on l/h can and link pipe, belly pan and oil tank cover scratched (look ok-ish after back to black applied), lump out of l/h side of radiator (needs wet and dry and some matt black model paint I reckon), gear lever bent (ordered new one for £30), bar end and end of gold CRG clutch lever scuffed. No damage to my clobber but I'm aching a bit now and quite stiff.
So I got off quite lightly in the circumstances, but the bike's only 8 months old and I always like to keep my bikes immaculate. Arse. :thumbdown Still, if you ride bikes you're always going to fall off sometimes, I'd rather it was at 10mph with nothing solid to hit.
In future I think I'll time new tyre fitting so that I have a few hours afterwards to scrub them in properly, that way when I ride the bike again I don't have to worry about binning it.
On the bright side, my new carbon fibre side panels (to replace the ***** floppy standard ones) arrived today and are now fitted and look great :thumbup
Had new Dunlop Sportsmarts fitted on Wednesday and did about 5 miles riding home. Today I had to pop into work for a couple of hours so decided to take the T and go for a spin afterwards to scrub the new tyres in.
Warmed the bike up on the drive, got on, up the slight hill, tight left turn in front of my house (we're on a corner plot) - quick look to check nothing's coming, lean it in and start to open it up........ back starts coming round - fast but in that slow motion "ohhhhhh shiiiiiit" kind of way. Bike does a complete 180 and goes down with me underneath it.
I was lucky really, damage isn't too bad - small scrapes on l/h can and link pipe, belly pan and oil tank cover scratched (look ok-ish after back to black applied), lump out of l/h side of radiator (needs wet and dry and some matt black model paint I reckon), gear lever bent (ordered new one for £30), bar end and end of gold CRG clutch lever scuffed. No damage to my clobber but I'm aching a bit now and quite stiff.
So I got off quite lightly in the circumstances, but the bike's only 8 months old and I always like to keep my bikes immaculate. Arse. :thumbdown Still, if you ride bikes you're always going to fall off sometimes, I'd rather it was at 10mph with nothing solid to hit.
In future I think I'll time new tyre fitting so that I have a few hours afterwards to scrub them in properly, that way when I ride the bike again I don't have to worry about binning it.
On the bright side, my new carbon fibre side panels (to replace the ***** floppy standard ones) arrived today and are now fitted and look great :thumbup
