;(

[Eddie Hitler]

I miss my bike (!

Been in the garage now for over a week.

I was fine uptill today, lovely sunday weather and seeing all of those bikes on the road..

Wont be till the end of next week that i get my bike back, with a nice bill. Ffs.

[st3v3]

I went 5 month without mine last year while it was being worked on for the MOT. I get's it MOT'd start of Jan then 2 week later wrote it off. You still have a bike so all is not lost.
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[Ben.]

i know the feeling

crashing sucks
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Road bike - sv650

[Cigaro]

Telling me mate, I went up Haslingden yesterday and felt like crying, first nice weather since I got my bike and it's been nicked

Oh well.

[MarJay]

Think yourself lucky. Your bike will be fixed soon and you'll be able to ride it again.

For me, my bike is very damaged. I've spent the week on ebay getting parts, and I've got most of what I need, but will still need to go cap in hand to David Silver Spares. I'm looking at spending £500 just on the parts I can't get on ebay, and I've spent over £150 on ebay this week alone.

This is just parts, and I will have to do the work myself. Some of the parts I've bought aren't right either, so will have to do something with those.

I've also discovered a gash on the frame which, although it won't affect the bike, is fairly large and obvious and may affect the resale of the bike.

The work itself isn't too complicated, just time consuming and I'm seriously out of pocket.

But the very worst aspect of the whole thing is going to be my loss of confidence. I was just getting a good feeling about my riding, especially after doing the california superbike school etc, and now I've had a crash. Its probably going to take ages for me to get happy on a bike again, and even longer to trust the rear end again.

Still, I'm hoping the bike will be ready for the spring!
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Remember kids, bikes aren't like lego. You can't easily take a part from one bike and then fit it to another.

[st3v3]

[Fawbish]

I wanna brag and be like - yeah, ive got my bike and two 300+ mile rideouts this year so far



But I aint a dick. Much.


sucks lads. St3v3, stop complaining about it, and get a loan! solves EVERY problem you will ever have. Seriously. Debt is actually cool, dont listen to the people who tell you otherwise! On a side note, how did you write the NS off mate?


Marjay, uber bummer - how bad was this crash?

Eddie, the time will fllllllyyyy by if flying means crawl. And crawl means a pace at which you would be absolutely pwned by a retarded, disabled snail.

Bass, I replied in t'other thread and aint checked it yet, will do now

Half, I dunno if you've said in the other thread, but are you stubbying the cans? Cos that would be worth the wait for
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[Finglonga]

25Months and still waiting to ride again!
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[colin1]

im also in the cant ride club due to getting my license revoked

i've resorted to bicycles and i may actually get fit.

i almost hope its shitty weather for a bit while i cant ride

but of course its nice
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[MarJay]

[Eddie Hitler]

Wow I love that garage...

Called up and it seems the guy there fixed my bike up so i can use it for the time being, what a legend Getting charged an Hour and a half labour, chuffed to say the least!!!

[Ben.]

i think im going to stubby the cans but apparently the cans already make 98 db. if i stubby it it will be over 100 and then it will be too loud to go on a race track let alone the road!
im still very tempted though.

and my bike might be back on the road by the end of the week! YAY im like a kid at christmas.
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Race bike - R6
Road bike - sv650

[NSR Mick]

I've not ridden the NSR since September and that was only to take to the mother inlaws as theres no room in my garage. Before that it was June.

I did manage to go round and fire it up yesterday. I had to hot wire it though (was suprised how easy that was ) as I've still not found my keys.
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[gileragirl]

we have been quoted 2500 to fix our aprillia rs 125! thats with labour!.

it will be an insurance job once they manage to contact the lady who hit my partner, and dragged the bike under her people carrier.

The bike was only a week old from bran new when it happened. It just smashed to pieces.

[The Tot]

Ha, moaner

I spend most of november/december til february without my bikes - because they're recovering from post summer crashes which throw up their own problems. My bike has been at the sprayers, mechanics, god knows what for the last 3 months!

Same story last year with my ZXR250, so in 24 months, i've been without my bikes for 6 months, not to mention in summers when i've spent up to 5 months in Indonesia!

I'd like to get as much riding in that time as possible but it's not. So chin up, 2-3 weeks aint too bad.
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[st3v3]

I rear ended an Astra at roughly 20/30 MPH.

Resulting in 1 broken scaphoid and the other semi fractured,
Most stomachy groinal muscles etc torn.
Muscles and tendons in right thigh area torn.
Astra's light lense cracked and took a gouwdge of skin out of the Inside of my left knee area, awesome scar(if they did designer scars....I'd have one)
Oh, and the rear window forced my visor up on impact so I got a load of glass round my eye, only a tiniest bit went in, resulting in a rather nice scar round and just below my right eye and lucky I've still got my sight. Which is still as mint as it was.

Think that about covers it..... now to pass my test wait a few month(maybe a year) and save up for another one........ R6 or CBR6 if I'm lucky and can afford insurance.
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