Binned it :(

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Went out tonight to pick up a friend, put too much power down round a corner on a surface that was slippier than I thought and went into a ditch at about 50mph.

I knew I was going to crash as soon as it started fishtailing on the bend, went onto the other side of the road, went accross the grass for about 5m (I'd straightened out a little by this point so I was almost riding parralel with the ditch but not by enough) and then the next thing I know I'm in a ditch eating thorns and stingers.

Got up, crawled out of the ditch to find some really helpful lady who'd seen it and stopped. She must have been pretty relieved to watch me stumble out the hedges because it was a pretty nasty off.

Ambulance said I'd be ok to go home and rest, just bruises (I didn't even really want to ring them but the woman did it for me, and they had a car nearby). Right now the stinging nettle stings on my left wrist are bugging me more than my knee, which is a little brusied and swollen. It's probably going to hurt a lot tommorow though.

Pretty good considering I was wearing trainers and jeans. Note to self; short journeys do not mean trainers are cool (even though my feet are ok). Jeans look sweet though, by the looks of the mud stains I managed to land right on my kneecap.

Anyway, I'm laughing about it now. The financial implications havn't sunk in yet.


Pictures to come once it's recovered.

Edit: Police have been round. Totally unsympathetic "can we see your documents". Just renewed my insurance too so I didn't have any paperwork and it was coming up on their system as uninsured. Producer - they wanna see Licence, Insurance, Test Cert and Restriction certificate within 7 days.

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[Polarbear]

Sorry to hear this, but

Nice lady! Send her a box of chocs, we need all the sympathy we can get


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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

You lucky lucky man.
Glad you're ok and glad you're sussing the errs of your ways

Pat
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is it restricted?
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[wristjob]

insurance they can check on the phone roadside even if you show up as no insurance tell them the company and they can do it there and then,sounds like they are being awkward.
license and mot are standard producer docs(even thogh they can check em roadside online).
restriction cert? is that even a legal requirement?
now your bike may have to be restricted but dont they have to prove it isnt rather than you have to prove it is.
could be wrong.

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[Flip]

Tax might bite you in the arse but the bike looks OK.

[thefallenange...]

i'd be taxing it now. Pray it all comes through and don't worry about the restriction certificate as you can quite plainly see how "legal" it is. Put the restrictors back in and tell the cops to do one.

Your are looking at being one very lucky man.
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[Villers]

Yeah the police can be very helpful at times. Seeing as though they dont manage to get people for anythng other than vehicular misdemenours they probably play the odds and follow these up looking to get an easy catch.

I remember last year when I came home to find the police in my living room breathalysing my dad. Turns out he had been hit by a bike from behind at a junction (who had then got up and legged it). Should maybe have been investing their time looking for the criminal and not persecuting the victim. No wonder noone has faith in them.

Anyway, that aside, Im glad to hear your ok mate. Hope everything works out ok for you
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[R6jonny]

Personal injury accidents have to be reported to police within 24 hrs thats why police would have attended to take details and its pretty common to be breathalysed after being involved in an accident..

Villers do you really think that those officers were the only ones working, no chance any others were out looking hey??
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[bikedemon99]

Wow, glad your ok bud, a bit of a shock that I think will be with you couple of days trying to work out how it happened, good your still posting
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Why cant i be that lucky!?
Police tried to pin theft on me untill insurance came up then they tried to pin drunk driving on me... yea thanks guys...
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[LeeR]

Bad news mate, but glad you're alright.

The producer is an inconvenience though and when you do get your insurance certificate, get your tax from the post office. They'll give you the March disc now anyway, so if your tax expired end of Feb, it's the disc you'd have been riding with when you crashed.

They might ask a few questions (not that they have any enforcement authority), but just tell them you were waiting for the ins cert and are happy to pay for the last week or so that you had no tax.

All the best
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[Thom]

I binned a cbr250rr about a week ago going down a road where there was a strip of gravel. lost the front end and slid into a kerb at about 25mph...

I came out perfectly fine but again paramedics were called, the bike was/is a state.

Police then turned up, 2 guys in a car who seemed to find amusement in my accident.
I dont know why but then a copper on an yammy fj pulled up and quite literally told them to fuck off.

I was well chuffed with him No documents asked for or anything just wanted to ensure another motorcyclist was ok.
He even offered to come collect the bike for me when he was off duty.

Score.
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[Ghost]

Gutted mate, is this the 1st or 2nd time you've come off?

Something about those ZXR 400s they don't half like the hedges

[D O G]

At least you had a fairly soft landing and the bike looks pretty much unscathed.

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[R6jonny]

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unlucky mate, don't let the tax bit you in the ass.

Also good to see the bike is ok, not like all the other kawasakis seen crashed on here, where the nose cone just explodes.
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Do you think if it was restricted, you would still have crashed?

I'm not having a go (I don't even know how a restriction works with regards reducing power) but you reckon you crashed being a bit eager on the power, and It would be particularly unfortunate if you de-restricted a bike then it ended up making you crash

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