Lunchtimes are never this exciting!

MikeyC · World Chat Champion Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Karma :

Walking with my workmate down the high street to get our lunch. See this Triumph Speed Triple (L reg) at the lights. Lights turn green, the triumph roars, almost at full throttle.... next thing we know, he's sliding along the floor! Not entirely sure what happened, but we think the throttle was stuck open. I say this because when it stopped sliding along the floor, the bike was spinning in random directions, with the throttle on the red line, so loud!

The bike went into the back of a golf and onto another car. The golf driver was so oblivious to their surroundings, they just drove off.

The guy had a few cuts and bruises, was shaken up, his knee took the brunt of it. Fair emount of damage to the bike, i'd say its a write off. Also turns out he's got no road tax or insurance...... Thumbs Down

MikeyC · World Chat Champion Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Karma :

My missus just called.... her uncle was riding along and some car did a u-turn in front of him, took him clean out, he's now got a suspected broken leg!

Have to go ride the bike home tonight I think, if its rideable Shocked

innominate · Brolly Dolly Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Karma :

Ouch, poor guy was unlucky.

Stupid tosser not to have insurance and tax tho...

EDIT: Sorry to hear about you Uncle as well :/
Quite the friday the 13th its turned out to be so far.
finger crossed I make it back tonight to my nice cold beer in one piece.
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EllioTT_GiXXeR · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Karma :

That will teach him for no insurance, sounds like he didn't know how to ride a big bike?
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MikeyC · World Chat Champion Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Karma :

Yep, definitely living up to being a Friday the 13th!

BenBray · Spanner Monkey Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Karma :

I've been planning on oiling my throttle cable for ages. This pushes me over the line - it's getting oiled tomorrow morning.

Poor bloke. I bet if you asked him before "what happens if you throttle cable sticks" he'd have said "pull the clutch in! if worst comes to the worst, turn the ignition off too!"

Of course, until you get to that situation, you could know everything there is to know about bikes. If you panic in the moment and think "wtf!" it's all wasted knowledge.

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Marcg868 · World Chat Champion Joined: 20 Jan 2005 Karma :

Hope your Uncle recovers mate, and unfortunate for the guy on Triumph, but he should have had Insurance and Tax. But then again, lots of car drivers dont either.

Thanfully, friday 13th was Incident free on my bike, one stupid tosser, but i gritted my teeth and let it pass. Octobers my bogey month, always seem to crash in October Crying or Very sad

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V4 · Trackday Trickster Joined: 10 Nov 2004 Karma :

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I'm more amused at the fact that if he had insurance, he could be the next rossi according to that logic! Wink

Imagine if he was fully comp... Shocked

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Don't you know? People without insurance have no idea how to ride bikes Wink

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Aikman666 · World Chat Champion Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Karma :

Thats a shame, and i thought we were gonna get through Friday the 13th without a hitch! Ive had the throttle stick open on me before, once while i was moving, once when i was at a standstill. When i was moving i managed to grab the cluctch and give the throttle a quick few pulls until the needle fell back into place. The othertime i couldent get it to fall back in, and with no killswitch on my bike i panicked for ages and thought about just getting off and letting the clutch out before it killed itself, in the end i had to reach in and pull the sparkplug cap off. Got shocked through my friggin gloves in'all, once i got it off it was still bloody managing to spark! It was resting ontop of the cylinder head so i grabbed a stick and poked it out! Neutral

That was the longest mile ive ever walked home.
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fast_tzr · World Chat Champion Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Karma :

Good, serves the bastard right for not having insurance or tax.

loply · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Karma :

My bike has two throttle cables, one of which forcefully shuts the carb when you turn the grip, isnt this normal on all bikes?
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MikeyC · World Chat Champion Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Karma :

wasn't my unle! Was my gf's uncle!

Oh and the guy's motorbike is still parked up on the street, will prob be left there now