Shorter slip road than expected...

[daemonoid]

I was travelling down the A1 on Friday, saw my exit and pulled over. Bloody fiesta in front of be was doing 60, oh the three bar sign - plenty of time for an overtake I thought.

Cue a blast of acceleration and me exiting just as the slip road started. Oh, but what's this? The slip road is tiny! Oh shit oh shit oh shit! I manage the sharpest braking I've ever managed - the monster was up on the front wheel and I left a huge black mark without skidding (much). Unfortunately I'm still not going slow enough to manage the turn so I let go of the front brakes just before the curb - smash and somehow I'm still on the bike. I quickly get off the grass and pretend it was all intentional...

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Pootled the next hundred miles and have a wheel heading over from eBay. Very lucky escape - I have no idea quite how I stayed on it. I bent the key but don't remember my feet leaving the pegs. Forks are fortunately good still.

Don't think this quite warrants the spill counter.
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That looks like it's took a nasty bump, glad you managed to keep it under control! I don't think anyone can complain about it not making the spill counter.
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Any way you can fix that wheel, or would heating it/smashing it weaken it too much?

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[map]

Certainly there are bits of the A1 that are truly awful. The old A1 on the bit too and from Squires used to be poor with no actual slip roads on or off it, more like large T junctions. People tended to use it as their local shortcut. If people missed a junction I've seen cars actually reverse along it. Tractors were even using it, still do in some sections.

tl;dr version, I agree, I really hate the old A1.

Glad no permanent damage and you're able to gain some experience.


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I've hammered straight worse wheels than that.
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Blue_SV650S wrote: it was a sh1te wheelie, but it proves that he can get it up in 3rd and can do angles. In summery, mattsprattuk is a gobby little sh1tebag, dopehead tw4t, but sadly for all of us, he probably isn't THAT full of sh1te!!
Kickstart wrote: Hi I tend to agree with Matt. All the best Keith

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