After six years....i got my bike back...

[gavin]

in early 2006 i bought my first (and last) new bike...a triumph daytona 675...happy days...

https://homepage.ntlworld.com/gavin.prior/675/6751.jpg

Eleven months later, some twunt knocked me off it at cadwell..

https://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y264/gavinandwendy/675/it1_9961SMALL.jpg

so i went to have a chat with him. when the police let me go home i took it to bits and this is pretty much all that was left.

https://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y264/gavinandwendy/675/baredaytona.jpg

every panel smashed. frame bent and cracked, forks bent, yokes twisted. i took it to tony at t3 racing who sorted out the frame, and then, due to the arrival of two more babies to a vicious, non coping missus....it stayed like that for the next five years.

i was so dejected with it i didnt even cover it up, and over the years it got covered in thick dust and layers of bird poo from sparrows roosting in the roof. at least i had the prescence of mind to stuff the inlets and the exhaust and pour oil down the plug holes..

during the summer of 2011 i became free of the abusive, self centred, neglecting, hoarding spendathon that passed itself off as a wife and mother.....and started getting back to my life..after about 14 months of rescuing the house from her destructive influence, i was able to turn my attention to my bikes...

i dragged the remains of the daytona into the van and shipped it off to North City Triumph in romford, where i originally bought it...with several boxes of new parts that i'd rush bought a week or so after the crash from a contact at the hinkley factory..

about three weeks ago, and a little over a grand lighter in labour and misc parts, i got it back...

https://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y264/gavinandwendy/675/675.jpg

https://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y264/gavinandwendy/675/6751.jpg


Long time coming, but you know what they say about the past.

See you when the sun is out. Happy Days...
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1988 TZR125 : 1990 RD350YPVS/ RGV250 HYBRID : 1982 RD80LC : 1983 RD80LC : 1994 RGV250 : 1991 TZR125 / CR500R HYBRID : 1976 BENELLI 500 QUATTRO : 2006 TRIUMPH 675

[Redoko]

I've often thought about this,

If someone knocks you off on the track, is it just tough tits?

But nice one on building the bike back.
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Sudika Sportsman SK50QT > Gilera DNA50 > Honda CBR125 RW7 > Kawasaki Zephyr750 > Suzuki GSXR600 > Honda Hornet CB600F '51

[yaigi]

Wow, what a transformation! Looks new again! Sad to hear about your bad time with the wifey, live n learn eh! Best of luck to ya!
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Currently own - Fazer 600, 2000, Red. (But no riding as baby on board atm)

[WannaBeDude]

Efa - some cunt, say it, or not attal.
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Jogging on, destination living.

[Supermoto_Fan]

Bet that feels awesome!

Heartwarming almost
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[Joenitro]

Nice story mate. The bike is looking awesome now.

Take it your keeping it for a bit?

[gavin]

[P.]

This is why I bought a track bike... got slated mind

[Tim..]

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OCD - Helping to bring the standard of my bikes up and make me slowly go mad since 1999

[tatters]

What happened with the well deserved breaking of that twats nose? Did you have to go to court over it in the end?
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[gavin]

No, i took a police caution and promised to be good.
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1988 TZR125 : 1990 RD350YPVS/ RGV250 HYBRID : 1982 RD80LC : 1983 RD80LC : 1994 RGV250 : 1991 TZR125 / CR500R HYBRID : 1976 BENELLI 500 QUATTRO : 2006 TRIUMPH 675

[Tungtvann]

Sounds like you and the bike have had a journey indeed! Enjoy your reborn bike it looks great.

[WannaBeDude]

Yeah, sorry, every cunt uses the word twunt, like everywhere -

Or is it just some new made up word that gimps use on forums to be less offensive, like if you call a spacka a scope, it's A OK.

Also, - and this is pretty certain, every cunt I've ever come across, that really feels the need to correct a simple -

oh, and it's "at all"

Has always turned out to be a twat. FACT !
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Jogging on, destination living.

[CarlosCBR]

Nice story, nicer bike. How comes you didnt fix it back together yourself?
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[doggone]

[gavin]

[0l0dom0l0]

Looks lovely mate! Good work
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Bikes: 2007 Derbi GPR 50, 1998 Yamaha Fazer 600 (written off), 2002 Yamaha Fazer 600, 1994 CBR 600F, 2003 Triumph Daytona 600, Kawasaki ZX6R J1.....Current: 2006 Yamaha FZ6, 1998 Suzuki TL1000R and a Honda VFR 400 NC30.

[gavin]

[chris-red]

[WannaBeDude]

Yeah - course you did !
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Jogging on, destination living.

[chris-red]

[WannaBeDude]

Not losing 100 quid and potentially getting a broken nose from Op - so if he did powah, kazam and snap the arrogant ' big ' rider, then fair play to him, even if he is a twunt
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Jogging on, destination living.

[gavin]

Cant beat the internets for people talking at cross purposes!


Yes they were at chigwell when i bought it.. perhaps i should have said from whom rather than where. Pedant.


And no im not in the habit of being violent...one of only two people ive hit in ny whole life...
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1988 TZR125 : 1990 RD350YPVS/ RGV250 HYBRID : 1982 RD80LC : 1983 RD80LC : 1994 RGV250 : 1991 TZR125 / CR500R HYBRID : 1976 BENELLI 500 QUATTRO : 2006 TRIUMPH 675

[recman]

Its a cool story, its a Triumph, so .

[UnspeedySam]

Nice story and very very nice bike. Glad your life seems to be taking a turn for the better. I will never let anyone stop me doing the things that make me happy, luckily I think I've found a woman who doesn't mind me spending my life obsessing about bikes.

Note to self: If you ever own a bike worth lots of money, don't take it on a track unless you are rich enough to fix it!
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Riding: BMW R1150RT `02 bought mildly crashed
Fixing: Also the BMW as I get less broken bits
Gone: ZZR600 '00, TRX850 '97, RXS100 '93, JS125-6B '07, BMW R1100RS '93, Kawasaki ZX-6R-J2 '01, Honda Bros NT400 NC25 '88