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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:51 am

iMike wrote:

... I came off on a bloody country road yesterday. ...

I misjudged a 120� curve on a small country road at around 2AM about 20 years ago. I landed in a wheat field. Nothing happened, I just destroyed about 40 bread loafs worth of wheat. Laughing

It took me days to get the damn chaf off my engine.

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:04 am

I've never heard of these pain killers, of course I've only needed mine for a little over a year (perm disabled so I'll be taking them for the rest of my life) I've got methadone and perks.
Is that preschool by comparison?
If so then I'm happy. I used to be able to honestly say; I don't drink, smoke or do drugs. I was so upset when I found out I'd have to be poppin' these damn things till I die.

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:41 am

Sorry to hear about the crash, iMike. Sad

Gin is actually a remarkably good painkiller, and Nurofen Plus the best analgesic available without a script that I've found. (Had bad toothache years ago, and learned this stuff.) Although using one to wash down the other is probably not what the doctor would order. Rolling Eyes

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:06 am

@BLZBub - Any GOOD center should let you have an hours worth on a bike on a CBT training pad for nothing. (All qualified motorcycle training centres have to have a CBT training pad)
If they wanna charge you to see if you are capable of handling a bike, then they aren't a good place to learn!!
PM me which district you're in and I can pm you some 'good' places to go.

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:26 am

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Gin is actually a remarkably good painkiller

Now that's what I like to hear. More bruising come up in the last 24 hours. Not heard from the training school yet - I'll call them tomorrow morning if I don't hear by this evening.

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:01 am

Imike - I always find (if nothing else works) Tequila. With a slice of lemon of course!! Wink

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:06 am

it wasn't me wrote:

Imike - I always find (if nothing else works) Tequila. With a slice of lemon of course!! Wink

... and salt...?

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:14 am

The salt is to soften the sharpness of the tequila, as is the lemon.
It depends....can you take it without?

(I can't!) Laughing

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:22 am

I can (could). Very Happy

No lemon. No salt. Just a bottleo'
That was two years ago. I don't know what would happen today...

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:29 am

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The Suzuki GSX-R 600. Beautiful bike...

Great bike. (On the circuit) bit light on the road.
For Girlys like me and learner riders, Honda CBR600F. Handles like a dream, suspension's bang on, behaves like a well trained acrobat.

@Imike - Take Arnica for the bruising. It's a miracle product you can get from any health shop.

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:40 am

^^^ I'll be off to look at the CBR's then... Very Happy

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:44 am

Aww...just went all nostalgic. Had to sell my bike for my plane ticket to a new life. Haven't had one since....
Note to oneself....Get a bike!!

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:52 am

I used to work with a guy who was good friends with John Reynolds (Team Suzuki rider - superbike champion etc...). I always said that if he got given a GSX-R, and he didn't want it (as if!), I'd help him "store" it... Laughing

Never happened...

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:25 pm

B.L.Z. Bubb wrote:

Diazepam? For pain? Wiki... Confused

The pain's still there; you just don't care!

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:33 pm

iMike wrote:

It was supposed to be a 3 day DAS conversion course with the test on the 3rd day. Unfortunately, the sore wrist means I can't control the clutch effectively, so there's not much point in doing the remaining 2 days just yet.

Just goes to show how diverse this board is - the exact same thing happened to me years ago when I first attempted to get my bike licence. Same bike, also a corner, only difference that it was on the way to the test on the 3rd day and that I broke my right collar bone Sad

Got the licence a year later and, touch wood, have ridden accident free since then...

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:46 pm

Fell off my (old!) CB250RS twice in 3 weeks many years ago - the first time on ice (country lane + leaking water main + 2am in December) it was an odd experience sliding down the road on my back watching the stars overhead - the second time on a roundabout - front wheel went clean from under me and pitched me off - low speed so nothing more than gravel rash, ripped jeans (that'll teach me!) and a dented ego Smile

Very embarassingly, I also dropped my BMW K75S in '91 just as I pulled to a halt. Put my right leg out to take the weight and the bloody thing fell to the left! Embarassed

It was too heavy to support it so I let it drop and stepped away from it.
Bike wasn't even scratched!

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:20 pm

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ripped jeans

One thing this has taught me is the value of proper gear. It was a very hot day & I was toying with the idea of just wearing jeans. Damn glad I put my cordura pants on. Ironically enough, the worst bruising is on my left arm - one large patch just below the shoulder & another just below the elbow, both caused by the armour in the jacket. Chest's bloody sore - I was carrying my spare specs in a case in the left breast pocket & my mobile phone in the left inside pocket. The helmet's picked up a few nasty scratches where I hit some rocks embedded in the grass bank. More than anything else I'm so bloody annoyed - thought everything would have been sorted by now & was planning on looking for a new bike tomorrow. Arse. Sad

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Same bike

@Luther - judging by the age & milage on the training school machine, it could have been the very same bike! Very Happy

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:48 am

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One thing this has taught me is the value of proper gear.

So, so true...

I had a friend who had a Ninja. We should have gone out riding together, but I was busy, so he went off on his own. Sharp left hand corner, the daft bastard decided he had enough room to overtake a car before the bend. Needless to say, he couldn't bank the bike down enough and slid across the road, hitting the pavement on the other side on his back. The ambulance guys said that the only thing that had saved his life was his leathers and a box of cornflakes he was carrying in a rucksack on his back. Shocked

You never know, you just never know!!

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:09 am

So is the moral of that story to always wear your leathers or to always have your breakfast on the go? Laughing