Motorcycle Forum / General / Sportbikes / October 2007

It would be nice to blame something else, but the blame goes to me for
lack of maintenance/adjustment and too much abuse. I was about to pass a
Ducati under power when the gap closed, so I snapped the throttle
shut.....then the gap was there again, so I powered on and all I had was
rev's! The chain had broken and fired out the back narrowly missing the
bike that was up my arse trying to pass at the same time.

At the time all I could thing was something had gone wrong with the
gearbox, until a mate pulled up laughing and told me where my chain was.
Luckily I was only a couple of hundred metres ( a long way in 'all the
gear' on a hot afternoon.) from the top of a rise and it was downhill
all the way to a small town where I parked up and got a lift home on the
back of an ST Triumph......which was the most terrifying ride Iv'e been
on! The rider had dumped his missus off the back a few weeks earlier
while popping a wheelie passing a car. It got to the stage that I was
shutting my eyes before certain corners!(meeeeow)  :)

It's about time.....I take heaps of pics, but not many of me.....now
Iv'e read the instruction manual I know how to set the timer.  :)

We may not have got the World Cup, but at least the Poms and Aussies
didn't get it either!