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Motorcycle Forum / Country Specific / UK Group / July 2007Castle Combe bites back
Castle Combe bit me (again) today and added another to the smashed collarbones in the series, making a total of eight so far this season. :-( I got skittled from behind by an orange bib numpty who then proceeded to ride over me and the bike. I managed to get up and off the track but laid the other side of the armco and just knew my collarbone had gone. One ride in the ambulance and a rather sweaty me as the doc removed my leathers, a load of pain killers, getting picked up by my old man who drove 4+ hours to come and get me then a trip to Chelmsford A&E, a blue spongy sling and I'm finally at home. Leathers and lid are a write off, bike has lots of cosmetic damage plus a bent zorst where he used me as a braking marker and probably bearing trouble if it was running while on it's side. Isn't racing great! -- Antony Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, antonye <antonye@ukrm.net> typed >Castle Combe bit me (again) today and added another to the >smashed collarbones in the series, making a total of >eight so far this season. :-( Oh dear. The bone's going to smart a bit. But not as much as the Ursine One leaping about and yelling "I *told* you so!". GWS. >Leathers and lid are a write off, bike has lots of cosmetic >damage plus a bent zorst where he used me as a braking >marker and probably bearing trouble if it was running >while on it's side. WUN Engineering Services are at your disposal.  SignatureWicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Honda ST1100 wiv trailer Norton 850 Commando > WUN Engineering Services are at your disposal. Thanks, although I think I still have the spare pegs you made up for me. They do a brilliant job of acting like a crash bung while bending and grinding away, keeping most bits off the floor. Unfortunately they don't repel attacking numpties. -- Antony > Isn't racing great! Bugger, sorry to hear this mate. GWS, etc. SignatureMike DL1000 Black with extra black bits. UKRMMA#22 Skype: mikebothe I must belong somewhere > Castle Combe bit me (again) today and added another to the > smashed collarbones in the series, making a total of > eight so far this season. :-( Balls. GWS. SignatureChristofire DIAABTCOD#1 DS#9 ZX-10R > > Castle Combe bit me (again) today and added another to the > > smashed collarbones in the series, making a total of > > eight so far this season. :-( > > Balls. GWS. Bugger, hope everything heals and fixes easily. -- Lozzo antonye <antonye@ukrm.net> wrote the following literary masterpiece: >Castle Combe bit me (again) today and added another to the >smashed collarbones in the series, making a total of >eight so far this season. :-( Clumsy bugger. You're actually starting to make me look good. SignatureVeggie Dave UKRMHRC#2 BOTAFOF#08 IQ 18 FILMS http://www.iq18films.com POST PRODUCTION http://www.iq18films.co.uk Toxic Shock Syndrome Gets More Girls Than Me > Isn't racing great! Thanks hugely for cheering me up on my rather miffed drive home. The fact you were prepared to break bones just to make me feel better about the loss of an expensive tyre and a colossally expensive wheel only goes to show what a great mate you are. PS: I still think bone from your previously removed second head could be used as a graft. SignatureBear > PS: I still think bone from your previously removed second head could be > used as a graft. or just get the redundant collar bone fragments removed, like what horse jockeys do Signaturewessie at tesco dot net BMW R1150GS "Wessie is a lovely man with many wonderful qualities" TM Blaney >> PS: I still think bone from your previously removed second head could be >> used as a graft. > >or just get the redundant collar bone fragments removed, like what horse >jockeys do That's taking weight-saving to extremes. Signature-Pip > Thanks hugely for cheering me up on my rather miffed drive home. > > The fact you were prepared to break bones just to make me feel > better about the loss of an expensive tyre and a colossally > expensive wheel only goes to show what a great mate you are. Yeah, still not quite sure how I managed that but I'm glad to be of service, I think! -- Antony > > Thanks hugely for cheering me up on my rather miffed drive home. > > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Yeah, still not quite sure how I managed that but I'm > glad to be of service, I think! I admit I was *thoroughly* pissed off; one split-second event and I'd missed the PlatyParty. If the additional rain hadn't been forecast I'd have chanced it (and gone to those superb folk, ProTyre of Brizzle, in the morning), but 20mm minimum, on top of what had already fallen, was worrying the hell out of me, so went home (good thing too - it tipped down even this far east). At the point I was most cheesed off, grumbling away to myself, your SMS came through; the subsequent call a) cheered me up, coz you're always fun to talk to, and b) made me realise I could have had a *much* worse day. Quik Fit in Balham have the right Michelin in the right size, so I'm off out in a min to see if the alloy wheel has been too badly dinged to continue. If it's just a tyre it'll be about £175. If it's the wheel too I dread to think what the cost is going to be :( PS: The missus *is* going to kill you when she gets back :) PPS: It seems to be a popular UKRM racing injury; IIRC Champ got similarly collected and dumped, with similar results. SignatureBear >Isn't racing great! Your pain is my entertainment. Signaturesteve auvache A Bloo one with built in safety features >Castle Combe bit me (again) today and added another to the >smashed collarbones in the series, making a total of >eight so far this season. :-( Arsebiscuits! GWS SignatureTim http://www.pitfieldbeershop.co.uk/ >Castle Combe bit me (again) today and added another to the >smashed collarbones in the series, making a total of >eight so far this season. :-( When I first read this, I thought you meant you'd broken your collarbone eight times! >I got skittled from behind That's how I broke my collarbone at Oulton. >Leathers and lid are a write off, bike has lots of cosmetic >damage plus a bent zorst where he used me as a braking >marker and probably bearing trouble if it was running >while on it's side. Bugger. And expensive day out. >Isn't racing great! When it's good, it's very very good, but when it's bad it's terrible. Get well soon. See if you can persuade the medics to give you a 'figure of eight' brace instead of a 'cuff and collar' - it's loads more practical. SignatureChamp ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle To email me, neal at my domain should work. > Get well soon. See if you can persuade the medics to give > you a 'figure of eight' brace instead of a 'cuff and collar' > - it's loads more practical. Ta. I've already had the collarbone chat with Cobby yesterday and he said the same. I'm at the fracture clinic tomorrow so we'll see what happens, but have a works private policy if I need it. -- Antony >> Get well soon. See if you can persuade the medics to give >> you a 'figure of eight' brace instead of a 'cuff and collar' [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >clinic tomorrow so we'll see what happens, but have >a works private policy if I need it. If they really won't play ball, I've still got my figure-of-8 brace that I can send you. SignatureChamp ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle To email me, neal at my domain should work. > If they really won't play ball, I've still got my > figure-of-8 brace that I can send you. Mmmm, sweaty. Thanks, I'll see how it goes tomorrow. -- Antony We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember antonye <antonye@ukrm.net> saying something like: >Castle Combe bit me (again) today and added another to the >smashed collarbones in the series, making a total of [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >to get up and off the track but laid the other side of >the armco and just knew my collarbone had gone. Ouch. What are you complaining about, you got laid, didn't you? SignatureDave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the river cleaned out in a day. > Castle Combe bit me (again) today and added another to the > smashed collarbones in the series, making a total of [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > as the doc removed my leathers, a load of pain killers, > getting picked up by my old man f.cking hell they're cruel in your area aren't they? SignatureBeav VN 750 Zed 1000 OMF# 19 > Castle Combe bit me (again) today and added another to the > smashed collarbones in the series, making a total of [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > to come and get me then a trip to Chelmsford A&E, > a blue spongy sling and I'm finally at home. Four hours? I'm just down the road. We could have collected you and propped you up on the sofa to laugh at. Beer, drugs and munchies within reach etc. Signatureplatypus "fastidious and precise" > Castle Combe bit me (again) today and added another to the > smashed collarbones in the series, making a total of > eight so far this season. :-( snip Unfortunately the electrics didn't fail today so I had to crash it to maintain the average "in workshop" time appropriate for this type of Italian motorbike. GWS SignatureDonald >Castle Combe bit me (again) today and added another to the >smashed collarbones in the series, making a total of >eight so far this season. :-( You fumsy clucker. GWS. 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