Neil (sirtou) come off his bike tonight and was only 400 yards from his house...
He has a chipped ankle and is on crutches...
Get well soon Neil..
Dont worry about the bike... It can be fixed.. You are more important.
Sorry to hear that. As Debs says, bikes can be fixed.
Take it easy and get well soon old chap.
Neil, I'm really sorry to hear that and hope that you make a full and speedy recovery mate
Speedy recovery Neil
......and all the best from us down here in Essex.
Ice ?
get well soon Neil
Hope your off the crutches & ankle heals up soon.
Thank you All.
Very gutted. I do lots of silly antics all year, then crash 400 yards from home. :-(
GTR is pretty damaged, Front Left, lower and upper fairing, nose fairing, mirror, footpegs, gearlever and hanger, Clutch Level and Top Box.
Ankle is swealling up nicely :-) going to take a little while for that to heal. but at least I have Christmas.
Thanks again all.
Neil
(especially Debs for posting this..x)
Good your sort of ok. Get well soon
Neil, sorry to hear about the off, as people have said, the bike can be fixed, you are more important. Get well soon mate, all the best, Steve
Neil.. just noticed this post sorry to hear about your spill :sad: main thing is your not seriously hurt :smiley: what caused you to drop the bike? did some sod pull out on you :angry: or was it the dreaded ice :sweatdrop: get well soon.. hey!
Hi All
Images of my poor GTR. actually, hopefully its not that bad.
Cause, wet leaves that have been there for 6 weeks, rode over them everyday as I don't have any choice, but thats the thing, you do the same thing for weeks and one day, something different happens. I've ridden over these leaves in Rain, Snow, Ice, temperatures down to -8 degrees.
I guess thats life.
Thanks All again.
Neil
cant post pictures - saying fail security checks. Debs, can you steal the 2 pics from FB and post please. Thanks. NWT
Here they are
Thanks. x
Feck man, sorry bout the off, too easily done.
Probably looks worse than it actually is, but the acres of plastic do make it look expensive... I'd be lookin on ebay or breakers for them bits.
Glad to hear your not too hurt. That's the only good thing, would have been worse had you hit something.
Look on the bright side .... now you've got something to occupy your nights.
Get well soon.
Al.
- argh ... at least you're okay.
- when big (and heavy) bikes go down , its often bad.
- did your front go first , or the rear ?
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hi neil, hope your on the mend and your bike is soon fixed.. :clap:
merry christmas
sidders
To be really honest, I really don't know and can't remember.
But, the amount I hurt and ache, and the damage to the bike it could have only been a highside.
wet leaves, that I have ridden over for weeks, caught me out.
:-(
GTR will be re-built hopefully. its all three panels, nose cone panel and footpegs.
Neil
Sounds nasty. Were you going over them at a constant speed or did you accelerate? I almost got caught out once when I accelerated on leaves. The rear just went. I don't know if traction control would have helped either.
Hey Neil really sorry to read that you had "an off" but as others are saying the main point is that you will mend and any injury is not long lasting or too serious ... I hope !!!!
Guess you won't be dancing around on New Years Eve then ?? :mfr_lol: :mfr_lol:
Seriously ... hope all is on the mend .. take care.
Bad Luck Neil, hope your pains go away quickly, i hope you go through insurance it may have done more damage than just plastics, sorry to be negative but i am thinking on the safe side.
As much as I don't want to, insurance is the best way to go. Good thing is, I have 6 years no claims which is protected.
The leaves are only 5m of the junction. I know I entered the junction slower than normal because, I remember saying to myself why di you do that, so I ended up in the middle of the road. I don't remember a lot from there.
I do know, that some how, with a damaged ankle, I picked the bike up, put it on the side stand, collected all the bits (apart from the mirror glass) and put them in the topbox, then got back on the bike, said "bollox" or something to that effect as the foot peg was snapped off and the clutch lever was bent, then road the bike the 400 yards to my house.
at which point, I put the bike on the side stand and hobbled into the house and said " I've crashed the GTR", I was very heavily concused and didn't really remember anything. helmet was very badly scratched.
Neil
Bloody Hell Neil, adrenalin obviously kicked in helping you to lift the bike, then ride it all with a badly damaged angle :shocked:
Just seen this. Get well soon and enjoy Christmas.
The bike can be repaired and thank goodness you are on the mend.
I hope you and your family can enjoy and have a really lovely Christmas, and a new fairing etc for 2013
WILL YOU PEOPLE PLEASE STOP FALLING OFF! :rolleyes:
At this rate it'll soon be my turn and I don't want to fall off again! :no:
Get well soon Neil, at least the injuries were not too serious.
UPDATE:
2013 didn't start too well. New Years Eve, went back to have a check up and things are not healing as well as they would have liked. therefore I am now in plaster! no more work for 4 weeks :-(
But its getting better..... Bournemouth Kawasaki have been authorised to repair the bike! :-) Yeh haaa...... So the bike will be back before I can ride it. :-)
Thanks to everyone for keeping my spirits up!
Neil
Arrrgh! Just found this thread! Just wanted to say sorry to read about this - and I hope that your ankle gets better very soon.
GTRs don't look so good when they've been thrown down the road.... :(
take care!
Ros
Good luck Neil, and I hope your and your bike are quickly on the mend
That is good news about the bike but not so good about being in plaster ... but 4 weeks off work could be nice !
Hope you have a speedy and pain free recovery ... keep us all updated ... :smiley: