So i went to my first day of the year on Wednesday, It was all fun, to be honest i think the swamp like mud conditions on the outside of shell saved the bike from major damage. It did flip but into about 5 inches of soft soggy mud.

I still had fun even though the medics decided i couldn`t go out after dinner, as for the cold tyres...... I`m honestly puzzled, I give myself one good lap to warm the tyres like every other time (even in december with -2 air temp)... n yet the inevitable happened.


The more i analize it in my head the more i think i just leaned to far... I mean normal knee down is likely to be at an angle of around 45 degrees which would take you to the edge of the tyre, i was knee downing round shell which itself is banked so i just got abit to complacent for my own good.... Still i`d do it again tomorra if i could.


Just a scraped peg and crash bung really, a little fibreglass rubbed from the fairing nothing expensive. Thanks to race fairings.

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Did ya not think of cleaning it before going back out on track dude,all the same it gives a bit of an off road look,i take it you were ok after the spill as shell is not a mega fast corner anyway,did you low side on the way out towards the marshals post?You were lucky with the weather!!!!

 

Well by the time i`d got my wrist band back after trecking round the place seeing medics etc it was either miss a session to clean it or leave it as is for the last one before dinner... so i left it and went out.

I dropped mid corner on shell, whole bike just left from under me and we both went straight up the banking. Was a lowside, thinking about it afterwards i think i was leaning to far with the corner already being heavily banked...... still i`m here in one piece and so`s the bike.

 

Nice new colour scheme! LOL. Hey any spill you walk away from is a good one!! I agree, if you're not at max tilt it's just not the same

 

top man glad ur ok dude as for the bike is it just a wash to put it all right oulton is a top circuit man clean it and it will all be ok i take it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I am glad to read that you and the MONSTER are OK!!!!!

 

Yeah, all`s good really when i take the race fairing off and remove the belly pan full of mud. It`ll clean up n look mint again no real damage, need a new plastic puk for the right crash bung, and a new right peg so it looks pretty again.

 

Glad you and the beast will recover quickly and without too much $$$$. That off-road look is kinda cool though -- reminds me of my jeep So did ya lose the front end first and then everything went south or was it more of a leaned too far/riding on the sidewalls kinda thing?