Hi all, Not too good at this introductions, but will give it a try! I've just picked up a Street Triple last weekend, unfortunately i was involved in a accident a few weeks ago which wrote my previous bike off, a typical "Sorry mate did'nt see you". However.. on the bright side its allowed me to get a new bike I've been riding 6 year's ish and from Sheffield. Here's my new beauty
Welcome from one 'newbie' to another. Hopefully you will find the information on the site as useful as I have to date and long may it continue.
Hi and welcome to the forum, sorry to hear about the accident but good to see you have bought a class bike; my wife owns the same model in purple and has covered 12000 miles with no issues.
Hi pal..Ive got the street in red but must admit im loving that purple colour...Kinda jealous!!! Welcome!
Hi welcome, awesome bike. Its a bike that can get you into trouble very quickly. You have had an accident thats unfortunate however it is great you are not permanently damaged. I believe that LBDNS is not all one way, someone hit you but you must have seen them? Hence there is a fundamental area where your biking skills could do with help, I am talking about observation skills. Anyone who has an accident and survive should fundamentally review their riding, critically, not blame the other guy, after all you do not want another. Seek out your local IAM group and become an Associate with them, a skilled rider will Observe your riding, comment, guide and demonstrate how to improve in all directions. A test at the end by a Police rider examiner will show you how good you have become, they pull no punches. Are you man enough to try? At the end of the course your observation skills, your road craft and your bike handling will all be dramatically better. Just think of it through the twisties with no "that was close" errors. Sorry for getting on the soap box but you need a reality check. Be safe out there
Thank you for advice, I understand that there can be accidents where the rider is at fault or could better the situation. However, this car did a u turn from behind a HGV without looking, I was doing under the speed limit, in a good position and i have done IAM training which is poor of you to assume i had an accident due to lacking of training. Unfortunately there are some situations where however good of a rider your are, you can't avoid it. The driver, had no licences, no insurance and was in a stolen car I'm sorry for the late reply, to be quite honest i forgot i was a member of this forum.
I agree with you there chika, the only person I know,personally, to have died on a motorcycle was an IAM observer and the only serious accident I had was after I had passed my IAM test when a motorist flew out of a side road turning left and tail ended me! Apart from a chrystal ball I wouldn't have seen that coming unless I had a rear gunner!!
Sorry to hear about the IAM observer who died, such a tragedy. Also sorry to here about your accident, i hope you were ok and you are ok now! Unfortunately my cystel ball doesn't work very well either!
Thank you for the welcome back, very very late it seems! I came back to find that reply and even though it was a few month ago, i couldn't not reply to it! Oh i am so sorry to hear that, I hope he pulls through and makes a speedy recovery, poor bloke
That's one hell of a telling off!!! I got hit last week whilst stationary by a young kid in his car texting on his mobile phone. Not all accidents are blameless or avoidable.
Yeah Cheers just a slight touch really. He even finished his text before helping me pick up the bike. Cheeky fcuka. I'm just waiting for Col lambs advice