What did you do to your bike today?

[tom_e]

Oh ice how I've not missed you you ****ing ****.

Rode the 15 miles to the office absolutely fine, turn onto the service road 30 seconds away and it turns into sheet ice bye bye bike.

Best bit is I get into the office and everyone's like "Oh yeah there's no safe way in or out of here once it gets cold" If some **** had given me that heads up yesterday I'd have parked up in the pub at the top of the road and still have an intact gear shift and indicator

Luckily one of the guys was unlocking the garage up the road and came out told me to leave it and he'll get the lads to get it over to their carpark and they'll see what they can do, not holding out much hope of them having a shift lever that'll fit though. Hopefully they'll come up with some sort of bodge so I can at least get it home.

On the plus side I don't feel like I've just dropped 200kg of bike on me and in the grand scheme the crash bungs done their job and the damage is light.

 

[Fireskull]

Lawd Tom you are catching up with me for crashes now!

Glad you are ok though, if its just the end of the lever thats snapped off ask if they can just drill a hole and attach a long bolt through it, Ive done that before, at least you can ride it then.

 

[tom_e]

Luckily mine have not been so extreme!

That's what I was thinking, I'm going to pop up at lunch anyway and have a chat with them.

Worst comes to worst I'll be making use of my RAC cover and get it trailered home and sort it myself.

 

[Stovepipes]

Gave me bike a wash but it just doesn't seem that clean, I don't think I have the patience to do a bang up job and at least the vast majority of the grit & grime is gone.

 

[uksoldierboy]

Haha yes do it, I will have to get one then..... Are you going to use the pit limiter option? I think I would use it just for the noise

Lol i will be using the pit limiter at every town and village i come to!

For the noise of course haha

 

[wazza300]

It was very icy this morning,I nearly went arse over tit,no sign of any gritters either

 

[tom_e]

It was very icy this morning,I nearly went arse over tit,no sign of any gritters either

That's what was strange no sign of anything until I hit the service road coming into work.

 

[Junglist]

All this talk of ice has me worried for doing my test in February now. Might I be the first person to fall of their bike on a test? Maybe! lol

 

[tom_e]

All this talk of ice has me worried for doing my test in February now. Might I be the first person to fall of their bike on a test? Maybe! lol

A guy on my CBT binned his scooter so hard just doing the emergency stop on the car park he knocked himself out, there was no ice that day so at least you'd have an excuse

On the plus side I now have a nice black folding tip shift lever on the way and I'm deciding which LED indicators to get as my rear ones needed replacing any way.

 

[Captain]

All this talk of ice has me worried for doing my test in February now. Might I be the first person to fall of their bike on a test? Maybe! lol

You'll be fine, any time after 9am and it'll be gone.

 

[TallPaul_S]

Did my last 2 hour walk to work and have fitted a nice pilot road 4. Now to eat dust for the rest of the month... but that new tyre feel though

Put some silver rim tape on that i got from ebay, i didnt last 2 minutes down the road :/

I've got a rear tyre due end of this month, 90 quid plus fitting. I reckon I've gotten around 9000 miles out of the angel GT rear, might even be close to 10k. it's almost on the wear indicators, getting pretty squared off. I'll make a note of the mileage this time round when I replace it.

Oh and adjusted and lubed chain last night, it took longer to get the paddock stand and tools out than it took to actually adjust and lube the chain!

 

[RyanF]

A guy on my CBT binned his scooter so hard just doing the emergency stop on the car park he knocked himself out, there was no ice that day so at least you'd have an excuse

I feel bad for having laughed at that, the image it paints

 

[ConTRo13R]

A guy on my CBT binned his scooter so hard just doing the emergency stop on the car park he knocked himself out, there was no ice that day so at least you'd have an excuse

On the plus side I now have a nice black folding tip shift lever on the way and I'm deciding which LED indicators to get as my rear ones needed replacing any way.

Maybe a blessing in disguise. I dont like reading storys of people dropping such nice bikes that guttung feeling is not nice. I hope there is no paint/bidywork damage

Thst story about the cbt.. ouch but i giggled too. How does one even manage.. nevermind

 

[tom_e]

After we'd checked he was still alive and got him loaded into the ambo for his concussion and gashed leg we spent the rest of the afternoon laughing about it, the guy was a complete menace who apparently had already held a CBT it was like watching a drunk bambi on ice seeing him ride.

Popped up to the garage at lunch they've not had a chance to see if they can bodge anything up so I can at least ride it home but I gave it another look over and it does seem I got away with just the indicator and gear shift.
New shifter is on the way and I've just bought a set of LED indicators.

Bit of a pain but nothing serious.

Smacked my head off a shelf in the office and split my forehead open this morning though, maybe I should start kitting up just for walking around.

 

[Nomisf]

After we'd checked he was still alive and got him loaded into the ambo for his concussion and gashed leg we spent the rest of the afternoon laughing about it, the guy was a complete menace who apparently had already held a CBT it was like watching a drunk bambi on ice seeing him ride.

Popped up to the garage at lunch they've not had a chance to see if they can bodge anything up so I can at least ride it home but I gave it another look over and it does seem I got away with just the indicator and gear shift.
New shifter is on the way and I've just bought a set of LED indicators.

Bit of a pain but nothing serious.

Smacked my head off a shelf in the office and split my forehead open this morning though, maybe I should start kitting up just for walking around.

During my CBT we had a young woman who on hearing "left lifesaver" on the approach to a roundabout, turned hard left across two lanes of traffic into the pavement - hit it and slid off into a bush. Makes the mind boggle!

Glad to hear the damage is minimal, if not to your head anyway....

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I am in the process of replacing all the fairing bolts on my ST1100 - never seen so many odd, bodged bolts in my life. Old bikes and home mechanics

 

[russell664]

All this talk of ice has me worried for doing my test in February now. Might I be the first person to fall of their bike on a test? Maybe! lol

JunglistE, have you done your Mod 1 or are you waiting to do that in February and your Mod 2 after that?

 

[tom_e]

No wonder bikes end up written off for nothing, the garage patched me up enough to get home and done a list of things they think need replacing if I needed it to give to my insurance.

The final bill comes to £388.86!!

I'm replacing all 4 indicators with nice LED ones for the same price they've quoted me for one!

 

[Captain]

JunglistE, have you done your Mod 1 or are you waiting to do that in February and your Mod 2 after that?

He's passed mod 1.

 

[Junglist]

Yeah I took my Mod 1 in December and passed

Glad the ice should be cleared up by the time I have my test. Been watching a few Mod 2 advice videos and they mostly seem to think Mod 1 is the harder bit as you only need to prove you can ride safely in Mod 2.

I'm still nervous though but I expect after doing almost 160 miles (apparently we do at least 80 miles each day) on the Saturday and Sunday before I should be fine.

 

[Captain]

I did no where near 80 miles a day when training, maybe 30-40 at most the first day, the second was even less as we did mostly mod 1 stuff in a car park with an hour out on the road.