Whats worse than fingers on a blackboard?

[Linkex]

Turns out that the sound of your pride and joy sliding down the road is FAR worse

Ironically I've been moaning about the surface of a nearby mini-roundabout for about 2 years. Imagine my happiness last week when they began resurfacing it. Turns out they surfaced it with some kind of ice/teflon compound, so as I came off the roundabout on the way to work and accelerated, the back stepped out and I went for a slide. Ironically I accelerated much more gently than usual because I wasn't sure of the surface. Apparently it wasn't gentle enough.

Oh, and if anyone wants to know if a helmet is worth it? My head bounced off the road - if I had no helmet on, I have no doubt I would be in hospital right now. As it is, I was aware that my head hit, but there wasn't even any pain, let alone damage. Very impressive.

In terms of damage, the broken footpeg/brake mount needs replacing, other than that, its just cosmetic. Tough little so and so. Anyone know of anyone breaking a zx6r f3?

Think I can fix this with superglue?

This'll buff out, right?

 

[Linkex]

2nd hand rearset of ebay and fairing looks alright. Battle scars are cool lol.

I know what you mean about the sound, hateful!

Ah, helps if you know what its bloody called, no wonder "Foot rest mount" wasn't turning up much. Bloody jargon

More importantly did you ride it home?

Um, sort of. Got her up and on the pavement and tried her - turned over happily enough, but wouldn't fire. Was only about half a mile, maybe less, so started pushing. I'd been out riding this weekend and although I still had 30 miles left in the tank going by the odometer, thats based on normal commuting MPG, not having a play on the twisties MPG. Flicked on the reserve and she fired into life, so rode the rest of the way (Very very slowly). Wasn't until later I realised that the fuel pipes probably emptied while on its side and I just hadn't given it enough of a chance at the side of the road.

 

[Linkex]

Thanks man. Already found a rearset for £20 from someone breaking an F3, and i have a new helmet arriving tomorrow. Hopefully will have her up and running in the next couple of days. Of course having to take the bus to work until I do helps to motivate me

At least it gives me a good excuse to try out that Plasti Dip stuff now