[matt232]

Originally Posted by warthog

Didnt you have some existing damage from a previous run in with a car? Could be a good opportunity to get it all back in one piece. Are you insured? In either case glad YOU are in one piece. I had my Blade out for the first time in a month - but only really got to ride around town. Forgot how slippery tram tracks could be even in the dry but only caused self a minor heart attack rather than any tangible damage . Looks like I'll be back in Melbourne permanently in 6 weeks - so more time to ride, especially until I find myself a new contract.

First year of insurance ran out last week (it was Nelly, my bike's, birthday on Sunday and binned it on the monday......nice present I got her hey?) and I change insurers last week....don't think they'll like me making a claim 2 days into dealing with them.

Also since I was trying to reduce my premiums and I'm normally a level headed rider I decided to take on a $1000 voluntary excess taking it to a grand total of $1500 excess, I think the replacement fairings should come in under that so I'll try and avoid claiming on insurance if I can.

Yer I had a couple of cracks in the fairing on the same side from a previous incident with a car stopped at a set of lights. so at least I kept the damage to that same side.

When you get down here you should check out www.netrider.net.au and come down for a coffee on Friday

[Chain]

Argh, sorry to hear of this Matt. At least you're here to post your account of the mishap. Could have been alot worse from what it sounds.

[matt232]

Originally Posted by Will

That was a nasty weekend of crashes. There were 4 up the hills on Sunday alone. One of the Netriders/oz firestormers went down and I had to work on my day off till the ambo's got there. Busted both ankles.
Glad to hear your allright, I hate left handers went way wide on my first one on sunday, just luck there was nothing coming the other way.
Scraped plastic gives you hard core stunta props, don't fix it too quick you'll lose your cred

The look goes well with my skidding stoppies

Not sure the oz firestormers guy will get much sympathy considering he wasn't really riding sensibly....nor do I expect any sympathy for my off for the same reason. Its Bugger you, were stuck in that situation.....but I bet 'noddy' was glad you were there even after you speech about keeping his neck still.

Usually I'm a big fan of the left hander but this time I didn't really get a chance to lay into it......there is a slight thought I could have got around but I seriously doubt even at FULL lean I could have pulled it around.

[matt232]

Originally Posted by Chain

Argh, sorry to hear of this Matt. At least you're here to post your account of the mishap. Could have been alot worse from what it sounds.

too true......I'm one lucky SOB when I do balls things up on the bike.....and seem to come out WAY cheaper than what I should do.

[rocket]

Sorry to hear you scraped up the RR but happy to hear you're ok bro.

[matt232]

The Before Pics

The After Pics

[Bacchus]

Me no likey "The After Pics", but who is the readhead you're about to "eat"?

[JAMI6989]

Originally Posted by Bacchus

Me no likey "The After Pics", but who is the readhead you're about to "eat"?

Looks like she's about to eat HIM? May be an NSW pic there!

Rash looks pretty bad but some fresh plastic will make most of the ugliness go away. Didn't read the whole thread but how long did that rig slide?

[oldfogey]

Sorry to hear of your mishap, Matt, but glad you're ok. Mashed plastic does look bad, doesn't it? Replacable at a price, as you know.

[matt232]

Originally Posted by Bacchus

Me no likey "The After Pics", but who is the readhead you're about to "eat"?

The redhead is my ex but the bloke isn't me....that's Mitch.

[matt232]

Originally Posted by JAMI6989

Didn't read the whole thread but how long did that rig slide?

About 10 metres across rough gravel and big chunky stones....but the bike copped a big thump when the stoppie turned into a sidey soon after I hit the gravel.

Mashed plastic is far better than gouged and twisted metal.

The handlebars and forks are out as I suspected....could be and expensive set of forks or a cheap unclamp and reclamp which decides if I loose my insurance rating rather than fixing it myself.

[colryn]

Man, the pics look scary. I hope the insurance company helps you out.

[nomad]

Damn... That's more damage than I thought. I hope you can get that sorted without too much financial trouble.

One question though... You guys all have mega-tail-bag-trunks. I've never seen that here and would probably get my ass kicked for having one. Is it common over there? Or is it just because you were on a 3-day? Does that much weight on the rear change the handling dramatically? I usually try to put the heavy items in a tank bag instead to provide the weight up front.

Speaking of riding in/near Melbourne, do you guys have many local tracks or is it mostly street?

[matt232]

Originally Posted by nomad

Damn... That's more damage than I thought. I hope you can get that sorted without too much financial trouble.

trying to avoid using insurance if its not going to be too much.

Originally Posted by nomad

One question though... You guys all have mega-tail-bag-trunks. I've never seen that here and would probably get my ass kicked for having one. Is it common over there? Or is it just because you were on a 3-day? Does that much weight on the rear change the handling dramatically? I usually try to put the heavy items in a tank bag instead to provide the weight up front.

3 day ride was part of it but I always have mine on during the week to ferry my laptop back and forth to work (magnets and laptops as well as magnets and plastic tanks don't mix). On the weekend the rack comes off and the L brackets remain or you can add a grab rail for a pillion. Ventura Racks are pretty common over here for people who ride daily.

No great impact on handling as long as its not sticking out the back of the bike, most people face thier racks towards the rider so its effectly like have a very small and well behaved pillion.

Originally Posted by nomad

Speaking of riding in/near Melbourne, do you guys have many local tracks or is it mostly street?

Phillip Island, Winton and Broadford (all are about 1-2hr drive from Melb) aren't too far away and there are generally track days most weeks even if most of them are during the week.

Plenty of options for street riding as well, reefton and black spurs are nice, a run along the Great ocean road is great too. Or if you have a few days heading into the alpine region for multiday fun.

http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/glitch1/Tours/

http://ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au/~ben/mtcv/mcroads/

bit of a list of track days

http://www.cr-x.org/cbr250/forum/top...TOPIC_ID=20387

but that doesn't include HRCA, hangmore, kawa, ausmoto, OC.MC etc organised days.

[nomad]

Thanks Matt, excellent resource on those tracks! haha, you are a man of many links.

Hopefully they will come in handy soon enough.

[Kuss929]

Sorry about your downing.
In the After pics. How in the hell do you get in that car?? Do you have to go through the sun roof?

In the Before pics. Was that a voluntary stop with the group or did the officer have a better reason?

[matt232]

Originally Posted by Kuss929

Sorry about your downing.
In the After pics. How in the hell do you get in that car?? Do you have to go through the sun roof?

Spin bike on the side stand and wheel it out......then there is about a 0.5 metre gap between wall and car which you can easily walk down and open the door.

The my bike and car are a tight fit but they do fit. Just a pain in the arse when I once in a blue moon need to use the car.

Originally Posted by Kuss929

In the Before pics. Was that a voluntary stop with the group or did the officer have a better reason?

Mitch laid the bike over hard and went through a roundabout flat out (but under the speed limit) this attracted a warning from the cops. The rest of us had out license checked and breath tests for the hell of it. No tickets were issued.

The group could have kept going and pull over further on but we stopped as a group so tehy decided to take the opurtunity to check us all out.

[nomad]

Breath tests for a random stop?! :o

[ratter]

Wow sorry to hear about your eventful weekend.

I'm glad your ok though.


But you know I'm taking note of this, so I can give you sh#t somewhere down the track

[brennyP]

crap luck mate.. yeah i never really push hard on roads i dont know
i lost my front tyre on wet tram tracks a few weeks back going down burke road but my oddyknobs took 98% of the damage other than a small hole in the bottom of the fairing you wouldnt know now ive replaced my blinker and exhaust bracket...

[brennyP]

Originally Posted by nomad

Speaking of riding in/near Melbourne, do you guys have many local tracks or is it mostly street?

we have 2 awesome mountain roads..the reeften is about 120-160 corners in 30km and the black spur is a good 40-50 corners and has a racetrack surface..Absolutely fantastic.. i spent 4 hours on it yesty.. and there are loads of other twisties like the Great ocean road, mountain hwy............
we also have 2 ok tracks not far from melb and the one and only philipisland which nobody can top.. the other tracks are really tight so its a bit **** on a thousand..but they are cheap and great fun
Yes we are ridiculously spoiled

[brennyP]

Originally Posted by matt232

The Before Pics

The After Pics

they are bloody sad pics man
i hope you didnt look half that bad afterwards good leathers i hope

i only saw ya bike once when you first got it many moons ago.... its a damn shame...
im paying $3000AUD for insurance and probably an excess to match so id hate to bin my beast overly bad...im getting raceglass soon so i can hit the track next spring...

[matt232]

Originally Posted by ratter

Wow sorry to hear about your eventful weekend.

I'm glad your ok though.


But you know I'm taking note of this, so I can give you sh#t somewhere down the track

That thought went through my mind as I was hitting the submit button.

[matt232]

Originally Posted by brennyP

i only saw ya bike once when you first got it many moons ago.... its a damn shame...
im paying $3000AUD for insurance and probably an excess to match so id hate to bin my beast overly bad...im getting raceglass soon so i can hit the track next spring...

Dry rider/ cordura pants and jacket (jacket second time in a major off) did fantastically. my elbow and kneee have slight scratches on them. I've got a sore left shoulder, left knee and left shin. Limping a little (I stupidly jogged about 5 paces on the weekend after it felt so good and then someone decided I needed treatment so they been rubbing crap into it...both of these things I think haven't done me any favours) but otherwise I'm far better off than I probably should be.

Just changed insurers about 4 days before the accident and paying a $1350 premium with a $1500 excess. Should be interesting how that changes since now it seems that I will be claiming on insurance.

[Zop]

Fark Matt. I've been away a while and to come back to this.!!
Glad you are OK. The bike can be fixed.

[brennyP]

Originally Posted by matt232

Just changed insurers about 4 days before the accident and paying a $1350 premium with a $1500 excess. Should be interesting how that changes since now it seems that I will be claiming on insurance.

yeah its a nice new bike you might aswell get it all sweet again... if you wanted to you could just buy race fairings get them plainted a real nice dark blue(like mine) and get 954 stickers and then it will never crash
nah glad ya sweet... i crashed a few times in an old dryrider gortex jacket and come off pretty good... i always do the twisties in jeans, leather jacket and alpinestar boots and gloves...so all should be fine bar my legs and knees if i come off... its a pitty all the dragonjeans look so sh#t and fit bad or id get some for sure

[Zop]

Originally Posted by nomad

Thanks Matt, excellent resource on those tracks! haha, you are a man of many links.

Hopefully they will come in handy soon enough.

Yes he is. That is why we call him "The Link King"