Bad News

[Gio]

I think maybe its time to call it a day before something serious happens.

Sod that!

I said that once as well. Sadly we don't bounce as well and the reactions are a bit slower

[Falken]

Sorry to hear your bad news Gio, hope you heal Ok.

Just take your time and think about all the good things abaout biking before making your decision.

Get well soon.

[Falco9]

Hi Peter,
Glad your OK mate, metal is one thing, flesh & blood another. I hope you have a very swift and full recovery, Diesel is an increasing nightmare for all of us, last Weds both Bob (brand new 1098S) and myself had a swift run into one of our favourite roundabouts to find it covered in Diesel, last minute panic avoidance and a very large slice of luck meant we both emerged unscathed (well 2 sets of underwear didn't make it!)

Highly unlikely you would have been able to save it on diesel anyway, so don't be too hard on yourself.

Hope my old girl isn't a total loss but if so, well such is life.

I'd appreciate it if you could let me know what the score is regarding the insurance , I have very very fond feelings for that particular bit of metal

F9

[falcomunky]

Oh Gio! What a 'mare matey!
Ive spent exactly zero time with/on the bike this weekend due to 'party' comittments, (Of the drink/drugs/music variety-Tis the Bank Holiday dontcha know! ).
Maybe yer shoulda done the same!
My heart really feels for ya Fella, but as has been said already; Leave any rash decisions fer a week or two...
Heal soon matey n hopefully the Falco aint actually as bad as she currently looks.
Take care!

[Gio]

Hi Peter,
Glad your OK mate, metal is one thing, flesh & blood another. I hope you have a very swift and full recovery, Diesel is an increasing nightmare for all of us, last Weds both Bob (brand new 1098S) and myself had a swift run into one of our favourite roundabouts to find it covered in Diesel, last minute panic avoidance and a very large slice of luck meant we both emerged unscathed (well 2 sets of underwear didn't make it!)

Highly unlikely you would have been able to save it on diesel anyway, so don't be too hard on yourself.

Hope my old girl isn't a total loss but if so, well such is life.

I'd appreciate it if you could let me know what the score is regarding the insurance , I have very very fond feelings for that particular bit of metal

F9

Rich I will, I'm going to swap over parts that are unaffected, before the assessor see's it. as then peeps on here can have 1st pop at parts if it is written off.

[sabestian]

Crap! Sorry for you Gio. Glad you're OK-ish, though.
Even though I crash roughly once in a season, you'd think I should be used to that, but I still think of my wifey and son etc., does it make sense, maybe I'll stick to the cage etc.
Don't quit bikes, m8, I'm telling you. Get something slower, ride slower, I donno, don't quit.

Get a Hardley. That's like half - quitting actually

JEEZZUSS, I'm really getting pissed of with our roads. Every time I come back from a blast on the continent I feel the same

Have a blast on a Polish roads, you'll be healed. Proper non-stop off-road action.

[sabestian]

Took a tumble on the bike yesterday, on the A5 near Shrewsbury, the bike is in a right state and I'm all dings and dents. List so far for the bike is bent fairing frame (top bit with the screen) top yoke is displaced left (this is most noticeable when you move the bars left to right its got 1.5inch gap on the right and a huge dent on the left in the tank. Other things are the bike crabs when you push it so I'm guessing its a bent frame/front forks. The left hand radiator was crushed by the fan.

I wouldn't have thought that you could bend that frame, rather crack it. If you've got the top yoke out of alignment no wonder the bike won't go straight. The seems fairly easy to replace/repair. Don't write the rare Falco to easily. Fighterize!

[Aladinsaneuk]

i think that there are enough people here that will help you get things back together m8

even if it is only an interim measure, i have a pile of standard bits that you are welcome to have - original exhausts etc

I really do think that you need to get the insurance report, then sit down and see what to do

with regard to the flesh and blood stuff - PM me for anything that I can do to help - even if it is just explanations..... I have been nursing for a damned long time and may well be able to help with pain control/physio exercises/coping systems etc

[Nooj]

Now, if you'd have come along to the KillSpills run, you wouldn't have hit that patch of diesel! That's why I turn up every year, to try and stop stuff like that happening.

Shitty news though, but don't give up riding, you could sell the bike and be hit by a car while walking down the road tomorrow, have a plane crash onto your house, get struck by lightning, anything.

Both the Missus and me have had nasty crashes, I broke my back, she got flung down the road and smashed her collar bone (she's sat here with an ice pack on it now, two years later). Life's short, enjoy it while you can, get back out there and have some bike fun, what on earth would you do instead??

[Syltiz]

Damn Gio! Im so sorry to hear about that fella. And only 1 month ago I was riding with you

I hope you get it sorted - dont lose heart, in fact force yourself back on a bike as soon as possible before that mental block becomes too big. I binned a 996 a few years ago and went through the same thought process until I climbed back on a bike and all my doubts disappeared.

Just one question though... were you running your mounted camera at the time?

[Viking]

Hey Gio,

I'm sorry to hear about your tumble. But look at it this way - you got up and walked away from it. So that's one thing to be thankful of.

As for giving up bikes, have a think about it and I'll be surprised if you don't change your mind a bit down the road.

[HowardQ]

So sorry to hear about your off Gio, and can obviously empathise, with all your thoughts. You don't mend as quick when you get older and it's always going to be a personal decision if you decide to pack it in. Hope the physical damage ain't too bad. Six months on, I've still got a few problems, an iffy right knee, right shoulder liggaments now getting a bit better, but worst bit is still the trapped nerve in my right shoulder, which seems to be gettin worse, but you already know all about that!
See how you feel in a few weeks and make the decision that is right for you and the wife, regardless of what people like us say.
On reflection, I decided that I simply did not want to give up yet, as I enjoy bikes too much, (blame that bloody Falco again!), and don't want to be a complete old fart just yet. If I'm honest though, I have slowed down a bit since, and still twitch a bit and back off whenever there are cars in side roads.
As for the bike, sounds like it will almost certainly by scrapped, probably on plastic damage and forks alone. You could consider buying it back off the insurers and rebuild or break.
Look round on Ebay etc., and see what you can find. I fell lucky and bought a load of almost new panels and stuff off Ebay. Cost me over £500 but the Aprilia price would have been well over £2K.
All in, it probably cost me around a grand, but new parts would have cost over £2,800 without labour and I had no damage to forks or rads.
Get yourself sorted first, probably take a few weeks before the bruises start to get a bit better, we're all thinkin about you mate.
Keep your chin up.

Howard.

[sabestian]

Good red ebay tank if yours is bad

[TwinNut]

That is bad new fella, hope you're not knocked around too much and that the mighty Silver (and pink ) beasty will survive. Really bad luck that. All I could add to what's already been said is that when I binned it big time at Oulton and broke my wrist and smashed my bike up I also said (whilst in the ambulance) that I wasn't getting on a bike again but after a couple of weeks and once the dust had settled 'the bug' bit me again. I used the rebuild of the bike as therapy and got back on as soon as she was ready and it did me a lot of good. I suspect that we all feel like that never riding again after a going down the road because it reminds us of our mortality but in the long run this is a good thing because it means from now on you'll have your eye out for that and other potential dangers so use it as a wake-up call and you'll be a better rider because of it.

Chin up fella....

[Gtrain]

Jeez bad luck Gio, a bit of a shame cause that was one of the nicest falcos getting around, but at the end of the day it is still only a bike made of metal and plastic, not of flesh and blood like you, so if its gone its gone, it like any other can be replaced, whereas you cant be so while you maybe bent and broken at the moment at least your still around to tell the tale.

So take your time healing and see how you feel about bikes then, some thing tells me a track bike might be in your future, or maybe a big lazy hog