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After the meet

#1 Post by the duke » Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:18 pm

Went to newark and it was good to put some names to faces. Shame about the weather though.
Will have to meet up again in better weather and go out for a ride.

Felt sorry for the guys who had come some way so i took the long way home to share their pain.
Was actually enjoying myself splashing about in the rain and turned a 10 mile ride home to a 45 mile route.

Oh.... and it was going so well.

Got home. Had to pull on the sodden grass to get by the car, spun the wheel up, threw me off balance,
scraped the top fairing on the wall and dropped it on floor. Oh shit shit and shit again. now i'll have to keep an eye on ebay
for a black fairing top half cos i can't bear the scrape marks. :smt013

God i'm really grumpy now. Should have moved the car before i came out.

Hindsight is such a wonderful thing.

See you all again sometime.

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#2 Post by fastasfcuk » Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:12 pm

f--k me it do'nt get any worse than that, have you got a cat or dog you can kick or better still the mrs. :smt003
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Re: After the meet

#3 Post by Goldie » Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:53 pm

the duke wrote:Got home. Had to pull on the sodden grass to get by the car, spun the wheel up, threw me off balance,
scraped the top fairing on the wall and dropped it on floor. Oh shit shit and shit again. now i'll have to keep an eye on ebay
for a black fairing top half cos i can't bear the scrape marks. :smt013
Oops. :smt009

Two years ago I got home the BSB at Knockhill; stopped at the top of our drive and put my left foot down in a hole I'd forgotten about :smt017 . Bike slowly starts to tip and jams my foot underneath... start yelling at the daughter to get off the back... next thing I know I'm lying on top of a small but very broken fence, pinned under the bike with a bemused 16 year-old looking down at me. :smt011

Wriggled free, lifted bike (no damage to me or bike, thank god), and propped fence panel up with a couple of rocks. Don't think anyone saw me :smt011 .

Wife didn't notice fence for a couple of days, then decided the POSTMAN must have done it!!! :smt005 :smt005 :smt005

It was months before I finally owned up! :smt003 :smt003
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#4 Post by HowardQ » Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:45 pm

That's a really shit way to end the day Ben.
How bad is the top fairing scraped, as they ain't easy to get hold of in good nick second hand, each one I've seen usually had some damage. I was really lucky to get the stuff I did, but in the end it was a bit borderline financially. I ended up paying over £500 and only really used the top fairing, the R/Hand middle fairing, an indicator, a mirror and a bar end from the stuff I bought. You can get the top fairing in black, ready to fit, from Aprilia Yorkshire -
http://www.apriliayorkshire.co.uk/catal ... %20fairing
But at £498.79 plus delivery and VAT, it's incredibly expensive!
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#5 Post by the duke » Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:56 pm

Ouch for that sort of money i'll have to make do for now and just keep looking to see if anything comes up.

Ta for the link

Ben
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#6 Post by sabestian » Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:03 pm

I feel really sorry for you... but you have a perfect excuse to convert it to Falco Fighter or Falcuono :smt003

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#7 Post by falcomunky » Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:40 pm

Unlucky that man! :smt010
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#8 Post by Tweaker » Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:19 pm

That's rough Ben. Have you considered taking it to a decent body shop and having the scrapes filled and the fairing re-sprayed? It'll be cheaper than a new fairing for sure.
The ride is the reason ........ the destination is just the excuse.
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Re: After the meet

#9 Post by Gio » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:40 pm

Ouch Ben, at least its not as bad as what I did, when I bought my bike before passing my test. It sat outside for 3 months and the week before I took my test I found it fallen over, big ding in the tank and scraped all over :smt010

It had 19 miles on the clock.
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#10 Post by the duke » Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:24 pm

Well i had a look at it today and was still pissed off with what i'd done.

But in the cold light of day i realise it could have been worse and i may just have to live with a small
yet ugly scar on the corner of the fairing. It bust an indicator to but that is far easier to replace.

God it was heavy to pick back up to.

What annoyed me most was just arriving home safe after a reasonably long ride considering the conditions
in appaling weather i went and did something so silly.

But the more i think about it the more i come round to thinking, oh well it would've been so much worse had i come off on the road.

So i'll just have to make do and live with a reminder that even the silliest things can happen.

Thanks for your comiserations and similar tales of woe.

Ben
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