Lofo ride Sun 4th Aug.

[Dead Eye]

Oww, oww, oww, oww... damn shoulder

Front end of bike is mostly obliterated - anyone who had seen the front fairing before hand will know exactly why, but its basically in about 34,315 pieces :| Front left fork is destroyed, right one is highly questionable, fairing mounting is buggered, generator cover is history, rear cowling cracked and torn, both mirrors disintegrated, fairing inlays destroyed, gear change lever is questionable at best and tank dented and scratched - so basically, if I was going to crash, I was going to do it in style...

Entirely my own fault, had a huge downpour a few miles back on the B184 but Thraxted was magically bone dry a few miles down the road I carried a little too much speed in to a double apex corner (didn't realise it was a double apex at the time) and due to the rain previously was in a "don't lean it too far over" mode even though I could have. Result was that I ended up hitting the quite well built up grass bank (it was like 4-5ft high) shoulder first. So shoulder is pretty mashed up (can't lift my arm very high), massive lump on my knee and my ankle kinda hurts as well...

Luckily Exupnut was on hand to help me out, so epic thanks for that! Luckily managed to get the bike started again after a bike behind me stopped to help as well (massive thanks to him on his Triumph Street Triple) and Mr. Exupnut rode it back home with me on his (a lot of trust there!). Now sitting at home trying to drown my pain in beer