02-09-15, 08:07 PM
(01-09-15, 08:36 PM)joebloggs link Wrote: One of mine (there are many)
Two up and late for work I was using the back roads to save going through several villages with 30mph limits, I turned into this junction that had recently been re-tarmacked (loose chippings) Now it had been a few weeks since they resurfaced the road and mostly the loose stuff was gone, save for the perfect triangle left on the junction that I was now aiming for. Luckily for me it was quite a tight turn so my speed was probably less than 10mph when the front end tucked under, also fortunately I had seen said gravel and new exactly what was coming, unlike my ex mrs who was doing her usual cling on for dear life, who, in hindsight should have let go of the grabrail that she so heavily relied on.
As the front end tucked I stuck a foot down and let go of the handlebars allowing the bike to slide from beneath me, I landed on my arse, facing my previous direction of travel just in time to watch my ex, still clinging onto that bloody grabrail, slide straight down the road......
Now this reminds me of an incident my wife had when she had a Mk 1 350 YPVS......... (I was pillion :lol :lol )
We were on the way back from a rally, I'd had a drop too much ale the night before, hence the pillion position. Going round an unfamiliar roundabout on the outskirts of Abergavenny, she took the wrong exit.......
Then decided to make a U turn straight after the triangular island......just where all the gravel was........on a peaky 2 stroke.
Once it decided it was going down, I stood up off the bike leaving her to wrestle the thing to the ground :rollin :rollin :rollin
We still laugh about it....honest!
Then thee was that time............ :z :z :z