06-12-16, 03:31 PM
(06-12-16, 02:47 PM)joebloggs link Wrote: Another lesson, well three discoveries in about a second tbh, was that when a friend tells you to watch the front brake he may have a point, ......
Off topic a bit but that reminds me of the worst accident I ever had. When I was a lot younger a few of us used to share a lockup where we kept our bikes and worked on them. I had a Suzuki GT380 which I was halfway through servicing and it needed new plugs, rather than put old ones back in just to take them out out again I borrowed another lads Honda CD175, as I rode off I heard him shout something about front brake but just kept going until I had to brake for traffic at the lights, pulled front brake and lever just hiit the throttle grip, it had no cable attached! Panic mode clicked in and I went to the left of the stationery car in front with the back wheel locked solid , for a split second I thought I had got away with it but there was a small traffic island in the way with one of those old concrete bollards on which I hit with my left leg and bike and me went our separate ways. Left leg broken in two places, broken big toe, three broken ribs , fractured wrist and enough bruises to last me a lifetime. That shitty Honda had bent handlebars and a few scrapes only and Rob , the lad who owned it put some on from the pile of bits lying around in the lockup and kept it for another year. Never borrowed anther bike since.