25-01-22, 08:53 AM
Had a strange one 2 days ago. Was sitting at the front of traffic, on the nearside as I was turning left, and as the lights changed I accelerated and the engine started screaming as if I had the clutch in? Then I started feeling the bike moving from the side until eventually I pulled away, albeit a bit confused.
As the lights changed a car on my right decided to turn left too, and I'm guessing didn't see me, for whatever reason?
So his car was pushing onto my exhaust, which made the wheel spin and the rear end was being nudged sideways until they must've seen me and realised what was going on.
No damage, just a shiny spot on my exhaust where the contact was, but my tyre only had 10psi in it last night when I checked, with no visible puncture (plus I have Slime in the tyre) but hopefully that's all good again now. I'll check it again tonight after work.
As the lights changed a car on my right decided to turn left too, and I'm guessing didn't see me, for whatever reason?
So his car was pushing onto my exhaust, which made the wheel spin and the rear end was being nudged sideways until they must've seen me and realised what was going on.
No damage, just a shiny spot on my exhaust where the contact was, but my tyre only had 10psi in it last night when I checked, with no visible puncture (plus I have Slime in the tyre) but hopefully that's all good again now. I'll check it again tonight after work.
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