Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Ouch !

Decided to crash test the Tiddly-X this morning.
Lost the front end on a right hander (where the road bends right, heading into town, behind the Notts County ground if you know Nottingham).
I reckon there must have been some diesel (although there was no obvious sigh of a spill) as I was going pretty steadily.

The Hondgdou stood up pretty well. There is a scuff on both the front and rear footpegs, front brake lever snapped and I managed to take a chunk out of the right side handlebar grip.
(I later found the missing chunk of rubber wedged behind the toe slider on my right boot.)

Apart from that it seems ok. After a cursory road side inspection at the scene I rode it the rest of the way to work ok (Very slowly as the back brake isn't that great !).

I seem to be reasonably damage free, bit of a bruise on my right hip but that seems to be about it.

Thanks to the lady in the green Mondeo for stopping to see if I was ok.