CurlyBlakey
Wannabie Member
Firstly, apologies to the users of both bikething and motovlog as this post will be duplicated.
Some of you may have seen on twitter that I had a crash on Sunday evening, it was my fault, i went to touch my right hand pannier after someone behind be did a long (serious sounding) beep on their horn as I have had it fall off before. I don't know whether I then caught my brake or my bars or something (it's all gone blank) the next thing i know I'm sat up against a curb with my bike pissing oil everywhere. It was in a 30 zone just after a roundabout so I estimate my speed was 30.
I thought I was fine at first with the adrenaline still being about, after highways and the police had been I noticed my left arm wasn't doing great, it turns out I've got a hairline fracture right on the ball of my humerous (top forearm) where it goes into the elbow, meaning my left arm doesn't work at the moment and it hurts, lots.
As for the bike, the crash bungs did their job till it hit the curb where it made a small hole in the oil pump cover and smashed the front up. Should be fixable but I'm just going to get it to Orwells in Ipswich and leave them to it.
My gear stood up very well, my flip front helmet stayed shut, I wasn't dazed or anything, it gets 5 stars. I was told by my doctor in A+E that where the impact was on the helmet could well have killed me if I wasn't wearing one.
My jacket didn't do so well, it split at the seams and i got impact damage off the jacket material itself and some road rash on my right forearm. This has changed how I feel about textile jackets at the moment. The D3O armour did a good job and probably saved me from a worse break.
My Hein Gericke trousers avoided most of the impact but stood up well.
My Furygan Jet Evo gloves barely look damaged.
My boots were not damaged.
The important thing is that I'm here, I obviously won't be going to France on Thursday now but hey, that's life.
Current estimates for recovery time are between 2 weeks and 3 months, orthopaedics will tell me more on Friday.
Ride safe guys
Some of you may have seen on twitter that I had a crash on Sunday evening, it was my fault, i went to touch my right hand pannier after someone behind be did a long (serious sounding) beep on their horn as I have had it fall off before. I don't know whether I then caught my brake or my bars or something (it's all gone blank) the next thing i know I'm sat up against a curb with my bike pissing oil everywhere. It was in a 30 zone just after a roundabout so I estimate my speed was 30.
I thought I was fine at first with the adrenaline still being about, after highways and the police had been I noticed my left arm wasn't doing great, it turns out I've got a hairline fracture right on the ball of my humerous (top forearm) where it goes into the elbow, meaning my left arm doesn't work at the moment and it hurts, lots.
As for the bike, the crash bungs did their job till it hit the curb where it made a small hole in the oil pump cover and smashed the front up. Should be fixable but I'm just going to get it to Orwells in Ipswich and leave them to it.
My gear stood up very well, my flip front helmet stayed shut, I wasn't dazed or anything, it gets 5 stars. I was told by my doctor in A+E that where the impact was on the helmet could well have killed me if I wasn't wearing one.
My jacket didn't do so well, it split at the seams and i got impact damage off the jacket material itself and some road rash on my right forearm. This has changed how I feel about textile jackets at the moment. The D3O armour did a good job and probably saved me from a worse break.
My Hein Gericke trousers avoided most of the impact but stood up well.
My Furygan Jet Evo gloves barely look damaged.
My boots were not damaged.
The important thing is that I'm here, I obviously won't be going to France on Thursday now but hey, that's life.
Current estimates for recovery time are between 2 weeks and 3 months, orthopaedics will tell me more on Friday.
Ride safe guys
Heal up soon fella and I hope the bike is fixed up asap!
Awful! Sorry to see this, france isn't going anywhere though, its just good that you are still here. All the best.
I didn't on a hand injury and now I can tell if its gonna rain as my hand hurts about an hour before.
