Bad bike day

[Bladerunner]

How's this for a sh*t day?

Yesterday I had to drop my TTR off for some work to be done on it. First I had to move my truck out of the garage, then move my fireblade into the middle off the garage, then get the TTR out and put it on the back of the truck and strap it down. I also had to move an old Blade engine from the back of the garage onto the truck next to the TTR, rather than carry it out to the truck I thought I'd reverse the truck back into the garage near the engine.

All simple stuff right? Sadly I forgot that I'd moved the Fireblade into the middle of the garage and promptly reversed my truck straight into it!!!

Fortunately I only broke the headlight, still not gonna be cheap tho. If anyone has a UK spec headlight for a 92-95 Blade for sale please let me know..........

Then to top it off, later the same day the chap who's sorting my TTR turned up to show me the exhaust that had basically disintegrated when he tried to remove it, turns out it had been rusting through at the back out of sight

So that's both bike off the road in one day, just as the weather starts getting nicer.

ARSE.

[Blimey]

Sounds crap mate. Just lifes way of making things more interesting is the way i look at it. Life would be boring otherwise. And come a year or 2 you will look back and tell the tale how this happened and laugh.

Talking of reversing lorrys into bikes

I reversed my lorry up this long winding road the other day and was ohhhhing and ahhhing weather i should go just a little bit further up against a wall before i stopped but thought "NA" this will do. When i got out there was a 05 plate ZX10 parked less then a metre behind me. Luck and God was deffo on my side that day.

Like i said, treat it like life making things more interesting for you, you must be bored or someone thinks you are anyway

[tafflade]

could have been worse mate.

this is my RGV's piston



powervalve/piston interface is the diagnosis

I'm sure you'll track down a headlight easily enough, there's plenty of bike being broken on ebay etc

[jason]

Talking of reversing lorrys into bikes

I reversed my lorry up this long winding road the other day and was ohhhhing and ahhhing weather i should go just a little bit further up against a wall before i stopped but thought "NA" this will do. When i got out there was a 05 plate ZX10 parked less then a metre behind me. Luck and God was deffo on my side that day.

wow that would have been a bit embarrassing!

I did the dumbest thing in the world once, I was sat in my car in my drive parked a couple foot in front of the garage door, front facing trying to strap my son into his child seat and he was being a pain and I was getting frustrated trying to sort him out. Anyway our drive at that time was on a slope and you had to reverse back up it, so I eventually get him sorted into his seat the engine is already running I look over my shoulder to reverse up the drive and give the car a heavy foot on the accelerator as I am a bit flustered....

Only the car is still in first gear...about a second later we are quarter way into the garage with the garage door ripped off its frame and lying across the bonnett and windscreen of the car. luckily the bikes in the garage are just far forward enough that they avoid damage. The car is another matter its scratched to hell, and at the time it was only about 6 weeks old - it had barely left the showroom. That didnt matter though (company car)- I was just so relieved I had not clipped the bikes......new garage doors are surprisingly expensive mind.

[Blimey]

That didnt matter though (company car)- I was just so relieved I had not clipped the bikes

I think this was the main and most important part of this experience