by James » Tue Nov 09, 2004 5:05 pm
Not bad MotoGP rider and top dart-board pin-up ,Max Biaggi, has snapped his leg-bone after falling off his supermoto bike. Biaggi, who sleeps through Christmas, was training for the Italian Supermoto GP race when he cheekily tumbled from his machine, after allegedly becoming distracted by the amusing sight of an old woman being mugged.
"It was brilliant!" enthused an eyewitness, while hiding an old lady's purse in his coat pocket. "Biaggi lost concentration and drifted wide into a market stall selling hair gel and ravioli. Once he was in that slippery cocktail he lost the front end of his machine and cracked his shin on the floor. Man you should have heard the crack! I reckon his shin bone crumbled like a piece of chalk."
Biaggi was immediately rushed to his favourite restaurant for a pasta based dish, before being taken to hospital for surgery on his leg and beard. The surgeon in charge was understandably happy with the results of the operation. "The operation was a success, and took about 48 minutes," said the woppy quack as he swigged from a bottle of extra, extra, even more extra than that, virgin olive oil. "I could have easily performed the operation under 45 minutes if I had been given top-level equipment, like in that operating theatre next door. My scalpel just wasn't as sharp as I wanted and its performance deteriorated just past half distance. But overall I'm happy with the result. Now where did I leave my house keys?"
The extent of Biaggi's injuries means the beard-shodden Italian will be out of action for at least two or three months (depending on whether or not Checa visits him). Crucially, it means that Biaggi will miss Honda's next evil test session. Although there was no official comment from the Biaggi camp, a close friend of Biaggi's was willing to provide his inside opinion, after a sly backhander of some tinned ravioli. "Max is very upset by the incident," said the insider. "The crash was clearly not Max's fault, although we have yet to decide who's fault it is. This will mean, however, that Max will not be able to win the 2005 championship."