I'm alive ha ha ha

Friday 17/02/06, left Mildura and the weather was awesome, took in the view such as it was at sometimes norty speed, due to the weather leathers were optional, fast forward to Truro, stop and suit up in leathers for city riding, the route to ride in is altered and I try to avoid Prince Phillip Highway at all cost as GMH is now changing shift, I remember the chaos of traffic at that time of day, fate steps in I take a wrong turn an PP Highway is the road i'm on, all is quiet and it's not right, spider sense is tingling and I go into CAUTION mode, so the normal traffic is all around me and I approach the round about at the corner of PP Highway and John Rice Avenue I have to turn right, i'm now surrounded by cars and a harley 3 vehicles back, I have clear vision of JR Avenue to my right and there's a taxi coming in so I begin the slow down proccess and all is well, taxi indicates a left turn and enters the round about and proceeds to turn left, this a good thing, I take my eyes off the taxi it's time to go, the traffic and I were still moving at moderate speed just in case, one more quick check and the taxi is still turning left he has JR Avenue all to his self, there is no traffic at all with him so he is the only car to worry about, the car to my left accelerates and so do I, SHIT, just about to enter the round about and there's a screech of brakes from my left a yellow object is just starting to come into peripheral vision, he's decided to go straight ahead and not turn and he speed into the intesection. Now we all know the above is occuring in real time and at real speed and it's in seconds and all desicions are made in nanoseconds, it's what now time.
OPTIONS
1: Brake hard, brakes will lock up and i'm in a left lean, bike and I hit the ground then the taxi.
2: Don't brake, get hit, T-BONED in the right leg, and Gimp is my new username.
3: Lay it down, let it go and my baby takes the damage I get out with bumps and bruises, hopefully!!!!!!.

I'll take door number 3 thanks and my prize is, pull the bike down, rear wheel encounters that F*CKING layer of invisible shit that accumulates at islands at intersections, I forgot about that crap, the bike starts to go down as planned but before I can let it go the tyres lose grip too soon and instead of my planned chaos my baby goes down faster than a $2 hooker giving head in Melb on a Friday night, tyres hit the dividing island and she highsides me off to the right, this is gonna hurt, i'm launched forward and right and my right side ribs hit the giveway sign, that's gonna leave a mark, down and onto the shoulder do a tuck and roll sideways with a flip onto the ribs again and I scream like a pussy bitch, yep somethings not good inside, stand straight up again and survey the scene, total time from the time it starts to go wrong till i'm on my feet and swaying about 3 maybe 4 seconds, shit my bike is half on the island half on the road, burn thru the pain, still in shock a normal reaction to any accident, I walk over lift it up and struggle to get it on the island and out of traffic, no-one stops, no one helps, I know they saw it they were all around me, why don't they f*cking help ??, they're leaving and not even looking at me as if I don't exist, I know the guy on the Harley will help after all he's one of us a bike rider, nope rides on by and doesn't even look at me, anger now, now rage is setting in, "FUCK YOU YOU C*NT" I yell at him, then a woman in a green falcon stops, she hasn't even seen the accident and she stops, she tells me to wait and she goes around the round about and parks on the island, she gets out and helps push the bike onto the island out of the way, she asks if i'm alright and I smile at her and say yes, she looks worried and asks if i'm injured do I need a lift to somewhere or if she can contact anyone for me, I smile and tell her if the bike starts I can make the 1.5 kilometres to my destination, she waits, I check the bike over survey the damage and determine it's rideable, I start the bike, go over and thank her and says she is just glad i'm alright, she says goodbye and I didn't even get her name. An angel out of nowhere, I know she may never read this but who ever you are thankyou.
RESULT
1: Top and Rightside Fairing are knackered need those replaced, maybe go nekked hehehehe, the bike not me.
2: Cracked ribs, they'll heal and Halls Gap is in April, nuthin can stop me from attending that.
3: Hatred of taxi's increased by ten levels
4: Harley riders, if you ride one I'll hit ya with a pick axe handle and sit back and see if anyone helps you, OK.
5: Someone luvs me, a few inches back and I would have hit that pole with my neck and died instantly.
6: Trailered the bike back to Mildura and checked the forum, shit my family has grown, I will see most of you at Halls and I owe ya's a drink, must be getting old cause I got all choked up.
Thanks to all who posted, thanks to all those who offered their help, i'll need fairings for a 93 ZXR750 L model, if ya know where I can get some that'd be great, mostly thanks to Lainey who has emailed and emailed to see if I was alright, and i'm sorry we couldn't contact you as we were in Addy. So Shaman welcome to Crash Club '06, we'll have to get some T's made up mate, sorry I couldn't make it to the Addy run.
Les

Bummer..!!
Whats going on with all this crashing atm...
Full moon.??, Earths rotation speeding up.???

Glad to hear your OK and good report too...

Congrats on making it through - it sounds like a few inches this way or that and you could have instead ended up in a wheelchair or a coffin.

What a bunch of ar$3holes at the scene though - starting with the taxi driver who himself didn't stop. If there's such a thing as karma, he'll go under an 18 wheeler some time soon.

Les
thank phark you are ok
it was all quiet there for a while

re taxis....I have NEVER trusted one...never will
.....the drivers are idiots ..can't get jobs elsewhere
(and my apologies to ronster...he has to administer them loonies)

and Hardly Dangerous??? only confirms what those pricks are...

get well

and stop crashing you lot!


cheers

Take your time Heal up Properly Les. Bike is repairable/replaceable mate.
I want to see the re-enactment first hand at the Super Doopers week after next mate. My Shout for the coldie while you relax & play story teller.
Cheers Brett

Good one Les , I'm glad it's only cracked ribs, you can live and ride *in pain* with them. I don't even know ya but I was getting worried when you hadn't logged in
See ya at halls gap anyway.

PS. I don't know if I'll ride down yet... Might just drive the Taxi instead..

Me glad you are Ok . Yes you had me worried sick but was good to wake to your email this morning. ... Ya still getting that boot from me in Halls though

Good to see you came out of it in one piece and with a sense of humour mate.

Bloody Taxi's and Harley pricks eh. Bastards.

Glad you are ok and yes some mongrels are more than mongrels
Gentle hugs for you till you get better

Glad to hear you're ok Les, was getting abit worried myself with no appearance your worship for a while. Stupid question I guess but daresay you didn't get taxi rego?

You can tell Lainie's a mum can't you

Les
thank phark you are ok
it was all quiet there for a while

re taxis....I have NEVER trusted one...never will
.....the drivers are idiots ..can't get jobs elsewhere
(and my apologies to ronster...he has to administer them loonies)

and Hardly Dangerous??? only confirms what those pricks are...

get well

and stop crashing you lot!


cheers

I happen to know quite alot of really nice taxi drivers!! Even taxi drivers who are not idiots!!

AAWWW, see now you've gone and made me shed a bloody tear, my manly facade has erroded and you've hit the center, a BIG Thanks to all of ya and a BIG hug to all you nice ladies of th KSRC
Les[/b]

I can't blame all taxi drivers nor can I blame all HD riders, not all are bad, oh who am I kidding yes they are, hehehehehe, i'm a baaad boy.
Les

Thought i'd better put this in, no didn't get the rego I was too busy going for gold in the gymnasitics event, by the time I realised to look he was too far away and going really teally fast to get out of there. Les

Good to see you made it ok Les, shitter about the off. I've already PM'd you my mobile, next time you plan on doing some roundabout gymnastics gimme a bell. I could have been there in 10 mins(just in time to present the gold silver and bronze).

Sorry about the Asshole Adelaide driver too mate, they aren't all bad, only about 95% of em