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Dead VFR on the Putty today.
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 4:35 pm
by Strika
I did the Putty today after fitting the new indicator to the 9. (45 mins whoa to goa using the wonderful standard issue ZX9R tool kit and some elec connectors from supa cheap!)
Jus t after Colo river on the way up I spotted this....anyone know who's it is and if they made it???? It looked very very ugly. Some of you Sydneyites shouldknow it, even I have seen the bike before!!!
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 4:39 pm
by photomike666
That's a weird one. First impression is a serious highside and cartwheel action, bit no damage to the back of the bike. Can't see that else would pull the front out like that, except a hard drop from a fast mono...
Hope the pilot is OK
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 5:12 pm
by Pabs
Oh !! Shite!! that curve looks very familiar,Fark hope is ok!!
Could be an Oroads dude ??
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 5:15 pm
by Cath
Ouch.
Do you know what the story behind the crash is, Strika? I'm trying to imagine angles / picture what happened.
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 5:21 pm
by MadKaw
Damn, they must have been honkin.
The bottom end of the putty is a pretty fast area, mostly 120 plus with none of the 35 or 45 k corners like the top end...
Could be from Oroads or cbr250.com....
Hope there OK, but seeing as the bike is still there I'm guessing probly not.???
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 5:26 pm
by Neka79
weird how the forks are bent...unless it was hit by a car??
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:43 pm
by Strika
From what I can see as far as skid marks and moved gravel, is that the rider came down the hill through the right hander ran wide onto the gravel with a handfull of front brake, the bike slid under the armco railing and the forks met with the uprights holding the armco railing. That's why I figure that the rider may not be a very happy camper at the moment, if at all still with us!!!!!! It looked horrible!
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:03 pm
by Buck
I thought I saw a thread on a stolen rhonda VFR with the replica stickers
(a weird wardrobe for the worlds best sports tourer?)
taken from the side of the road near Beenleigh QLD.
Piccys got yella plates though.
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:05 pm
by Buck
On second look its a 400
the long wheelbase fooled me
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 9:21 pm
by nahima
Ouch! hope rider is OK...
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 9:35 pm
by James
I was worried for a second. I went up the Putty on Sunday and spoke with some guys that I didnt know, one on a VFR400 and another on a Bros (+ 2 others) and these guys were absolutely crazy. One of them was tipping into left handers from the outside white line on the opposite side of the road apexing on the white line on the correct side of the road and then running wide again on exit. At one stage he went the full length of a 200m straight between a sharp right and sharp left on the wrong side of the road. When I saw this post I thought it might have been him, but I dont think he had the race numbers on the ducktail.
Still that one looks pretty bad - odd that the forks are bent out - wheres the fairing gone?
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 9:37 pm
by mike-s
Well it could have been "nakedafied" from a past incident. or a trackbike with the raceglass taken off and so on so forth.
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 10:35 pm
by kellz
ok that bike looks way to familiar..
either a sydney knights or an oroader would be my guess.
anything up on oroads yet???
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:10 pm
by mike-s
nothing on oroads yet.
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:57 pm
by Mojo67
Hey Strika no better place to try out some new indicators than the Putty!
VFR riders are all crazy. Paging Red Leader...