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From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 6 Jun 2010 13:17 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Brian <brian.willis13(a)btinternet.com> saying something like: >by the way what is Champ's name so I can keep >an eye open for him on the tele coverage. We don't expect him to butt a pole again, as he's hung up his racer boots and dayglo spangled suit.
From: Lozzo on 6 Jun 2010 15:51 Grimly Curmudgeon wrote: > We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the > drugs began to take hold. I remember Brian > <brian.willis13(a)btinternet.com> saying something like: > > > by the way what is Champ's name so I can keep > > an eye open for him on the tele coverage. > > We don't expect him to butt a pole again, as he's hung up his racer > boots and dayglo spangled suit. Umm, Champs leathers, which he still wears after his telegraph pole incident[1], are black and grey. [1]They were repairable, and whoever did them did a bloody good job of them -- Lozzo Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
From: Wicked Uncle Nigel on 7 Jun 2010 15:54 Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> typed >"Speedgazebo MOTP #1" <nickaird(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> I have just got back from a short ride, apart from my helmet I was >> only wearing a tee shirt, short and trainers. I am sure that some >here >> will get all smug and think that this is irresponsible, dangerous >and >> stupid because it's so dangerous. The fact is that I often ride like >> that when it's hot because I enjoy it. >> I didn't crash and got home alive and well, obviously, had I had an >> accident I would be well and truly fucked > >When I had my big incident a few years ago I was wearing shorts and >t-shirt. My back was lacerated but my legs were so untouched everyone >assumed I'd been wearing leathers. Yeah, but you had something soft to land on. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" I've always been a man who's open to persuasion
From: ogden on 7 Jun 2010 16:04 Wicked Uncle Nigel <wun(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote: > Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, ogden > <ogden(a)pre.org> typed > >When I had my big incident a few years ago I was wearing shorts and > >t-shirt. My back was lacerated but my legs were so untouched everyone > >assumed I'd been wearing leathers. > Yeah, but you had something soft to land on. Nuns. -- ogden Not sent from an iPad that I don't have
From: wessie on 7 Jun 2010 20:52
Colin Irvine <look(a)bottom.of.home.page> wrote in news:i80n065gsioprlupmbqsj0as7tcji9vdqh(a)4ax.com: > On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 03:39:29 -0700 (PDT), Brian squeezed out the > following: > > <of degloving> > >> I could't find an image of a bike related >>one. > > Relatively minor, and mostly healed by then, but here you go. > > http://www.colinandpat.co.uk/Diaries/2008/Hand.jpg > > We went down at around 70 mph, so presumably would have been doing > somewhat less than that by the time the glove came off. > did it smell like bacon? -- wessie at tesco dot net BMW R1150GS |