Expencive bike wash

[mick]

All sorted now total cost £266.00 bars, Givi screen, and left side heated grip,

 

[ziggie]

Not to bad,could have been worse.glad all worked out.and yes was joking about north pole lol

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[Hakea]

All sorted now total cost £266.00 bars, Givi screen, and left side heated grip,

Bummer about the drop. Good to hear that you've got it sorted now.


As Old Can Ride says, it's very common to drop a bike sometime, somehow...


So, for the entertainment of others, here's my drop story:


I picked my new NC700SA up on a Friday 13th (well, nothing ever happens on Friday 13th - it's all a myth isn't it??...). The first time I'd ridden a bike in over 30 years was about 20 yards in the dealer's carpark as I headed for my trailer. Didn't drop it. First test passed.

Loaded and unloaded it. Still no drop. Phew. Rode down the street successfully and went round a small roundabout, still in the saddle. hey! It's all coming back, no problems.. I'm as good as I was years ago... aren't I?... maybe...


A few kilometres later and I stopped at a crossroads and put my foot down.... in the wrong spot apparently. Gravel on the road, weird camber, just plain poor choice of time and place to plant foot - or a bit of them all?... but the result was that my foot slid away and the bike and I toppled gently sideways onto the gravel verge, at zero speed. The icing on the cake was that a gang of maintenance people immediately opposite silently watched the whole performance, like a herd of inquisitive cows.

Not so much as a scratch or dent on the bike, but the pride took a bit of a knock. But it was a very useful lesson learned about foot placement and balance, in a spot with no other traffic. Stayed upright in the months since.


But a couple of days later I did come up with a very dramatic purple bruise to match the sore muscles... All gone now though (..uh, the bruise gone, not the leg...).