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Managed to trip and fall down some concrete steps ffs.

I think I may have caught Noggin's fuck up fairy. :roll:

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Skub wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 11:32 am Managed to trip and fall down some concrete steps ffs.

I think I may have caught Noggin's fuck up fairy. :roll:

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Skub wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 11:32 am Managed to trip and fall down some concrete steps ffs.

I think I may have caught Noggin's fuck up fairy. :roll:

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3/10 for injury, Mrs M tripped over the door step last year and fractured her elbow and damaged the ligaments in her wrist/hand.

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MingtheMerciless wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 12:15 pm 3/10 for injury, Mrs M tripped over the door step last year and fractured her elbow and damaged the ligaments in her wrist/hand.

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Yeah Mrs.Skub did something similar a while back. The FUF is a sneaky bastrid.
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Ooh, that must sting.

Dibs on your wee bike.
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MingtheMerciless wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 12:15 pm
3/10 for injury, Mrs M tripped over the door step last year and fractured her elbow and damaged the ligaments in her wrist/hand.
My 80+ mum tried to bunnyhop her pushbike up a kerb. 10/10 for effort. 1/10 for performance - she shattered like an egg when she tumbled off, poor thing. Healing at that age is sloooow ....
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DefTrap wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 3:34 pm
My 80+ mum tried to bunnyhop her pushbike up a kerb. 10/10 for effort. 1/10 for performance - she shattered like an egg when she tumbled off, poor thing. Healing at that age is sloooow ....
I cringed when I read that. Anything broken North of 60 takes increasingly forever to heal. GWS Mrs.DT.
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Skub wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 11:32 am Managed to trip and fall down some concrete steps ffs.
You 'fell down'?

Sorry, no. I'm afraid at your age the correct language is 'had a fall'.

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I spent my morning at an online speed awareness course.

Forced contrition is hard but I think easier via camera at least. Still, I'm now rehabilitated. Yes, sir. Absolutely. I've learned my lesson. I can honestly say I'm a changed man. I'm no longer a danger to society. That's the God's honest truth. No doubt about it.
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Slenver wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:11 pm
Skub wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 11:32 am Managed to trip and fall down some concrete steps ffs.
You 'fell down'?

Sorry, no. I'm afraid at your age the correct language is 'had a fall'.

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Skub wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 11:32 am Managed to trip and fall down some concrete steps ffs.

I think I may have caught Noggin's fuck up fairy. :roll:
Noooooooo :( :( I do try really hard not to share that fairy, she can be a right bitch sometimes :( :(


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Commuted on the the bike across to South Wales from Wiltshire. It was a lovely ride early doors with just a mesh jacket and T shirt underneath.
Coming back early this afternoon was a different story, not been so hot on a bike since riding in the South of France some years ago.
Still preferable to riding in the cold and wet thought :)
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Took my baby bike to play with a big bike today!!

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Damn it was fun, but a bloody hard ride for a 'newbie'

I'd forgotten how nadgery the road above Val d'Isère gets! Narrow and nadgery :( Every bump hurts a little in the bit of my arm that the physio thinks we can't solve :(

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But, whilst I probably should have stopped at Val d'Isère I'm glad I went to the top :D After a 15 minute chill (horizontal wind, no cafe) we headed back down to stop at the pasty shop in Bourg.

It was a lovely ride higher up but in the valley, bloody hell the Monster chucks out some heat :( :(

Awesome views (KFB posted similar, I know. But I've only been up once on a bike before today and that was three years ago. So, repeats are here :D )

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Didn't walk to that bit, but a big monument (maybe) surrounded by little cairns

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Very basic map of route -

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Noggin back on her bike - we're all Doomed!!! :mrgreen:
Blundering about trying not to make too much of a hash of things.
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Lutin wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:42 pm Noggin back on her bike - we're all Doomed!!! :mrgreen:
Oh I don't know - I think nearly all of you (if not all) are far enough away that you're safe :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:



And I'm wayyyyyyyy slower than I used to be - and on a much slower bike :angelic-green: :angelic-green:
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Noggin wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:53 pm
Lutin wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:42 pm Noggin back on her bike - we're all Doomed!!! :mrgreen:
Oh I don't know - I think nearly all of you (if not all) are far enough away that you're safe :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:



And I'm wayyyyyyyy slower than I used to be - and on a much slower bike :angelic-green: :angelic-green:
Are you suggesting the TLs was dangerous? :twisted: :angelic-green:
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slowsider wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 5:14 pm
Noggin wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:53 pm
Lutin wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:42 pm Noggin back on her bike - we're all Doomed!!! :mrgreen:
Oh I don't know - I think nearly all of you (if not all) are far enough away that you're safe :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:



And I'm wayyyyyyyy slower than I used to be - and on a much slower bike :angelic-green: :angelic-green:
Are you suggesting the TLs was dangerous? :twisted: :angelic-green:
Not in the slightest!!! But it was most definitely quicker!! :lol: :lol: :lol:


(I always thought the TLs was a bit of a pussycat, nothing like the widowmaker it was made out to be!!!)
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Skub wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 11:32 am Managed to trip and fall down some concrete steps ffs.

I think I may have caught Noggin's fuck up fairy. :roll:
Cut a Tomato in half and rub it in :thumbup:
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Noggin wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 5:29 pm I always thought the TLs was a bit of a pussycat, nothing like the widowmaker it was made out to be!!!
Did they not say the same shit about the RD LC's when they came out?
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Felix wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:06 pm
Noggin wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 5:29 pm I always thought the TLs was a bit of a pussycat, nothing like the widowmaker it was made out to be!!!
Did they not say the same shit about the RD LC's when they came out?
Probably. And the 03/04 ZX10r. I've owned 2 'supposed' widowmakers and neither seemed to be an issue - maybe I just don't ride hard enough :lol: :lol: :lol:
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