Sidecars are so safe

[guest7]

Here's a piccy of the wreckage of mine and Jethro's big sidecar accident in 1996:



The picture quality is bad, it's from a photocopy of a polaroid, but you can just make out our 'his and hers' matching plaster casts - his left arm, my right arm 

What you can't see is the garbled state of my brain after the bash on the head (I was in the chair with no lid on when we hit the car) - it took weeks before I started getting back to normal speed thinking, talking and walking.

Cheers
GC

[002]

Wot !?   You are Normal NOW ?

I find that hard to believe......and I knew you long before that little Bump !

Jethro

[guest7]

LITTLE BUMP! 

GC

[002]

Mind the forks are bent,the frame down tubes were well and truly bent.
The Handle bars pushed forwards and bent,a bloody great dent in the tank from my thigh.
The sidecar chassis was bent and twisted and twisted on the fittings.
GC had to be cut out of the chair,I had head butted the roof of the Metro on the way over the top and landed about 50-60 yards up the road.

When I went to retrieve the wreckage the guy at the yard looked at me funny.
He wasnt expecting anyone to turn up let alone the rider to collect it.
When he winched it onto the back of the beaver tail it was so far embedded into the side of the Metro,the car got dragged with it.
He thought it was a fatallity. MMmmm,nice thought !
A crane had to be used to put it onto the three bike trailer to take it home.

Jethro

[guest7]

Although on the positive side, I didn't know a thing about it because I only woke up when I was naked and surrounded by nurses.

Also, think how much petrol you saved by getting rid of that GS. It fair drank the stuff as I recall.

I didn't know that bit about the car moving when the bike was being winched, it's a bit scary that. It has to be said, we were effing lucky that day. We both walked away (all right, limped away) from a car pulling straight across our path when we were doing 40mph.

GC

[Steve Lake]

It must have felt almost worth it......to wake up naked and surrounded by nurses!.....a recrring unfulfilled dream of mine 

[guest7]

It was a funny experience, they were obviously worried about the level of my concussion so they kept asking me questions.
They said "do you know what happened to you?"
I pondered this because I had no idea other than a vague recollection of blue filling my field of vision. I thought the most likely scenario was that a motorcycle accident was the cause of my naked presence in A&E so I said, "Did I have a motorbike accident?"
They all looked very pleased with this, but I was truthfully quite clueless for some time as to why I was there.

As for the blue, it turns out it was a blue car that we hit so the last thing I'd seen (potentially for ever) was the wing of the car I was about to headbutt.

They also asked me for a phone number to contact, but every one I thought of I'd say something like, "yes, my dad's number is 77, er, 77, 77, erm, 7, er, no sorry, forgotten it". To my eternal bemusement the only number I could remember was my ex-mother-in-law's (down Freud, down).

GC

[Andy M]

They also asked me for a phone number to contact, but every one I thought of I'd say something like, "yes, my dad's number is 77, er, 77, 77, erm, 7, er, no sorry, forgotten it". To my eternal bemusement the only number I could remember was my ex-mother-in-law's (down Freud, down).

GC

I hope we all have a suitable number listed under ICE in our mobiles these days?

Scarry picture, the energy to bend the whole outfit like that is just huge and a fair bit if went thought GC's head 

Andy

[Steffan]

I am so glad that I took the hint and gave it away when I did before I ended up like you two. Phew!!

Steffan

[guest18]

I am so glad that I took the hint and gave it away when I did before I ended up like you two. Phew!!

Steffan

Then you overdosed on two smoke and all was lost...

  must really put an "ice" number in my mobile, I have the DCI advice numbers on it if that helps...?