Diving after a bike accident

[Pach]

Bloody 'ell! Now here I am... a *ahem* lady... with her legs crossed!...

(Pach shouts...) Greenie...! Does your shop sell full body/ the whole shebang armour protectors things?

[fatone]

Now look, all this talk of crashing gives me the willy's. Lets turn this around a bit.

All these damaged bikes keep the bike industry going, plus all the associated sales such as new leathers, the AA, RAC, Police, Ambulance's, insurance assessors, the courts, and not to forget florists etc.

Next good news is you get a new bike.

Where would the NHS be if it had not had all this expierience ? How many junior doctors have cut their teeth on you guys eh ?

When you go diving don't think DCI, think how little lead you have to carry on your belts, hell, some of you might even require floatation !

Things could be a lot worse, i know one guy with Parkinson's, he spill's half his pint on his way from the bar to his table, and another guy who has Altzhimers, he can't even remember where he left his pint !

[greenie]

Hi pach,

don't panic,all motorcycle gear comes with c e approved armour.

things do happen and it depends on the accident and how you land or slide depending on what sort of display you wish to do.

i have been riding now for 11 years and only ever had two accidents and they were not my fault.got hit up the arse both times at a junction by women.

i think the worse one i had was before i started riding and i was a passenger on a friends bike,went on the brighton ride from ace,had a great day there looking at all the bike's on leaving brighton there's a big main round about and it goes from 4 lanes to 3 and the forth lane goes off to the left.a old guy cant remember the car but decided he was in the wrong lane and cut across but he hit the rear of my mates bike and my leg went into the back wheel and locked it up at 30mph.bike came to a sudden stop as you would think with me hanging off the back.every body rushed over and started trying to move the wheel to get my leg out,bloody hell how much pain.on this day i was wearing my new leather trouser's that i had got and was more worried about if they were damaged ;-).ambulance arrives and they get me in,my leg was so swollen and the pain was mad,they checked me over and i could still move my leg no bleeding or any thing but they wanted to cut my trousers off and i said no so they struggled in the back of the ambulance trying to get me pants off it was so funny they had the lights and sirens going and i was on the gas and air.i remember seeing the doctor and he said if it wasn't for the fact i had my leathers on to hold every thing together things would have been a lot worse,never broke a bone but 8 weeks of blue/green/purple(every colour you can think of really) skin and beaten up muscle.

it's personal choice what gear you prefer to wear every one is different.i prefer leather and if it's raining i just wear over trousers over the top.

i would go for a better back protector than the one that is supplied in std jacket's as they only protect a portion of your back and normally memory foam(which does not really take a lot of the impact force)

i can sort you out with anything you want,if i don't have it in stock i cant get with 3-5 days normally.

just chill out and get the gear you need and have fun

greenie