Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > So who,s crashed this year,road or track

[Griff 64]

Light hearted thread on this years binners! Road or track if no one really hurt.Do we have a winner.............

1.Cadwell acu day March.First lap new bike and tyres pooring rain int he left hander at Hall bends.Bent bar,peg fairing scratched etc

2.Castle Combe June10th DD.Leading class B lap 3 no brakes into Quarry corner.115mph binned it on the grasson the inside to stop and live.
Tank dented, bar, fairing, levers, exhaust etc.
Broken wrist mangled hat.

3 Castle Combe June 11th DD.Warm up lap oil cooler splits down back straight.First left hander at Bobbys chicane and down she go,s.
Oil cooler and pride.

4.Donington August 12th Trackday.Ran into gravel watching for aeroplanes on warm up lap.Ran into Coppice gravel and fell over at 2mph.Scratched newly fixed and painted fairing.

5.Donington August 13th DD.3rd lap of qualifying very wet lock front brake into Redgate.Slide lasted 50 feet honest. Okay about an inch then.Ran straight on into Redgate gravel.Didn,t even fall over marshall complements me on neet parking next to fence.

6.Snetterton September 3rd DD lap 7 3 corners from home,class B lead right hander in the esses lowside into gravel.Footpeg, screen ,fairing.Self loathing

Think thats the lot.Non on the road thankfully but thats a whole different ball game.

Funny they said you will fall of racing a bike at the ACU training day.Who else thought he was talking bollox lol

[jeff st4s]

Not quite the same.

Went to Wales to do some off road training, the guys said you would fall off, I thought NO WAY, I'm a decent mountain biker and I'm ok at offroad stuff.......yes way!
Fortunately they were the comedy fall off at 0 mph on a bend as the front wheel dug in and generally then fell in a bush.

[Lily]

once on the road

[dickieducati]

nope, dont do crashes.

[DP]

1) Assen Last chicane before checkered flag met Butch at the entrance end up on my Head in the Gravel. No Damage
2) Donnington Chicane before the start finish straight in timed practice, dragged brake on a wet line, you'll never guess what happened .......
new foot rest, paracetamol and imodium required
3) Snetterton (horrible place) dry practice, 2nd lap of the day get knee down (unusual), everything else follows 50ft on my butt again, new brake lever, foot rest, more Paracetamol and a bollocking from the wife...

New helmets 3

What fun !!!!!!!!!!!

[Loz]

A numb brain, cold tyres and a slippery roundabout did for me at the beginning of the season. Side fairing, nose cone, screen, rear fairing, levers, brake reservoir, mudguard, forks, lower fork yoke, I forget what else ... at least my leathers were repairable.

Not a lot of fun I don't think my confidence really returned all year.

Here's to next year, though!

[psychlist]

I had a little slide at Paddock Hill during a DD race at Brands
Prior to that I'd tried to lean on Senna3 a bit too much in Hall Bends at the DD race at Cadwell and needed to polish out a few scratches

[phillc]

1. Donington August 13th: Second ever race meeting. Qualified a stunning second in the wet. Come race time I'm poorly off the grid and bottled it with bikes going past me on both sides into Redgate. Forgot to turn. Into gravel at about 2mph and bike falls over. Kick gravel. Kick bike. Kick self.

2. Cadwell ParK October 8th. Stuck in traffic during qualifying. Oil flags out at the Hairpin for first couple of laps. Oil flags dissapear. Coming into Hairpin Kev Mooney takes inside line, I take outside. Turning in, a cr@p I'm going to hit him. Touch front brake and wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. So that's what it feels like to have an almost proper crash on the race track.

Nothing on the road so far and I commute every day. So hold thumbs it stays that way.

[ali]

Donny TD - Up towards coppice. notice tiny weeny child on GP80 doing 3mph at apex. Decide I'd feel guilty for rest of life if I killed the nipper so grab handful of brake and watch bike somersualt. Lands upside down. Buried so deep in the gravel I can only see a few red bits!

Donny Qualy - Decide I want pole, ride faster every lap until front lets go at Macleans. Slide on bum and watch bike somersault (again...) into the gravel. Lands upside down.

No DNFs this year.

Grif you've definitely inherited my Dr Crash nickname from last year. Sure you'll keep her upright more next year.

Ali

[SlowLearner]

Yep, had my first off this year.

Have only beed riding for 2 years so i guess its not that big a surprise......

Was riding slowlyish around the country lanes near woking, gong round a tightening lefthander when the traffic stopped suddenly to let someone out of a driveway ahead.

I braked too harshly and locked the front wheel as was still turning...... result lowside on my T9s and dend in Mercs back bumper.....

Ho Hum..... I guess we all make mistakes