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[TP]

I've had 4 accidents in my time, two of them were my fault, the worst being when a car did a u-turn in front of me. One very broken Z1000 and one not-so broken TP. Actually, that one hurt quite a lot (steel fuel tank - I went over the bars ... I'm sure you can figure out the rest, although I've had kids since so they still work!)

I've had numerous times when I've thought I was gone and somehow not come off, coming around a blind corner in the National Park in Sydney at a good pace (on a 250 trying to catch up to a guy on a Daytona 1200) and came across some sand on the apex. Ended up with no hands on the handlebars, feet off the footpegs and my chest on the tank - ran straight across the road, lucky no cars were coming, and on to the dirt on the other side weaving around until I slid off the tank and managed to grab the handlebars and the front brake and slow myself down. On the other side of the dirt I ended up in was a bunch of tree's then a drop I was 18 and in the Army at the time, therefore clearly immortal

[Edited on 30-5-2004 by tp-996]