Most embarrasing bike crash
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I was leafing through some old pics of bikes I use to own back in the day when I found a pic of a very rare bike that Id completely forgotten about - my Honda NS400R. For those of you unfamiliar with the NS400, what made it such a great bike was the it was a two stroke V3 triple and it made 72bhp @ 9500. It was modeled on the 500cc big brother as used in the GP class in the mid 80's. I think today its still the fastest 400cc bike ever made.
Anyway, back to the story. So for those of you who know me, you will remember that I used to work for a company in Peterborough that published loads of bike magazines. One of the few benefits of working for this company was there there were a load of hot chicks there, I mean loads and loads. One of the girls there that I used to enjoy eyeing up was someone we will call Zoe, mainly cos thats what her name is.
So one day, after a day at work, I was just leaving the office car park on my bike when I saw Zoe leaving in front of me. Being a sneaky boy I though it would be a great idea to see where she lived so that I could plan on being 'in the area' one day and bump into her. So pretending I was some KGB spy I kept a distance and followed from a distance. A few minutes later she arrived home and I, being highly pleased with myself, carried on riding home at an excited speed.
On the road I lived in at the time, which was particularly busy at the best of times and with loads of side roads I decided it would be a great idea to wheelie my bike down the road. In hindsight this probably wasnt the best thing to do at rush hour in a busy area as no sooner had I got the front wheel up as a car pulled out of a junction from my right and, even though I managed to get the front wheel on the floor again I, I didnt have time to stop and proceeded to ride into the car and break my right leg.
Needless to say the bike was written off but rather amusingly, a friend of mine at the time who is a very well known bike accident lawyer, managed to win me 4k for my injury, my bike got paid out and I got a month off work.
Sadly for me, the friends I trusted not to tell Zoe what happened were not friends at all and when I did eventually return to work, my humiliation was complete.
Article by Dan.
