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There we were me and my new found riding partner out on a nice Sunday morning jaunt to a good cafe near Goodwood racetrack for a full English (thats a fried breakfast bacon, eggs etc and a mug of tea you can stand a spoon up in).
The partner was benthepaint and we met through this forum, and noticed we lived in the same town (about 2 miles apart actually). Hes asked me to post this article.
We took a nice twisty B road (small back road single carriage) and had done about 40miles when we turned a corner to discover later the road had been dressed with chippings. For those of you not familiar with this process it involves pouring a layer of liquid tar onto the road and spreading a stupid excess of stone chippings on it and allowing the hapless motorist to do the rest. This technique must be sponsored by autowindshields.com as it flies everywhere chips paint and crack windshields. Its like riding on marbles and should be preceded by 20mph max signs.
The loose chippings were piled up in great long furrows, He lost control on the bend slid over to the other side of the road and hit an oncoming car on his TBS. I lost control as well but escaped an accident. Lucky eh !
His TBS is damaged but he is determined to repair it, he is in hospital with a broken pelvis and wrist. He will be there in traction for another six weeks and will probably need pinning (like Barry Sheen).
All this because the ******* Highways Dept dont build roads properly (they do it min cost ), didnt post any warning before the road dressing and for some reason that defies any kind of logic started on a blind corner. It was inevitable.
The police got the Highways Dept to clean the chippings up but too late by then. I know what your thinking there is a case for litigation here.
The result a fellow forum member in traction, bike crashed but repairable. The hospital is in the process of getting each bed wired for the net, this should happen in the next two weeks. If it does ill post the address on the forum and you can all take the p*** out of him hell really enjoy that ! People have already been sending him pictures of Rocket 3 trikes (hes got a R3 on order for September delivery).
Thanks in anticipation for your support.
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