GeordieSteve

Not impressed with MCE trying to bully me into taking out a policy tho. Bitching at me down the phone that he'd spent 3 hours getting me a quote & if I didn't take it out he'd charge me £200 more when I renewed! Needless to say he was told where to get off!!!

Apparently R1's, wet roads and new tyres don't mix

Hello folks Well I'm back on here as a member since September when some mad old woman in a polo wiped out me and the ex when out on the R6 Bike was totally written off and due to it coming up to winter, I decided not to rush out and buy another bike... until now Complete spur of moment but I fell in love with this R1 and bought it straight away this morning. She's gorgeous and to be perfect honest... I'm a bit nervous about riding her (had about 5 month experience on a bike). Should get her this week I hope... excited???? Yep

They better bloody not do mate! To be fair I'd rather it was written off. I need the cash to get the car sorted and she was going up for sale anyway when I got back from the Lakes Just so glad she and the insurance company have put their hands up and went "yep... our fault, sorry... here's some cash"

About 4 weeks or so ago now me and the misses went for a much earned break in the Lakes (Keswick to be exact). Monday morning I was woken by the phone going off... bloody great news, new job just came through. To celebrate... we took a ride out to Windemere. Weather was great, not a cloud in the sky... perfect Almost at the lake with the misses on the back we noticed that someone needed to cross on the zebra crossing so we stopped to let her over... however the elderly lady behind us had other ideas A quick THUD and I was off down the road at a rate of knotts and the misses went skywards and landed back on top of the bike... great! Police, ambulance, fire brigade etc. etc. etc. were all there. The misses had trouble walking for a while and still can't stand up for too long or gets aches and pains. Me, I just had a black knee and a fooked holiday Got a call from the insurance company today and the old bugger lady has admitted fault and her insurance is paying out for the lot (we didn't do any personal injury or damage to our clothing). Guy from the local garage is coming out Wednesday to assess the damage which is buckled back wheel, exhaust off, scratched plastics, smashed wing mirror, burst tire etc. but it's not bad at all... infact I'm amaized at how little damage there is... considering we were stationary and the lady didn't even brake! I must say an absolute 100% to Windermere taxis who turned up and picked my bike up and kept it in their lock up until I could come back the week after to collect it. They had 4 garages PACKED with bikes, made my misses cups of tea (she kept bursting into tears with shock), organised us lifts back to our digs... even offered to give us a lift back up to Newcastle(!!!!) and refused point blank to take a penny. They insisted that I give them a call next time I'm up and we go for a pint tho... what a fantastic bunch of people... I take my hat off to them

I know my Supra at BPU would have just taken my R6 over the quarter mile in my opinion. With the single turbo on it'll distroy the R6 (if some old lady hadn't done it first with her car last week )

Over a quarter I doubt it. You will have him off the mark but Supras are very fast mid range to top end. I take it his car is standard? Steve (Supra owner )

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Welcome! The R6 is a great first bike in my eyes

We're there for the lot mate Yeah the misses is going along with another couple. One question tho being a newby.... how the bloody hell do you take a tent, 48 cans, 4 bottles of whiskey and some spare clothes on the back of a bike with a passenger?!?!?! lol

The misses ordered the tickets yesterday! Hope the weather isn't like it is today

That sounds great! You coming on the ride out? Think I saw it go past a few years back. I'll be there without a doubt

I still don't have mine (lazy bugger). Pick them up in a couple of weeks I'd have thought. Do they have the ride out like they do at the Farmyard?

Full leathers

My first bike was/is the R6. Yeah it'll let you know about it if you do something silly (I've learnt THAT one a few times) but it's nothing that should cause you too many problems