Tinbasherdan
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Thought it bang a thread up for the amusement of the assembled!
I posted in the today you’ve acquired…… thread about getting a trials bike. Last rode one in anger when I was 16, apart from a couple of instruction days at inch perfect trials in the past couple of years. Caved in and sold some stuff to a guy in the village that was pestering me for a while and scraped the money together for this:
A 2016 beta evo 300.
Went to inch perfect on the 14th for a day with a couple of mates, and surprised myself with how well I did all day. No major offs, managed to clean almost every section we set…… until the last 10 minutes when we decided against all common sense to go in the play area. I completely mistimed a drop off and only worked out it had zero runout when I hit the strategically placed boulder! Went down like a sack of crap and sprung to my feet to laugh it off. I was on my second step when the pain from the broken ankle showed up and down I went again.
Did you know that when you get wheeled into a&e and say you had a bike crash, they go a bit overboard??? Hence this:
Incidentally I had my mate pull my boot instead of risking them cutting it off at hospital. That was unpleasant and I bit a hole in the glove they shoved in my mouth…..
Once the sock was hacked off, it became pretty clear I’d done some damage:
And now I’m languishing at home in a pot, slowly climbing the walls!
And the bike? I’ve managed to rupture the headstock tube and completely destroy the bearings. Even beta were impressed at that!
Currently waiting on beta to let me know if they have a frame they can provide, I won’t go into to much detail but they’ve done me a solid in trying to track one down for me!
I posted in the today you’ve acquired…… thread about getting a trials bike. Last rode one in anger when I was 16, apart from a couple of instruction days at inch perfect trials in the past couple of years. Caved in and sold some stuff to a guy in the village that was pestering me for a while and scraped the money together for this:
A 2016 beta evo 300.
Went to inch perfect on the 14th for a day with a couple of mates, and surprised myself with how well I did all day. No major offs, managed to clean almost every section we set…… until the last 10 minutes when we decided against all common sense to go in the play area. I completely mistimed a drop off and only worked out it had zero runout when I hit the strategically placed boulder! Went down like a sack of crap and sprung to my feet to laugh it off. I was on my second step when the pain from the broken ankle showed up and down I went again.
Did you know that when you get wheeled into a&e and say you had a bike crash, they go a bit overboard??? Hence this:
Incidentally I had my mate pull my boot instead of risking them cutting it off at hospital. That was unpleasant and I bit a hole in the glove they shoved in my mouth…..
Once the sock was hacked off, it became pretty clear I’d done some damage:
And now I’m languishing at home in a pot, slowly climbing the walls!
And the bike? I’ve managed to rupture the headstock tube and completely destroy the bearings. Even beta were impressed at that!
Currently waiting on beta to let me know if they have a frame they can provide, I won’t go into to much detail but they’ve done me a solid in trying to track one down for me!
and this is the lad that scoots about on a beemer RR more times on the back wheel i bet. Ankle will heal and ime sure bike will be rebuilt knowing you
is there no chance of getting that headstock back into shape to take the outer race with a skilled TIG welder ?
