Last Friday i had a small accident, i fell of my bike…the road was straight and my speed was around 70-80km, all i can recall is that i felt like i have hit something and the front wheel started shaking i tried to ease the head shake by accelerating to unload the weight of the front wheel… it worked for a couple of seconds just to come back harder than before and the bike became like a raging bull on a rodeo ring and throw me away.
I managed to stand up and walk away from the street, my nose was bleeding as i was wearing an open face helmet with the visor removed …any way i ended up with a dislocated left shoulder, dislocated right pinky, cracked left toe, deeply scuffed right knee and a broken nose…i could have avoided the nose injury if i was wearing a full face helmet, and the knee cut if i was wearing my riding jeans not a regular jeans.
Now am all wrapped up like a mummy and enjoying the pain killers high, i just realized that 5 days already passed
Back to reality
Filed under: Athens, Bad News, Bikes, Crash, Ducati, Fast, Greece, Travel
Watching all these bikers in Athens riding made miss riding a lot, and wanting to go back to Kuwait to ride my bike…the way motorcyclists ride in Athens is as if they are running away from a volcano, it doesn’t matter if they are ridding a 1300cc bike or just the 50cc delivery scooter…they all ride with an attitude.
Am back in Kuwait now and can’t wait to ride the beast, but unfortunately 2 of my friends crashed a couple of days ago, believe it or not they collided into each other…nothing serious just a couple of cracked rips, a broken arm, and a scare.
The above photo is for a used Desmosedici at a Ducati dealer in Athens with only 600km, they are asking 60000 Euros for it.
Running on Caffeine
Saturday 6:30pm,
I woke up Friday 11am to visit the Pyramids and Cairo Museum -a post about the visit will follow- and am still up since then..around 31 hours so far, we had a small incident….we left Cairo Saturday 4am heading to Ras Sider and half way one of the cars flipped over and 2 guys got injured, so we headed back to Cairo..that’s after the police paper work and first aiding the injured-a broken arm and a pretty good scare-.
The meeting at Ras Sider was supposed to be our last business meeting before flying to Sharm El Shaikh, anyway the dude needs to rest a couple of days and do some proper checkups at a proper hospital in Cairo before we can meet again and finalize what we came here for, so its no use waiting in Cairo…we are on the way to the airport hoping to find a fly to Sharm.
Update: i ended this and went to bed Sunday 5am, my total up time was 42 hours..not bad..i could have completed the 48 but i couldn’t find anything interesting.
Working hard
The past 3 days were very hectic, waking up at 6am…commuting for 2 hours working tell 7pm then commuting back 3 hours -bad traffic-, tomorrow is an off day so i’ll be going out today don’t know where yet but i will not sleep…will probably sleep tomorrow by the pool.
Oh.. and that guy in the photo got a bit over excited..
Angry bike
Yesterday was not a good day
for bikers…2 accidents and i was there a minute after both had happend…
One was when i was going for lunch and and the other was when i was on my way home, the first one was a Ninja ZX-14 and the other was a Busa 1300, the rider of the Ninja managed to move and set on the side walk but was in pain and bleeding a bit…but the guy on the Busa looked really bad… the Ninja was totaled but the Busa was just laying down as if someone laid it there!!!
For some reason i did not have the heart to come closer and help them, but a lot of people where already doing so.
The annoying part is when the police came to the first accident, one of the policemen was asking: who is owner of the bike -as if he can’t tell- then asked him to move the bike to the side of the road !!!
Ooops
Filed under: Cars, Crash, Funny, Local, Photo of the day, Photos
I was on my way to the “Ride to Sav3” event at the Green Island yesterday when i saw this, it was in the parking of the Green Island….could someone explain how the fuck this Lumina ended-up there..how fast can you go on a parking lot?
Pininfarina pass away
Andrea Pininfarina, chief executive officer of Pininfarina S.p.A, and sports car designer died in an accident today.
Pininfarina died instantly after his Vespa collided with a Ford Fiesta about 8:15 a.m. in Trofarello Italy, he was 51.
Craig Jones passed away
Filed under: Bad News, Crash, Honda, Motor Sports, Riders, Side effects
Craig Jones the British rider of Parkalgar Honda’s has died following his accident in Sunday’s British round of the World Supersport Championship, the 23 year old fell and was hit by a following rider. Read more
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