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Shit can happen and everyone can have a moment of distraction. It’s how you deal with it after that matters, if nobody’s hurt. Glad that they are still good neighbours, and hope she took sometthing from it and didn’t get scared.

On a bike, being right and blameless doesn’t unhurt you after crashing. That’s a good lesson to learn early and without being hurt.

Oh no - it's snowing there?!?! How ever will you cope. Shit is asshole deep on a 9 foot Indian here. I feel your pain.

I didn't want to go through insurance unless I had no choice. Even though it would not have been Shadows fault it would still have gone down on her insurance record at 17. Also as you say the bike would have written off for the sake of 4 plastic panels and a screen. The prices for those parts is exorbitant, blatantly a rip off in my opinion. The bottom speedo casing slone was £99 FFS. But what can you do apart from build an ugly street fighter/cafe racer type thing. Not something she would like or me. She likes having the best, newest, cleanest CB125F in the college car park. Also the woman didn't want to go through insurance unless she had to as her excess was £500 and next years premium would have gone up. Plus I didn't push it, but she did leave the scene of an accident. On the plus side Shadow is basically fine, if a bit sore, she can't wait to be back on the road. She is tough, has been thrown off horses many times in her young life . I will be getting busy with the super glue to get her back up and running while we are waiting for the new parts to come. I did chide her a little as she was going a little fast when it happened, only 15 MPH but still to fast to stop when the woman pulled out in front of her. I told her I had seen video of the whole thing. Definitely not Shadows fault but a little more caution would have probably avoided the whole thing. I may be being a little over critical but I have years of experience and you can't expect her to get that overnight. I did take her and her mum out for posh coffee and cake to chill after the event, but she is fine, up her boy friends now.

The nearest you'd get to that trail is stopping to have a fag in a lay by about 10 miles away .............

First off I'm really pleased that Shadow is ok and didn't suffer any broken bones Secondly it looks like you have some very decent neighbours as that would definitely been a write off had it gone through insurance. Let's hope Shadow will continue to ride her bike and have much better luck .

its more of a challenge with princess tyres .... more skill required , not like gaylords who insist on gay nobblies.

Glad The Shadow is ok and not knocked her confidence.... neighbor knew , how could you not know you hit a bike. how well do you know the neighbor ? can you ask her if the rumor is true and her growler is horizontal.... asking for a friend

Glad that the Shadow is OK. It is not a situation I have been in when my daughter was zipping about on 2 wheels, so we'll done for how you and your neighbours handled the situation, not sure how I would handled it. Maybe not. Hope Shadow is back to riding soon, with the riding knowledge that will help her avoid any similar events in the future.

I first thought that, but judging by her reaction I'm not so sure. She is a Japanese woman and very honest and was very very upset about what happened so I genuinely don't know. I chose to believe she didn't, for my temper and sanity. Not sure I could say the same if Shadow was injured. But we are where we are and things turned out as well as they could.

Glad she is okay, it's a learning curve. The woman driver needs a slap though, I bet she knew fine well she had hit someone.

Absolutely it's almost like you heard what I said to her.

half right , would have to have a coffee with it...

Glad that she is ok.

i would have to take the wheels off then....are you mad.

Says the guy w/ an XT shod with gay tires...

A tire like this oughta get you some street cred....NO chicken strips to be found...

Clear blue sky at the moment, and It is about 3c here In! the bungalow.

Paint your wheels indoors then ..........

i just get up on the back wheel and wheely through that shit ... you should try it princess

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Lawyer this afternoon...a little back and forth between lawyers...they want to put a no competition close that I can't work with in 25 km for the next 5 years ...wich I'm not in agreement with...hopefully it will be resolved by the 29...I agreed not to open another shop...that's it..I'm 59 still have a few good years in me..if I get bored by the time spring rolls around..I just might be going back to work...who knows ..65 is the old age pension here...who knows I have a boy who just might want to open up his own shop in a year or two after he writes his final exam...I'd like to be able to help him out if he takes that path.

twat

High of -12C here today with snow. Locals will barely notice that it's cold and snowing. I'm just kidding you - I realize a little snow there is a big deal for the reasons you stated.

You live in a tree house, in the middle of the biggest forest?

Im just loving my garage heater Might even get another one so I can be extra toasty out there ... bloody freezing outside though and I still have 20 tons of leaves to clear up.

Too cold to snow here, it will be -2c when I set off on the bike tomorrow morning.

Glad to hear she's OK...hopefully that won't damped her joy of riding...

thats even worse ..you cant be doing that.... mod to isle 5 please clive is rebelling

Insurance now days will have you paying for years so I'd say you done the right thing. Good to hear the important one is ok.

Wow....a RatRod that isn't slammed to the ground....

Tasty lookin' kettle....

We get so little snow here, and to a point ice too, so our local council hardly salts any roads, if some snow fell and got deep we would be totally stuffed because our council does not have any snow ploughs, I can understand why, because for years it would be standing about doing bugger all because of the lack of snow.

As stated earlier....Lesson well learned-- & w/ NO injuries...BIG plus.++ You've definitely got some decent neighbors there. Now Shadow can further her biking experience by helping Dad re-assemble her steed. She's quite blessed to have Dad's experience @ hand for a resource.

Maybe a trips across the US...Sturgis possibly...I will be officially retired this Nov 29...

Glad she is OK, and hope this hasn't knocked her confidence. That your kid has been knocked off must be about the worst think you can hear as a parent, can't have been much fun for you either.

And your not talking about cigarettes when you say having a fag in a layby

We make alot of a snow event because we rarely get this much snow. I alway use to say that I hoped we would get 3ft+ of the snow, not be buggering about with 2, 3 or 4 inch of it, gonna do it, do it right.

Glad to know that she's ok.

I will just call it "The White Stuff" from now on.

im going to have to issue a card here clive...you keep using the word snow... and we all know what colour snow is... please refer to it from now on as frozen particles falling from the sky...

Hard landing....using ALL of the suspension...

Yep, got to love it when the centre rut is grabbing your front wheel .............................. NOT !!