charlie
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Dear Fellow Riders.......”The sun shines on the righteous “ or is it “ The devil is good to his own”.
Six of us made the trip to Barraba and after some good camaraderie we set off for home in drips and drabs. I was riding by myself, and approx. 20 klms north of Manila whilst cruising at 110 klms per hour, a kangaroo hopped out from the scrub. It was only about 2/3 meters from me when I spotted it. In a split second we impacted with quite a thud! This caused the bike to go into a wobble and fortunately I was able to gain control.
So relieved was I after the incident that I didn’t even slow down . On looking in my rear vision mirrors I couldn’t see it. If it’s not dead it will be nursing a few wounds for some time.
Someone later in the day asked me if I got a fright ! I replied not really, however I will skip the All Bran at tomorrow’s breakfast.!
You will observe the Kangaroo Fur embedded on the broken crash bar cover in photo 1.
The scraping of the exhaust pipe cover in Photo 2. and. the broken trim around the pannier and rear light assembly caused by the impact in photo 3.
No doubt I will reminisce on this incident when I hope to celebrate by 87th birthday in September !
Regards to all, Stay Upright, (Just as I have demonstrated) ! !
David.
Six of us made the trip to Barraba and after some good camaraderie we set off for home in drips and drabs. I was riding by myself, and approx. 20 klms north of Manila whilst cruising at 110 klms per hour, a kangaroo hopped out from the scrub. It was only about 2/3 meters from me when I spotted it. In a split second we impacted with quite a thud! This caused the bike to go into a wobble and fortunately I was able to gain control.
So relieved was I after the incident that I didn’t even slow down . On looking in my rear vision mirrors I couldn’t see it. If it’s not dead it will be nursing a few wounds for some time.
Someone later in the day asked me if I got a fright ! I replied not really, however I will skip the All Bran at tomorrow’s breakfast.!
You will observe the Kangaroo Fur embedded on the broken crash bar cover in photo 1.
The scraping of the exhaust pipe cover in Photo 2. and. the broken trim around the pannier and rear light assembly caused by the impact in photo 3.
No doubt I will reminisce on this incident when I hope to celebrate by 87th birthday in September !
Regards to all, Stay Upright, (Just as I have demonstrated) ! !
David.