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One of ours gets run over!

Started by Coupe Kawasaki , Jun 20 2010 06:11

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#1 Coupe Kawasaki

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Posted 20 June 2010 - 06:11

Which forum member is 'escaping with concussion? :eek:

his had is under the front wheel of the bike...that can't have done him any good can it? :wave:

Dave

Edited by Coupe Kawasaki, 20 June 2010 - 06:21.

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#2 LamboNZ

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Posted 20 June 2010 - 07:58

Must be be Mike Capon?

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#3 Coupe Kawasaki

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Posted 20 June 2010 - 08:06

bang on Nige! Excuse the pun there Mick, sorry :blush:

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

I don't know if you've seen this Mick..that looked horrible mate :eek:

not sure what Croz is in it for though :confused:

Daisy

Edited by Coupe Kawasaki, 20 June 2010 - 08:17.

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#4 GD66

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Posted 20 June 2010 - 08:34

Watching from the pits, or implied to be so from the editor. I seem to recall it was Damon Hill doing the running over, he certainly appears in the early part of the clip. The LC racing appears on one of Duke Marketing's early efforts, along with the Donington Gold Cup of '82.

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#5 exclubracer

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Posted 20 June 2010 - 21:35

Is it Devil's Elbow, pre-bus stop?

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#6 Coupe Kawasaki

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Posted 20 June 2010 - 22:07

Is it Devil's Elbow, pre-bus stop?

Yes it is Mick...it's on the you tube link if you click it... :wave:

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#7 Coupe Kawasaki

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Posted 20 June 2010 - 22:15

Here's more of the race......Just wondering if that was restarted?

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#8 Steve Bateman

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Posted 21 June 2010 - 11:00

Which forum member is 'escaping with concussion?

his had is under the front wheel of the bike...that can't have done him any good can it?

Dave

Still didnt knock any sense into him tho ! :rolleyes:

Hi Spotty

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#9 mikecapon

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Posted 23 June 2010 - 12:06

Still didnt knock any sense into him tho ! Hi Spotty

Thank you for those kind words your Royal Wobblyness :lol:

Yes it was meeeeee :clap:

It wasn't Damon who ran me over though. I think it was Paul Tinker but it was a bit hard to see from where I was sat....

For what it's worth here's how that happened. It was my first ProAm race and I was pretty much in awe of some of the guys around me. In practice the bike was useless and I was nearly a second off the pace. It seemed to be rich and I asked after practice if they could lift the needles a notch. You weren't allow to touch the bike yourself and they were all supposed to be the same. They did lift the needles though and the bike was transformed. A bloody rocket ship compared with before.

I was on the fourth row of the grid and managed to fire off the line to lead in the first corner absolutely $hitting myself. Bloody hell. What do I do now. There was £750 for a win in '81 so I went for it as best I could. In practice the bike was so slow that the Devil's Elbow was easy flat. I remeber thinking, "Should I roll off a bit here?" but behind me I could hear 23 other loonies and decided to hold it flat. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

Broke the front off my new Bell helmet. A nice bout of concussion, three vertebrae and three ribs. Best bit was that Leicester Royal didn't spot any of these and sent me home that night. It was the year after at Norfolk General that they saw the damage on X rays for a testing accident on an RG 500.

Happy days eh?

Cheers,

Mike