Pumbaa
An African in Aus
Not the type of thing you want to see on the Morning News, I got a phone call the other morning @ around 5:00am from my Step Son, it went something like this... "Mate, please don't freak out, but apparently it's all over FB and the News, Chris (his best mate) and I were out riding last night and we kinda Stacked it, well actually Chris lost it on a bend and clipped my front wheel.. we both went down, I'm OK but Chris hit a tree and he's in a bad way, oh and the Bikes are both F&*^%$"
Apparently they were into a left hand bend and Chris on the R6 had misjudged it, he was going a bit too quick and running out of road, Colt (my son) on the Trumpy was on the outside and a short distance behind him, long story short, they both hit the brakes which as we all know makes the bike stand up and the Kerb/Tree took care of the rest.
It's happened to all of us I'm sure.. once we were also young and Bullet Proof, hey most of us ride as hard as we do cause we took chances and learnt lessons along the way. Both Bikes are write-offs, although in the video the Trumpy hardly looks damaged, but the Forks and chassis have been bent.
As for young Chris, he has a broken shoulder, broken arm, multiple broken ribs, and a Spinal Fracture of C7, as well as Bumps and Bruises everywhere. My son came off pretty much unscathed at least that was until his mom got hold of him and chewed his ear off.. Apparently he had spent the night in the hospital with his Mate and filling the police reports etc and did not want to wake his Mum up, so he waited to call me on my way to work, so I could break the news to her.. Smart Kid
As Usual the "Media Report" was as far from the truth as possible, but hey the world would be such a boring place without dumb-arsed journalists to amuse us.. (Hope there are no Journo's on this page.... Oops
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Apparently they were into a left hand bend and Chris on the R6 had misjudged it, he was going a bit too quick and running out of road, Colt (my son) on the Trumpy was on the outside and a short distance behind him, long story short, they both hit the brakes which as we all know makes the bike stand up and the Kerb/Tree took care of the rest.
It's happened to all of us I'm sure.. once we were also young and Bullet Proof, hey most of us ride as hard as we do cause we took chances and learnt lessons along the way. Both Bikes are write-offs, although in the video the Trumpy hardly looks damaged, but the Forks and chassis have been bent.
As for young Chris, he has a broken shoulder, broken arm, multiple broken ribs, and a Spinal Fracture of C7, as well as Bumps and Bruises everywhere. My son came off pretty much unscathed at least that was until his mom got hold of him and chewed his ear off.. Apparently he had spent the night in the hospital with his Mate and filling the police reports etc and did not want to wake his Mum up, so he waited to call me on my way to work, so I could break the news to her.. Smart Kid
As Usual the "Media Report" was as far from the truth as possible, but hey the world would be such a boring place without dumb-arsed journalists to amuse us.. (Hope there are no Journo's on this page.... Oops
)
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