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Well I bent and buckled quite a bit of my plastic and other bits on Sunday arvo when I had a big off. Paul (hxr400) and I were off to Shark Bay to try our new camping gear. We only got about 100k from home when the cord I'd tied the gear on the rack with came loose or broke at 110kpm. The gear slipped over the back, got picked up by the tyre and wrapped round the front of the swingarm, causing the wheel to lock up. I fish-tailed down the road for about 50m before falling on the left side, sliding on my back for a bit and doing a few tumbles. I consider myself lucky to have escaped with just a broken left leg (tib & fib) and some minor grazes. Paul was about 100m behind me when he saw things coming loose. Just as he came up beside me, all hell broke loose. The Northamptom ambulance carted me away a bit later and my other 2 sons came with a trailer to get the bike. They say it looks good from the right, but I now have a plate and 8 screws holding my leg together and three months off work to contemplate life. I'll now be able to see how good Shannons insurance really is. Oh well, it could have been MUCH worse. The moral of the story is, don't use cheap shit lying aroung your garage to tie stuff on ya bike.

Thanks all for your good wishes folks.

It's a wonder Paul didn't post the other 500 pics he has of the spill along with the before and after Xrays of my leg. ..........Maybe I shouldn't have said that - it might give him ideas.

Nah, mine's worse than that cos it's got longitudinal breaks with lots of little loose bits AND it didn't hurt a bit - until they started to put it back in place on the side of the road. Must get brittle with age I spose.