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| Well i managed to get myself a moped! It's not exactly what i wanted (pretty far from it actually!) but money was a bit tight and i was desperate to get one so when it came up locally i thought i might as well buy it. It's a 1999 gilera runner and cost me £350. It isn't in great condition, has a lot of sc****s and several of the body panels are loose to its obviously been dropped a few times. Also the exhaust has a lovely big hole in it which has been temporarily fixed. But otherwise its fine, runs OK and everything, i've been out on it a couple of times. So now i'm just waiting till i can pay for insurance! Will post a pic when i get the digital camera workin 
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Good luck with it!
One quick note for those new to the forum - we have a very diligent sweary filter thing that sees naughty words where there are none. In the above post, "scrapes" has been rendered as "sc****s". Similarly, it doesn't lke the word "arse", so "rearsets" comes out as "re****ts".
It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.
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| Good for you: pleased to hear that the CBT experience hasn't put you off for good! Hope you enjoy it - however battered and beaten-up a bike may be, it's still a bike and therefore something a bit special. As BD has been known to quote: Four wheels move the body, two wheels move the soul. Possibly the best summing-up of biking ever. I wouldn't mind the swear-checker so much if it warned you it was about to nobble the intellectual content of your carefully-thought-out posting before it did it...actually, yes, I would. Freedom of speech and a sensible moderator is a much better approach, otherwise it's a slippery slope all the way down to situations where nobody in S****horpe can ever communicate with the outside world...
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I once met a guy in S****horpe who was a publisher on men's magazines. He really was known locally as "The Man Who Put The ...", ... no, never mind. It reminds me of a school I read about during the last-but-one American Presidential elections. The children were unable to do any research into the topic, as the school sysadmin had blocked anything containing the word 'Bush'.
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| Now that did make me laugh, on both counts! And it never ceases to amaze me that the political-correctness brigade don't understand why nobody takes them seriously...
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| Well sorry i haven't posted for a while...been busy doing extra hours at work over christmas! Anyway i managed to get my bike taxed and insured, spent about a week riding it to work and back....then yesterday i took a corner too fast and too tight and slammed into the side of the road. I went flying and the bike slid a fair way down the road. So my poor bike is now pretty bashed up on one side and i spent the night in hospital. Nothing serious just a big hole in my knee that had to be stitched up but yeah i'm gutted about my moped...it wasn't exactly in perfect condition when i got it (probably a good thing at least i didn't trash a brand new one) and now it looks awful although i don't think there's any severe mechanical damage. It's probably fixable but i'm not sure whether to try and fix it or just get rid of it and buy a new one!
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| Glad to hear you're pretty much alright though. And at least you know what went wrong - its the crashes that you can't explain that are a real problem: not knowing whether it was you or the bike, or how to not do it again! Unlucky with the 'ped taking a hit. I always feel more upset about the bike than my bruises (touch wood, that's because I've only ever had minor crashes): it's not pleasant to see them busted up. Replacing it depends if you're feeling more flush now - but this time of year, if if the wheels and bars are still in line and nothing's badly buckled, you might be better off just fixing what needs to be fixed and not worrying too much about the cosmetics. Stickers and gaffa tape go a long way towards hiding damaged bodywork - I've had several bikes that spent time held together with tape and cable ties waiting to be repaired properly. It doesn't actually look like there's that much that'd break in a crash, unless it went down on the right and mangled the exhaust. Feel free to post up a pic if you want a second opinion on how bad the damage looks.
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Bad luck old chap. Usual platitudes apply: glad you're OK, it's only metal, could've been worse, bikes can be mended, ect ect. As Endo says, a crash where you know the cause is a learning experience. Think it through, isolate what went wrong, assume full responsibility (to yourself, even if not to others), and plan not to do it again. The crash where you don't know what went wrong, or think there was nothing you could do to prevent it, is the frightening one. I think if I ever had a crash like that I would give up biking, because it would show I was no longer in control. Experience can be expensive, but it'll make you a better rider in the long run. And gaffer tape on a bike looks pretty cool, really.
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Tough lesson!
If it's any consolation, I did almost exactly the same thing, shortly after getting my 'ped. Tried to go a little too fast round a petrol station roundabout (It's in bold for a reason.) Next thing I know, I'm on my face with my legs tangled up in the bike. I hadn't noticed the rainbow sheen of diesel coating half the surface until my helmet was pressed up against it!
Good luck bodging the bike back together, and don't let yourself be put off!
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A copper told me that there are more accidents in the 50m either side of a petrol station than anywhere else (he was exaggerating, but the point is good). People are driving away while putting purses back in handbags, looking at maps etc., and haven't yet made the transition from 'shopping' back to 'driving'. Spilt diesel is yet another factor. If you look on Youtube for motorcycle crashes, you will see a suspiciously large number are outside petrol stations.
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http://goingfastgettingnowhere.blogspot.com/
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