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Taken after the crash. As you can see, a lot of back end damage.

Close up of the back. The back was pretty mangled.

Engine damage is never good. Fortunately I had R and G protecters on the frame which took the majority of the damage. I only needed a new engine cover.

Regretting paying £300 for an exhaust. Twisted, bent and split. Enough about Parkey, the exhaust was pretty bad too.

The Arlen Ness leather trousers saved my legs. The left knee ground through but the armour protected me. Only suffered a broken hip.

Expensive leathers reduced to rags. Rather them than me

Mechanics believe that the force of the crash snapped the shock linkage, forcing the shock to shoot up demolishing the back of the bike

The wheel was probably the first thing to hit the barrier and it just folded.
The rear wheel folded up behind the rear brake disc! This is the xray of my hip taken on 15/08/05 - under two months after my surgery. Pins are in there for life. Force of the crash meant parts of the bike literally speared through the plastic This is me in my wheelchair on holiday. I made the most of the time in it by doing wheelies, skids and scaring pedestrians.