The bike was going perfectly well, just had the gearing right, maybe better with the 16 front sprocket, but as it stood on 15/42 it worked well, had some torque back so I Could match the faster bikes out of the corners. My lap times were coming down and I knew I had not even gone full on until a little red mist made me out brake another bike in Melbourne loop where I seemed to gain advantage, however the throttle response ( not a quick action throttle) was poor at low revs, maybe me messing with the ignition timing so I have to give a handful to make it rev past a certain point. While banked over still front brake on, coming off my hand was in a awkward position with the front brake and trying to twist the throttle past its pick up point , too much handful...I couldn't stop myself I knew I'd screwed up, it let go, the back end slid out so fast that and my body position made me let go of the throttle which made the rear stick and it pinged me out, summer salting onto the grass and tyre wall....I managed to wallop myself , bike went into the true wall, if that wasn't there it would have been ok but the front end took the brunt.
Spent some time in the medical centre for a check and X-ray, luckily nothing broken...
Someone videod the crash so I'm waiting to get hold of it to analyse and then ill put up here.
Once the bike was taken away from scutineering my mates tried in vain the get it back together, pictures shown...however when I went out for the next race I got as far as the sighting lap the footpeg pulled through its bolt hole and fell off, so I had no gear change either...back out again once fixed and the bike felt really strange, Craner curves nearly ended my go, I limped back and took the bodywork off to look closely at the bike.
This revealed a bent headstock and slightly bent forks.slackening the clamps and twisting the fork legs showed a slight tightening at a certain point.
Originally we thought the forks,had just twisted around so we undid everything and quickly moved them about until the wheel and clip owns looked straight.....
So I'm fed up and in the dumps, I know I should have been doing 1.48 around Donington gp if all went well.
At the moment I feel battered and bruised, I haven't even unpacked the van.
