Bike wash

[hemibee]

You might want to be sure your bike is narrow enough to go where you want too. . .

[video=youtube;ZfXoKxkGvoM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZfXoKxkGvoM[/video]

[h=3]Permission to come aboard?[/h]
[FONT=&quot]Just to prove that motorcycle journalism isn't always fun and games, the French journalist Laurent Cochet, from Moto Journal magazine, suffered a freak accident while road-testing the 2013 Yamaha FJR 1300. Whilst riding at walking pace on the port of Saint-Martin-de-Ré, in France, one of the bike's side panniers snagged a bollard, which projected the bike and its somewhat startled rider into the drink. Fortunately, the bike landed on one of the pleeasure port's walkways, while Cochet landed aboard a yacht moored alongside it. Despite the spectacular nature of the crash (see video below), the Gallic journo only suffered a badly sprained thumb, although I guess that the bike will be declared a write-off. Get well soon, Laurent![/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]P.S. At The Thruxtonian we'd love to see a copy of the accident statement: we're sure that it would make for some pretty comic reading![/FONT]

 

[The Seeker]

Some Trophy owners have complained in the past about the locking mechanism in their panniers being rather flimsy. Now I see why Triumph would design them to be that way!


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[CarlS]

Wow, he is might lucky he was not really injured. Now, about the bike...

 

[DaveM]

Wow he sure is never going to live that one down

 

[CarlS]

You think he might be receiving a little ribbing?

 

[DaveM]

Not that you would notice