Blown away!

Remember this post a few days back....the howling gales overnight and all that? Well what we didn't realise until the following day was that both bikes, that's Eloisa and the VFR, had been blown right over and were lying forlorn and broken on their sides.

The parking spaces here can't be seen from the flat and so it wasn't until we returned from a shopping expedition that we noticed something amiss....handlebars looking skyward, handlebars aren't supposed to do that!

Sure enough, closer and rapid inspection revealed both bikes had been blown clean over. The sight of a bike on it's side is always a bad one, somehow it's always a sight that seems very wrong, damage to man or machine is usually the result and this was no different, though thankfully under the circumstances of course, only damage to machine resulted.

That must have been some wind! Eloisa is getting towards a quarter ton in weight. She of course escaped almost unscathed, tough as she is, only a bent pannier, the VFR however was another story presenting badly scraped fairings, a snapped brake lever, bent peg, broken indicator and a distinct lack of petrol left in the tank!

Ugh!

It's amazing how easily and quickly you can pick up something so heavy under the 'Oh shit my bikes down' scenario!

But it could have been worse, both only missed hitting the car parked next to them by inches reducing the repair bills or any insurance claim significantly.