My Jerez is over. FFS.

To cut a long story short, 3/4 through our 3rd session here I missed a gear after exiting the hairpin onto the start/ finish straight. Thanks for that HM racing - missing gears never happened before I spent 350 notes on your quickshifter.

Anyway, clutch in, up shift and BANG! I just about remain upright, coast along the extreme right edge of track and pull onto the grass. I´m thinking my chain has gone.

Park bike against wall and check chain, it´s there and looks OK. Then I notice the dunlop slick is deflated, I look over the bike and there´s a huge rip in the tyre sidewall. At this point I also notice my left can is sticking up at a alarming angle....... and the penny drops.

I look back down the track and there´s a 1198 on the ground. I´ve been rear ended.

The back wheel is cracked in many places around the rim - and I have no spare wheels with me. As this lot use the crate system I can´t fit spare wheels in without paying extra for a crate, had this been a FE trip I´d have bought my WOWs.

The good news is the guy who hit me is OK. Bruised and very sore but nothing broken. Dan was close by and he said the Ducati went airborne big time. I´ve met Martin before and he owns Ducati Edinborough - he was on the phone telling his guys what spares to order to fix his bike when I left the paddock.

This isn´t cheap to sort out and worse still, for the 2nd time in 18 months I´m out here at much expense with nothing to ride, and I´ve not really done much wrong.

Tony from tracksense has said I can share one of there hire R6´s for the cost of tyres and fuel. I detest 600´s but it´s a very kind offer that I may well take advantage of for 1 day.

I´ve met Fuel and he´s a tall lad! He´s in the novice/ inters group and seems to be enjoying himself.

I did look at flying home tonight and back tomorrow with a spare wheel but thats another 350 quid for 1 days riding.

bollocks. I'm assuming you've got to foot all the costs for fixing the SD yourself, too??

As you say Pete - FFS!!!!

I thought i was having bad luck, at least i was only run over

I dislike 600s also but id be jumping on for the remaining days if the offer was made genuinely, no point getting depressed over the situation as whats done is done!

Spend a day on a 600 and get used to it and you may end up actually enjoying it on the final day!?

I remember Motoronin had to hire an R6 for 3 days on a Euro trip as his SD was playing up at the time and he ended up enjoying it (even though he made it look like a mini-moto )

Remember mate, any tracktime is good time, Hell! id do it on a CB500 if it was all i could get my hands on

Gutted for you Pete

Sucks on day 1 too!

Glad you are ok Pete as that could have been a whole lot worse Hope these incedents aren't a sign of things to come SD Track wise this year

I'd def be snatching their hand off for that 600 offer. As Stew says anything is better than nothing after getting all the way out there.

Hope the SD recovers quickly and cheaply.

Rear wheel £533.56
Sub frame £533.56
Rear Cover top black R/S £92.22
Akropovic Slip-on C/W link pipe £820.88

Getting distracted / failing to look where you're going on your mega bucks, 160BHP+ Ducati - fooking PRICELESS.
















The only "good" thing was I was unmarked, having not been off the bike, and Martin was bruised but otherwise good. Those type of incedents often lead to really bad injuries.

yep....that wheel is really fooked up.
To bad you had to cut short your trackday trip.

It's a bastard of a thing on any day and all the more so on day one of a forign track adventure!

If it were me I would try to find one in a breakers that had had a front end stuff and buy the wheel etc that way. Hope you can sort it for less than the 2K your sums suggested!!

Thank the lord and Allah be praised it wasnt one of your decent coloured wheels. Anyway you have loads of them and I thought your cans were always pointing at that kind of angle and you already know where all the cheap subframes are for sale. Those HM things call themselves quickshifters they never claim to be accurate shifters.

Anyway glad you are all right and didnt need the spanish air ambulance (a donkey)

Best plan, as others have said is make the best of things on the 600. Afterall it is a 2 grand trackday not a 100 quid Lydden.

Maybe buy an offroader when you get back and then do 40 quid trackdays at enduroloand. We can run into the back of you for free.

Could be worse.....could have been me

I didn't ride the 600. It was only available for my group and TBH, to be out there doing 2:10s (which I thought I'd be doing on a borrowed 600) just wouldn't have been safe.

Cant believe you got out of that unscathed. Did matey boy offer you some reddies for damage caused?

Luke beat me to it. NOT THE GREEN WHEELS

Shit news Pete, but glad to hear you're ok.

I think I only stayed on because of the mandlebars!

Fookin lucky escape there mate, glad you're unscathed.

I was thinking thank fook it's only the green wheels too

Looks like you might be able to get away with just an akra resleeve on the can at least and maybe swap the busted carbon strap for a metal strip one from fj or pj or whatever engineering as if I remember right they charge a fortune for those carbon straps alone.

You didn't have much luck did you Pete, at least it’s not too serious, and the main thing is you weren't hurt. On a positive note I would just like to say what a pleasure it was too meet you, hopefully well meet up at a track in the UK some where, Aleks says hi too. Oh and thanks for the tips too

That's really crap. Glad you're ok though.

Fuel, it was great to me you and Aleks (I had wondered how she spelt her name.)

What a lovely girl, you need to keep hold of her mate.

Nice to see you learning the track and getting quicker as the sessions rolled on.

I really hope you get you get to some more of our TD's this year.

Shit very unlucky Pete but it's good to hear you've come away unscathed i hope matey stump's up some cash for your bike repair's it would be the decent thing to do as it was all his fault.

Fat chance.

He sat there on the phone giving a list of parts to his guys at HIS ducati dealership (he owns Ducati Glasgow or Edinborough) that needed to be ordered so he could use his bike at Silverstone in a week or so.

I asked him if he sold KTM parts and it went over his head.

In that case you should have offered him a free judo lesson

Shit news Pete but good to know mandlebars saved the day !!

When someone else causes you to crash at a trackday it is always seen to be "one of those things" and no-one is obliged to pay for damages. It has happened in a few cases but these are few and far between. That said it would have been a nice gesture if someone in the position to loose the parts in the system didn't at the very least offer them to you very cheap.

I do know of a guy with a unmarked Akro can but not sure what side it is, does it matter?

They are identical, they just put the sticker on one side.

Hell's teeth Pete, you are one unlucky sod..Glad you're ok though, could have been a lot worse. I did hire a minimoto R6 and once I'd spread the handlebars had a good laugh, especially when I'd sense Klincky catching me up and pull into the pits so he couldn't overtake me..