Sat, 5 Sep 1998 09:47:40 +0100 - Message No. 3931
From: VIPER-1@universal.nl (Fels R. Th.B.)

Subject: Crash............


Hello everybody,


Last Sunday was a bad day for me and my bike.
I drove around with a few other bikers. When I drove of a speedbump with only 30/40 km/h, the rearwheel suddenly breaked out. The bike turned 180 degrees around and I felt down. The frontwheel hit a concrete pole and the bike spinned around. I was thrown of an slided right under the frontwheel of a car. (never knew a mazda 626 was that hard.)
I broke my collar bone, a rib and my shoulder-blade, the rest around the chest is all bruised.
After a few days in the hospital I'm back home now.
The bike is probably totaled, and if so, this means probably the end of my biker-career... :-(((((
This means: no intermot and no driving next weeks.

This is also the reason that I maybe don't answer e-mails as fast as before, and my pages will not be updated next weeks. It hurts a lott when I sit behind the computer. Probably in a few weeks it will be easier....

I read the e-mails about the'new Twin' and looked at the last picture of it.
What I don't understand is that you call it an Africa Twin. If it's a XLV, then it's a Transalp.
And about the picture: I think it's a clever computer-drawing of someone who is good with adobe photoshop or so because:
- When you look at the engine, you see that it looks like the vtr-engine, but it also shows a part if the vtr-frame.
- The 'rear-fork' is mounted on a place that is impossible on the standard vtr-engine.
- The front plastic parts look too much like the transalp, the rear is from the twin. I dont think Honda uses these parts, it's too cheap....
- The chain-adjustent is also a cheap solution for an endurobike.
- The rearwheel is not centered to the axle...
- The footpegs of the rider and passenger are awfull close together.
- I also think that the exhaust from the front-cylinder cant be fitted behind the alu (plastic ?) protection.
- there are more little things that are 'not Honda'.....
But this is how I see it.


About a new bike on the intermot:
If there is no news, don't be dissapointed, because Hondas birthday is the 24th september......



For now....Greeings from The Netherlands,
Raymond Fels.





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