Tom Fall Off.
My colleague Tom Wright (on Pan European) and I had intended to go to Clifden/Kylemore today (Sunday);
Tom had a sore back. He has vertabrae damage from 10 years ago.
This being so, today's trip was abandoned, and he decided to go home.
5km south of Westport, he fell off.
I was riding at 85/90km/hr around 300 metres in front of him, so did not see what happened.
Road damp, grip good, no diesel, bend gentle.
I saw he was missing in my rear view mirrors, so stopped at Conway's garage to wait for him. No Tom, so rode back and found him lying unconcious on the white line with bike in ditch.
Garda, Amublance, road closed for 1 hour.
After around 10 mins, I got responses out of him, and he gradually recovered conciousness.
Into ambulance.
30 mins later this lunatic gets out of the ambulance and says he is going to ride on home.
The mad bastard was in shock, and the adrenalin was keeping him running in fulll lunatic mode.
Bike practically undamaged.
Neither I, Medics or Garda could disuade the man.
I took him into Convery's garage for an hour, and he drank a coffee.
Calmed a little, but insisted he was fit to go.
So, I accompanied him to M1 to Belfast. Will post more later.
(He had drunk a total of 1 pint of Guiness the previous night and was in bed by 9.30.)
Myke