Isle of Wight Scooter Rally 2008 Eden Blow out

[tbusquet]

OMG! Very scary stuff, thank god you had that suit on, and the lorry didn't run you over! Any idea what caused the blow out ?

[banzai509]

Found it :-) you got off lightly mate. Ride safe. Rod.

[mddlfc]

fucking mad scooterists, ride like twats and wonder why you crash!!!!!

[edenffs]

LOL

[badfelafel]

blimey! must have 9 lives. am getting a new tyre on mine as we speak... and a new fuel line as was leaking petrol onto the tyre!

[Lamvesp]

And to think of what i've been getting away with for years on some of the crap i've been rideing on. Glad you're okay and i've learnt my lesson. Thanks for posting this.

[Muttlyoo7]

Sobering stuff! Glad to see that you are both OK and your scoot isn't too badly mangled. I will certainly be paying closer attention to my tyres in the future.

[stewartx5]

Glad to hear that you're okay and hope the wife's brused leg is recovering well. Wish I could have seen more detail, but that was impossible since the camera was pointed at the sky throughout half the video causing everything else to be underexposed.

[edenffs]

Yes the camera had slipped during the 24 minutes since we had left the services. shame really, but lucky to catch any of it as there was only 31 minutes left on the memory card when I turned it on as we left Oxford services.

[spazzymaggee]

SHIT unlucky man, hope you, the passenger and the scooter are all ok.

[1964lambretta]

Fuck your luck....hope you and yours AND the scoot weren't to badly damaged....ride safe.

[edenffs]

To see a better quality version add &fmt=18 to the end of the URL on this page

[tbjdiamonddog]

it's amazing how you kept the camera running !

I had a blow out on the way down; mind you it went down slowly so there was no problem. I first thought it was the steering going wrong! Apparently I have cheap Indian tyres on, so I need to get them changed for next year.. Good to hear you are both ok

[eddybullet]

its great how all the car drivers stop to help.

[edenffs]

I am ok but my Mrs has a badly bruised leg :(

press more info At the top right of this page to see a link to more info about the accident

[GS160Mk2]

Fucking hell! Hope there were no injuries. Blowouts always worry me, had one on way to IOW '97...luckily at about 15mph pulling onto Allstyles front parking area. 10 mins earlier we'd been doing 65 along the M27...

[bretta69]

scary!! on the A34 with all those trucks!

hope ur both ok

[midgeb]

oh my god!

hope that dont happen 2 me!

was everybody ok??

[sitefinder]

Jeez fella, that`s really spooked me. i spend all my journeys thinking about blowouts !!

Got to get me some tubeless rims.

Hope you are all OK.