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April 12, 2007

Norge goes down

Have you ever wondered what happens to all that plastic fairing stuff when you drop the Norge? Well, I had to rode to west, all the way to Camargue to find out that Norge survives quite well.

After an "interesting" stop in a bar which would give inspiration to Stephen King's next bestseller, we were about to continue our over-night road trip, when the sky fell and knocked me and Norge down. A local peasant had reversed his white van from a parking lot, hitting Norge's top box from rear right and pushing the bike to the left. It was a total surprise to me, I couldn't even hear his approach beforehands. Only thought that flashed in my brains was "WTF, need to get away from the falling bike". Luckily missus was not yet mounted on the bike.

I guess we were lucky, no real harm for me and even Norge survived pretty well, just some scratches. An inspector from insurance company will check the damages next Wednesday, let's see then.

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Comments

Sorry for you and your bike. Hope it will be a bad 'souvenir' (memory?) soon.

Posted by: Bruno | May 7, 2007 11:49:28 AM

Really sorry: don't think I'd have been able to be so pragmatic. As you say, as long as everyone is ok....?

Posted by: Laurie | May 4, 2007 5:16:10 PM

Grrr, what a shame. Hope you get it fixed up quickly.

Posted by: Paul | Apr 24, 2007 8:45:35 PM

Sorry about your Norge but I'm very interested in your report. I ride Norge in Japan and always wonder what will happen to Norge when it falls. And it is a little relief that Norge only suffered from just some scratches.

Posted by: genn | Apr 20, 2007 9:05:06 AM

Sorry to read about the Norge. Glad you and the Mrs. are OK

Posted by: Nick | Apr 13, 2007 2:37:56 AM

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