Well it finally happened to me... About 30 minutes after rain, I stopped at a t-junction, moved off and lost rear traction either on the painted line or a greasy spot. Zwipppp! Both me and the bike lying on the floor. No other vehicles involved, fortunately. Drat the simplicity of the 2018 DS!
Goodbye to my right original Givi pannier - the plastic took most of the fall of the bike. I seem to have swapped my front brake lever for a banana and I have been fitted with a more modern two-piece collarbone!
Because it was a fairly rural location there weren't even any vehicles to see my embarassment. I had managed to pick myself up, key off the bike, haul it upright, get it over to the side and retrieve the plastic pannier bits before anybody even drove past.
Apart from the busted pannier, everything on the bike functions. Throttle is free, controls all work. Front brake seems fine too. I took a few minutes for a roadside sit down before going home slowly. By the time I got home the shoulder was really complaining so I went to A&E to discover the tip of the right collarbone has snapped cleanly off but was still held in place so no surgery needed.
I will take advantage of the enforced downtime to get a new brake lever from English Electric Motors, go shopping for a new pair of panniers and get my jacket cleaned and re-waterproofed. It was an Ashley Watson waxed cotton and it needed a bit of tidying up which I never had time for. Now I do.
The D3O pads seemed to do their job because my right hip is fine. I just fell on the part of the shoulder not covered by the shoulder-specific pad.
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