no this is not a Metallica thread

Warr took a tumble.

Broken wrists
Broken fingers
Broken collar
Broken shoulder blade
Broken arm
Broken ribs (lots of them, front and back)
Severe muscle injury in his neck ... but this should heal quite quickly

not life threatening

Broken bike ... very very very broken .. it only resembles what used to be a bike now

tonight Warren is chocka block full of morphein .. he is lucid and can vaguely talk.
He is not in pain .. at the moment, but as the drugs wear off .. erk !!!!

He will be in hospital for a while .. maybe weeks, I'm not sure really, I've not known anyone to break this many ribs

The carcass that was once a VFR is lying on my lawn.
It was not really worth picking up, but might be usefull for the insurer to view

I'll be checking up on him again tomorrow

he's talking much better today ..... having conversations almost .. he's not up to visitors yet .. I stayed for about 3 or 4 minutes before I could see he need to stop pretending to be ok

He is under the watchful guard of his two daughters

some pics

more pics here http://www.mcrides.co.nz/warr_down/ .. big photos (2.2mb kinda big)

Its a shame to hear about this. We will try come up in a couple of weeks, but not sure yet, depends on work etc.

Hope he isnt in too much pain and gets to keep taking pain killers.

Certainly makes ya think
Warrens one of the best riders I’ve known over the years, and when you look at the evidence at the crash site you are left with the impression there was other things at play other than his riding ability.

Kind of a chilling reminder that you never know what’s around the corner, that a bike is a mechanical machine prone to failures now and then, and we would all do well to bear that in mind when we ride.

There’s no way I would like to be lying where our mate is right now – and pray he has a speedy recovery

The cause of the fire, Pic6 I suspect

We can rebuild her, VFR750 right - what year

been to see him again ... the drugs are wearing off, and he can sustain "some" conversation.

When you the machine start pumping, pack yer bags tho' coz he's on his way back to sleep pretty soon after getting a shot of morphein

Not the news i was expecting to read, hope he has a quick recovery without to many long term problems.

Where did this happen? was it just him involved?

back tyre blow out I suspect .. so yes just him

owera road intersection, just south of coro town on the east side
http://www.wises.co.nz/l/Waikato/Te+Rereng.../2z5n3/70p7j/1/
zoom out a bit so you can see

warren has called me again this morning he can barely string a sentence together, but he wants to call me

He's waiting to visit surgery today to start work on his wrist, and there has been mention of pins in his hands.

Still doped up "to the max"

Lol at Pete... your not seriously going to try and rebuild it right? Surely nothing in that bike is safely salvageable. Like even the frame would be seriuosly impaired? Plus its probably cheaper to buy a new one. He always talks about the hornet paul.. maybe that would be a good excuse for you to upgrade

didn't end up seeing him tonight .. he was in surgery from 2, and I swapped text messages with his daughter at about 8 and she its not worth the visit . .he's not awake etc etc ..

Just looked at the map of the crash site....geez he sure did it out in the middle nowhere!!