Paul Williams crashed after hitting a pheasant at Isle of Man TT: “I’m lucky, if you saw the bike"
Williams came off his bike on Monday during qualifying for the Sཧupersport class when he collided with the bird - narrowly avoiding disaster.
His bike was destroyed - 𓆏and so was the ph🅺easant - but Williams walked away from the incident.
"I know I'm lucky,” he told the .
“There wasn't even a scratch on my helmet.
"If you saw the bike you'd b𝔉e amazed how I am still here.
“The frame has snapped in three places.
"I we🎶nt into Laurel Bank and there was a pheasant in the middle of the road. I couldn't do anything about it.
"It was walking but when it heard the bike coming it stopp🎐ed.
"The front wheel made contact with it, took the handlebars off me and I went straight into 😼the wall. The bike was a write-off."
E𒆙ven wꦍithout his Triumph 675, Williams returned to the famous course 48 hours later.
"An Irish sponsor has kindly supplied me with a GSX🔥-R600 Suzuki," he revealed!
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everythi✨ng from American sports, to football, to F1.
