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 Supersport class when he collided with the bﷺird - narrowly avoiding disaster.
His bike♊ was destroyed - and so was the pheasant - 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 b✅e🧸 amazed how I am still here.
“The frame has snapped in three places.
"I went into Laurel Bank and there was a pheasant in the middle of the road. I couldn't do anything a♑bout it.
"It was walking but when itꦰ heard the bike♕ coming it stopped.
"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."
Even without his Triumph 675, Williams returned to💖 the famous course 48 hours later.
"An Irish sponsor haꦿs kindly supplied me with a GSX-R600 Suzuki," he revealed!
James was a sports journalist at Sky Spor🐷ts for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
