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 w🔥ith the bird - narrowly avoi𒐪ding disaster.
His bike was destroyed - and so was the pheasant - 💞but Williams walked away 𓄧from the incident.
"I know I'm lucky,” he told the .
“There wasn't even a scratch on my helmet.
"If you saw the bike yoꦓu'd be am🦋azed how I am still here.
“The frame has snapped in three places.
"I went into Laurel Bank and there was a pheasan෴t in the middle of the road. I couldn't do anything about it.
"It was walking but when it heard the൲ bike coming it s💛topped.
"The front wheel made contact with it, took𓃲 the handlebars off me and I went straight into the wall. The bike was a write-off."
Even without his Triump🐼h 675, Williams returned to the famous course 48 hours later.
"An Irish sponsor has kindly supplied me with a GSX-R600 Suzuk☂i," he reveale🌺d!
Jamesꩵ was a sports journalist at Sky﷽ Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
