CHRIS Harris revealed his relief at emerging relatively unscathed from his horror crash – but admitted his bike would be going in the skip.

Bomber fell spectacularly on the home straight during Pirates’ thrashing of King’s Lynn at Wimborne Road on Wednesday.

And as the Great Britain international lay prone on the shale, the Stars’ Ty Proctor was unable to avoid running over him.

Incredibly, both men were on their feet within minutes. And although Proctor withdrew from the meeting, Harris went on to complete three further rides, including heat 15.

While the 35-year-old emerged from the meeting with nothing more than a pronounced limp, he admitted he would have to spend “a few thousand pounds” to replace his destroyed machine.

He told the Daily Echo: “I’m all right, just a bit battered and bruised.

“My body doesn’t take the batterings it used to when I was younger. When you get older, you don’t seem to bounce as well.

“I curled up into a ball and protected myself and managed to get away with it. It could have been a lot worse. My side and my ribs are painful but I’ll survive.

“The bike took the brunt of it and it is probably going in the skip – the front wheel, the back wheel, the forks, the diamond. I might just take the engine and the carburettor out and the rest can go in the skip.

“The sprocket is wrecked and the chain so it is going to be a few thousand pounds to fix it.”

Although he experienced a bruising night, Harris admitted the 61-29 mauling of the Stars had further fired Pirates’ play-off chase.

Having been bottom of the SGB Premiership a month ago, the Dorset club are now third and are just three points adrift of leaders Somerset.

Harris said: “The result against King’s Lynn and the past few meetings have been great.

“The boys are really enjoying it. The team spirit is great and it can only get better as we move on towards the play-offs.

“It’s a bit like at Coventry in 2010 when we won the league down here.

“We started slowly but got better and better with each meeting and went on a fantastic run. I believe the same thing is happening here and we can do what I did back then.”

Team boss Neil Middleditch added: “When I saw King’s Lynn’s line-up, I thought they would be a different team to when we last raced them here but they didn’t have any answer to us.

“I told the boys to hit them hard early on and let them catch us up and three 5-1s to start with set us on the right track.

“We couldn’t buy a start earlier in the season but now we’re making starts and are looking a threat. I think a lot of the other teams will be thinking we are a tough team now.”