Battle Scars

[Dragonrider]

UPS guy got here Friday...and despite being sick, I installed stuff Saturday...so all the expensive bendy parts on The Dragon were no longer bent. Yeah, nothing major...I just use the heck out of her and don't mind paying the piper when it's time...which means changing out dinged parts.

How many of you keep crash bars in stock? Sheesh. Of course, that entire incident...is yet another story.

Didn't ride Sunday and Monday...stupid flu. Bubonic bird flu plague? I actually called in sick Monday...and that's only the third or fourth time in 22 years if that tells you how ... wonderfully ... I was feeling yesterday.

Anyway, headed out for work this morning I smacked a phone pole! Heh. Sucker jumped right out in front of me....well not really. But another car and an off-road trip through the mud was involved. Hey, at least I missed the backhoe and the 6 foot deep trench surrounded by orange netting!

So, maybe some of my expensive bendy parts are bent again...I'll be able to tell when I get home in the daylight. Hmmm...Wonder if I've got 'em in stock...

She runs and rolls straight...but the tour bell went "dink dink dink" instead of ringing...seems it's full of mud LOL!

[mitch]

Crash

Dan
Your new nickname is gonna be" Crash" if u keep it up! Some days are diamonds some are stones. Keep her between the poles and be safe .
Doug

[MAXIMAN]

That's a first for the 650,000 mile man..NO?

When I talked to you at TeXSive last year I think you told me you'd never had one down. Am I mistaken?

[Dragonrider]

"Down" being a relative term....

I've dropped mine more times than I care to admit. Bent a few things/etc...

I've never crashed one at speed.

[81xsproject]

man, I wish I could make either of those claims. Stupid base-rock fines got me once at low speed (was worse than ice), and I have dropped that heavy eleven far too many times while moving it around, and once it rolled off the kick on a slightly down hill park-job .

[XMRGWX]

Of the 6 or 7 XS11 standards with fairings I rode with, everyone dropped theirs. Usually in the driveway or garage all while stopped - most more than once. My only complaint with the 11 would be how top heavy they are with the fairing. I'd love to make an exact carbon fiber replica fairing.

[HobbyMan]

all standards are really top heavy. I was washing my 80G on the front lawn over the side walk when I got it and it managed to tip. I even had it set up so the stand would not sink down, I was leaning over it and moved the CD just over the balance point. It was all downhill from there. Nothing got damaged. Just loosended the mirror and made a few scuffs on the crash bars which already needed grinding and painting.

[mason79]

knock on wood not on concrete

if you ever try to move the xs missle around with the gas tank taken off,

you will notice immediately the center of gravity moved down to the foot pegs instead of the mirrors,

but that would be too impractical to do every time you need to move it around.

i don't even want to think about droppin, it i always take a deep breath and focus my concentration before i do sojmething so dangerous

[MAXIMAN]

Originally posted by Dragonrider


I've never crashed one at speed.

Yeah...me neither....

[Dragonrider]

Sooo....no visible damage.

Headed out of my neighborhood this AM a car pulled out from a street ahead of me and gunned it toward me coming down my side of the road.

No curbs, so I headed for the shoulder. Muddy, with construction equipment and holes and such. Once I hit the edge of the road, I didn't have enough traction to steer back onto it. Just worked on getting slowed down and not hitting anything.

Managed to slide around the equipment and the big trench, and at the very end of the slide popped a telephone pole...straight on front tire into the pole. Then I dropped her in the mud whilst I practiced my swearing. The car didn't even slow down.

No biggie...can't see any damage 'cept the handlebars moved...gotta reset those and see if they'll stay tight or if the bars are crimped at the clamps...

[DiverRay]

Danny, I think Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson need to have a talk with the car driver! It works very well when they have Mr. officer helping.

[motoman]

Damn Dan,,,,,,,,,,,,,,maybe should think bout moving to Colorado.

[gerkenbruce]

Dragon,s are hard to kill. I think it is time to ya burned a car or two Don,t Texans cary guns any how?

Glad you are all Right
XSively
Bruce