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Ouch ... slippin' and slidin'
I hate crashing. Ouch, man. I laid down the S last night. In typical S fashion the rear wheel touched down after she balanced on the right-side valve cover, took my 150ft slide and spun me around, flipped the bike over me and my head was pushed forward by the weight of the bike. All that right after I hit the curb .... just after the flip I was thrown clear of the bike, still on my seat which came with me and stood and ran in typical Hayden/Mladen fashion to the side of the road as the bike hit the curb a second time and was flipped up onto the grass, resting on her left side.
Fuel leaking and oil pouring out of the cracked open head/valve cover mating area from hitting the curb. I lost half of my tools, my right mirror ripped off, the left one smashed up. The rear subframe is looking twisted as the plastic isn't looking right and the seat is bound up. The front end is smushed to the right side, bending the fairing, scratched the forks, scratched up the windscreen on both sides, inside by the brake cluster and outside by the asphalt flip. Front wheel is bent a bit, rear wheel may be bent, but when we spun it, it didn't look so bad, there's just grass sticking in the bead of both wheels and in other random spots.
Started up, didn't sound too bad, just a lot of blow-by oil sitting in there and burning, the mechanic started it, not me! Since it had lost a bunch of oil, I wasn't about to start it myself. *sigh*
So my personal damage was reduced by the fact that I am not a squid, and routinely wear all of my gear. My helmet is pretty scratched up on the right side. Since I was hanging off, my right knee took a big hit as is apparent by the large hole in my sweet Airflow-2 pants, with a huge 1/4" deep, quarter-sized hole in the knee armour -- that of course would have been my knee if I didn't have them on. In rare fashion I didn't have my gloves on, but only got two small abrasions on my left hand. My Dainese AirMesh Jacket held up ok, except where my right shoulder is I have a huge ripped hole, which was one with my skin BTW, but the shoulder armour took a lot of that damage too. The arms are ripped up, but I only have two road rash spots on my right arm, and then on on my left elbow. All in all, it's just more of a reason to wear your gear and "dress for the fall" each and every time you go out riding.
I haven't gone back to the site of the accident yet to see if there was anything in the road that could cause me to lose the back-end like I did, but the Trooper and I couldn't really find anything on the ground at night.
So, I have some pics of my gear damage, personal damage and bike damage that I'll post up later on when I get them off of my digital camera.
I think she's totalled, and now I'm trying to figure out what to get next. Duc? Triumph? Aprilia? Another S? RT? RS? The possibilities are endless if that happens.
*sigh* Then I got to spend 8 hours in the emergency room too, getting CAT Scan and x-rays.
Fuel leaking and oil pouring out of the cracked open head/valve cover mating area from hitting the curb. I lost half of my tools, my right mirror ripped off, the left one smashed up. The rear subframe is looking twisted as the plastic isn't looking right and the seat is bound up. The front end is smushed to the right side, bending the fairing, scratched the forks, scratched up the windscreen on both sides, inside by the brake cluster and outside by the asphalt flip. Front wheel is bent a bit, rear wheel may be bent, but when we spun it, it didn't look so bad, there's just grass sticking in the bead of both wheels and in other random spots.
Started up, didn't sound too bad, just a lot of blow-by oil sitting in there and burning, the mechanic started it, not me! Since it had lost a bunch of oil, I wasn't about to start it myself. *sigh*
So my personal damage was reduced by the fact that I am not a squid, and routinely wear all of my gear. My helmet is pretty scratched up on the right side. Since I was hanging off, my right knee took a big hit as is apparent by the large hole in my sweet Airflow-2 pants, with a huge 1/4" deep, quarter-sized hole in the knee armour -- that of course would have been my knee if I didn't have them on. In rare fashion I didn't have my gloves on, but only got two small abrasions on my left hand. My Dainese AirMesh Jacket held up ok, except where my right shoulder is I have a huge ripped hole, which was one with my skin BTW, but the shoulder armour took a lot of that damage too. The arms are ripped up, but I only have two road rash spots on my right arm, and then on on my left elbow. All in all, it's just more of a reason to wear your gear and "dress for the fall" each and every time you go out riding.
I haven't gone back to the site of the accident yet to see if there was anything in the road that could cause me to lose the back-end like I did, but the Trooper and I couldn't really find anything on the ground at night.
So, I have some pics of my gear damage, personal damage and bike damage that I'll post up later on when I get them off of my digital camera.
I think she's totalled, and now I'm trying to figure out what to get next. Duc? Triumph? Aprilia? Another S? RT? RS? The possibilities are endless if that happens.
*sigh* Then I got to spend 8 hours in the emergency room too, getting CAT Scan and x-rays.
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