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Was joining some friends on a cruise down to Newport yesterday to check out a exotic/antique car show and well lets say I didn't make it very far considering this happened 10minutes from my house. Basically I was traveling in the 3rd lane next to the slow lane minding my own business and got cut off, bike started to wobble but no matter what I did (sit back on the seat and hold the throttle) I couldn't prevent the full on tankslap while going ~70mph. So needless to say down she went, I managed to at least slide/tumble my ass over to the breakdown lane where I stayed for a bit until the EMT's/Police showed up. Luckily I had a friend following in a car that blocked off traffic as I slid so I was in no danger of getting run over thank god.
I was wearing my leather jacket, gloves, helmet, and boots which held up great I must say but dumbass me for some reason decided to not wear my armored pants so my jeans didn't do much so my knee's took a nice beating that has left me with some minor bruises and cuts/scrapes (3 stitches in my right knee).
The bike surprisingly held up pretty well without frame sliders and as far as I could tell no major damage but we'll see tomorrow when Riverside can tear it down and check for any structural damage(s).
Here's the pics to the aftermath ;
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Steering stop got damaged as you can see so I'm not sure how thats going to be with the insurance as i don't want it to be totaled (i don't even have 400mi's on it yet). But if it has to come down to it I think I'll be considering a streetfighter S, diavel carbon or perhaps a multistrada if I can't get back on the hyper but only time will tell I guess.
All this and the thing that has got me most pissed off is that I can't attend the TTD tomorrow that I was going to sign up for