looks like my riding season is over - crash
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Way in to work today, about 2 miles from my house, some tool pulls out from a side street onto the main drag without stopping, without looking, just whips onto the street. Unfortunately, the pavement was wet, there were wet leaves all over the pavement, and my tires were cold. I was going about 40, and I tried to swerve around the schmuck since I didn't think I could brake enough in time, and all of a sudden I lost it... can't quite pick out the exact failure point...
Then its just super slow motion sliding down the road, tumbling, watching your bike slide ahead of you... and the asshole who cut you off leaving the scene either out of ignorance or just plain flight.
In the end I guess I am just really lucky... If I hadn't swerved, I am quite positive I would have crashed into the car pulling out given the pavement conditions (they pulled out about 50 ft in front of me max, just a 30 mph or so right hander onto the main drag without even checking to their left). I walked away with some rashed knees (nothing too bad, didn't even break through my jeans (I was tumbling pretty good), but about dollar bill sized patches of no skin that are currently sticking to the inside of my jeans in a fairly annoying fashion). The bike on the other hand, well I cracked the left side engine cover (whoosh there goes all the oil), some plastic scratches, slightly bent shifter, and something in the coolant system broke too cos that all rushed out... As far as I can tell, no subframe/fork issues...
Two peices of gear I was wearing performed well, my shoei rf900, and my cortech carbon track gloves... the gloves are barely scratched (no tears or stitching damage) and I slid on my hands a good bit...
In any case, gotta find me a new engine cover... and wait the 1.5 months for triumph to get off their ass and get it here.
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Originally Posted by ThisBitch
