my first crash....

[Cheese]

and i'm sure this guy is the only one on this forum that's ever went speeding and crashed on the street.

You got me here Jimmy, I too have never crashed while riding at the posted speed limit.

[wesvailco]

-I see a road with no lines, meaning its' 25MPH max for a reason.

-and LOL at 5 pages and this new smiley:

[tonyd]

Dude we drive on the right. Was this corner in England? or is this a one way road?

Maybe if you took the picture from the right side of the road we could see how evil this corner is.

Even from the left side, if you are paying attention you can see a sign thru the trees, pavement going left, pavement going right, so at the very least you know there is some sort of intersection.

Yellow and white lines on the road straight ahead is a clue too.

[SRTie4k]

One of the reasons I decided to stop doing open blasts down long straights I'm not fully familiar with is for this reason. I've found myself facing a corner I didn't see until the last second, and it's definitely a brown-trousers and a handful of brake kind of reaction.

Fortunately I have never crashed, despite the few instances of this and target fixation I have been through.

So get the bike fixed up and next time make sure your brain is in control, not your throttle hand.

[Garandman]

A friend of a friend in Maine got badly injured last year when he rode through a stop sign covered by vegetation. He wound up as a hood ornament, with broken bones and months of recovery.

GPS helps if you are on unfamiliar roads, as you can zoom in enough to see all the kinks. But you have to be riding well enough in-hand to be able to glance at it now and then.

[OreoGaborio]

as for the preachers...seriously? get over yourselves. like you've never sped past a lone driveway on some quiet back road.

I haven't.......................