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RE: The Modprobe Mashup: The Mis-fortunate Motorcycle Mishap
Haha, awesome stories, friend! You've got a bit more wild streak in you than I do, but not too much. Respect. :)
Yeah, I'm definitely more lax about the equipment than most of my friends so far, but otoh I'm not doing much long distance or high speed travel either. The fastest I've gone so far was on an empty, flat, straight line road, and even there I probably never touched 80.
Yeah, seems that the slower the wreck the more damage you absorb or less opportunity to deflect, just force>you>ground in no distance or time. After I fixed up a sv750 which my buddy had to buy off one of my other buddies after he wrecked his bike and messed his foot up when he mistakenly drove through the intersection to get on the highway on a green light for a right turn only, and got taken out at not even 25mph, I was riding it down the street from where I lived with flip flops on and nothing else really, I remember if I even had a shirt on and to make it even worse I hadn't fixed up the rear break bracket so I couldn't use it, which is where the car took him out, and I went into a curb on an overpass kinda loop and had to bail off because I was going to take out the 2 foot concrete/metal lined median, and I was bailing out the cops were literally in the other lane passing me, I thought for sure they would stop but they didn't care, luckily for me, I didn't mess up the bike, and considering I spent my own money to buy almost all the parts, I don't think the new owner really cared, besides being a really good friend but I came back to the house with a good road rash on my palm and the sandals/flipflops barely held, just stooopid lucky, granted I won't get on a bike for a long time if ever, my wife knows all my stories and shes put her foot down lol, said I can has a dirt bike but that's it.
I owned 3 bikes, for the speed demon in me my first r6 I bought after my best friend was going to ditch me if I was going to buy the busa I had my eyes on, as my first bike.., then I came up on a stoopid fast zx12 from '90, and my last one as you know was the r1, that one I had dropped on black ice, I used it for a good 9 months in the hills in nor cal, 2-3 miles of dirt roads after the first 2 miles of asphalt, and even raced a 450 on a crazy part, about 6 miles of dirt roads, almost went off the side of the hill/mountains a couple times, and if you want my advice on a ride to pick, go light, very light, and chose the motor after considering how much it weighs. Look for a 225, or a 350, even a 400 dirt bike.