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The Story?
Two weeks ago today, went out riding with a few buddies on a decently sunny day here in Iowa. Things went well until they went bad. Long story turned short it was just too soon to be out on the roads we were on and riding the way we were, I got too far to the outside of the lane on a twistie and the back tire gobbled up some road salt/sand and next thing I knew I was sliding down the road bikeless.
When it was all over and I'd accounted for all of the proper apendages, I started looking for my bike. (Buddies were ahead of me on their gsxr's and didn't see the fall, and I lucked out that there was no traffic on the corner besides me at the time) Bike ended up in a deep ditch, so I trotted down there and picked it up. By this time someone had stopped on the side of the road and the owner of the property my bike ended up on came out to check on me.
As far as I could tell I was fine (I'm a medic in the Army, though at the time with all the adrenaline in my system i don't think my judgement was really sound) but I started to do circles around the bike examining the damage. Headlight/Turnsignal assembly looked like someone taped a grenade to it and blew it all to pieces. Lost the left side mirror, and the shifter/rear set was unrecognizable. Some denting to the tank as well.
Man who owned the house let me leave the bike in his driveway, other man who stopped gave me a lift home. Had the ex gf talk to her coworkers (she works at the local harley/suzuki dealership) and they went out the next day with a trailer to collect my SV. Their shop gave it a lookover, told me my forks were damaged as well.
Gear wise, was wearing the Shark RSR(i think thats the one i have) It now has a 5 inch rash from right above my left eye raking backwards instead of my face being crushed. Had a non-armor leather jacket that held up rather well, some rash and a few holes in the left forearm. Heat from the skid melted a section of my underarmor which tried its darndest to fuse with the flesh of my elbow
and my icon riding jeans got some holes all down the left leg. Standard issue combat boots did the trick for my feet and the power-trip gloves stood up well.
Health wise i'm all but ok. Bruising on left elbow and thigh is almost gone now, the under armor wound is healing up nicely. I torqued my right ankle something fierce when halfway through my skid down the street i pulled an idiot move and thought "hey self, you've been skidding for awhile, surely its about over and you've def slowed down plenty. you should probably stand up." :angry2::BangHead: wrong answer. boot caught on the pavement and twisted the ankle around nicely. Wearing a brace on that now after some compression and heavy icing for the first week or so.
All that being said... I'm still here and thats a blessing.
So, those of you who have laid them down, or helped someone else who has, What can i expect/should be looking for?
I've ordered all the stuff for my gsxr front end swap, got some new rearsets... mirrors... decided since i was swapping out the front that i might as well toss on the gsxr rear shock and an F3 rear wheel conversion as well...
But, i'm sure there are still some surprises waiting for me... Gremlin style. Any help would be great,
Thanks!!
Two weeks ago today, went out riding with a few buddies on a decently sunny day here in Iowa. Things went well until they went bad. Long story turned short it was just too soon to be out on the roads we were on and riding the way we were, I got too far to the outside of the lane on a twistie and the back tire gobbled up some road salt/sand and next thing I knew I was sliding down the road bikeless.
When it was all over and I'd accounted for all of the proper apendages, I started looking for my bike. (Buddies were ahead of me on their gsxr's and didn't see the fall, and I lucked out that there was no traffic on the corner besides me at the time) Bike ended up in a deep ditch, so I trotted down there and picked it up. By this time someone had stopped on the side of the road and the owner of the property my bike ended up on came out to check on me.
As far as I could tell I was fine (I'm a medic in the Army, though at the time with all the adrenaline in my system i don't think my judgement was really sound) but I started to do circles around the bike examining the damage. Headlight/Turnsignal assembly looked like someone taped a grenade to it and blew it all to pieces. Lost the left side mirror, and the shifter/rear set was unrecognizable. Some denting to the tank as well.
Man who owned the house let me leave the bike in his driveway, other man who stopped gave me a lift home. Had the ex gf talk to her coworkers (she works at the local harley/suzuki dealership) and they went out the next day with a trailer to collect my SV. Their shop gave it a lookover, told me my forks were damaged as well.
Gear wise, was wearing the Shark RSR(i think thats the one i have) It now has a 5 inch rash from right above my left eye raking backwards instead of my face being crushed. Had a non-armor leather jacket that held up rather well, some rash and a few holes in the left forearm. Heat from the skid melted a section of my underarmor which tried its darndest to fuse with the flesh of my elbow
Health wise i'm all but ok. Bruising on left elbow and thigh is almost gone now, the under armor wound is healing up nicely. I torqued my right ankle something fierce when halfway through my skid down the street i pulled an idiot move and thought "hey self, you've been skidding for awhile, surely its about over and you've def slowed down plenty. you should probably stand up." :angry2::BangHead: wrong answer. boot caught on the pavement and twisted the ankle around nicely. Wearing a brace on that now after some compression and heavy icing for the first week or so.
All that being said... I'm still here and thats a blessing.
So, those of you who have laid them down, or helped someone else who has, What can i expect/should be looking for?
I've ordered all the stuff for my gsxr front end swap, got some new rearsets... mirrors... decided since i was swapping out the front that i might as well toss on the gsxr rear shock and an F3 rear wheel conversion as well...
But, i'm sure there are still some surprises waiting for me... Gremlin style. Any help would be great,
Thanks!!