divine intervention (crashed my bike :( )

SoarAndEnvision

SoarAndEnvision

Zyklon Aeon
First thing - I'm totally fine. Scraped my knee up pretty good and broke a nail and A LOT of hurt pride, but I'm ok. I got lucky.

My bike is ok too - probably about 50 bucks in repairs that I can take care of. Plastics in front are cracked pretty bad and handle bar (right) broke.

My gorgeous gorgeous pipe that got me so many compliments is scratched :( but not TOO bad.

Anyway this was a good wake up call.

Target Fixation :

It was a very stupid mistake to make. 40 mph up a curve up twin peaks, eyes focused on bushes I didn't want to hit (CLASSIC TExT BOOK MISTAKE THAT I preach to people about - the number one best technique) but I just slipped...one second... I blanked. And then there were LOTS of bushes and a curb that came out of no where and I low sided my baby.

I was so fucking pissed it wasn't even funny. I haven't gotten that angry in so long I was just in auto pilot.

I was also very lucky to be riding with two super cool guys that I met at the monthly SF night ride we were on, Eric from SF and Chris from Hayward. Thanks a million guys, I owe you big fucking time.

We were leading about 20 bikes through the city on the night ride and then we lost the rest of the group because we were riding too fast (how's that for irony???)

Well time to finish this beer and study for my stupid exam tomorrow.

For all that have been considered about my riding, this was a big wake up call and I've learned a lot.

Here's some photos of my poor baby joon :

Here's how see looked before 2 hours ago :(

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then the pain :

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bush crap in helmet (thats gas not blood btw)

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my poor Ukami joon :
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She runs fine - it takes a lot to take down both of us :) - You can bet theres gonna be a "BABY I'M BACK" post as soon as I get the new handle. But this time when I say I'm gonna be a good boy I mean it.

Funny thing is I have done 2305923590 squid things in the last 2 months and gotten away with it. This was a really needless, pretty safe turn and I'm glad that I got my wake up call here then say last weekend when I was doing triple digits down the coast.

Ride hard. Ride safe.
 
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altomista

altomista

Evil Mad Scientist
Glad you're okay Naumy! I heard about it when I caught up to Chris. I'll see you on Wed at the P&W if you're ego isn't bruised.
 
rumpofsteelskin

rumpofsteelskin

friend to spiders
SoarAndEnvision said:
I'm totally fine...broke a nail...but I'm ok.
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Oh my god! What do you mean you're OK? Charleeze just DID your nails! :wow

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Glad you're otherwise OK. Seems like you clearly understand where you goofed and how not to do it again. Depending on the corner, things can go very wrong on Twin Peaks, so you got lucky. :)
 
uhmeebuh

uhmeebuh

Ginger Ape
Re: Re: divine intervention (crashed my bike :( )

rumpofsteelskin said:
Oh my god! What do you mean you're OK? Charleeze just DID your nails! :wow

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Glad you're otherwise OK. Seems like you clearly understand where you goofed and how not to do it again. Depending on the corner, things can go very wrong on Twin Peaks, so you got lucky. :)
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Ooo - don't show that to Lizard! :laughing
 
edmo

edmo

Well-known member
It's a good thing it didn't catch on fire. What with it being flammable and all.
 
SoarAndEnvision

SoarAndEnvision

Zyklon Aeon
Thanks for all the support guys.

That was hilarious Morgan - but that picture's a little creepy. I like split my thumb like as if I hit with a hammer, but its nothing ChArLEEzE can't fix, she's a dream.
 
splat

splat

Well-known member
It's just a handle bar insert that's broken on your bike (look on the inner side and you'll see there's a plastic circle covering an allen bolt) remove that and buy one from ebay (32 bucks new) and you'll be riding again.

Seems that it broke off at the weld, so you'll just need to remove the brake fluid resevoir and assy, and the kill switch, then get a an impact driver, remove the bar end grip, and you'll be good to go. When re installing the killswitch, remember that there's a little nub on the saaembly piece and a hole in the bar insert. Make sure that the hole and the nub line up, or you're gonna sit there for about an hour trying to figure what wire's getting in the way...atleast for me it was. Hahahaha....


As i see it don't replace the fairing, just re-enforce the back with some sort of fiberglass (or JB weld if needed) so it doesn't crack all the way through then start flapping.

If you do decide to get a new plastic though, let me know. I'll buy your old one off of you. hahahaha...
 
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