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Cruiser
Joined: Dec 2014
Posts: 126
Likes: 1
From: Ontario
Glad to here your ok and your ride recovered as well, I had mine for not even 8 week and I had a kid make a right hand turn from the middle lande of a 4 lane road to go get Burger King. I planted the bike quite well into his quarter panel. My wife and I got really luck from my defensive driving and quick reaction to walk away with a couple stitches and bruises.
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Road Master
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 759
Likes: 75
From: Vegas Baby!!
Guess I didn't do the first one enough....pressed until I was scraping metal on the pavement and held it but was still drifting wide.....stood it up and did my best impersonation of a dirt rider but the bike didn't like it. Yeah, I'm a former MSF instructor/coach; just goes to show you that it can happen to anybody if you don't pay close attention to what you're doing. I had just gotten off shift of my 6th day of work and was exhausted - thinking how good that beer was going to taste while watching the playoff game that day. Yep, stupid on my part, can't blame anything or anybody else. Hard lesson learned. First one in 40 years of riding. Hopefully the last.
Road Master
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 830
Likes: 34
From: Missouri
Glad to hear you and the bike survived. I too have "laid her down" but did not fair so well. Last Halloween on the way to work, a kid had a blowout and spunout in a blind corner on the interstate. I was doing about 60 when I saw him half in my lane and half in the next. I hit the brakes hard but knew I would not be able to stop in time. There was room between the concrete divider and the back of his car so I went for it. Unfortunately he was not stopped and he kept rolling and closed the hole. I hit him doing about 40 - 45 I think. Me and the bike went over him for a long painful ride. I spent 6 days in the hospital and 4 weeks recovering at home from a broken right clavicle, broken right forearm, broken right hand, three cracked ribs on the right side two broken fingers on my right hand, a severed fingertip on the right hand and a sever hematoma in my left upper thigh. The bike was totaled. So the day after Christmas I began a new relationship with my current ride. Unfortunately I now have to have surgery on my right arm because it has not healed correctly and I require a plate and screws. I made the doctor promise me my recovery would be 5 weeks or less. We'll see.
Extreme HDF Member
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 14,778
Likes: 69
From: Badlands of ND
The Dealer you took the bike to is tops in repair for sure. I got hit last October on my Heritage. It was in the shop from the beginning of November until the first week of February.
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Tourer
Joined: Jan 2015
Posts: 366
Likes: 4
From: Ohio
Guess I didn't do the first one enough....pressed until I was scraping metal on the pavement and held it but was still drifting wide.....stood it up and did my best impersonation of a dirt rider but the bike didn't like it. Yeah, I'm a former MSF instructor/coach; just goes to show you that it can happen to anybody if you don't pay close attention to what you're doing. I had just gotten off shift of my 6th day of work and was exhausted - thinking how good that beer was going to taste while watching the playoff game that day. Yep, stupid on my part, can't blame anything or anybody else. Hard lesson learned. First one in 40 years of riding. Hopefully the last.
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Road Master
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 759
Likes: 75
From: Vegas Baby!!
Keep leaning it over is better than standing it up and running off right side of the road... Worse case bike goes out from under you and you slide behind it... Biggest mistake people make when going too fast into a turn is chopping throttle and hitting the front brake... Only makes it worse; bike stands up and runs off right side of the road...