I hate gravel
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Road Master
Joined: Dec 2012
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From: Louisiana
ha sorry your right dozer. slip of the mind. It's eating me up most since I hate sitting still. I would love to at least be able to get into the garage and look the bike over good and clean it up. G/f would kill me if she caught me not resting up lol
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From: WPB, FL
You'll probably end up on a road just like it again eventually, ONLY next time it'll be on a fully loaded bagger with the wife on back! Life's an adventure, not half as fun from the cheap seats!
Road Captain
Joined: Nov 2011
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From: Southern Indiana
Fat Bob tires look like something off a MX bike, but I guess they aren't...
Sorry about the ankle. Broke mine a couple of years ago and the healing seemed to take forever. At least there wasn't more damage to the bike
Sorry about the ankle. Broke mine a couple of years ago and the healing seemed to take forever. At least there wasn't more damage to the bike
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Joined: Apr 2008
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From: Seattle Area
Glad it came out mostly ok.
Street bikes and gravel ... just say no. Actually, not any bikes are that good on gravel counting dirt bikes. It would be ok if gravel was consistent, but there are far too many variations of it. Some gravel roads are a piece of cake while others have uneven gravel.
I do thank my time on a dirt bike every time I'm forced to drive gravel, but that doesn't mean I like it. The worse I've had it was a 20+ mile section of 101 in the Olympics. Apparently, they tear up lots of the road at once. The gravel thrown by cars coming from the other direction was brutal with no fairing or windshield, but at least I had good boots, gloves, and leather coat to get nailed. I only got nailed in the shins a few times...ouch.
Street bikes and gravel ... just say no. Actually, not any bikes are that good on gravel counting dirt bikes. It would be ok if gravel was consistent, but there are far too many variations of it. Some gravel roads are a piece of cake while others have uneven gravel.
I do thank my time on a dirt bike every time I'm forced to drive gravel, but that doesn't mean I like it. The worse I've had it was a 20+ mile section of 101 in the Olympics. Apparently, they tear up lots of the road at once. The gravel thrown by cars coming from the other direction was brutal with no fairing or windshield, but at least I had good boots, gloves, and leather coat to get nailed. I only got nailed in the shins a few times...ouch.
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From: Albuquerque, NM
Just wait until you start physical therapy and they tell you "you'd have a much easier rehab if you'd just broken it." I'm still rehabbing a moderate to severe sprain that I got back in March.
Do yourself a favor, go to PT, and work hard at rehabbing it.
Good luck to you.
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6th Gear
Joined: Jul 2013
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From: Bayou Vista, TX
Sorry to hear about your ankle and bike, glad it wasn't worse. I hate going over irregular pavement but there is nothing worse than loose gravel. It's like riding over a bunch of marbles.
Hope that ankle heals up quick!
Hope that ankle heals up quick!
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From: Nor-Cal
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From: Nebraska
Have to ride four miles of gravel to get to pavement. Had almost the same fall as you...only I broke my ankle and had to have a steel plate and eight screws to fix it. That was ten years ago and I still have the pale and screws. Yes, gravel sucks. Don't ride any more when the gravel is really loose.
