Call me crash...
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Tourer
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From: NE Ohio
Call me crash...
I haven't been around much lately, I've been riding.
I crashed the RK into a Neon last thursday. I went for a putt after work and was stopped at a stop sign in a little burg south of here. I looked left, then right, but didn't look left again. As I started to move, all of a sudden there was this little car. My reflexes must have taken over as I managed to get the bike going the same direction as the car, then bailed off to the right, hitting my right shoulder pretty hard and scarfing the helmet a bit. I rolled onto my feet, got my bearings and went over to the car to make sure the folks were ok; they were. The statie and the EMTs got there real quick expecting the worst, and there I was getting the bike off the road with some help.
I ended up with a type 11 AC shoulder separation, but avoided being transported. By now the pain and stiffness was going full bore and I couldn't reach anybody I knew to come out and ride it home (she's almost unscathed to the casual observer) so I had to call for a tow. Lucky I stayed cause the tow truck was going to drag the bike onto the rollback. Finally, some dude on a dirtbike showed up, and he rode it on to the rollback for me. We laid it on a blanket my wife had, and managed to get her home safely.
I have to watch it better in the future. To you guys who don't like helmets, this would have been a lot worse if I hadn't had it on. As it is I'll probably be back on the road in a month or so.
Be careful out there.
I crashed the RK into a Neon last thursday. I went for a putt after work and was stopped at a stop sign in a little burg south of here. I looked left, then right, but didn't look left again. As I started to move, all of a sudden there was this little car. My reflexes must have taken over as I managed to get the bike going the same direction as the car, then bailed off to the right, hitting my right shoulder pretty hard and scarfing the helmet a bit. I rolled onto my feet, got my bearings and went over to the car to make sure the folks were ok; they were. The statie and the EMTs got there real quick expecting the worst, and there I was getting the bike off the road with some help.
I ended up with a type 11 AC shoulder separation, but avoided being transported. By now the pain and stiffness was going full bore and I couldn't reach anybody I knew to come out and ride it home (she's almost unscathed to the casual observer) so I had to call for a tow. Lucky I stayed cause the tow truck was going to drag the bike onto the rollback. Finally, some dude on a dirtbike showed up, and he rode it on to the rollback for me. We laid it on a blanket my wife had, and managed to get her home safely.
I have to watch it better in the future. To you guys who don't like helmets, this would have been a lot worse if I hadn't had it on. As it is I'll probably be back on the road in a month or so.
Be careful out there.
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+1 on the helmets. They have save me from a couple of really BIG headaches in the past!
Glad you made out as well as ya did too.
Glad you made out as well as ya did too.
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Tourer
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Heal quickly.
Tell us more of what happened. Did the car come out of no where, speeding, curve? Looking left, right and not left again, although always recommended, the car had to have come from somewhere right?
Just thinking out loud.
Tell us more of what happened. Did the car come out of no where, speeding, curve? Looking left, right and not left again, although always recommended, the car had to have come from somewhere right?
Just thinking out loud.
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