ApexBrewing wrote:Well the chunks out of me were in fact smaller but they were slightly painful.
Actually most of the damage was to my gear. I ground off part of the side of my helmet, burned a hole in the palm of my leather gloves, and burned two holes in the leather of my jacket. One on the elbow and one on the shoulder.
I had shoulder damage and a bruised collar bone. I drove my shoulder into the ground first and then the chin bar of my helmet was driven into my collar bone. That was all initial impact then I started to slide. I wore two holes in my left knee. Both were minor enough that I did not notice them until I had the bike up and was looking at it. A couple minor scars but nothing beyond that.
The bike bent my nice Protaper bars (new by the way), drove the bars into the gas tank denting that, snapped off my clutch lever, destroyed the heated grip element on that side (also new), smashed the headlight bezel (again new), scratched up the rear plastics, and bent the rear frame slightly.
The wreck was a 40-45mph lowside due to washout gravel in a 90 degree left hander on one of my local twisty roads. I setup a little to high and to the outside of the turn and when I leaned in for the turn it was all over. I was sliding on the ground before I knew I was even going to wreck.
Gravel is the suck....
Ya, I know what you mean...on my Vespa scooter gravel can really suck especially when it is caught in the streamers off the handle bar ends. The silver and lighter ones are never the same.
Ride on bro.
