dolilind
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To all those who went to the bash, welcome back. Hopefully most are well and bikes are in tack. For those who had the most unfortunate adventure of crashing, i hope you are well (or soon will be)and the bikes will soon be repaired for the fall go around.
As for my crash, i can have learned a good lesson. Beware of other riders. I have read in another post that all crashes in one form or another are user/operators faults and the accident could be avoided. In some cases this is true, but put yourself in my shoes. Coming thourgh the dragon in a full left turn around 20mph.To find a out of controll cruiser comeing around the blind bend at you out of controll well over the double yellow pointed right at you and only about 20-30 ft between the 2 of you. Between you and edge of the road (where it drops over 100ft down with no real edge to talk about) is about 2 ft of distance. Your in a condition if you hit the brakes the biker hits you, if you go faster you go off the edge, remember the dragons turn at 20mph your laid over good.
In this case don't have much choice die, serious injury to you or the other rider or bail save you and the other rider (that is out of controll) and let the bike takes its own chances. Not too many choices there, some will argue this some will not.
So if you want to say yes it my fault the bike is wrecked, but you want to know something. Tomorrow I repaint the bike, and me and the other guy are here to walk and ride another day. Only body injury out of this is a cut from my frankenstien bolts to the back of my leg when i jumped off (landing on my feet standing up watching the bike slide down the road, how many folks can say that).
AS for my buddy that lost it on the skyway friday, all is well with him and I start rebuilding his bike this weekend.
Sorry for the soap box rant....just had to blow off some steam
(not all accidents are the riders fault, sometimes your caught in the middle)
picture of the damaged panels allready sanded before primer
As for my crash, i can have learned a good lesson. Beware of other riders. I have read in another post that all crashes in one form or another are user/operators faults and the accident could be avoided. In some cases this is true, but put yourself in my shoes. Coming thourgh the dragon in a full left turn around 20mph.To find a out of controll cruiser comeing around the blind bend at you out of controll well over the double yellow pointed right at you and only about 20-30 ft between the 2 of you. Between you and edge of the road (where it drops over 100ft down with no real edge to talk about) is about 2 ft of distance. Your in a condition if you hit the brakes the biker hits you, if you go faster you go off the edge, remember the dragons turn at 20mph your laid over good.
In this case don't have much choice die, serious injury to you or the other rider or bail save you and the other rider (that is out of controll) and let the bike takes its own chances. Not too many choices there, some will argue this some will not.
So if you want to say yes it my fault the bike is wrecked, but you want to know something. Tomorrow I repaint the bike, and me and the other guy are here to walk and ride another day. Only body injury out of this is a cut from my frankenstien bolts to the back of my leg when i jumped off (landing on my feet standing up watching the bike slide down the road, how many folks can say that).
AS for my buddy that lost it on the skyway friday, all is well with him and I start rebuilding his bike this weekend.
Sorry for the soap box rant....just had to blow off some steam
(not all accidents are the riders fault, sometimes your caught in the middle)
picture of the damaged panels allready sanded before primer