My first crash, it sucks.

bwolfie

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So I was shuffling vehicles around tonight. Final move was to get the Yamaha from the shop to my house. I almost made it. Doing about 30 mph, about 400 feet from home, the fronted wobbled and I went down. Bike went one way and I rolled into the ditch. Got up sire and swearing. Found my phone 20 feet away. Called the wife, whose first words were are you home yet. Then I told her what happened and she came to get me.

Got the bike up and off to the side of the road. Ill get it home tomorrow, somehow.

As for me, 2 scraped knees, rh big toe blackened, rh ankle sore, both wrists scraped.

Coat and jeans slightly holed. Gloves shot. Helmet, not a scratch. Wife insists im getting a new one anyway.

So now i'm laying in bed, sore and really pissed off. Man this sucks.
 
bwolfie said:
So I was shuffling vehicles around tonight. Final move was to get the Yamaha from the shop to my house. I almost made it. Doing about 30 mph, about 400 feet from home, the fronted wobbled and I went down. Bike went one way and I rolled into the ditch. Got up sire and swearing. Found my phone 20 feet away. Called the wife, whose first words were are you home yet. Then I told her what happened and she came to get me.

Got the bike up and off to the side of the road. Ill get it home tomorrow, somehow.

As for me, 2 scraped knees, rh big toe blackened, rh ankle sore, both wrists scraped.

Coat and jeans slightly holed. Gloves shot. Helmet, not a scratch. Wife insists im getting a new one anyway.

So now i'm laying in bed, sore and really pissed off. Man this sucks.
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Were you on gravel? Or is that how old Jap bikes normally handle?
 
Good to hear you are OK - mostly !!
Remember, damaged bike parts can be replaced, missing body parts are tougher to do.
Anything you can walk away from ain't so bad....

I helped pick up someones bike off the road just yesterday - stalled it at a steep intersection, went to put foot down and nothing there, due to steepness of hill. Brand new (plastic) bike, not a mark on it except for the little bar end bit. (lucky it wasn't the exhaust side though). I was imprezed, on a Commando that could have been expensive.

Have fun healing !
And - back then, brit bikes had a reputation for not falling over for no reason.
Maybe you have confirmed that (nothing loose in the front end to do that though, was there ?).
 
If ya place butt in a saddle one ain't in full control to keep it there. Period end of story. I hope you figure out what went wrong or may get to repeat it till details to avoid sinks into your very bones. Get over the upset as just adds to the inflammation that's on the way next few days. I can't tell ya how much a rubber flexy magnet put direct over direct injury site for a few days can decrease the awareness of injury. I've been snatched down to almost tear off ankle, going so slow over soggy grass at like 3 mph coasting to stop on a pad w/o even needing brakes, then front tire hit a wet sod clump and rear in tiny mud rut as same time, SPLAT! I had to study closely the ground and path to understand what happened so fast so slow.
Two types of riders, those that have and those that will. Con grates on the easy initiation, game re-sets to start next time in a saddle.
 
Woke up this morning, Right leg is sore, big toe is the worst so far. I keep going over what happened. I think something in the Right caliper/rotor grabbed, pulled the frontend hard right and then the wobble and fall. Bike bounced off of my right leg before we departed ways. I only suspect this because when we pushed it off to the roadside that caliiper was dragging. More to come as I get the bike home.
 
Thanks for the feedback. A draggy brake is bad ju ju off road. I've ridden others bike with rusted springs or stem bearing that behaved similar front would jerk excessively and opopsitely of what was expected. Once with my own hydro locked forks after 1/4 mile, I had to return to shed like 12 mph with feet down it was so bad. Be aware of your neck position and pain sense in various parts. Sure hope I don't have a spill to get over any more.
 
Sorry to hear about your spill bwolfie, It really doesn't take much does it!! Glad your gonna be okay though, I wrecked my dirt bike when I was 13 and broke my collar bone, later I broke a bone in my left wrist (but not from a wreck), my left middle finger (walked around flipping everybody off due to the splint...thought it was cool though and had fun with it) next a knee cap and then an ankle. Now at 50 I get a bit stiff, but what ya gonna do ... stop living ... no way!! Again glad you're OK, Cj
 
Glad you're ok man.
Too bad it wasn't the Norton, I need some more parts :D JK
 
Ugh, I hate crashes, but most especially when its not my fault. Ya learn nothing but that Life is Uncertain once in a saddle, if you have brains let enough afterwards.
 
Sorry to hear that Bwolfie hope you recover very fast.
BTW was it the XS? They're notorious for sticky calipers
 
It was the XS, but I have dual modern 4 pot calipers on it and floating rotors. SOmething bound up, the caliper mount is now bent.

The system was working awesome since I installed it a few years ago. First time the bike could do a stoppie.

My first crash, it sucks.

My first crash, it sucks.
 
Seems the bikes o.k. , anyway . :p

Commiserations , but thats why people rode British . Unpredictability or asian contraptions .
And to heck with the maintanance requirements ..

A bike that RIDES not DRIVES . :wink:
 
no kidding Matt, Hey Brent tell me about the front axle lock clip thingy.
 
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