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First case of road rash....

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ganador01

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Well this is a little story about my day. It was my first case of road rash. But, then again, it wasn't that unexpected. So lemme give yall the story. I don't know if yall remember but a while back i was showing u guys pics of the motorcycle i was gonna get. Well i found a guy with a kawasaki ninja and a couple other bikes, so he let me ride his 250cc vtwin. Granted ive only rode one other motorcycle in my life and it was a 40cc street bike 1 speed. I spent like 30 minutes getting aquainted with shifting and the whole clutch thingy but i got the hang of it. So, then we go riding around. Luckily i was smart enough to bring a helment . We went to sonic and then drove about 10 miles to his girlfriends work. She works in some mini mall place. So im taking a right hand turn and i see this huge pot hole in the road so i go wide and try and go around it. But, at the slow speed i was going and the fact that there was a car in the other lane kept me from going as wide as i would have liked. I end up nicking the edge of the potholl and it knocks my steering wheel to the right and as i try to get out of my perilious situation, i stall the bike. No bueno. I end up falling towards my right and doing a nice little roll. (years of BMX have taught me how to crash correctly). Ends up i broke a blinker and scratched the exhaust pipe. I already checked the parts out on ebay and its like 125 bucks total for new pipes and blinkers. Not too bad for a wreck. But still 125 bucks more then i want to pay someone else. Afterwards we got on the highway and i was doing like 95 when i realised i should probably slow down. I am just an amateur. lol. So long story short. I rode my first real bike, crashed it, went pretty damn fast, and managed to spend 125 dollars doing it. And all of this in under 2 hours!

p.s. The weirdest part of all is that I had no trouble weaving in and out of traffic at higher speeds then i should. Then i managed to crash going like 5(edit)mph.
 

Lsredy2kstang

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So the moral of the story is your gonna kill yourself! Don't buy it. Just leave it alone and walk away.
 

ganador01

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LsRedy2Kstang said:
So the moral of the story is your gonna kill yourself! Don't buy it. Just leave it alone and walk away.
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Lol...ur always trying to keep me from dying...ur so nice
 

GTPhreak

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thats crazy...I was actually thinking about getting a bike this summer...
 

Lsredy2kstang

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ganador01 said:
Lol...ur always trying to keep me from dying...ur so nice
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Someone's got to be your voice of reason!
 

szer0

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Bikes are insane. More than half of the people I have known who drive bikes regularly have either gotten very hurt or died.

Stick to a nice stang /
 

BABstangV6

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...
 

ganador01

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szer0 said:
Bikes are insane. More than half of the people I have known who drive bikes regularly have either gotten very hurt or died.

Stick to a nice stang /
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Wel i really don't plan to ride it reguarly...just for fun on weekends and during the summer...
 

Stang2Man

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werent' we trying to talk you out of getting a bike a while bike for that reason??

I know two types of motorcycle riders those who have wrecked and those who will wreck
 

97v6Silver

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yeah i wanna turbo busa for my first bike, dang it i'm not old enough yet... wait i hafta be 18 i am! *checks prices for ninja's*
 

97v6Silver

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*update* wow ninja's are cheap, i wanna 2000 cus they don't have limiters on them...

boodbye supercharger, hello ninja!
 

ganador01

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Stang2Man said:
werent' we trying to talk you out of getting a bike a while bike for that reason??

I know two types of motorcycle riders those who have wrecked and those who will wreck
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So now that i've wrecked, ill be fine for now on right? Thanks for the advice. Ima buy a hayabusa now that i know ill be fine. (sarcasm)

p.s. slow crashes hurt too...i am so sore today. i can't move my left arm. My back hurts and I'm limping. Oh well...
 

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all I can say is good luck and just take it easy, it's just like driving a car, you just gotta keep looking ahead, and always on alert, actually in that sense it's much worse than a car
 

ganador01

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Stang2Man said:
all I can say is good luck and just take it easy, it's just like driving a car, you just gotta keep looking ahead, and always on alert, actually in that sense it's much worse than a car
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Only thing im worried about is the fact that 90% of all motorcycle accidents are not(edit) the guy riding the motorcycles fault.
 

Lsredy2kstang

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Yep imagine this had a fatality single motorcycle on an on ramp. Going to fast for the road to handle.

I would kill myself on a busa something about going 180 on a 500 lbs machine is not welcomed in my household.
 

ganador01

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LsRedy2Kstang said:
Yep imagine this had a fatality single motorcycle on an on ramp. Going to fast for the road to handle.

I would kill myself on a busa something about going 180 on a 500 lbs machine is not welcomed in my household.
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I completely worded that wrong. 90% of all motorcycle accidents are not the motorcycle drivers fault.... I should read my posts before i post them
 

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I'd rather get a dirtbike, oh wait...I do have one.
 
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