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11-10-2008, 11:32 AM
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FNG :)
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: ALABAMA
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Well....It happened......
Yep, finally happened........ I thought I would be fair and give riding lessons to my bike the other day. She's not to good at people riding though and wrecked me in a turn!! Actually I figured out that when the floorboards start scraping on a slightly crowned curve, you can't lean it any more or the primary will hit and from there on the story goes bad. I'm used to hearing the floorboards scrape but the sound of the whole bike sliding sideways down the road and crashing into a guard rail is a very ugly sound!!!! Luckily my wife and I weren't really hurt, just some road rash and bruises mainly, but there wasn't to much on my bike that didn't get scratched up and bent up. F****D up a perfectly good day and a good lookin bike though................ OH WELL........... at least she will be back together and purdy again soon.
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11-10-2008, 11:39 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: South Mills NC
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Sorry to hear about your unfortunate incident. Glad to hear that you are here to tell about it.
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11-10-2008, 01:21 PM
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IronButt
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Mississippi
Posts: 1,158
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Howdy neighbor........glad you and the little lady are ok, as I'm sure you know, it could have been much worse. Live and learn.
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11-10-2008, 01:28 PM
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Moneygreen
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Trenton,N.J.
Posts: 4,185
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Wow, sorry to hear about your accident!!!! How much damage did you do? Did you have crash bars on the bike?
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11-10-2008, 01:39 PM
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Motorhead
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: OXFORD ALABAMA
Posts: 675
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Sorry to hear that... Where were ya'll riding at? My wife and I rode a lil' while yesterday but the wind was a bit much for her (she doesn't have any winter gear lol)
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11-10-2008, 01:42 PM
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Rebel Son
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Raleigh, NC
Posts: 740
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Least you are here to write about it. That's always a good thing.
Makes ya sick though doesn't it? Did me anyway. Can't stand for anything to happen to my bikes.
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11-10-2008, 01:59 PM
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IronButt
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: New York
Posts: 547
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Galde to hear you and the wife are doing ok,.
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11-10-2008, 02:11 PM
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Custom Painter
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: MA
Posts: 2,419
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Sorry to hear about that! Glad you're both ok...happens to the best of us.....
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11-10-2008, 02:19 PM
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IronButt
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Naples
Posts: 209
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Bummer. Here's what I found out, you can't corner hard when there is diesel fuel on the road. Your right about the sound of the bike scraping down the asphalt. The good news is diesel fuel reduces the friction on your skin. Found that out the same day. Dropping the scoot also makes ya gun shy for a couple rides.
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11-10-2008, 04:04 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Bellevue, WA
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I'm glad you two weren't seriously hurt. And the bike is repairable.
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11-10-2008, 06:14 PM
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I'm Your Huckleberry
Join Date: May 2006
Location: U.S.S.A.
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..... I thought I would be fair and give riding lessons to my bike the other day. She's not to good at people riding though and wrecked me in a turn!!
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BAD iron horse !! BAD !!! Maybe a few days at the vet/body shop will temper those people tossing manners some....
Glad to hear ya'll are ok...
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11-10-2008, 06:23 PM
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IronButt
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Raleigh NC
Posts: 570
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Don't sweat the small stuff in this lifetime. You'll get her fixed and back on the road again.
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11-10-2008, 06:37 PM
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IronButt
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: IOWA
Posts: 471
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Glad you came guys came out okay.
I don't want to sound judgmental, but sounds like you may have hit that curve a bit too hard. If you enjoy hitting the curves that hard then great, but don't put your wife or any other passenger in that situation again.
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11-11-2008, 08:12 AM
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Site Sponsor
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: cincinnati, oh
Posts: 47
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as the saying goes, "it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when". any time you can walk away, it's a good crash.
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11-11-2008, 02:12 PM
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FNG :)
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: ALABAMA
Posts: 7
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Well the insurance guy told me the total was about $7000 worth of damage. I told my wife it sounds bad but if I "had" to wreck a bike I was glad it was the glide and not my old VTX. At least this way we had the hard bags and highway bar to help keep it off of us. Thanks for everyone's condolences........
Ya'll keep the shiny side up, the other way around...... SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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