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I do believe me and the FZ need to come to an understanding on the need to stay upright. Now I can assure everyone that I am not a hooligan, but I can also tell everyone (especially beginners) that sport/Sport Tourer bikes do not tolerate anything less than 100% attention and will bite you if you do not respect this rule. I GOT BIT TODAY!! :spank:
I had just visited my wifes grave for the first time (it's been 8 months) and as I was leaving down this very nice country road I came upon an almost 75 degree right curve at about 25mph. Unfortunately I was already into my lean when I realized the entire curve was covered in sand.
Before I knew it the rear tire was sliding out. It all happened so fast I'm not positive exactly what happened next, but I believe I felt the tire hit the other lane which didn't have sand and grab some traction, unfortunately this just threw the bike back to the turn and I think I high sided and the bike went down on it's left side.
We all came to a nice sliding stop about 30-40ft down the road. A woman ran out of her house and a car coming the other direction stopped and both made sure I was OK, which I was. We picked the bike up before another car came around the blind curve and moved it into her driveway.
A quick survey of me and the bike revealed that the gear did it's job.
The Fieldsheer mesh jacket shredded a bit more than I would like to see, but did not tear through the inner mesh liner. My helmet hit a slight bit on the chin bar, but the shield took a fair amount of scratching. I will never wear anything but a full face helmet with shield!! That would have been my chin
and cheek scraping the street. I was wearing regular jeans and they held up. The only thing that ripped was the right front pocket and that was because I had my car key fob in the pocket. The fob was slightly scratched. BUT, upon getting home and checking further, both knees sustained some road rash from the inside of the jeans even though they didn't tear. The left knee has a burn about the size of a silver dollar the right about the size of a nickle and the right forearm got the same from the inside of the jacket. Again it did not rip through but caused abrasion. All were washed out with anti-microbial soap and covered with sterile bandages.
And the frame slider ( the same one that saved the bike when I dropped it in the driveway), did the job again. It's pretty much scraped down to the screw now, but I have the new ones ready to go on. The bike sustained absolutely the most minor of scratches to the right mirror and right saddlebag.
So a new jacket and a new shield for the helmet are on order. The morals of this story are, I SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN RIDING knowing I was going to go to the cemetery and would not have my head 100% into riding, ATGATT works, sand even at low speeds can reduce your traction to zero in an instant AND, YEAH FOR FRAME SLIDERS!!
I had just visited my wifes grave for the first time (it's been 8 months) and as I was leaving down this very nice country road I came upon an almost 75 degree right curve at about 25mph. Unfortunately I was already into my lean when I realized the entire curve was covered in sand.
Before I knew it the rear tire was sliding out. It all happened so fast I'm not positive exactly what happened next, but I believe I felt the tire hit the other lane which didn't have sand and grab some traction, unfortunately this just threw the bike back to the turn and I think I high sided and the bike went down on it's left side.
We all came to a nice sliding stop about 30-40ft down the road. A woman ran out of her house and a car coming the other direction stopped and both made sure I was OK, which I was. We picked the bike up before another car came around the blind curve and moved it into her driveway.
A quick survey of me and the bike revealed that the gear did it's job.
The Fieldsheer mesh jacket shredded a bit more than I would like to see, but did not tear through the inner mesh liner. My helmet hit a slight bit on the chin bar, but the shield took a fair amount of scratching. I will never wear anything but a full face helmet with shield!! That would have been my chin
and cheek scraping the street. I was wearing regular jeans and they held up. The only thing that ripped was the right front pocket and that was because I had my car key fob in the pocket. The fob was slightly scratched. BUT, upon getting home and checking further, both knees sustained some road rash from the inside of the jeans even though they didn't tear. The left knee has a burn about the size of a silver dollar the right about the size of a nickle and the right forearm got the same from the inside of the jacket. Again it did not rip through but caused abrasion. All were washed out with anti-microbial soap and covered with sterile bandages.
And the frame slider ( the same one that saved the bike when I dropped it in the driveway), did the job again. It's pretty much scraped down to the screw now, but I have the new ones ready to go on. The bike sustained absolutely the most minor of scratches to the right mirror and right saddlebag.
So a new jacket and a new shield for the helmet are on order. The morals of this story are, I SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN RIDING knowing I was going to go to the cemetery and would not have my head 100% into riding, ATGATT works, sand even at low speeds can reduce your traction to zero in an instant AND, YEAH FOR FRAME SLIDERS!!
