La Porte bit me yesterday...

[rodr]

Just saw this (I very seldom look in CA) ... Andy, very sorry to hear about the get-off. Obviously there was something very slippery on the road and the big question has got to be, how do you spot those things before it's too late? Maybe a lapse in concentration, or maybe you were just very unlucky.

Is insurance going to fix the FJR?

 

[islemann]

That is almost exactly the same corner where Mr. California Brown Bear and I had a meeting of the species. He being the wiser of the two of us exited stage left with his pic-a-nic basket and I wobbled down the road trying not to squish the poo in my pants. Great road, sorry you biffed. Glad you were able to ride home on the bike vs. in a box.
As far as CA goes - I'll put my vote on the tired, relaxed (the fun bits were back there, the rest is kinda boring) and a bit complacent. I know I've done the same.

 

[Banjoboy]

Thanks y'all,

I was up there about a month ago and agree that there was a bit in every inside turn. I got to the point of planing to run the left track of every right hand turn.

Yeah, butt I knew there wuz gravel; thatz wut's piss'in me off. Thought I wuz ride'in a speed where gravel wouldn't be a factor?
That sign in yer avatar, I remember see'in it up on 49 years back, but don't see it anymor. Is that pic old, or iz it still up thar and I'm miss'in it? (Whilst I'm look'in fer gravel in the road.)

Just saw this (I very seldom look in CA) ... Andy, very sorry to hear about the get-off. Obviously there was something very slippery on the road and the big question has got to be, how do you spot those things before it's too late? Maybe a lapse in concentration, or maybe you were just very unlucky.

Is insurance going to fix the FJR?

I'm still not rule'in out a deer get'in spooked, jump'in into me, and knocking me off. Had sum close encounters earlier in the day, had a close encounter in mah pick 'em up truck this weekend here in Paradise, and just talked to a neighbor kid who hit a deer on his bike.
I dun had one jump into the side of mah truck once and kill itself. One could just as easily jump into the side of me on the bike.
The FJR's totaled!

That is almost exactly the same corner where Mr. California Brown Bear and I had a meeting of the species. He being the wiser of the two of us exited stage left with his pic-a-nic basket and I wobbled down the road trying not to squish the poo in my pants. Great road, sorry you biffed. Glad you were able to ride home on the bike vs. in a box.
As far as CA goes - I'll put my vote on the tired, relaxed (the fun bits were back there, the rest is kinda boring) and a bit complacent. I know I've done the same.

Yeah, ^THIS^ is prolly it; even though I took mah pace down a few notches, I prolly brought mah focus down mor. One of these dayz I'l get back up there, and hopefully it will all come to me.
Mah wife/sister 'n I had a similar encounter up near Bucks Lake w/ a bear, and I too had ta clean the excrement outta mah panties afterwards.

 

[Ozymandias]

Crap, dude! I didn't know you had gone down. How you are doing with a little heal time on ya?

Just judging by what I'm seeing of the bike and what I can get from what you remember, I would guess you found some ciders, dirt, oil, water or even a rodent (you laugh, but I've had it happen... fuckers! ) while you were under power. Just enough to break traction and give you a nice little high side pitch.

Like Danni said, in low sides you're usually with the bike and you don't usually put much stress on the body unless you hit something after you are on the pavement. I wouldn't think breaking anything would happen, buuuut that's just speculation too.

 

[Banjoboy]

Crap, dude! I didn't know you had gone down. How you are doing with a little heal time on ya?

Just judging by what I'm seeing of the bike and what I can get from what you remember, I would guess you found some ciders, dirt, oil, water or even a rodent (you laugh, but I've had it happen... fuckers! ) while you were under power. Just enough to break traction and give you a nice little high side pitch.

Like Danni said, in low sides you're usually with the bike and you don't usually put much stress on the body unless you hit something after you are on the pavement. I wouldn't think breaking anything would happen, buuuut that's just speculation too.

Thanks Ozzy,
I'm do'in fine, despite no heal'in time.
It's driving me nuts cuz I wanta go back up thar and check out the scene to hopefully piece shit together, butt yeah, I'm purdie sure I highsided.
If'n the corner is an "open" sweeper as I recall then it'd have to have been sum kinda critter, but if'n the corner wuz tighter than I remember, then it prolly wuz the gravel, blown fork seal, exhaustion, old age, and fatigue. (Wut other lame excuses can I throw in there?)
Once mah little pinky finger heals I'mma gonna go back up thar and figure it all out. Maybe?

 

[afm199]

All it take is a tiny bit of gravel, oil, trans fluid, or even a damp spot. I've had a couple of those where I never knew what it was.

 

[two wheel tramp]

Andy, I'm curious if it wasn't perhaps a small rodent like creature that you could have run over. Riding in to Hawthorne the road was littered with their carcasses and the little bastards love playing chicken.

 

[Banjoboy]

All it take is a tiny bit of gravel, oil, trans fluid, or even a damp spot. I've had a couple of those where I never knew what it was.

Yeah, butt yer old people I'm only 53. (In human years!)

I dun went back up thar, and there's no skid marks in the corner itself, (Only in mah britches) no gravel, (Butt it was over 3 weeks after the incident) I looked fer a "defined" deer trail cross'in the road there, butt there wasn't one. There wuz however deer tracks along the road. Also there wuz sum green baseball sized pine cones along the road that corner; maybe I dun hit a pine cone? Maybe a fucking squirrel knocked one outta the tree just as I wuz ride'in under it, fer all his little cousins I dun ate over the years?
Or Ernie's right, 'n it wuz tranny fluid that dried up?

It's a mystery ta me...

 

[flying_hun]

and it seems like a dream
they got you hypnotized....

 

[High-Side]

Any leafs on the ground that you remember Andy? I've hit some on my favorite road and they do get slippery when damp. Glad to hear you're okay!

 

[budman]

.. ALL kinds of gravel up there in the corners. Most of it has been real light color and in the brightness of day it doesn't always stand out. Especially if you're on a lighter section of pavement......

Sorry to hear Banjo Boy.. glad your OK. I too think it could likely have been like colored gravel. I have noted it in my hood and it is really hard to see on well worn pavement, which I think it what you were on.

and FGS...get some good gloves man... 100 MPH types for sure. It is hard to keep your hands off the ground as God or Science has taught us mankind to use our hands to do so when we fall down because our brain is more important. I recently got a little hole in my A-stars palm and bam they are replaced with some quality Helimot stuff, which I never have worn out a palm on.

 

[Banjoboy]

Sorry to hear Banjo Boy.. glad your OK. I too think it could likely have been like colored gravel. I have noted it in my hood and it is really hard to see on well worn pavement, which I think it what you were on.

and FGS...get some good gloves man... 100 MPH types for sure. It is hard to keep your hands off the ground as God or Science has taught us mankind to use our hands to do so when we fall down because our brain is more important. I recently got a little hole in my A-stars palm and bam they are replaced with some quality Helimot stuff, which I never have worn out a palm on.

Thanks Bud, butt you ain't heard the half of it!
4 weeks after this git-off, I quit wear'in the splint on mah pinky finger. Couple dayz later I gotta new rear tire on the dirt bike, 'n after work'in all day, 'n re-mount'in the tire I wuz too tuckered out ta test ride, scuff the thang in. Figured I'll just be careful on the way ta work.
Well, I wuz run'in a little late (Cuz I spent too much time email'in the low life, Satan spawn, scum of the earth, insurance co that wuz try'in ta screw hard after pay'in fer 38 yrs and never make'in a claim 'til this one.) 'n tried to launch the FZ6 too quick, 'n have'in a gimpy left hand couldn't modulate the clutch properly, 'n spun up the rear, fish tailed, and tossed the thang down the road bust'in mah collar bone!
My winter Olympia gloves saved mah hands purdie good though.

After months of fighting w/ the low life, Satan spawn, scum of the earth, insurance co. I finally gotta decent settlement, 'n bought another '07 FJR (This time an AE) from a feller on SBR. The dirt bike didn't get hurt in the crash, (It's younger than me!) and I wuz able to pick it up 'n ride ta work. arty

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[Ironbutt]

You wadded a second time on the new bike? Did you at least fall on the other side and fix your back?

C

Thanks Bud, butt you ain't heard the half of it!
4 weeks after this git-off, I quit wear'in the splint on mah pinky finger. Couple dayz later I gotta new rear tire on the dirt bike, 'n after work'in all day, 'n re-mount'in the tire I wuz too tuckered out ta test ride, scuff the thang in. Figured I'll just be careful on the way ta work.
Well, I wuz run'in a little late (Cuz I spent too much time email'in the low life, Satan spawn, scum of the earth, insurance co that wuz try'in ta screw hard after pay'in fer 38 yrs and never make'in a claim 'til this one.) 'n tried to launch the FZ6 too quick, 'n have'in a gimpy left hand couldn't modulate the clutch properly, 'n spun up the rear, fish tailed, and tossed the thang down the road bust'in mah collar bone!
My winter Olympia gloves saved mah hands purdie good though.

After months of fighting w/ the low life, Satan spawn, scum of the earth, insurance co. I finally gotta decent settlement, 'n bought another '07 FJR (This time an AE) from a feller on SBR. The dirt bike didn't get hurt in the crash, (It's younger than me!) and I wuz able to pick it up 'n ride ta work. arty

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[Banjoboy]

You wadded a second time on the new bike? Did you at least fall on the other side and fix your back?

C

Naw, after toss'in the FJR down the road, I wuz ride'in the FZ6. That's the bike I tossed down the road the 2nd time. (In October.) It crashes well, and barely got scratched.
I just bought the clean un-molested (Not fer long. ) FJR a couple weeks back, cuz it's bin in the low 20s/high teens in the morn'in up here, 'n I wuz really miss'in the wind protection, 'n heated grips of the FJR.

 

[budman]

Damn... so you broke your collarbone.. picked up and went to work.. and it is close to 20 degrees... you are a stud Andy.. jeez.

I would have cried for the wife to come pick me up, make a fire and a sammich and take me to the doctor while holding my hand.

Heal up man.

 

[Titus58]

Damn... so you broke your collarbone.. picked up and went to work.. and it is close to 20 degrees... you are a stud Andy.. jeez.

I would have cried for the wife to come pick me up, make a fire and a sammich and take me to the doctor while holding my hand.

Heal up man.

What budman said

Heal up Andy - and take it easy with that new fjr


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