almost40
July 25th, 2011, 09:27 AM
After taking a nice ride with one of ninjettes fellow members yesterday.
I crashed my poor little baby 100 yards from my home. Getting distracted by a waving neighbor and my effort to turn my garage door opener over in my pocket along with the feeling of being safe in familiar surroundings led me to loose track of my position on the road and not slow down enough for the 90 to the left.
I was only going 15-20 mph and when I realized my position in relation to the turn I overleaned (which was real easy to do at slow speed) and down she went.
I was wearing my gear so....... not a scratch on me
BUT........
My poor lil ninjette is now rashed on both sides. once from the track, once from the street.
Had to order a new shifter $40. Thats it.
The woodcraft rearset bent a little (I bent it back) and I gound off a little of the bottom of the peg. (not enough to replace it as im sure she will be sliding on its side at the racetrack in the hopefully very distant future) The bars were good as my clip-on rotated and moved the important things out of the way. Turn signal broke in a way that it can be put back together.
Leason learned???
Yep. FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS You are in danger of making poor judgements when your in motion.
Wave to the neighbor...... Stop the bike in the driveway........ THEN fish out your garage door opener. Problem solved.
I crashed my poor little baby 100 yards from my home. Getting distracted by a waving neighbor and my effort to turn my garage door opener over in my pocket along with the feeling of being safe in familiar surroundings led me to loose track of my position on the road and not slow down enough for the 90 to the left.
I was only going 15-20 mph and when I realized my position in relation to the turn I overleaned (which was real easy to do at slow speed) and down she went.
I was wearing my gear so....... not a scratch on me
BUT........
My poor lil ninjette is now rashed on both sides. once from the track, once from the street.
Had to order a new shifter $40. Thats it.
The woodcraft rearset bent a little (I bent it back) and I gound off a little of the bottom of the peg. (not enough to replace it as im sure she will be sliding on its side at the racetrack in the hopefully very distant future) The bars were good as my clip-on rotated and moved the important things out of the way. Turn signal broke in a way that it can be put back together.
Leason learned???
Yep. FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS You are in danger of making poor judgements when your in motion.
Wave to the neighbor...... Stop the bike in the driveway........ THEN fish out your garage door opener. Problem solved.