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First Ride in a Month, 20 Degrees Out, Dropped it
Grabbed front brake too hard after a tiny pull in a small parking lot. Bike isn't legal, no real gear other than what I was wearing, two pairs of jeans and coveralls. Missing a chunk out of my right fairing, even though when it slipped the left side went down, and skin is missing off my right knee where my clothes were fine, when my left knee is worn through the coveralls and one of the jeans. Weird. Maybe the handlebar whipped the fairing, shouldn't be able to do that but this bike's dimensions are all messed up as it was previously totaled and needed new fork seals? and everything.
This is really my third time dropping this bike, the first time was the first day I got it, 5mph, home in the wet grass, no damage. Second time was a rolling burnout, in the rain 15mph at a car meet, frame sliders were adequate and no damage to bike (but elbow was pretty skinned). This was definitely the worst for the bike, and my knee and left ankle hurt. I'll be alright but I'm gonna spend $200 on a new fairing kit, $20 sliders, and $10 turn signals, and then I'm gonna have to build a cage around this bike because I absolutely hate taking these fairings on and off, and I hate the look of a bad bike.
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