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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 56,791
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tim Hancock
When I was in college, I had run uptown one hot summer day and hit an angled expansion joint while riding with just one hand on the bars of my Nighthawk 650..... Instant lock to lock handlebar headshake. I hit the pavement at 60 mph wearing only a pair of shorts sunglasses and tennis shoes. Had road rash all over my back elbows hands and knees.
Never went to hospital. I lived on a sheet laying on my belly on my parent's family room floor for a couple weeks. very painful especially as the oozing stopped and scabs started forming.
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yikes!
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Steve
'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
- never named a car before, but this is Charlotte.
'88 targa  SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
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