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Originally Posted by Tobra
Hope y'all wear boots above your ankles, Shaun, hope that left less of a mark on you than your bike
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I always wear boots, gloves, helmet. I need a warm weather jacket though.
This was entirely my fault as an inexperienced rider, and I'm sure driving 6 hours starting at midnight Friday night, all day in the sun at Hershey, PA, driving back last night and getting up a 7 this morning probably didn't help.
Just going out to get gas in the neighborhood. I'm 5 cars back as we go through an intersection, few hundred feet up, the the second car pulls over and stops (one lane road). the lead car is taking a left. no oncoming traffic at all, she's taking a left for 20 seconds. We're all sitting there behind the second car watching the lead car sit slightly pulled left, signal on, for a full 20 seconds. Lots of beeping.
Very open road, you can plainly see no oncoming traffic. I FOOLISHLY decide to run up the left side of the cars, very cautiously at 5MPH or so, the woman taking a left finally starts to take the left. I plan on driving through where she is, when she stops. Simultaneously, the second car that was stopped, starts to drive into me.
Panic brake, bike goes down, short slide. the lady turning keeps yelling, "I had my blinker on." over and over. I pick the bike up, start it and go get gas. Come back home, most of the skin on my knee is gone, hip is banged up, forearm a little as well. very sore now. Will be more tomorrow. Helmet has a serious scuff on the right side. Without it, I'd be in the hospital.
All in all, this was a very inexpensive lesson learned and glad I could at low speed with minimal damage to me and the bike.
I see some carbon fiber in near future to repair the crack.