Decided to take the VFR out tonight after spending the day working on my race car and the R50/2. Luckily this happened on the VFR. The /2 wouldn't have had the brakes to keep the damage to a minimum.
Heading down a 2 lane 35 mph road by the airport. A woman coming off the ramp was stopped. I slowed trying to assess whether she saw me. Once I was sure I was ok I started accelerating. Then she pulls out in front of me. I hit the brakes hard and laid it down on the right side. Was going pretty slow once we went down. Hit my right knee but had my overpants on and the knee padding did its job. Ice, tequila and ibuprofen working on it now.
Whole right side of the bike is pretty scraped up, steering is slightly off, broke off the mirror on that side. She was cool, admitted right away she didn't see me. While I'm on the phone with 911 she pulls out to come around and wait for the cops. She was gone a long time and I thought she took off and told the 911 operator she left. She did come back though after going way out of her way to turn around. Bike did finally start after turning it over for a long time. Smells heavily of fuel.
They don't make the plastics for this anymore. It will be interesting to see how expensive it is to repair. Bike is otherwise in beautiful shape with 40k on it.
