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If you are a biker....which all of you probably are, you probably know how it feels when someone/something hits your bike. In my case...it was my new R6.
I was out for lunch yesterday and was stopped at a cross street, waiting to take a right to merge on to the main street, when this huge ford pick up pulled up behind me. He stopped behind me. As i was looking for on coming traffic, this moron decided he could sneak that "behemoth of a piece of trash" he was driving right by me. Since the cross street was at a slight grade, he gassed the truck and it lurched forward and rear ended me. He hit my rear tire and scratched my left indicator. The rear tire now has a gash thanks to his metal bumper. The gash thankfully is almost on the tire thread. So it wasnt too bad. Can still ride with out problems. I cant stop thanking the almighty above....had i not been holding my front brakes....he would have pushed me in to on coming traffic and i would have certainly had to say bye to a few bones and my beloved SIX.
I was shocked and scared that all i could think of was, god please let it not be the faring or the swing arm....thankfully it wasn't. Anyway i just completed 600 miles on the bike, so its 1st servicing is due. Will get her all checked out this weekend.
What i learnt from this?
You can never be completely safe...at least in the US with stupid morons on the road. And when ever you are at a stop.....put both your feet down....this is more important for all you SBK owners out there. Will help you from low siding it in case someone hits you.....these bikes are heavy..so you need all the support you need to keep it from being laid down...
2nd.....hold on to your front brakes...... i would be dead meat now, if i hadnt....
3rd....riding gear...how ever hot or uncomfortable it might be....screw your thinking and just wear gear.
4th.....when you get a SBK...get frame sliders......i dint....luckily i dint pay for not getting them....i am ordering them right now....
Lastly.....ride safe......and dont stop dreaming.....
Peace Out
If you are a biker....which all of you probably are, you probably know how it feels when someone/something hits your bike. In my case...it was my new R6.
I was out for lunch yesterday and was stopped at a cross street, waiting to take a right to merge on to the main street, when this huge ford pick up pulled up behind me. He stopped behind me. As i was looking for on coming traffic, this moron decided he could sneak that "behemoth of a piece of trash" he was driving right by me. Since the cross street was at a slight grade, he gassed the truck and it lurched forward and rear ended me. He hit my rear tire and scratched my left indicator. The rear tire now has a gash thanks to his metal bumper. The gash thankfully is almost on the tire thread. So it wasnt too bad. Can still ride with out problems. I cant stop thanking the almighty above....had i not been holding my front brakes....he would have pushed me in to on coming traffic and i would have certainly had to say bye to a few bones and my beloved SIX.
I was shocked and scared that all i could think of was, god please let it not be the faring or the swing arm....thankfully it wasn't. Anyway i just completed 600 miles on the bike, so its 1st servicing is due. Will get her all checked out this weekend.
What i learnt from this?
You can never be completely safe...at least in the US with stupid morons on the road. And when ever you are at a stop.....put both your feet down....this is more important for all you SBK owners out there. Will help you from low siding it in case someone hits you.....these bikes are heavy..so you need all the support you need to keep it from being laid down...
2nd.....hold on to your front brakes...... i would be dead meat now, if i hadnt....
3rd....riding gear...how ever hot or uncomfortable it might be....screw your thinking and just wear gear.
4th.....when you get a SBK...get frame sliders......i dint....luckily i dint pay for not getting them....i am ordering them right now....
Lastly.....ride safe......and dont stop dreaming.....
Peace Out
....or all these people are jealous of my p220 
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