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Crash report, sorta.
- Thread starter Dogma
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Aaah, couldnt get there from here....Glad you're ok though!
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koolaid_kid
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WOW! (I'm a member).
I'll give a short report:
First, his 1100G with its new bodywork and full luggage (bodywork trashed).
Second, his fancy smancy LED headlight (done for).
Third, right bar bent all the way forward. Right front footpeg pretzeled.
Fourth, he flew off and narrowly missed flying down a 10 foot gorge into a solid rock bottom.
Fifth, glad you made it through fairly unscathed. That could have been a lot, lot worse.
I'll give a short report:
First, his 1100G with its new bodywork and full luggage (bodywork trashed).
Second, his fancy smancy LED headlight (done for).
Third, right bar bent all the way forward. Right front footpeg pretzeled.
Fourth, he flew off and narrowly missed flying down a 10 foot gorge into a solid rock bottom.
Fifth, glad you made it through fairly unscathed. That could have been a lot, lot worse.
Holy Mamma! Could have been worse indeed.
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Guest
Guest
Jeeze .
Glad you're still with us old mate .
Cheers , Simon .
Glad you're still with us old mate .
Cheers , Simon .
Ouch Dale, glad you are okay. I tried to read the post but like others said it requires a login.
Dogma
Forum Sage
Sorry about the login requirement folks. I'll see if I can do a copy/paste. (My post there isn't the whole story, and I don't want to copy someone else's post, even though I did try to link to it.)
George, thanks for the summary and kind words, but I have to make a few remarks:
It's a 1000G, and the bodywork was only sorta new. The freshly dented tank was beginning to flake around the filler, so it needed painted anyway. If I have time this weekend, I'm bringing back the bed liner!
The luggage was never of much cosmetic quality anyway. And I don't mean just the color. Some new rash and a welded together pannier lid won't detract much from them. The frames do need some straightening though. Hammer time.
The LED headlight is fine. I guess if you're not familiar with the generation 7 lamp, it looks like it's cracked across the middle. The blinkers all work too, even the one with the smashed lens!
Lastly, what Jim reported as a rock bottom was really a flat poured slab of concrete. I got a good look at it when I climbed down to retrieve the visor with the tooth-mark in it.
George, thanks for the summary and kind words, but I have to make a few remarks:
It's a 1000G, and the bodywork was only sorta new. The freshly dented tank was beginning to flake around the filler, so it needed painted anyway. If I have time this weekend, I'm bringing back the bed liner!
The luggage was never of much cosmetic quality anyway. And I don't mean just the color. Some new rash and a welded together pannier lid won't detract much from them. The frames do need some straightening though. Hammer time.
The LED headlight is fine. I guess if you're not familiar with the generation 7 lamp, it looks like it's cracked across the middle. The blinkers all work too, even the one with the smashed lens!
Lastly, what Jim reported as a rock bottom was really a flat poured slab of concrete. I got a good look at it when I climbed down to retrieve the visor with the tooth-mark in it.
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Dogma
Forum Sage
What did I do wrong? I was following a route on a map, and spending too much time thinking about the next turn instead of noticing that I was going into a turn with a gravel road intersecting, the day after a heavy rain. Furthermore, I was in the center track, where car traffic had not swept the invisible gravel off.
Basically, I wasn't paying attention.
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Guest
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Glad to hear your ok Dale.
witttom
Forum Mentor
From the Classic.UJM Forum:
RageZro said:I cleared this with Dale before posting so not to overstep my bounds.
Got a call last Sunday from Dale that he was near Germantown Ohio and had went down. He was looking to see if I could bring my trailer to get it home as it was unrideable. He was a little adrenaline pumped on the phone but seemed OK. Upon telling Kat she got a first aid kit together and we drove up to see what we could do.
Here is some photos of the aftermath of him finding the sandy gravel that you could not see unless you were walking next to it. He face planted a road side signs pole and bent it over. This is where he was darn lucky as all he got was a chipped tooth and busted lip from it. A little lower and well... use your worst imagination.
He now has extreme cafe' style handlebars.
Foot peg and pannier damage.
Case guards did their job but the tank took a hit.
A wee bit of scrapping here too.
Such a sad look but luckily the cluster and headlight are just fine!
The approach direction to where he went down, you can barely make out the sand gravel but is about 8ft long and a foot wide at the widest point. The scrape mark at the bottom of the photo is Dales bikes mark.
Continued scrapes by the bike, he said the bike had flipped as it left the road way and there is the sign post he face planted. Thankfully he hit it in just about the best way you could and that the culverts concrete had long since gone missing or this could have been a lot worse. (Dale don't let Wendy read this). It's about a 10ft drop down into Browns creek but is solid rock down there.
His face shield that met the pole and the second photo shows where his now broken tooth hit the inside of his visor from the impact.
He has since got the tooth fixed and plans on getting the bike back on the road for our ride this month last time I spoke to him. I'm sure he'll get you guys the whole story much better than what I have here but I'm just glad that he managed to come pout of this one with such minor scrapes and bruises! ATGATT :thumb:
You walked away and the bikes repairable. All in all I'd say it was a good day.
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Guest
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Man, you lucky son of a #@!!. Super glad you're ok and going to live to ride another day. Mistakes happen, that's life.
Dogma
Forum Sage
But I wasn't flogging it! Maybe I should have been... I might have been paying more attention.
Dogma
Forum Sage
The gravel is a little easier to see in this pic. You can see the path my tire swept clean, and where I dragged my toe through it later. The rest of my pics are inferior duplicates of what Jim already showed.
In retrospect, there are some things I find funny about it. It happened so fast. One moment I was riding, the next moment I was sliding on the ground realizing I must have crashed. I don't remember going down. I remember seeing the sign post coming from about 10 feet away. The next memory is hitting it, but with very little detail. I remember little more than feeling an impact. The next thing I remember is picking myself up to shut off the bike, which was still running. I couldn't reach the kill switch, and it took a few seconds to remember to use the key.
The folks who live near that intersection were very nice and helpful. I probably should know their names, but I didn't even ask. One of them brought his little SUV over to pull the bike back up onto it's wheels and onto the road. It had come to rest on the far side of that little bridge, on its right side, but almost upside down, with it's tail over the bank. It left a nice stain of gas and oil. My tank bag stank for days.
Josh came by after work to help me get it loaded up onto my trailer. Usually I can load a bike myself, but I was glad to have the help. You know that soreness in the core muscles after a day of flu puking? I had that going on, but I didn't notice until I started pushing the bike up the ramp. My arms were a little wobbly too.
It was Josh that figured out why the bike came to rest where it did. Instead of going straight across the curve, it had continued around the curve and gone off the road on the inside of the curve (where the case guard finally dug into soft dirt and stopped it. Basically, it started as a simple low-side crash, but the case guards and pannier crash bars rocked it back onto the tires. Still in second gear and running, it kept going forward, rocking back and forth between the bars and tires. That's why the gouges in the pavement are intermittent. It seems to have taken me with it, since I found myself on the bank a few feet farther down the road than the bike. Probably the trunk kept pushing me along.
If you follow the marks on the visor, they point straight to the giant bruise on my upper arm, just below the armor. The deltoid seems to be pretty well bruised too. It's still tender. I think it was my arm that did most of the damage to the sign post, folding it over nearly 45?. I'm glad my neck didn't have to do all the work.
Wendy took the news pretty well when she got back from her little trip Monday evening. Maybe because I didn't talk to her about how the sign could have broken my neck or crushed my throat. I talked to her about how the gear did its job, and damage done to it. I think my commitment to ATTGATT is the only thing that keeps her calm at all about me riding.
The jacket had no significant damage. Whatever scratched my arm also tore the back edge of my glove's palm. The visor broke off of the helmet, and took the retention mechanism off of both sides. I couldn't find any new marks on the helmet shell, but it went in the trash today anyway. Another CL-16 is too cheap not to replace. The pants have damage I don't understand at all. The boots and the motocross-style knee armor show no damage, but the pants are pretty torn up on the lower leg on both sides. In fact, the damage is worse on the left side, even though I went down on the right. Something nearly busted open the zipper that run the length of the leg. I had trouble getting the zipper pull past my left thigh. Maybe I tumbled or something, but my legs aren't sore at all.
One new pain that turned up a couple days after was in my hand. The heel of my right hand, and the muscles attached to the pinky finger were sore. I think there's a good chance I nearly broke or dislocated it during the slide. My gloves weren't destroyed, but I think I'll be upgrading to race-style gloves with a gauntlet and wrist protection, and the tie strap between the pinky and ring fingers.
The only part I don't have on hand to fix the bike is a new brake lever. (Supposedly shipping today, I need them on the 11th). The luggage has never been about cosmetics, so I'm going to try to weld the plastic back together. I've already been around the corner to get the tool from Harbor Freight. I have black ABS filament on hand for the 3D printer, so I didn't need to get any rods. I'll use some Kapton tape from the printer's platform to hold the parts in place and keep the shape smooth if I overheat things. That stuff has amazing tolerance for heat. I tried to burn some with a torch once, and it just glowed.
There were a lot of ways for this to go a lot worse. The man upstairs likes me.
In retrospect, there are some things I find funny about it. It happened so fast. One moment I was riding, the next moment I was sliding on the ground realizing I must have crashed. I don't remember going down. I remember seeing the sign post coming from about 10 feet away. The next memory is hitting it, but with very little detail. I remember little more than feeling an impact. The next thing I remember is picking myself up to shut off the bike, which was still running. I couldn't reach the kill switch, and it took a few seconds to remember to use the key.
The folks who live near that intersection were very nice and helpful. I probably should know their names, but I didn't even ask. One of them brought his little SUV over to pull the bike back up onto it's wheels and onto the road. It had come to rest on the far side of that little bridge, on its right side, but almost upside down, with it's tail over the bank. It left a nice stain of gas and oil. My tank bag stank for days.
Josh came by after work to help me get it loaded up onto my trailer. Usually I can load a bike myself, but I was glad to have the help. You know that soreness in the core muscles after a day of flu puking? I had that going on, but I didn't notice until I started pushing the bike up the ramp. My arms were a little wobbly too.
It was Josh that figured out why the bike came to rest where it did. Instead of going straight across the curve, it had continued around the curve and gone off the road on the inside of the curve (where the case guard finally dug into soft dirt and stopped it. Basically, it started as a simple low-side crash, but the case guards and pannier crash bars rocked it back onto the tires. Still in second gear and running, it kept going forward, rocking back and forth between the bars and tires. That's why the gouges in the pavement are intermittent. It seems to have taken me with it, since I found myself on the bank a few feet farther down the road than the bike. Probably the trunk kept pushing me along.
If you follow the marks on the visor, they point straight to the giant bruise on my upper arm, just below the armor. The deltoid seems to be pretty well bruised too. It's still tender. I think it was my arm that did most of the damage to the sign post, folding it over nearly 45?. I'm glad my neck didn't have to do all the work.
Wendy took the news pretty well when she got back from her little trip Monday evening. Maybe because I didn't talk to her about how the sign could have broken my neck or crushed my throat. I talked to her about how the gear did its job, and damage done to it. I think my commitment to ATTGATT is the only thing that keeps her calm at all about me riding.
The jacket had no significant damage. Whatever scratched my arm also tore the back edge of my glove's palm. The visor broke off of the helmet, and took the retention mechanism off of both sides. I couldn't find any new marks on the helmet shell, but it went in the trash today anyway. Another CL-16 is too cheap not to replace. The pants have damage I don't understand at all. The boots and the motocross-style knee armor show no damage, but the pants are pretty torn up on the lower leg on both sides. In fact, the damage is worse on the left side, even though I went down on the right. Something nearly busted open the zipper that run the length of the leg. I had trouble getting the zipper pull past my left thigh. Maybe I tumbled or something, but my legs aren't sore at all.
One new pain that turned up a couple days after was in my hand. The heel of my right hand, and the muscles attached to the pinky finger were sore. I think there's a good chance I nearly broke or dislocated it during the slide. My gloves weren't destroyed, but I think I'll be upgrading to race-style gloves with a gauntlet and wrist protection, and the tie strap between the pinky and ring fingers.
The only part I don't have on hand to fix the bike is a new brake lever. (Supposedly shipping today, I need them on the 11th). The luggage has never been about cosmetics, so I'm going to try to weld the plastic back together. I've already been around the corner to get the tool from Harbor Freight. I have black ABS filament on hand for the 3D printer, so I didn't need to get any rods. I'll use some Kapton tape from the printer's platform to hold the parts in place and keep the shape smooth if I overheat things. That stuff has amazing tolerance for heat. I tried to burn some with a torch once, and it just glowed.
There were a lot of ways for this to go a lot worse. The man upstairs likes me.
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winfield
Guest
Sorry to hear of your mishap, neighbor. Hope you can get back in the saddle soon.
I was riding in Ohio near Cleves on Tuesday and noticed how much gravel was on the road at every driveway due to the gully washer we had last Saturday. It can happen quick.
I was riding in Ohio near Cleves on Tuesday and noticed how much gravel was on the road at every driveway due to the gully washer we had last Saturday. It can happen quick.