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Down Again, Rain and oil

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BentRod

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rear tyre came around the left hand side to visit me this morning at about 6:45am. We just had a big storm in Toronto, and there was some oil dripped onto the road and as I tried to slow down my rear brake caught very suddenly and I could not get it to unlock sufficiently as I headed towards a 3 way intersection on a down hill.
I probably kept my gsx400 upright for about 12 feet with the rear sliding out the side, but eventually my tripple trees hit the frame and I had no choise but to bail. I tapped the front brake, leaned right and tried land the bike on the bar end..
..
..no dice
..
as soon as I hit pavement the bars turned and ground a nice piece off of my NEW master cyclinder, lever, and hydrolic fitting bolt. I'm rather up set about that. I slid 5 paces (I measures the marks on the pavement) but managed to separate my self from the bike before it went into the intersection. I stayed behind the white line. Traffic came to a sudden hault, and thank god their was no one behind me.
My bike started leaking gas. I have pods so when I hit the carb pulled my shortish fuel line out of the petcock. I got the bike home, but it was running on one cylinder most of the way, with the left one cutting in and out. The front forks and stearing are tweeked, and my front brake feels a mushy.
I'm going to try to straiten the stear out today, and I'm going to inspect the rear drum brake as soon as I can. I'm very worried about what happened, especially because I very often carry my girlfriend, whom I usually drive to work when I'm working in Hamilton. I'm to afraid to let her ride pillion until this is fixed. :-k

anyways
Stay sharp everyone

BentRod
 
very sorry to hear this.
Glad you where able to walk away.
Very sad about the bike... I hope you are able to fix it.
 
Glad you made it ok. Were you wearing ATGATT?
If not, all that sliding must've hurt bad.:o
 
full gear + rain suit.
my hip is getting a bit sore,, I think something on the road charley-horsed me pretty good.

my bars are bent up and I suspect i have air in my brake line.
 
Tough luck, man. I hope this turns into a good chapter of your hilarious account of rebuilding your bike. At least you're okay although that's never been any consolation to me on my numerous uneventful low-sides.
 
UGH :( OH NO :(( Sorry to hear about your spill.
Glad you're okay, & the bike took you home again. Good for you for minimizing damage to you & your bike.
 
Good to hear you are ok .. and you will be able to fix your bike pretty quick too !
 
Glad your OK

Glad your OK

Going down is never fun, glad your OK, isn't it funny no matter how beat up you get that you almost immediately jump up and A. Shut off the gas if able, B. Start checking out any damage, and C. Get the bike out of traffic. Then usually you sit down and assess yourself. Bike always first. Get well soon, and get that bike well too.
 
hmmm.. the student budget bike? ah yes.. I suppose i should get back to that. it is after all the same bike. I'll have to think about it. I've done head light mods, changed tires with the wrong equipment (used crowbar and spoons) and done a complete rebuild of everything above the crank shaft. I suppose this could go in too.. we will see.
I will wait until this seems funny..
 
Lol, last night fell in the stairs. Very sore this morning.
That's it for me, ATGATT even in the house!!!!
 
EJMAMMO said:
Going down is never fun, glad your OK, isn't it funny no matter how beat up you get that you almost immediately jump up and A. Shut off the gas if able, B. Start checking out any damage, and C. Get the bike out of traffic. Then usually you sit down and assess yourself. Bike always first. Get well soon, and get that bike well too.
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Screw that, numero uno comes first and that's me not some **** piece of steel that decided to not be my friend anymore. Don't know how you do it but I'm always concerned about me before the bike, it the bike can't be ridden anymore that's fine if I can't ride bike anymore that sucks.

For the OP, first time down? how long you been riding? As you discovered trying to land on the bar end during a lowside is futile, geometry and physics just doesn't allow for it. Learn from your mistakes and don't make the same mistake again :D
 
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