Did not have a good start to the day today...
Absent mindedness is never ever a good thing to have on a motorbike. Riding demands 100% attention, 100% of the time!
On my way to work today, mere hundreds of meters from the gates, approached an all too familiar corner that I noticed a few guys in the carpark that's on the corner gathering around a car. For whatever reason, I had a look-see as I road along instead of concentrating on the road as I rounded the bend. Was a pretty mint looking car, custom paint, airbags lowering it on its guts... them BAM next thing I know I'm sliding on the ground with my bike!
Only low speed like ~40kph, smooth road, no vehicles. Picked the bike up, yep she starts, rode it out of the way (wrong side of the road on a corner) to assess the damage.
Walked back to check out what could've caused it, sure enough had I actually been looking at the road and not at other things, I would've clearly seen the pieces of junk plastic on the road, some 6" white squares sorta like the sides of ice-cream containers... Picked that sh!t up and threw it into the bushes to save any other rider some grief.
Really freaking p!ssed off with myself!
Thankfully was low speed, no injuries to myself other than a couple minor grazes on the leg.
Bike isn't toooo bad, landed on the 'cheaper' (left = no exhaust) side thankfully. The usual damage to be expected. Those knock-off Sato frame sliders did sweet F all, the puck seemed to have just crumbled into pieces on impact. The quickshifter connecting rod sheered off, so that was an interesting ride home in the arvo seeing I only had use 2nd gear (what I was in when I crashed).
List of parts to replace:
-Front outer left fairing including knee wind defector
-Rear left fairing
-mirror (will just put the stock ones back on for now)
-bar end (have spare already)
-clutch lever (functional, only minor cosmetic damage)
-Front indicator (functional, only minor cosmetic damage)
-[maybe] rear indicator (minor scratches may be able to be rectified with razor blade)
-Frame slider puck
-[maybe] crankcase cover (will price check for effort vs cost, easy enough to sand back and repaint)
-Quickshifter connecting rod
-Rearset shifter connecting rod (could be re-bent straight, but I never trust aluminium)
-[maybe]Rearset shifter pivot point (minimal scraping, me just being an@l perfection)
-Rearset gear shifter peg
-Rearset foot peg, spacer, and bolt
Pending reply from Nobunaka on the rearset replacement components, but best estimates I'd say is between $400-600 of damage. Only just last night I was about to hit buy on the Dynojet Wideband2 + POD-300 gear, but decided to hold off and put 'em on my birthday wishlist instead... guess that money saved will go to this instead :serious:
@sbk1198 I know how you feel right now buddy
Absent mindedness is never ever a good thing to have on a motorbike. Riding demands 100% attention, 100% of the time!
On my way to work today, mere hundreds of meters from the gates, approached an all too familiar corner that I noticed a few guys in the carpark that's on the corner gathering around a car. For whatever reason, I had a look-see as I road along instead of concentrating on the road as I rounded the bend. Was a pretty mint looking car, custom paint, airbags lowering it on its guts... them BAM next thing I know I'm sliding on the ground with my bike!
Only low speed like ~40kph, smooth road, no vehicles. Picked the bike up, yep she starts, rode it out of the way (wrong side of the road on a corner) to assess the damage.
Walked back to check out what could've caused it, sure enough had I actually been looking at the road and not at other things, I would've clearly seen the pieces of junk plastic on the road, some 6" white squares sorta like the sides of ice-cream containers... Picked that sh!t up and threw it into the bushes to save any other rider some grief.
Really freaking p!ssed off with myself!
Thankfully was low speed, no injuries to myself other than a couple minor grazes on the leg.
Bike isn't toooo bad, landed on the 'cheaper' (left = no exhaust) side thankfully. The usual damage to be expected. Those knock-off Sato frame sliders did sweet F all, the puck seemed to have just crumbled into pieces on impact. The quickshifter connecting rod sheered off, so that was an interesting ride home in the arvo seeing I only had use 2nd gear (what I was in when I crashed).
List of parts to replace:
-Front outer left fairing including knee wind defector
-Rear left fairing
-mirror (will just put the stock ones back on for now)
-bar end (have spare already)
-clutch lever (functional, only minor cosmetic damage)
-Front indicator (functional, only minor cosmetic damage)
-[maybe] rear indicator (minor scratches may be able to be rectified with razor blade)
-Frame slider puck
-[maybe] crankcase cover (will price check for effort vs cost, easy enough to sand back and repaint)
-Quickshifter connecting rod
-Rearset shifter connecting rod (could be re-bent straight, but I never trust aluminium)
-[maybe]Rearset shifter pivot point (minimal scraping, me just being an@l perfection)
-Rearset gear shifter peg
-Rearset foot peg, spacer, and bolt
Pending reply from Nobunaka on the rearset replacement components, but best estimates I'd say is between $400-600 of damage. Only just last night I was about to hit buy on the Dynojet Wideband2 + POD-300 gear, but decided to hold off and put 'em on my birthday wishlist instead... guess that money saved will go to this instead :serious:
@sbk1198 I know how you feel right now buddy