by mattyv74 » Mon Oct 04, 2004 7:01 pm
It's happened to all us. Atleast you're man enough to cop it on the chin.
I did similar, trying to burry a zzr100 through the twisties, came through a steep down hill cork screw then into a nice smooth right hander through a blind cutting. Got the bike settled, wound on some gas, glance in the mirror to see if the slow arse zed was behind me. Then fark! it was a double apex. Missed the second one, ran wide into the grass and then into a culvit. Same as you, over the bars onto my back. Slid back down the rocky enbankment with the bike upside down.
learnt my lesson, err on the side of caution on roads you don't know.
They go a bit better once you've dropped them anyway.
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mattyv74 on Mon Oct 04, 2004 8:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.
It is far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even if chequered with failure, than to take rank with those who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, as they live in grey twilight that knows no victory nor defeat.
, as you can imagine in pretty pissed 
. It went into the grass though so the damage is only some minor rashing, this is a good excuse to start my new paintscheme with flames, there will be pics. The only actual damage to the bike was a bent fork leg, maybe two, I called suspensionsrus.com.au and they said they can straighten them for $35ish a leg so ill send em off and see how I go. Has anyone had any experience with fork straightening? does it usually work ok? Feedback would be appreciated, ill do a followup post after theve been straightened to let other forum members know how it goes incase they need it done too, but lets hope not.
