Nice black minivan in the left hand bus lane infront of me, out of nowhere she decides she is afraid a car is going to pull into her lane from the right, and slams on her brakes. And it was no little slam, it was a slama-jama from hell. So i hit the anchors, and before i know it i do my first stoppie!!
Right after i realise my rear wheel is heading skyward and me with it, i get thrown over the bars landing half on the sidewalk half in the gutter. God damn it!.
Cracked my rear plastic next to the pillion seat, completely shattered my sump casing. An a a bit of cosmetic damage to the bar ends, headlight cowling and both sets of pegs on the left side an snapped my lever. My tank didnt get any damage thank god. Waiting for the docs report on the bike (repair quote). Im hopeing its less than what my excess is on my insurance.
The lady infront stopped to help me, but didnt take any responsibility, if her kids werent there i would have been tempted to give her a mouthful. She gave me her details an said she would help me pay for the bike-tow guy. She didnt say anything about bike repairs,I guess its better than doing a runner on me. And i was sure to be following a decent distance and i believe we were only doing 40 also because of heavy traffic. Clearly she shouldnt have hit the anchors so hard, she knows it, wonder if i can make her pay half atleast?
No injuries to me really, i think i re-broke my collarbone that was almost healed from snowboarding incident. Amazingly my snowboarding pants that i wear on real cold days didnt rip, and saved me from any road rash on my legs.
Only suffering from a broken heart seeing my bike bleeding everywhere
.. an cheers for the well wishes.