So I wrote my first bike of . . .

[badlieutenant]

glad to hear your legs arnt broken. I wish I had camera on my helmet because if you could see how you were spat out when your bike found that post you would swear you should have broken legs.
Bummer about the bike Initialy it looked alright but on closer inspection there was something very wrong. We knew something was bent but not the whole frame!
It was funny watching vtwin ride it down the road, it sorta crabbed along.
And who asks for a smoke when thier on pure O2 and didnt they give you some NOS as well ?
The "I hate cops" comment while one was standing right above you just after you told the ambo people that you had never taken NOS legaly
Which hurt more. That day or the next ??
Bruce should own a goldwing with a trailer that has enough room for one immobilised bike Big ups to bruce

[madboy]

yeah, I'm with everyone, bugger about the crash, but the end result was no lasting effects on you so that's the important bit.

If you don't mind me sharing my opinion with you, it may or may not bear any relevance to this situation or not. I've many years caging experience, and racing some cages too, so a skid/slid/too quick corner of any description doesn't worry me because my panic reflex is to go down fighting - counter steer, on the gas, whatever. More often than not the brakes don't even enter the equation. Consequently I drove away from many "oh shit" moments.

When I first started on the bike (many many years later), my panic reflex was "hit the brakes". Which invariably results in you understeering toward the nearest solid object that your eyes are trained on. Took me a while to train myself out of that. Once you get the panic reflex trained to keep fighting (turning more, leaning more, even accelerating) there are fewer brown trouser moments, and fewer insurance claims.

As I say, my 2 cents, and not necessarily related at all to your situation which I know bugger all details about.

Best of luck with the recovery, hope to meet you on the road soon.

[campbellluke]

Hate to hear about people writing off vehicles.

Maybe I am out of line. But if a GN is too much for you maybe you would want to take up a larger interest in cars?

[Ms Piggy]

Glad you're ok, even thoigh your bike isn't (STINK!!) and you've learnt a valueable lesson.

Get better soon so we can go out for a ride.

[outlawtorn]

Hate to hear about people writing off vehicles.

Maybe I am out of line. But if a GN is too much for you maybe you would want to take up a larger interest in cars?

Nah mate, the GN wasn't too much for her, what happened to SJ has happened to all of us at one point or another, we all need to find that boundry of our limits and that of the bike you are riding.

At least it happened on a GN250 and not on a expensive cruiser or other kind of bike. Gett well soon Str8Jacket!!

[skelstar]

I might be being pedantic but I should point out that Str8 didnt 'technically' walk away from the accident. There was morphine, O2, maybe NOS, an Ambo, and a Paramedic involved. She also got a ride to the Masterton Hospital in the big white truck. So while she figuratively 'walked away from the accident' she was in a fair bit of pain.

[Ixion]

Most regrettable, but I am glad that you suffered no very serious damage. Pity about the bike.

I take it you forgot the countersteering lessons? Not to fret, the "Oh shit hit the brake" reflex is a VERY hard one to break (pun not intended).

[sels1]

Sorry to hear the news Str8, hope the sore bits get better soon.

And good to hear it hasnt put you off.

[WINJA]

BLAH ITS JUST A FUCKEN BIKE , IVE WRITTEN OFF ABOUT 6 , AS LONG AS YOUR OK YOU CAN ALWAYS BUY ANOTHER BIKE , DID I TELL YOU THE STORY BOUT MY MATE WHO CRASHED AND THE BIKE WAS MINT , WELL HE DIED .
HOPE YOUR WELL ENOUGH TO PAINT MY ROOF

[Macktheknife]

Good luck and heal fast, "you're no longer a virgin" they say after you've just trashed your baby! funny huh?
best of luck with the new one

[Scorpygirl]

Sorry to hear about your accident SJ. Hope all is well with you soon and that you are back on a bike. Our lives are always full of lessons to learn. :spudflip:

Take care and please look after yourself out there.

Scorygirl

[jazbug5]

Hate to hear about people writing off vehicles.

Maybe I am out of line. But if a GN is too much for you maybe you would want to take up a larger interest in cars?

Actually, yes. You are out of line.
That's about the least helpful thing I've ever seen someone post about someone else's bin. She hasn't been riding that long, and unfortunately she learned her lesson in such a way that wrote off her bike.
I had a lowside on a GN in gravel early on in my riding career (shhhh BadL!) but was fortunate enough to
a) not write it off (through luck),
b) be relatively unhurt (barring a couple of stitches) and
c) have supportive friends whose helpful comments helped me understand how it happened.

Funnily enough, the first time I met Str8Jacket was that very night, and that was before she'd got into bikes. Next time, can you count to ten before saying or writing something like that to someone who's just lost their pride and joy?
Ta.

[Sparky Bills]

Actually, yes. You are out of line.
That's about the least helpful thing I've ever seen someone post about someone else's bin. She hasn't been riding that long, and unfortunately she learned her lesson in such a way that wrote off her bike.
I had a lowside on a GN in gravel early on in my riding career (shhhh BadL!) but was fortunate enough to
a) not write it off (through luck),
b) be relatively unhurt (barring a couple of stitches) and
c) have supportive friends whose helpful comments helped me understand how it happened.

Funnily enough, the first time I met Str8Jacket was that very night, and that was before she'd got into bikes. Next time, can you count to ten before saying or writing something like that to someone who's just lost their pride and joy?
Ta.

I aggreeeeeeee!

[badlieutenant]

I had a lowside on a GN in gravel early on in my riding career (shhhh BadL!).

I wasnt going to say a thing about the other time.......... you were thrashing it motox stylz the "other time" so we wont count it. Serves you right anyhow for hooning past me like that
and i got to see a jazbug paddy

[Pathos]

Great to hear you're in one piece.

Even better to hear you're not scared of hitting the road again.