Dang. Went for a blat after work on Friday on my recently acquired 2nd hand CBR1000 and had a nice ride out through Johnsonville, Tawa, Pauahatanui, over the Haywards, into Upper Hutt, back through Whitemans Valley, past Stokes Valley, Taita, central Hutt, and finally over the Wainui Hill road.
Got to the bottom of the hill, turned left at the roundabout heading for the Parkway extension, when I hit a patch of diesel on an uneven join in the road and dropped the bike at approx 50kays. The bike turned as it slid on its side, rode up backwards over the slanted curb that edges the grass median strip, the left-side cycleworks exhaust dug into the grass and the bike catapaulted up and over 1-1/2 times before coming down onto its nose (right hand nostril).
The right handlebar snapped off, the upper right fairing was mangled, the front subframe has a bit of a downward lean-on now, both wing mirrors are smashed, the left exhaust has been pushed up, the rear upper fairing/cowling has been broken, the pillion grab-bar smashed off and I am waiting on news from the bike shop as to whether the bike is a write off or not (forks, subframe etc).
Thanks to the young feller in the van that helped me get it up and off to the side of the road.
Personally, I only suffered a couple of grazes, a couple of cuts and a sprained ankle. Glad I was wearing my gears, though the jacket has come out worse for wear, and the skid lid met the road, so that too has been discarded.
Happy that I'm still in one piece, but really pissed off that I had to ride over a badly relaid piece of road that had diesel all over it, and the fact that my partner in crime convinced me I only needed third party ins cos I don't normally spill my bikes.
What I'm thinking is saving some pingers and setting it up as a semi naked bike, cos I really enjoyed riding the Honda (while I had it...) and don't want to be on the old GSX for much longer than necessary...
anyway, back to work now...
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Originally Posted by m99dws
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