Someone forgot to mention to me it was a "calm" ride today, so there i was on my fav bit of road waihi to whangamata playing catch up on matt and chris when it all went pear shaped, those who have ridden the road know its tight, but yeah i don't know exactly what i did wrong, came out of a tight left brush on the brakes, tip into the right and lost the front at about 90 - 95kph and proceeded to check out some of our beautiful native plants on the side of the road. Still trying to figure out what i did wrong, only thing i can think of is up until recently my brakes were shit, you could pull the lever to the handlebar like a clutch kinda shit, now after a service they're great, i think i may of just stabbed the brake to hard and got way more force than what i used to, meh i don't know.
I myself am totally fine not a scratch on me, thank you to my trusty leathers, boots, gloves and helmet, the bike well, the right hand front fairing is smashed to bits, lost the intake peice, mirror busted as well as the indicator. The killer was the broken foot peg bracket which meant riding home without a foot peg, sucky! The muffler has seen much better days too. Behold the brake lever stayed intact though, which was great wouldv'e been a crap ride home without it, coz the rear brake lever was munted.
Anyone out there got some spare bits for a TL "S" let me know.
The best thing about it all is i got it all on video camera, funny how shit always happens when a camera's involved init!!!!
Good ride up until then though, meet chris at BP waterveiw then meet matt at Ellerslie and we left the crap weather that was auckland at the time, to hit the coromandel, weather was average until hikiau (sp) then it was the fine for the rest of the day, we meet quasi halfway through to waihi on the first run through, but he had to shoot off to work later in the arvo.
Ride safe guys and if you don't ride safe make a sure you gotta gooda gear on alright.
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