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Originally Posted by Th33nforcer
Thanks for posting this. When I was a kid, my cousin ended up in the hospital for three months after a spill on his vulcan. Sounds very similar to the pain you are experiencing. Drinking was involved. My parents took me to the hospital to see him just to scare the living hades out of me. It worked. To this day, I wear full gear all the time and never drink while riding.
Drinking or not, 100mph is probably a bit excessive on you were in a turn, but that's a whole different story. Hopefully your post will be a great lesson to others out there. Thanks again for sharing.
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We had the same thing happen real close to home a few years ago. A teenager on his first bike, a brand new supersport was leaving town in front of our subdivision. Our subdivision is the last one before you are in the country on this secondary highway, so everyone starts accelerating just before our turn as they head out of town. I had just left for work and turned right onto this highway and noticed the road was still damp from a light rain the night before. Well Jodie called as soon as I got to work to tell me she had seen the ambulance picking up a downed rider. When I got home I took both our teen boys to look at the scene. You could "see" exactly what he had done. New rider, new bike, probably still new tires not scrubbed in completely yet. He had hit our intersection and nailed the throttle in anticipation of ripping down this deserted secondary highway early in the morning. Well you could see the squiggly skid mark slowly drift towards the ditch due to the crown in the road, you could see the tire tracks through the ditch and then missing the culvert on the farmers lane into his field by mere inches. A perfect launch pad, your eyes followed the path the bike and rider had taken and at first you can't believe it, but yes it has to be, there's a 5-6" tree snapped off about 15' in the air. This tree was about 30' past the ditch where he launched himself. The police had spray painted his outline in the middle of the field and there was a pool of blood where his head would have lied. I paced back to the ditch and it was 110' that this kid flew through the air before landing! He survived and was recovering in hospital, but I just explained to our boys that, this was all it took to change your life forever, one moment of carelessness.
I agree with others, thanks for posting your story Gene.