Battle scars!

When things settle down and shake out... :(

Low side-slide that was about 50 feet.

Stuff that needs to be replaced (from what I can see)

• rear wheel
• rear tire
• tail fairing
• main right side fairing
• right side lower fairing
• clutch cover
• clutch basket/assembly (clutch cover took a chunk out of it)
• handle bar/end
• rear brake lever
• frint brake lever
• front master cylinder
• mirror
• frame sliders

The bike is going to be fixed, but because it's a limited edition (Hayden Edition - 1 of 150 produced) parts are crazy expensive. :( Not to mention I'm still waiting on the parts to get here to see if she still starts.

The real question is what happened to the bikini wearing girl who was on the back

Are YOU ok?

Oh you laid it down. Forget about the fairing, work on your oil leak.

Bikini? That is so last century. Now they wear thongs. Just thongs :D

Damn dude. A 50 foot slide is a lot. How did you manage to do that? More importantly, how are you?

My worst offs to date were:

1. (Worst damage to bike) I overcooked a corner in the dark and left the pavement at around 55 mph. I went into a sagebrush field and decided to just keep the bike up as long as I could. I bounced a good hundred yards into the field and came to rest still on the bike with it stuck between a couple of bushes. I destroyed the right side fairings, lost the left front turn signal, and managed to get a puncture in the coolant reservoir. I was able to self recover and ride it home. Damage to me was a sore thigh on one side and a bruised thigh on the other.

2. (Worst damage to me) Riding with a bit of enthusiasm, but not really that fast, I came up to a stop sign, braked for it, heard a skidding sound and had just enough time to wonder what it was before I went down on the right side. Turns out there was some sand in the road that I didn't see. Damage to the bike was a wrecked right upper fairing. Damage to me was road rash on my right knee that took a few weeks to heal (I still have scars) and a pain in my back that I thought might have been a broken rib. I got help getting the bike up and rode it home. It turned out not to be a broken rib and that pain was gone after I slept for the night. I made some reasonable-ish assumptions about the length of the slide (5 ft or so) and the coefficient of friction of a bike on its side on asphalt and estimated that I was doing all of about 6 mph when I hit the pavement.

In the never ending battle between rider and asphalt, asphalt has yet to lose!:(

Either way I imagine he has her safely tucked away in bed by now.:D

I watched a few videos of guys going down at the modern island of Mann TT series. I thought I was pretty brave during my younger years. It made me realize that I was never as brave as some of those riders. I figure you have to feel totally immortal and most of us do to certain extents when younger.

I guess I lacked as I never felt that immortal. Potentially coming off a bike at 150-170 miles an hour is insane to me. I did not enjoy watching the videos either. Far too graphic and tragic. Happy landings are not in the program.