My bandit is probably dead :(

[smooth operator]

Hope you recover quickly. I have a stock header just lying around if you decide to fix the bike.

[PitterB4]

Heal quick, man.

[NCBANDIT]

Well I managed to hobble out last night and check the bike out. From the way everything is scratched/bent, it never contacted asphalt till after hitting the wall, and bouncing back, it appears it pitched left very rapidly as everything scratched is on the top left side of the bike. The stock turn signal is one tough mofo, it was bent backward through the fairing (busting it) and into the fork, and only has a little rash on it. Surprisingly the oem engine gaurds held up and are only scratched. the tail section doesn't have a scratch on it. I'll have to pull the fairing after I get the ins. out here and check the headtube/ yoke, whatever it is called. I may have one hell of a go kart motor on my hands  

[ratbike05]

Hope you have a speedy recovery!!

[moto]

Hey Brother,

We've all done stupid things, but you're living and that's what matters. Hope you get better soon.

[NCBANDIT]

Well after close examination I cannot see any cracked welds/ distortion in the frame/ steering head area. I think i'll just rebuild her sans insurance, it'll be cheaper in the long run. Anybody have an extra set of forks, front wheel, and fairing in the black/blue metallic from 98?  

[Buzter]

Hey, do the buell flyscreen.  They look cool as heck on banditos

[jared1970]

...Ya'll be safe and don't ride tired, i'm kicking myself in the ass as we speak.
Josh

Yeah, I used to work 12 hour night shifts, 11 pm to 11 am, and was dead tired when I got off work. In the two years I worked that shift, I never rode the bike to work even once. I was always too scared of the effects of fatigue.
I hope you heal up quickly.

[jared1970]

I don't know about shoulders, but knee injuries suck. I tore my ACL back in April and had surgery to reconstruct it. The surgery isn't too bad, its the recovery that sucks. When you go to physical therapy and they start making you bend it and stuff, that's when the pain starts. I hope you don't have to experience anything like that.

[banditII]

Sorry to hear about your crash Josh.  Crashing is brutal, I know.  I went to pass a slow moving car back in march on my ZX-9R.  Didn't have it tached up, the guy sped up, I got in front of him too late, hit gravel, broke two ribs, knees swollen, everything swollen.  Had on leathers thank the Lord.  The guy in the car who I believe was trying to make me crash left me for dead.  My crash went in slow motion too, bouncing around ( is that the bike on me? ).  It's good you got checked out though with the MRI.  It's so easy to break things and not even know it.  I went two days with broken ribs before I went to a doctor.  I still have a huge knot on my left hip from a hematoma resulting from the crash.  Now, whenever I do sporty riding, I wear rib protection under my other protective gear ( and pay special attention to little punks in sports cars ).

Warren

[NCBANDIT]

Thanks for the kind words ya'll. I go for the mri tomorrow, but as my knee looks now, I may have torn the mcl slightly, as I can still half ass hobble on it. I'll find out tomorrow.

Now I just have to locate some forks and a wheel, I'm thinking about the buell flyscreen, and I'm also thinking about a gsxr frontend, but want to find someone who has done it first. But forks and wheel and she will be rideable when my knee is able to bend that far, jumped on a friends zx-6 the other night but couldn't get my knee bent enough to take off. I've never let something scare me, i'll be back on as soon as physically possible