Bandit Alley
GENERAL MOTORCYCLE FORUMS => GENERAL MOTORCYCLE => Topic started by: NCBANDIT on September 16, 2005, 09:25:23 AM
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I had a good ride yesterday, rode up to 58 in va. almost went toward willville, but decided to go west instead. Headed to damascus, va and went south to shady valley tn. headed back east toward home, all in all about a 250 mile loop.
Then last night I go to watch the local stunters practice in an industrial park. I was just enjoying the show, then we ate and went to another parking lot. Here, after not sleeping since the previous day, my judgement was not with me. I ran head on into a 3 ft. high concrete wall at about 30mph. I will not get into the circumstances surrounding how i ended up in a wall, but we'll call it rider stupidity. I'm trashed, my bike's trashed, in ewtreme pain right at this moment. I'm heading to the doc in a little, my knee is the size of a football and I think I tore something in my shoulder and pulled my right hamstring.
Ya'll be safe and don't ride tired, i'm kicking myself in the ass as we speak.
Josh
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Just be glad that your not the one dead! You can always fix or replace the bandit!
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Sorry, guy. I hit a concrete wall at 45 once. Get well!
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Dang you, Josh! :shock:
Keep away from those 'stunter boys'! Just hang out with us old farts, who will encourage you to go fast on twisty roads, and get tickets! :stickpoke:
Hope you're OK....
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Get healed up, Josh, THEN worry about the machine. Glad you're able sit and type this report to us. Keep us updated.
Bill
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Just from what I saw last night, it needs a header, forks, front wheel, triple, left peg, shifter, clutch lever. But I have a feeling as far back as the forks are pushed it probably got the headtube.
It is absolutely amazing how slow everything went, before hitting the ground I already saw my tire was flat and the rim have a huge dent in it. My jewels impacted the tank EXTREMELY hard and I thought there might be problems with that, but everything is in place. If the swelling in my knee would go down I could probably walk. After it happened I was up walking around and even tried to help load the bike. But soon after arriving at home my knee was huge.
It is absolutely driving me insane having to sit around the house, I'm an outdoors person and usually do not step foot in the house till about 11 or 12 each night. So much shit I could be doing but instead I'm pushing myself around the house on an office chair :duh:
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Well....you could always get a naked 22yr. old redhead to push you around the house in an office chair. :shock: :banana: :banana:
Billster
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Here's one for ya'!
(http://www.exercises-in-futility.com/archives/redhead.jpg)
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Man...I'm glad your injuries a not life threatening. You can recover from road rash and broken bones, but dead is forever. As for the Bandit? You can put it back together and it will be good as new...or better as time and budget allow. I'm heading on a road trip Monday, from Vancouver WA to Joseph OR, some on Hwy 14 the rest on 84. I'll be dressed for the worst, but I'm hoping to enjoy the trip and arrive back home bruise and rash free.
Here's wishing you heal fast! :beers:
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My jewels impacted the tank EXTREMELY hard and I thought there might be problems with that, but everything is in place
Uh....I think the redhead may 're-aggravate' the injury......
Josh, see a DR if you need to.
Of course, you hit the wall trying to avoid an animal running across the road....right?
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Dude, that sucks.
I had a wreck once due to riding while tired/slightly tipsy (never again)/retarded. I had been using post-hole diggers all day and I didn't realize how much beer I had drank until AFTER the wreck.
Glad you weren't hurt. Good luck with the bike.
Keep us posted. :sad:
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My jewels impacted the tank EXTREMELY hard and I thought there might be problems with that, but everything is in place
Uh....I think the redhead may 're-aggravate' the injury......
Josh, see a DR if you need to.
Of course, you hit the wall trying to avoid an animal running across the road....right?
No pete actually I was making a turn around through the parking lot and didn't see the 3ft high wall there till right before impact :roll:
I just got back from the hospital, nothing broken, have to get an mri this week to see if anything is torn. The doc didnt want to draw the fluid off as my knee is scraped up(and no i wasnt squidin it up) and she thought it could innoculate? it. As soon as I eat somethin it's off to vicadin land :banana:
I was wearing jeans, heavy boots, leather jacket and gloves. Although the jeans did not tear, I would have loved to have had the padding in the knees of my leathers. I had my visor up, and something came through and struck me just below the right eye, just a slight black eye. Wear your gear please guys. I was extremely lucky.
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Good news, then Josh......take it easy, and you'll feel better in a week or so.
(I just hope a certain B12 some of us will recognize doesn't pop up in any squidly crash videos.....nobody had a camera, did they?)
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No blame or finger pointing, Josh. We're all bound to do it, sooner or later.
(Like me launching myself off the DR this summer in Colorado...) :duh:
As long as the frame or steering head isn't screwed up.....patch up parts are floating around out here.
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When a Bandit died, its only one remedy, ABSHENTEE 96º, changes her colour, red to blue, silver to black, ¿Whats the buzz?....
¿Que es eso de damascus?.
(b)
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:beers: Here's to a speedy recovery!
Crashing sucks!
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Hope you recover quickly. I have a stock header just lying around if you decide to fix the bike.
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Heal quick, man.
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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 :stickpoke:
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Hope you have a speedy recovery!!
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Hey Brother,
We've all done stupid things, but you're living and that's what matters. Hope you get better soon.
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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? :duh:
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Hey, do the buell flyscreen. They look cool as heck on banditos
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...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.
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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.
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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
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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 :beers: