I moved from WILL crash to HAS crashed last week.

[keysman]

When I had my get off last year, I continued our trip with a banged up knee and a banged up bike for two more days and 700 more miles and that was the best thing I could have done. You need to get back on the bike and keep riding.

[05max]

Get back on.................

I was a good 20 miles through the twisties from our starting point and another 30 from home on top of that. So I picked up my bike, pulled off the busted fender by hand, straightened the handelbar and rode for another 50 miles right away - but slower with the new wobbly-rim
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[CentralOzzy]

Bummer about ya Stack!

[DarkDub64]

Sounds like it could have been a lot worse.

[BuzZz]

Dam! If you did that a month ago, I would have won the pool.

Glad to hear the only damage was to pride and the bike. Not sure I agree that the forkbrace is useless. That's alot of bike to support on them thin little fork legs, they can use all the help they can git.

Back on the horse is THE ONLY way to deal with your first dump.

[IRIDEALOT]

I bought my first brand new bike in 79. I had been riding for about 6 years already and decided it was time to get the CX500 from Honda. 1st day wife and I went to McDonalds. She was new to riding and decided to get off on right side side while I was braced for left side..dropped bike in gear onto new asphalt..landed on footpeg and spun for a minute...2 months later I was riding through an alley that had train tracks runnig through it..I hit a switch in the track going about 10 mph. Dropped bike..looked around in embarresment and lifted the bike up..pure adrenaline..I tried to start it and it wouldn't start..just then I noticed three guys standing in a dock..kinda smirking at me..one of them said...put the bike in neutral..started right up and I rode of embarresed but unhurt. Ten years later while a passenger on the back of a Suzuki 1100, a truck came out of a shopping mall and hit us..hit my left leg first and whipped the bike around so the drivers leg was pinned between header and front bumper of truck..He lost his leg within the year..Many close calls since..just got hit in wife's 9 day old 05 Mustang in January. 94 year old guy said he didn't see me..broad daylight..I feel safer on my bike..because over the years of riding you learn to pay more attention to your suroundings...After being hit in the car..I figure you just have to be fully aware of your surroundings and there is no way I could give up riding on two wheels..most relaxing thing I do now. Some cagers may not understand that while riding we have to become single minded...if we are thinking about bills..job..or anything other that the cagers trying to score points by killing us..we should not be on the bike...the guys that buy the fast bikes and spend their time weaving and bobbing in and out of traffic do not help the mind set of cagers that all bikers are like that. Ride Free..but most of all ride safe.

[varenka]

I like that - single minded. There is something zen about the discipline required when riding a motorcycle, obviously that is something that I dont' need to tell anyone on this message board.

Even though the heavy traffic can putter along or scare the pants off me, I always look forward to riding home at the end of the day because of the huge sense of freedom that comes along with it - but what I didn't think about before now is that the single-mindednes is also freeing me up from worry. It forces mental work-rubble out. Ever see the bumper-sticker: you never see a motorcycle parked at a psychiatrist's office?

[05max]

The more I ride through the local canyons the more "in tune" I get w/ my bike. Yesterday it was almost like flying over the road and there was no bike. It just moved to where I thought I wanted it and was amazing. Non-riders do not - can not - undersdtand it. On our way back down the hill onother biker coming up crashed and left in a helo - hope he lives to ride again - safer.

[CentralOzzy]

Yesterday it was almost like flying over the road and there was no bike. It just moved to where I thought I wanted it and was amazing.

The next step from here my friend is SKYDIVING, NO BIKE JUST YOU!

[05max]

Yesterday it was almost like flying over the road and there was no bike. It just moved to where I thought I wanted it and was amazing.

The next step from here my friend is SKYDIVING, NO BIKE JUST YOU!

Hell no............unless it is on fire and going down - and then only after I put out the fire and try to solve the other problems first.