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Old 09-07-2011, 08:59 AM   #1
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Highsided it

I crashed my bike today. I was going to school this morning and I went to go pull out of my neighborhood. I was making a left turn, but a car was coming so I pulled out quickly. It rained last night, and I had cold tires. Gave it gas while leaned over, the tires gave out, and next thing I know, I go flying through the air with my bike sliding after me.

I'm only scratched up on my leg and my ass, but pretty shocked still. I was wearing my riding jacket (at the last moment decided to put it on), gloves, helmet, but I had shorts on. Got REALLY lucky that I slid on my upper thigh, so I was protected somewhat and didn't even get messed up.

The fairings and tank scratched up, front brake lever snapped, rearset snapped, rear brake lever bent, and scratches everywhere.

That **** was scary, I'm so glad I wore my gear and I'm never going to ride with shorts again.

Hope i'll get the bike fixed and be able to ride soon
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Old 09-07-2011, 09:10 AM   #2
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Sorry to here but atleasy your ok. Everything on the bike can be fixed. shorts are a big no no to me ive never riden in shorts just learn from your mistakes and fix the bike and get back to riding.
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Old 09-07-2011, 06:49 PM   #3
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Glad to hear you're ok man. Doesn't sound like a fun experience, but that's why I usually wait till I have plenty of time to pull out. Don't like rushing slow corners.

Bike sounds fixable, at least to the point that you can ride it again.
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Old 09-14-2011, 03:23 PM   #4
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Glad to hear you're okay. Check these out: http://www.dragginjeans.com/

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Old 09-28-2011, 12:41 AM   #5
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^^ i so need to order a pair of those.

sorry to hear about he high-side... :\ i took one last year and finally just got the bike and going about a month ago... trying to get as much riding asi can in before winter...and the rain isn't helping!
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Old 10-27-2011, 11:02 PM   #6
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anybody with first hand experience with those dragging jeans?
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Old 11-15-2011, 09:15 PM   #7
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i never suggest wearing shorts even if i go down the block. not the greatest feeling with road rash. sucks personally. and highsides usually hurt too. back in july i was side swiped by a car merging into my lane took road rash all the way up my right leg was wear jeans. need all new fairings been riding the bike naked since.
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Old 12-18-2011, 11:10 PM   #8
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I own both draggin jeans and the shift kevlar jeans, and can say that for a sportbike i prefer the cut of the shift jeans, the draggin jeans have a tendancy to bunch up right at my knee. Never been down in them, so i can't tell you how well they'd fair in a crash.
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Old 01-09-2012, 02:10 AM   #9
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I own both draggin jeans and the shift kevlar jeans, and can say that for a sportbike i prefer the cut of the shift jeans, the draggin jeans have a tendancy to bunch up right at my knee. Never been down in them, so i can't tell you how well they'd fair in a crash.
thanks for the info
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Old 01-10-2012, 10:48 AM   #10
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yea i have the shift jeans and i usually wear a jacket unless its really hot out. but i usually wear the jeans when im going on long rides. usually just wear normal jeans if driving to school. but glad to hear your ok. i rode a few times in shorts. the one time the inside of my legs got burnt from holding onto my tank and i had to stop at a wawa and wrap wet paper towls around my legscuz they burnt so bad haha
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