| Author | Message | ||
     Yellowstorm |
Got a good one for you, had my bike at Hal's all day on Thur. got the carb jetted and bought a bunch of goodies for it. Put on axle covers,frame plugs,yellow wires,bar end mirrors,banke reverse shifter,banke brake pedal. Took the bike home after the BRAG meeting and went out riding today. Turned 1000 miles on it and about 40 miles later I locked up my front tire on some sand and layed down the bike on its side. Damage Report: 1 mirror 1 banke shifter 2 axel covers 1 gas tank 1 clutch lever 1 hand grip 1 handle bar 2 foot pegs 1 headlight 2 turn signals 1 pair Buell racing gloves 1 leather jacket 1 riding pants 1 ego Hey but I was lucky, didnt get hurt at all, knee is a little sore but insurance will cover the rest. Happy SAFE riding Marc | ||
| Chuck |
SAND SUCKS! | ||
| Dark_Ninja |
Just a quick note... Remember to unlock the forks before you try and take off! SLAP, SLAP,SLAP! STUPID CLIFF, STOOOOOOPID CLIFF! (airbox, and right side leg fairing....meet Mr. Concrete...) | ||
| Robr |
Crashed the X1 last night. Did not see it coming. Imagine a country intersection in the hills of northwest Jersey. 9:15PM, pitch black. As I approach the intersection(no stop sign for me), I see a car stopped to my left and to my right(both of them have stop signs). The car to my right makes a left turn in front of me, but this is not a problem he makes his turn in time, but as I enter the intersection the car to my left darts across in front of me with literally 15feet to spare. All I see is the bright reflection of my headlamp in the door of a Chevy Blazer. I locked the brakes and for a moment I thought I could fishtail around him but the bike lost traction and went down on its left side. I hit the ground hard on my left hip and shoulder. I immediatly jumped up and the traffic that was coming up behind me stopped. The guy in the Blazer stopped too, a dirt bike rider with kids in the car(boyscouts, all dirt riders), he said he never saw me. Kudos to the bystanders at the Utopia Deli who helped me wheel the Buell off the road, Mike from Legends Harley in Clifton(what a coincidence), and to the West Milford ambulance crew, it's nice to know those guys are there so fast if you need them. Don't think anything is broken(I turned down the emergency room), although it has stiffened and swelled up pretty bad today. Thank God I didn't hit him. Leather pants got bitten at the hip and my Shoei took a hit on the side(I heard a loud clunk).As for the X1 it's pretty scraped up on the left side with bent bars but I think the forks are OK. I rode her home with a broken shifter. Bottom line, she'll live. Happy I'm OK, gives you a new perpective. It goes to prove though, sometimes you don't even see it coming. I'm lucky I was going slow and lucky to have been on my Buell(I know my Sporty's brakes would not have stopped me in time). Try to ride safely guys...RobR | ||
| Jasonl |
Glad to hear you got off with lightly RobR. Sorry to hear your X1 got scrapped up pretty good. But I'll let the other guy's insurance worry about that! | ||
| Robr |
Thanks dude, I just hope the X1 will rise again before the summer is out.RobR. | ||
| Jima4media |
I saw a bad accident on Mount Hamilton yesterday. I took a few pictures and posted them on the SacBorg.com website under Mount Hamilton Accident. Jim X-2.5 | ||
| Blake |
Jim: Why not post them here? | ||
| Jima4media |
Blake, I would have to compress them too much if I put them here, and they would lose detail and highlights. As it is I take my Canon Digital Elph pictures into PhotoShop and change the horizontal dimension to 600 from 1600 - in other works just remove the 1 - and save it and that is just about all I have to do with the image. I end up with an image that is 60K-120K. Then I put them on my photo server, and just reference the URL on sacborg.com with the [img] command. Simple, and fast. Jim X-2.5 | ||
| Jima4media |
BMW K75 - Before | ||
| Jima4media |
BMW K75 - After This a a test of the link command in discusware. | ||
| Jima4media |
Blake, This seems to work pretty well. If you look at the link command in Formatting, and type in a URL of a photo hosting place, you can post any size JPEG image in Badweatherbikers. Kewl. Jim X-2.5 | ||
| Blake |
Jim: Also, you could also try using the "\newurl" command. A quick run through xat.com's image optimizer (same as $29 jpeg optimizer) yeilds a comparable quality pic as below (only 45KB). The xat.com software ROCKS!!  | ||
| Jima4media |
Blake, Xat.com's software does work pretty well, but I use a Macintosh, and they don't have a Mac version. I'll give the "\newurl" command a try when I have a chance. Thanks, Jim X-2.5 | ||
| Blake |
"I use a Macintosh" Well geeezzz, there's your problem then!  heheh | ||
| Boggs |
I would post a picture but it would just make you/me cry. Last Saturday my Stepdad crashed my 92'RS1200. 30 made that year, 6 in the "Gunmetal Grey" color. Air-tech still has the glass moulds and will supply the front faring and side panel (Both total $300 in the white). The windscreen is still available too ($105). Mirrors and turnsignals (Factory Yamaha !!?)can be bought too. Question. Try and match factory paint or HD racing two sided orange/black with white stripe repaint? The Team Elves RR paint scheme is cool and somewhat original. I have some guys that say they can match the paint. What do you guys think? | ||
| Jasonl |
Boggs...that is horrible. I bet your Dad felt like a real turd. I mean even if it wasn't his fault crashing a bike like that, esp if it isn't yours, has got to be ulcer inducing. At least you have a line on replacing the parts. | ||
| Blake |
There's another good reason to never get hitched! Uhm, is he okay? | ||
| Mikej |
No, I didn't crash, just a near miss. Rode up to Duluth from Milwaukee Friday, 300 miles up, 500 miles back. I took hwy-53 north from EauClaire. As it gets closer to Superior the 4-lane hwy-53 becomes the typical country freeway with cross-traffic. In other words, 65mph speed limit on the freeway, and standing cross traffic trying to judge oncoming traffic to try and make it across 4 lanes of traffic and a vehicle wide median. That's the picture. Here I come north bound, high beam on, daylight, overcast but not raining. A medium size delivery truck, probably about a 20' cargo box, was at the intersection on the southbound side. The truck driver waited for some southbound cars to pass, then proceeded to cross. I thought/hoped he saw me and that he would stop on the median pad. Nope, he slowed down, started to stop, then gassed it and speeded up. Crapola! Okay, I'm doing about 65mph, fully loaded with touring gear, too close to stop in time without t-boning him. I could swerve left and try to cut behind him, but if he hits the brakes I'll tag his tail end. So, going into dirt bike mode, I hit the gas hard lean right and swerve to the shoulder. I managed to beat him, stayed on the pavement, blasting the horn as I skimmed past his front bumper, and gave him a full flag salute after I got past and moved back onto the freeway from the shoulder. Too close. I hate crossing traffic on freeways, and there were a bunch of intersections up there this weekend on the roads that I rode on. So, I hope everyone has a safe and crash-free weekend. MikeJ. I wonder if I can borrow the StarTrek holographic emmitter, and just hit a button and transform my bike into the image of a Kenworth hauling a full load of logs with a touch of the passing light switch. Wait, I saw a truck like that resting on it's roof on the freeway in EauClaire that missed an offramp and rolled over. Nevermind. | ||
| Blake |
MikeJ: Whoa, glad you made it by okay! Man, that's another perfect example that reinforces one of the most important moto/traffic safety rules... always assume you and your bike are invisible to other traffic, cause way too many times, we apparently are. Believe me, I too learned this the hard way. I was cruising through town on my Dad's CB450 back in 1979; an old fart in a Ford Galaxy 500 pulled out right in front of me. Street was just wetted with light drizzle, slick as ice. I flew over his hood and was lucky to end up with only torn jeans and a sore leg. The state trooper right behind me witnessed the entire incident. Soon after, I bought my first full face helmet; haven't been without one since. Now, whenever I see a vehicle (or animal even) poised to potentially cross my path; I slow and prepare to evade. | ||
| Mikej |
Yep, only problem with slowing down sometimes is that I'd be riding the 65mph roads at 30 instead. I was hovering my brakes and always keeping an eye open for escape routes the rest of the ride. Here's how not to set up a Buell for optimal performance:  I took a pic at the campsite with the tent next to it and woods in the background, but it didn't come out very well. back to the camera shopping | ||
| Court |
Mikej: Thank you for a TIMELY reminder as we enter the heart of riding season....your SKILL saved your butt. Glad to hear you are ok. I lust looking at the pic of that bike set up for serious roadwork. Court - Hooked on Hi-Viz | ||
| Mikej |
I met up with Brad/BluzM2 up in Duluth, he rode up from Minneapolis. We were trying to figure out if any of the Aerostich suits on the "damaged" rack were your's, but I remembered you typing about the California mishap and how they replaced the sleeve of your suit. Looking at the damaged suits on their rack up there gives one pause to think. Especially when looking at the one where the rider had a deer encounter, Brad said he saw the holes made by the deer horns. I took off the M2 signals from my bike and replaced them with the X1 style signals with the bendable arms. So I lost where I was going to add the aux. lights. Came up with another idea so after this ride I think I _need_ to add some lights to the front. Going to start carving and bending up some brackets tomorrow. I might even start shopping around for a high-viz blue pencil beam spotlight hidden back under the headlight. That reminds me, I gotta contact a man about a used seat. Checking the oil is a bear when loaded with gear, so I'm playing with another idea to remedy that situation. All in all, my little 900 total mile (just finished adding up the gas receipts with mileage) overnight trip was a worthwhile learning adventure. | ||
| Loki |
Mike, heres an idea that does not look all to bad. I BORROWED a pair of adel clamps(aircraft wiring holders) that fit my fork tubes. Bought a set of small lights at autozone, not the real cheap ones but not the expensive ones either. Using the mount that comes with the lights and the adel clamp afix the things just below your turn signals. They are tucked in with the sigs and at headlight level. I will go take a pic and post it here for you. I like they work on my M2. At night I can forsake the hi beam altogether. Might have to do with the 160 watts worth of light beaming into the darkness. And if you use a fog pattern, the shadows look like b**bies on the ground.... Loki yes, I know I am sick and demented | ||
| Loki |
Mike, some quick and dirty pics Loki    | ||
| Jima4media |
I just did 344 miles of twisties this weekend, and had three close encounters, all of them without incident, but just enough to keep me awake while riding. Two incidents happened on Mines road on the way back from Modesto on Saturday. Curt is riding a couple of hundred feet ahead of me and setting a brisk pace, but we are both taking it easy, because we both have new tires. We met another S-3 Bueller from Tracy with 60,000 miles on his bike, and he is behind us by a couple of hundred feet. First a baby deer runs up to the side of the road, and slams on the brakes between Curt and I. As fast as it was running I was sure it was going to run across the road. I was covering my front brake and almost grabbed it hard and was ready to swerve to avoid it. Whewww. close one. A mile later a pickup truck with a trailer crosses the road between Curt and I and I narrowly got around the back of it without hitting the gravel on the side of the road, or the steep ditch off to the right. Yesterday I was riding with a group of 13 riders, and I was hanging back a ways because my SuperTrapp is broken again at the inlet, and safety wired, but rattling around, making it sound worse than it is. A big black squirrel darts across the road, and I hit it, but must have just hit the tail, because there was no blood on the bike when I stopped at the next rest area. That is as many close calls as I have in a year, let alone a three day weekend. Jim X-2.5 | ||
| Ccryder |
Mike J.: Glad you made it ok! About the time you think they see you is when you know you are in trouble. I know I am invisible to everyone but the local LEO's. Maybe we can work on that. Anybody got some of that camo. the Alien used in "Predator", not a bad paint job either. Rubber side down, that polished side up, just a reminder. Later all. Neil S. | ||
| Blake |
said a close "howdy" to three good looking deer myself today. Saw a black bear a few weeks ago. I always slow to a crawl when any critter of size appears at road's edge. Ran over a goose once, and have learned that dear ain't road smart. Did a major night-time stoppie avoiding a behemoth porcupine in Wyoming a few years back. Squirrels? Aim right at 'em and you'll miss 'em. Blake (animal lover) | ||
| Chuck |
Blake...O wise and noble "squirrel" master...man! what is it with those things? They must be blind...or maybe just suicidal...anyway, that sounds like good advice. Maybe Loki can document an "experiment in squirrel avoidance" with his new "helmet cam" and report back to the board. Should make for an entertaining first assignment  What do ya say, Loki? I'll even "spring" for the film ... now, remember --- do like Blake says --- aim right at 'em! | ||
| Turnagain |
Witnessed an incident Sunday during Rolling Thunder. Guy wants to pull away from the curb and join the parade. Gal locks the front and down she goes. A little road rash on her arms and bits of shiny stuff on the pavement.  oh, & do watch for suicidal squirrels.   Steve(2) |
