Had a close one yesterday....

Was buzzing around downtown on my way to a local dealership to shop for some new gloves. Made a left turn onto a street and hit the apex a little too close and ended up hitting the curb with my front wheel while leaned over at about 50 km/h (30mp/h). Tire climbs the curb, which then sends me into a violent headshake while my left foot is now getting slammed off the peg by the same curb. I'm not sure quite how I did it but I managed to stay on without running into the next lane.

If I had been on my ZRX1200, I know I wouldn't have been so lucky but then again I probably wouldn't have been cutting the corner so close as the ZRX dooesn't turn anything like the X . I was sure I must have bent a wheel but amazingly, I can't find any damage and it rides the same as before. If I hadn't been wearing good boots, I'm sure I would have done some damage there as well but good gear let me keep going.

That was my first close call of the season. I can now do my yearly pilgramage to the northern mountains of Georgia next week feeling like I've got that out of the way for the year.

That sound's like one of those times where you take a quick look around and make sure no one saw it
You need them sometimes just to remind you what a lapse in concentration can do to you, Riding is always Practice

0007onWR wrote:

That sound's like one of those times where you take a quick look around and make sure no one saw it

In the traffic I was in, I know a lot of people saw it. But the way I composed myself and rolled up to the next light like nothing happened while my heart was beating a million times a minute, I'm not sure how many might of them thought I meant to do it.

I almost T-boned my buddy at a track night when I tried to outbrake him coming into a corner. It wasn't pretty but no harm, no foul.