Reader's digest version:
I put new Q3's on, front and rear, took it for a ride to scrub them in, first stop light (2 blocks from my house), left turn, I gave it the routine amt of throttle, which was too much for new tires, slide, grip, flick, see Jackie fly, see her head bounce on the pavement four times.
ER - 4 hours, I'm fine, nothing broken just my ego.
Long version:
last week I lost the front twice under typical acceleration, what I mean is it was slipping. and from 2 trackdays, on a track of mostly left turns, I could feel a lefty chicken strip on the rear, so I decided to swap out the tires today, because it's the first day it hasn't rained in like 2 weeks.
I was really proud of myself, got the rear axle back in, in less then 3 minutes , yes by myself. tires came on and off with ease, didn't eff up my carrozzeria's. balanced front and rear super clean, 1/4 oz...
I almost didn't scrub them in today, just had some errands to run, but I haven't ridden in 2 weeks.
Waiting for the light to turn green to make a left turn I make every day I commute. I was chanting to myself as I left my house, go easy new tires new tires new tires... green light, let the clutch out, just a little throttle, start the left turn and gave it my default throttle (not a lot, I'm not a nut), but too much for the first left turn on these tires. I felt the rear slide, and of course let off the throttle a little, then it caught grip again and I went flying, heard the fairings break, my hip hit the ground first, and then my head hit the group 4x times, first one was hard, then like a basketball dribble. shoulder and forearm. all the right side. and my abs hurt like a mofo.
had a MC jacket on, boots, gloves helmet. jeans. knocked the visor right off my helmet. and popped the frame slider off. I was right in the middle of the intersection, so several ppl stopped for me, and traffic stopped. It took me awhile to get up, but I did wave my hand when I did get up, to show I was ok, I remember one lady sticking her head out of her car window and saying glad to see you are ok. 3 men helped move my bike. I told them I was ok, and didn't need an ambulance.
I was walking the bike, because the throttle was stuck (racing). when I tried it again, I guess the cable had snapped, and I rode it home under idle power (slipping the clutch - it's flat where I live).
I have those rolled curbs, so I know I don't have enough mph to take the curb normally and ride it into my driveway. so I ride up at a slant and park the bike parallel to my driveway, on the sidewalk. I hop off and take my helmet off.
Then, I black out. because about 30 minutes later I'm standing over my bike, and I don't know where I am, why my bike is on the sidewalk and what time of day it is. yup. smacked my head good. This is when I decide to go to the ER.
I have kaiser. I hopped into my car and go to the closest kaiser ER. about 15 minutes. I get there, ER is no longer open.
so I double back to go to the non-kaiser, trauma one hospital 3 minutes from my house. unfortunately there was a big rig on fire on the freeway so I have 30 minutes to remember what happened.
4 hours in the ER (super busy). one of my riding buddies works there. not a favorite buddy but he helped my case along on a super busy day.
CT, full x rays... I'm good to go.
I have been riding 5 yrs, and low sided once, on a street corner I knew, decreasing radius, I just spaced out for a moment, landed on my knee at 35 mph, left knee.
anyway, I am very annoyed with myself. not my first set of tires. and this is definitely much worse than my low side. I do feel like a real MC rider now that I have high sided, lol.
ok, the damage: I think I snapped a throttle cable. other than that it's the big front fairing, but the frame slider took the brunt of it.
here's the new rear tire, you can see the high side marks:
and the damage, not bad:
I put new Q3's on, front and rear, took it for a ride to scrub them in, first stop light (2 blocks from my house), left turn, I gave it the routine amt of throttle, which was too much for new tires, slide, grip, flick, see Jackie fly, see her head bounce on the pavement four times.
ER - 4 hours, I'm fine, nothing broken just my ego.
Long version:
last week I lost the front twice under typical acceleration, what I mean is it was slipping. and from 2 trackdays, on a track of mostly left turns, I could feel a lefty chicken strip on the rear, so I decided to swap out the tires today, because it's the first day it hasn't rained in like 2 weeks.
I was really proud of myself, got the rear axle back in, in less then 3 minutes , yes by myself. tires came on and off with ease, didn't eff up my carrozzeria's. balanced front and rear super clean, 1/4 oz...
I almost didn't scrub them in today, just had some errands to run, but I haven't ridden in 2 weeks.
Waiting for the light to turn green to make a left turn I make every day I commute. I was chanting to myself as I left my house, go easy new tires new tires new tires... green light, let the clutch out, just a little throttle, start the left turn and gave it my default throttle (not a lot, I'm not a nut), but too much for the first left turn on these tires. I felt the rear slide, and of course let off the throttle a little, then it caught grip again and I went flying, heard the fairings break, my hip hit the ground first, and then my head hit the group 4x times, first one was hard, then like a basketball dribble. shoulder and forearm. all the right side. and my abs hurt like a mofo.
had a MC jacket on, boots, gloves helmet. jeans. knocked the visor right off my helmet. and popped the frame slider off. I was right in the middle of the intersection, so several ppl stopped for me, and traffic stopped. It took me awhile to get up, but I did wave my hand when I did get up, to show I was ok, I remember one lady sticking her head out of her car window and saying glad to see you are ok. 3 men helped move my bike. I told them I was ok, and didn't need an ambulance.
I was walking the bike, because the throttle was stuck (racing). when I tried it again, I guess the cable had snapped, and I rode it home under idle power (slipping the clutch - it's flat where I live).
I have those rolled curbs, so I know I don't have enough mph to take the curb normally and ride it into my driveway. so I ride up at a slant and park the bike parallel to my driveway, on the sidewalk. I hop off and take my helmet off.
Then, I black out. because about 30 minutes later I'm standing over my bike, and I don't know where I am, why my bike is on the sidewalk and what time of day it is. yup. smacked my head good. This is when I decide to go to the ER.
I have kaiser. I hopped into my car and go to the closest kaiser ER. about 15 minutes. I get there, ER is no longer open.
so I double back to go to the non-kaiser, trauma one hospital 3 minutes from my house. unfortunately there was a big rig on fire on the freeway so I have 30 minutes to remember what happened.
4 hours in the ER (super busy). one of my riding buddies works there. not a favorite buddy but he helped my case along on a super busy day.
CT, full x rays... I'm good to go.
I have been riding 5 yrs, and low sided once, on a street corner I knew, decreasing radius, I just spaced out for a moment, landed on my knee at 35 mph, left knee.
anyway, I am very annoyed with myself. not my first set of tires. and this is definitely much worse than my low side. I do feel like a real MC rider now that I have high sided, lol.
ok, the damage: I think I snapped a throttle cable. other than that it's the big front fairing, but the frame slider took the brunt of it.
here's the new rear tire, you can see the high side marks:
and the damage, not bad: