Ouch.
I was out riding gravel/dirt roads with my father-in-law, on his brand-new XL650R (he was riding an old Yamaha 2-smoke). We had done about 60 miles, and were headed back when I dumped it in a left-hander. Maybe 30 miles an hour, and I just went down slowly on the low side.
Of course, since we were just out on dirt, I wasn't wearing "proper" gear. Yes, I'm an idiot. Just had on jeans, long-sleeve sweatshirt and t-shirt, helmet, gloves, and boots. The sweatshirt got pushed up my arm, so I've got a hamburger forearm full of gravel. My hip is bruised, but the jeans held up and didn't let any rash through. The real surprise were my boots. On the outside of the left boot (opposite the bike), the gravel road burned a hole through the boot material, my sock, and into my ankle. Its not deep, but I was very surprised to have that happen on a gravel road.
So, I'm not sure this counts as a "real" crash, but it does hurt like hell and was on a street-legal bike...
Pics tomorrow, maybe.
My two feet.
(09-25-2019, 03:18 PM)V1GiLaNtE Wrote: I think you need to see a mental health professional.
I'm in for pics! Glad you're not too busted up, John. What did your dad have to say about grounding out the new bike?
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asteele2 Wrote:I'm in for pics! Glad you're not too busted up, John. What did your dad have to say about grounding out the new bike?
Jess' dad had already crashed it a couple of times. He thinks I actually straightened out the bars today 
He wants to get little stickers for the side of the bike, representing each person that has crashed it - kind of like counting kills on the side of a fighter plane...
My two feet.
That's a truly awesome idea!
When it comes to Ryan Jenkins, the story ends with me putting him in the wall.
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well i'm glad you are ok! now go pour some gas on the drive way... flick a match at it... and even up the score at 1-1!
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youch, sorry to hear it john. i think gravel in your skin is good for it though. regardless, we'll get you a little bell that you can ring every time you want jess to bring you ice cream while you recuperate on the couch.
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Well, after cleaning off all of the blood and skin, the wounds aren't bad at all. The wreck was Saturday afternoon, these pics are from yesterday evening.
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I'll spare you pictures of my bruised hip...
My two feet.
hooray naked pics of John! :|
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worse than either of my crashes!
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Mike Wrote:worse than either of my crashes!
Didn't you have a weeping wound for awhile?
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Apoc Wrote:Mike Wrote:worse than either of my crashes!
Didn't you have a weeping wound for awhile?
don't think so. and none were that big.
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2 wheels: '12 Surly Cross-Check Custom | '14 Trek Madone 2.1 105 | '17 Norco Threshold SL Force 1 | '17 Norco Revolver 9.2 FS | '18 BMC Roadmachine 02 Two | '19 Norco Search XR Steel (Formerly '97 Honda VFR750F, '05 Giant TCR 2, '15 WeThePeople Atlas 24, '10 Scott Scale 29er XT, '11 Cervelo R3 Rival, '12 Ridley X-Fire Red)
No longer onyachin.
I'm pretty sure you were complaining that your knee was all banged up and sticking to your pants making it difficult to walk. Or maybe I just imaged that, who knows.
What kinda boots were these anyway? Work boots?
'76 911S | '14 328xi | '17 GTI | In memoriam: '08 848, '85 944
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
Apoc Wrote:I'm pretty sure you were complaining that your knee was all banged up and sticking to your pants making it difficult to walk. Or maybe I just imaged that, who knows.
Nope, don't recall that.
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2 wheels: '12 Surly Cross-Check Custom | '14 Trek Madone 2.1 105 | '17 Norco Threshold SL Force 1 | '17 Norco Revolver 9.2 FS | '18 BMC Roadmachine 02 Two | '19 Norco Search XR Steel (Formerly '97 Honda VFR750F, '05 Giant TCR 2, '15 WeThePeople Atlas 24, '10 Scott Scale 29er XT, '11 Cervelo R3 Rival, '12 Ridley X-Fire Red)
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Apoc Wrote:What kinda boots were these anyway? Work boots?
Just some no-name work boots. In retrospect, I'm not surprised they failed, just surprised that the gravel caused the type of damage I would've expected from asphalt.
My two feet.
Well I don't think it's that's surprising. I mean gravel can give some but it's also got a lower grit than asphalt so it probably all balances out.
'76 911S | '14 328xi | '17 GTI | In memoriam: '08 848, '85 944
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
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