Wrecked my 1998 GS500E somone help me!

[Tang]

Most def.

hate waiting esp. a week!

anyways its going to rain next week so i guess it'll give me time to cool off and recover lol!

my stomach slammed into the gas tank. sucks.

[ohgood]

Figure out why/how you crashed. Tell us so we can learn with you.

Buy case guards. IIRC they're around $50, and they'll, well, save your cases.

Congrats on still being a walker !

[Tang]

ok it went down like this. i'm at the stop light waiting to turn left.

i have my blinkers, breaks applied lights working, everything a safe driver would need to do to turn left.

light turns green white car on the other lane lets me go then changes it mind when i'm half way through the turn speeds up almost hits me.

my hand i guess caught the throttle bad lost control i applied clutch and both brakes but by the time i did i was in wet grass sliding towards a street light post.

after all that the guy gunned it and drove off a van behind it asked me if i was alright and some guy pulled over and thought i broke my shoulder since it was all muddy.

he helped me with my bike up and helped me walk my gloves and helmet back to my house which is the first right after the left. -_-

the whole day was good i did't speed i did everything i suppost to i even check the mirrors before i left the house. turned my blinker on everytime i turned and turned my head around to double check. 

i don't know why this happens to me just the worst of luck.

funny thing is i drove that bike from the person i bought it from like atleast 20 mines away back to my home in windy,medium rain, and pot hole city roads.

and did perfectly fine, and i was idling low and so my bike kept on stalling out on me.

but none the less i did superb considering it was my first day on the road.

now i have to wait a week for processing and another week prob. for shipping...

so life lesson never go when someone says they going to let u go. esp. in south carolina.

[Kurlon]

Look at it this way:  You've gotten the first scratch out of the way, once you patch the bike back up you can enjoy it without fear of dropping it.

[Tang]

i'm actually glad i went out and bought a used bike i would die if this happend to a new bike 

[Toogoofy317]

Glad you're ok.

You said you are a new rider right? Have you taken a MSF course. They are well worth the money. Also, thank goodness you were a helmet. Do you have jacket, pants, gloves, and boots? If not you should have these as well. And you got to wear them. Trust me a short jaunt from home can have a painful and embarassing effect on you and your moto! I'm learning this painful lesson right now! Eighty degrees sunny and beautiful and I'm in a walking cast!

Mary S

[ricky]

I got into the same kind of trouble with my bike (GS500E) near tampa,fl. I wonder if i can repair this bike myself. Tang, can u show us some pictures of what those parts u ordered look like? I wonder if i need to change the signal generator rod(the one in the middle). My bike doesnt start anymore. Hopefully i didnt trash this bike's engine. Any help is appreciated.

[Tang]

i'll try to get pictures up although everything is put together and running \

i think the thing in the middle is the ignition thing i' not sure but i had to take that oil cover due to the bolt slots holding the cranckcase cover snapped off so i had to buy a gasket for that side and that big crankcase cover and that crankcase embelm cover and don't forget to buy the gasket

u need 13,11,1,2,and maybe 3 number 12's

cheapest place i found it was Ronayers all that for like 150 thats including shipping

http://fiche.ronayers.com/Index.cfm/Module/Main/TypeID/26/Type/Motorcycle/MakeID/2/Make/Suzuki/YearID/39/Year/1998/ModelID/6280/Model/GS500E/GroupID/257081/Group/CRANKCASE_COVER

[ricky]

Thanks for the quick reply. I will certainly choose ronayers.com to buy these parts. I have to recover from my bruises(mostly scrapes) before I can think about buying. I wonder if that thing(a circular bolt) in the center is? Is it supposed to move freely?

[beRto]

I got into the same kind of trouble with my bike (GS500E) near tampa,fl. I wonder if i can repair this bike myself. Tang, can u show us some pictures of what those parts u ordered look like? I wonder if i need to change the signal generator rod(the one in the middle). My bike doesnt start anymore. Hopefully i didnt trash this bike's engine. Any help is appreciated.

Glad to hear you are ok. Maybe you should start a new thread describing the issues with your bike and we can all help you sort it out?