man that sucks and right after the paint job too.  Really glad to see that you are alright and werent' seriously injured.  Get to feeling better, slap some bars and a mirror, cover up the rust with the aformentioned paint and ride as is.  Then just get a new tank off ebay or from a junk yard if you have them around and paint it to match.  Are you planning on taking the dents out of the tank or just covering them to make her pretty again?

After a closer inspection last night, my subframe is pretty tweaked, I'm gonna try to straighten it but we'll see how that goes I might end up with more mods than I anticipated. The mounting tabs are broken off the side plastic, but the tank, plastics, fender and chainguard will go back to my Uncle for his opinion since hes the bodywork/painter. I'll prolly send the headlight up too and frame for a white coat..most of the things that are broken (aside from the paint and I have more than enough left over from last time) I intended on working on this winter anyway.

that sounds like a plan, its great to see that you are taking it alright

Well I finally caught up with this post. From what I saw in my mirror,she locked up the back break right away. I saw it smoke then she hit the gravel and got squirrely then maybe a highside and some cartwheeling. She almost pulled it out. I posted the picture I took in the Gallery under bike pics. i couldn't get it to post here. It clearly shows the skid mark. The pole is just to her left out of the pic and by my judgement missed it by no more than 2 feet. Thank God! Don't even like to think about this but I thought it might help. She did just fine. Never tried to lean it once she locked up which saved her alot of pain.

There you go. I think my pop up blocker is messing up my deal here. Aint she cute!.....

OMG - A special, well-admired and well-loved person from heaven was watching over you!!![/b]

So can we see pics of your bruises?

Lissa, I just got done talking to the guy from the State and he said that we should have called the cops so there was a report. Never thought of that since I hate the cops. I may go back to Middleburg tomorrow. If I do I will get some pics of the lack of signage and more of the scene. He said you have a legitmate claim but to not comtact the County until we have our proof because they will just go and put up signs and say they were there. I amy need your address and such for a Police report tomorrow.

lol damn i was thinking about that today too...maybe video of the road? hard to edit out signs so they cant say we photochopped anything

Are you making the "honey i crashed but im ok phone call" in that picture

  actually I think my exact words were "baby I crashed but im ok"

I will do what I can tomorrow I have a vid camera. I will talk to the cops and see what they say. I'm all for stickin it to them. I can always call you when I'm there with the cop.

ok cool. Thanks Jeff I really appreciate this

Anything for you Pastrami...

Quote from: Onlypastrana199 on August 31, 2006, 09:52:32 AM

Oh...  I can't be mad at you any more...  So cute in that little jacket...  I just wanna pinch your cheeks.

Whew, glad to see you are ok. That is very close to my crash in spring of 2003. It was a hard right that wasn't marked. It had a decreasing radious and gravel. It's like I was set up for failure. Looks earilly similar. My bike looked alot like your, but a bit worse too. Mine bounced end over end. Sometimes it feels good to only be sore (when your not hurt).

  -Anti 

TRUE DAT!!!!!

I dont' know how long you've been riding or anything... and I've never been in the situation you were in (rogue car across double line).

Do you know how to hang off?  The only thing I can think of that might have helped might have been to use some dirtbike/racer technique:
- Shifted your weight way forward to the front-right forward corner of your bike and  put a LOT of weight into the turn by shifting your body as close to the (direction of) the front right blinker as possible.

Shifting your weight like that makes entering hard corners easier, and hanging off (if you know how) will maximize your rate-of-turn at whatever lean-angle the bike is at.   It is harder to make adjustments from that position... but it reduces the amount of 'bucking' a highside delivers to you a little bit.

Someone who knows more about riding than me might be able to elaborate. 

Also... it might have just been saferr to run off into the grass than potentially run wide and hit an oncoming car!

I'm also glad your ok .... maybe Rich was helpin you out?