Classic bite by gravel

[steve murdoch]

Glad it was just the gear that got wrecked.

How are the aches and pains a day later?

[storm 64]

I'm sorry this happened to you Kerry, but I'm glad you are okay. It sounds like a sweet lady was there to help and calm the situation. But you must ask, couldn't she have or have someone sweep up the gravel in the intersection? Especially if this wasn't the first get off from a motorcycle. 🤔

[kerrfunk]

Glad it was just the gear that got wrecked.

How are the aches and pains a day later?

Oooh, it hurts. I discovered a new bruise or three. I'm taking ibuprofens.

I'm sorry this happened to you Kerry, but I'm glad you are okay. It sounds like a sweet lady was there to help and calm the situation. But you must ask, couldn't she have or have someone sweep up the gravel in the intersection? Especially if this wasn't the first get off from a motorcycle. 樂

I'll just say it's a country road, off a main drag, and the offending intersection (50 yards away from the main drag) is probably a good 1500 square feet or more. No small task for a private citizen to keep it clean. I will probably contact the county dept of highways.

[rphillips]

Hate it for you, but nearly all of us have been there. Really glad it wasn't worse. Kind'f normal to find more sore spots the second day. Looks like most parts will still be available. Dunn'o Case guards may be hard to find. Good luck

[Rich82GS750TZ]

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[Cipher]

aww the good old crash bars. The Listerine of motorcycle accessories.

All fixable.

[Burque73]

OUCH! Sorry to read this Kerry.

Heal up quick.

[Rob S.]

It's like that old airplane axion - any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.

[Brendan W]

It's like that old airplane axion - any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.

Better than good.
Any landing the leaves the machine re-usable is excellent!

[Grimly]

Over the past few months I learned something about road gravel.
About a year ago the roads people came out and resurfaced the road running by my place, for a couple of miles each direction, up to the nearest intersections.
It was a beautiful job, the surface they left behind was like a GP track, absolutely flawless, the best road surface for literally miles around. Like having a pristine GP track of my own for a short distance, anyway.
A few months after that they re-appeared and dumped an inch of granite chippings on the beautiful surface. I was intensely pee'd off at that, as at one fell swoop they'd transformed this glorious surface from a trackday delight into the Road From Hell.
Anyway, time and traffic passed, and gradually the surface became more consolidated until it's now quite rideable with only a modicum of care, but I have to exercise normal observation and be aware of some sneaky hidden gravel patches on the edges and corners.
It suddenly struck me the other day that was the cause of the long snakey not-tar-snakes on the main roads around here. These not-tar-snakes are like grooves in the road, right in the middle of the lane, where I'd normally be riding, and they're quite good at causing the bike to suddenly go a bit off-colour in the handling department, causing me more than once to suspect I might have a puncture or something's just broken.
Bear with me, I'm getting to the point...
These roads were surfaced in exactly the same fashion as my local road, and the heavier volume of traffic on them created the not-tar-snakes as the gravel was swept from the normal tracks of the 4, 6, 8 and 10-wheeled traffic both to the sides of the road and to the middle of the lane, where it was eventually pounded into the road structure, but in an uneven fashion. These damned grooves are there permanently now, at least until the next re-surfacing work, just waiting to catch the next unwary motorcyclist out.

Tricky stuff, gravel.

[GSXR7ED]

Hey Kerry & Mrs Kerry,

glad you are ok. The experience is etched in your mind forever--for both of you. Sliding for approximately 20 feet on gravel through the lens of your helmet...I'm sure you were thinking, "I'm glad I wore my helmet...hey wait, where's my wife?"

Glad you took the brunt of the force which cushioned your wife's impact...I say that in a good way!

Prayers for a quick recovery for both of you. Then comes the eval for the repairing of your bike.

Let us know how the discussion goes with cleaning/repairing that road.

Ed

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[Rob S.]

Better than good.
Any landing the leaves the machine re-usable is excellent!

True. How many bloodied riders in shredded clothes have you seen popping up looking for their bikes, trying to upright them, only to be restrained by police/EMT. Been there several times myself.

[Brendan W]

True. How many bloodied riders in shredded clothes have you seen popping up looking for their bikes, trying to upright them, only to be restrained by police/EMT. Been there several times myself.

One too many unfortunately and in the most recent case, unlike the wise Kerry, he did not have proper gear. Not pretty in the hand department.
Also unlike Kerry, nobody was the slightest bit interested in his plight, no Samaritan with band aids, not that they would have been of much use.
The police cruised by as I was sitting him down and they just turned their heads the other way and kept on going.

[dorkburger]

Kerry, glad you and the Mrs came out with minimal injury.

In the pic of the case saver, it looks like a bolt is missing. If it was missing before the fall, it may have allowed the guard to move and break the cooling fin. Regardless though, they did their job.

[Nessism]

Another wish for rapid healing. Take that little lady of yours for some pampering, whatever makes her happy. Thank goodness it wasn't worse.