Black ice down!

[desmodave]

tuesday 12th....snows gone now to get back on bike to work its clod and icy out the wimdow but after taking it steady up the street im on my way acouple of miles down the road all is fine till i cross the river towards the village of methally take the first bend into the straight no problems till I open up on the run up the straight half way the bike weaves and I slow down but not quick enough the bike dissapears from under me and the pride and joy is down the road shit! dropped it for the 1st time i'll see if i'm alive later....after picking it up later Im lucky it's not as bad as I thought. Ive broke back brake pedal...right radiator small panel....damaged the whole main panel.....but I may be able to fix this myself if I can get the red paint match......does anyone know it at all? also the wing mirror indicator(got to be the best crash bung going now!)lens......could be hard to find....someone told me these were off a car is this true?.......safe riding to all dont be as daft as i am stay on the bus in winter or if your rich enogh the 4x4!.......desmodave,

[Tamburinifan]

Sorry to hear about your crasch!

Mirror lens your smallest problem, any glass shop can fix that.

[Finnpaso]

That orange flasher lens You can also get cheaply from Duc dealer... about 6€,or so....

Hopefully YOU didnt hurted so badly?

[paso750]

Dave, you`re lucky you`re ok. All damage you mention is minor. You`re also lucky if the tank didn`t get any dents.

G.

[stylianos62]

You are not alone,check my recent topic "restoring pasion".
Everything at ebay,don't worry.Have a good health and live a new fall in love when you rebuilt this bike.

[Finnpaso]

Its very nice to fix fairings/rebuild engines/make upgrades, etc, IF HAVE TIME FOR THAT!!! I have such problem, that no time enough to do all, what want to do !!! I have fallen down some times with my bikes and its funny, that when i have that "clear mind after crash from deep field", first time is to check, "what happened to MY Paso????" Anyway human body fixing is much more IMPORTANT, than fix ANY Paso !!!! Near EVERY Paso is better after crash, than "she" was before crash!!!!! ......Surely, IF she was fixed with good taste in good hands.....

[persempre907]

I have fallen down some times with my bikes and its funny, that when i have that "clear mind after crash from deep field", first time is to check, "what happened to MY Paso????"

3 weeks ago I dropped with my black 907.
I still have swollen my right foot, but my first thing was the same.
Luckily, I was going very slowly and only an orange lens was broken, even if my foot is still aching...
Good luck
Ciao

[stylianos62]

Really what sense or thinkings have you feel during exactly the "fly time" untill coming "the touching ground" ? Fear,happy(euphoria) or you enter to time-machine.......
For me at last time my mind switch-off completely before I see my "fly movie"and after the crash when I realize what happen I didn't believe that I lost my personal time.

[Desmo_Demon]

Sorry to hear of your mishap....

Must be that time of year....I dropped my ST2 at a stop sign due to gravel a week ago. The next day, a guy drove off the road on a Bandit 600 and broke his collar bone, and then the following day, a good friend of ours crashed his bike when making a quick run to the store.....I hope you heal fast and the bike is repaired to as good-as-new in no time.

[persempre907]

a guy drove off the road on a Bandit 600 and broke his collar bone

I think I'd prefer to die...

[Desmo_Demon]

I think I'd prefer to die...

Because he was riding a Suzuki Bandit 600?

[persempre907]

I had an Honda Hornet, not too different from the Bandit and I have been survived .

But a school-friend of mine had his collar bone broken because of a bike accident... He was tetraplegic from...

[Desmo_Demon]

had his collar bone broken because of a bike accident... He was tetraplegic from...

That's bad. Was it a neck bone or a section of his spine?

The collar bone I'm speaking of is the small one that runs from the shoulder and connects to the front of the sternum (upper part of the chest or rib cage, at the base of the neck). The collar bone is commonly broken in small falls, and often a full-face helmet can break the collar bone if a person's chin is moved toward the chest. My wife broke her collar bone in the late 90's and has a knot on the bone where it healed.

[higgy]

Put my scapula through my right lung many years ago. Scapula is your wing bone,opposite the clavicle. My only thought at the time during the accident was
Oh Shit! Not again.............Then I watched myself slide endlessly down the side of the road and break both ankles and knees on a telegraph pole that finally sent
me spinning back onto the edge of the roadway breaking several ribs just for good measure. No pain at the time,in fact no pain for several days till my lung stopped bleeding allowing them to do the first surgery. The first surgery was to remove the blood from my chest(1800cc) so that they could re-inflate my lung. The first hint of real pain I had during the whole ordeal was the surgeon's knife cutting into my pleural sack to let the blood out.

[jcslocum]

Put my scapula through my right lung many years ago. Scapula is your wing bone,opposite the clavicle. My only thought at the time during the accident was
Oh Shit! Not again.............Then I watched myself slide endlessly down the side of the road and break both ankles and knees on a telegraph pole that finally sent
me spinning back onto the edge of the roadway breaking several ribs just for good measure. No pain at the time,in fact no pain for several days till my lung stopped bleeding allowing them to do the first surgery. The first surgery was to remove the blood from my chest(1800cc) so that they could re-inflate my lung. The first hint of real pain I had during the whole ordeal was the surgeon's knife cutting into my pleural sack to let the blood out.

Damn!