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[LYD]

Charles is always a great host!!  Sorry I couldn't make it, but the pics look great, and so does the bike!

[LYD]

Went riding yesterday morning, temp in low-mid 70's, 120 miles round trip, 3.5 hours.

I went south yesterday to the northern applicachian mts and man was it great!  I left about 8 in the morning and it seemed like I was the only one on the road.  Nice cool weather, perfect for full leathers!  I went down highway 9 for about 45 miles, over 100, 25-45 mph turns (posted) (constant hills) then went down 43 and again more of the same.  Then went through jefferson lake state park, which was just awesome.  twisties on cliff sides, elevation changes from going down one side to up the other side.  It was great.  Couldn't find the camera, but I will probally do it again next weekend and will take the camera.  I wish you guys could have been here it was beautiful!!!  I rode for about 3.5 hours and was home by noon to spend some quality time with mindy.

Wish you were here!

[fwtcc]

That sounds like a pretty good ride.  I'm quite a bit jealous.

[LYD]

It was great!  Just wish I could have found the camera.  But It has been found and its a long weekend, I just might have to do it again!

[Duc L'Smart]

At least the riding's good... Snowing next week?!?

[LYD]

I wouldn't doubt it!!  Man riding to work in the morning is starting to suck!  Its getting down in the low 50's at night! BRRRRRRRR!!!  But it makes up for it in the afternoon!  high 70's to low 80's!  After 8ish its pretty good!

[fwtcc]

Shiver on the way in and love the long way home!

[LYD]

I'm still waiting for the summer?  When does it get warm here?

[fwtcc]

Texas warm?  Hopefully never, gets to be about mid 90's around a couple weeks ago we are in the taper to winter now though

[Duc L'Smart]

yeah, it be warm here. not HOT, but pretty damn warm. and humid. it's actually been a mild August

[Bonwilder]

That sounds like a pretty good ride.  I'm quite a bit jealous.

+1    BTW, fwtcc, what happened to the 05 s2r?  [moto]

[fwtcc]

+1    BTW, fwtcc, what happened to the 05 s2r?  [moto]

Funny you should ask.

It was a delightful afternoon, I had run home for lunch.  Grab a bite to eat, say hello to my roommates, feed the dogs, and sit for a second.  Lunch went quite well.  Then I treked back to work.  My drive to work makes use of a four lane city street.  I am casually making it through the city, the drivers in Ohio are quite awful and require quite a bit of caution.  Then I leave a traffic light and head down a hill.  On the otherside of this hill I make notice of a van.  This van is in the left lane, so as  I become nearer to it I change lanes to the right.  Well, apparently he was planning on turning left, yet used no signal to inform me of such information, and thusly got in my lane.  So I switch lanes back to the left.  My guess is in that instant that we were both in the same lane he saw me behind him and so he gets in the right lane again, to, and I am assuming here, get out of my way.  So now dude is back in my lane, so I pop back over in to the right lane.  Now I hadn't really been using a lot of brake during this, mostly because I thought most people have the sense to get in a lane and stay in it, and didn't forsee the situation becoming what it had and I was leaning the bike back and forth a bit and didn't want to take unnecessary risk.  He had been slowing down some so, again assuming here, he could make his turn.  Well, as a changed lanes to the right for the last time I was passing his van.  In that instant that we had both again shared the left lane he must of seen me and decided to get back over to the right.  Well as he made this decision he came over and hit my front wheel as my foot hit his bumper.  This sent me in to the curb and right over it.  So now I am in the grass riding in the rivet caused by a parking lot curb in between that and the sidewalk.  I was pretty relieved that I hadn't run in to any street poles as a came to that location.  As I was in this rivet, realizing that I may well pull this off I look up and there is MonsterUV parrellel parked with the parking lot curb, where, at the very least, my handlebars would smash into and send the bike in to the broadside.  As I try to lean the bike it isn't going any where and I come to the realization that it is time to abandon ship.  So I throw my ass off to the side, wait a second and jump.  The jump sends the bike under the too bigUV and me out in to the street.  I jump up to go turn off the bike and all of the sudden, a sharp jolt shoots up my leg and I fall right back down.  So I get back up on one foot hop over to the bike and turn it off.  Then sit there and see a hole in my shin and decide that it is in my best interest to hold it shut.  Too wrap things up, the ambulance came and took me to the ER, I broke 4 metatarsals and dislocated one of those and an ankle bone.  The guy did stop, because he thought I was in the wrong.  Said I was doing eighty, when at the ticket hearing the stand alone witness said her Hyundai was a car length away from me.  The light was less than a quarter mile away.  That is a fast Hyundai.  So now I took the aftermarket parts of the bike and I need to go pick up my check for it and have the salvage company come pick it up.

[Bonwilder]

Dammit, that's a painful story.......how long ago was that?  Have you fully recovered?  I have almost wrecked a few times due to ppls inability to drive a car with any common sense.  It can be very frustrating.  Sorry about that, man....... Do you have another bike yet?

[Duc L'Smart]

ppls inability to drive a car with any common sense.

some ppl suck

[LYD]

some ppl suck

What he said!!!