Hi all,
sad to sad I crashed the bike, but it looks like we will both live to ride another day!!
I've attached some images as Im interested in hearing opinions, I always try to learn from an off but Im not sure what I could have done. Was leaving home for work, travelling along a well known route, doing probably about 40kms/hr (i had been accelerating having just passed over a speed hump at very low speed).
My experience was I was upright and slowly gaining speed, felt the rear wheel move and the bike started to slide, next thing I know I've high sided and hit my right shoulder and head against the roadway and it was all over - it was reasonably violent - had to go to hospital in ambulance as I wasn't with it apparently - I have a fine fracture to my T2 vertebrae and soft tissue damage to right shoulder but should recover fully within a month or two and will be back on the bike.
I was wearing all the gear, leather jacket is a fair bit thinner on right arm and eps liner on helmet has compressed at point of impact so I guess i'll be going helmet and jacket shopping (never a bad thing). Kevlar jeans held up well with minimal wear and boots were undamaged. Emergency services seemed impressed with the armor in my jacket - i guess a lot of riders don't wear it?
I do recall the bike starting to slide, i went with it and didn't do anything with the throttle or brakes before coming off but to be honest it was soo quick I'm not sure how else i could have reacted. Ive been daily commuting for many years and at 42 I haven't had an off since i was a teenager so i think I'm a competent rider.
The main damage to bike is a snapped off brake lever, scuffed right mirror and master brake reservoir cover, scuffed right floorboard, and scuffed right saddle bag, there is denting and scratching to the right silencer underneath not visible in pic of bike, there is also a bit of damage to the right highway peg and the crash bars front and rear on the right are more scratched than the pic shows.
There was an accident on the road 5hrs before. The sand visible on the roadway before the actual of point of coming off was not there and the it was not so visible early in morning. its since been cleaned and sand put down but the oil is still obvious on the roadway and the surface still felt slippery in sneakers many days later.
I am thinking i was unfortunate enough to come along before the road was cleaned, picked up oil and the rear wheel lost and regained traction and I high sided.
does anything else stand out to anyone in the pics that I might learn from? should i have reacted more quickly instead of going with the slide, would it likely have changed anything (Ive always been told not to shut off the throttle or hit the brake)?
thanks...