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Rode downtown tonight to get coffee, almost back to the shop and turned a corner and there was a black plastic disc on the road I ran over as the bike was laid over and braking.. went down lowside, I tumbled off the right side. I'll heal, skidded my arm up a bit, the bike got off reasonably well, no expensive parts touched the road (well, every part is expensive but...), and I have tiny turn signals so those didn't wreck the headlight ear etc. Damm it.....

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1974 Kawasaki H2B 750, 1981 Yamaha XV750 Cafe, 1986 Kawasaki KDX200, 2003 Honda XR100, 2004 SDG140. 2006 Ninja 500R Turbo intercooled fuel injected.

As long as you are OK, that is what matters most. Everything else just becomes projects.

Thanks, I'm ok, stings a bit right now is all. Went back to the corner and looked, there is a low area by the curb and fine sand and dirt from the curb to about 4 feet out, I just cut the apex a little closer than usual and it bit me. I'm sort of laughing, between being pissed about having to fix the H2, as a teenager I went down a lot of times on the street, our mother got good at patching myself and my brothers up. This takes me back to those days, almost nostalgic in a weird way. Now I'm really reliving the Kawasaki triples experience!

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1974 Kawasaki H2B 750, 1981 Yamaha XV750 Cafe, 1986 Kawasaki KDX200, 2003 Honda XR100, 2004 SDG140. 2006 Ninja 500R Turbo intercooled fuel injected.

Glad you're OK. That sounds like more of a crash than a drop.

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If it surges, that's normal, upshift.

Glad you are ok.

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Twist the throttle, tilt the horizon, and have a great time. What triples are all about...........

Bummer but your ok debris on the roadway it happens a friend snapped his arm backwards nasty nasty from a cchunk of 2x4 on the road.

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1975 S3 project bike
1974 H1 project bike
1972 Yamaha R5
1974 Yamaha RD350

As was said , sort of, being able to fix a bike after a fall is a blessing, the alternative not so much.

Seems the triple forums the last few months have had way more than enough bad news on them for a while, glad this was not worse.

Thanks guys. There were gouges in the road for 30 feet from the brake pedal, expansion chamber, brake master cylinder, oil pump cover. Two drunk Harley bikers came from the bar over the road after I got it picked up, then argued with me for 5 mins while I kicked it with wide open throttle to clear the flooded fuel and get it to run, saying I should sit there and wait. I didn't feel like explaining how a 2 stroke works. All I wanted to do was get the bike secured and safe so I could tend to my arm. Then a lady stopped offering tissues to put on my arm, I said thanks, I'm only 1 min from my shop, I'll take care of it there. I'm a bit stiff right now LOL.

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1974 Kawasaki H2B 750, 1981 Yamaha XV750 Cafe, 1986 Kawasaki KDX200, 2003 Honda XR100, 2004 SDG140. 2006 Ninja 500R Turbo intercooled fuel injected.

I know how you feel. I fell off my H2 a few weeks ago ...first time I have fallen off on the street. From the Canadian board:

Just a weird series of events: Twiss road near my place has a nice curvy section that winds down to a stream and then winds back up a steep hill. I came down cautiously fearing there might be sand on the road. As I started up the steep section of the uphill, I needed to go third to second - but all I got was a nasty neutral..so now I'm leaning into a sharp uphill corner, just inches from the edge of the road/ditch ...suddenly I have no power. I put out my right foot, but below me was only ditch, so in I went..said ditch is beautifully lined with melon-sized rocks.

Now the H2 is on top of me, revving to the moon and pouring gas on my groin. Every foul word out of my mouth draws the same response from my bluetooth Scala "not available, not available". I get out from under it and shut it off. I manage to lift the bike - which was harder than expected due to the steep incline, large rocks and a fully torn right rotator cuff (existing injury). One attempt to push the bike out of the ditch and onto the road, almost led to further disaster: the bike rolled back and I was forced to drop it on the rocks again to avoid being dragged into the ravine.

As I'm standing there dripping sweat, a lady drives by and asks if I'm OK..I reply that I am (a bit optimistic) but that I could use some help. She drives away to the bottom of the hill and I assume she might have just headed for home at that point. To my relief she not only comes walking up the hill, but has also brought her teenage daughter. They were fantastic - I told them "no offence if you want to just walk away - this is difficult and dangerous". No way she said, tell us what to do. There were both in shorts, t-shirts and Birkenstock sandals ..on a steep hill, in a ditch full of rocks, with a weirdo who crashed his bike..

We tried pushing the bike up out of the ditch..but it just wasn't going to happen. I told the young girl.. "Megan, if you're up for it, we'll slowly walk the bike backwards down the ditch to the bottom of the hill". "Let's go she says"..mom offered moral support. Megan did the heavy lifting as I had to balance the bike, work the steering and braking. Man, that was hard. Those women had so much grease on their hands and all I had was a filthy shop rag in the tail piece. They graciously let me smear the grease all over their paws and then they were gone. Bike fired up fine, with signals dangling and mirrors twisted, I lifted my purple ass onto the bike and rode home.

That's the first time I wiped out on the street - not pleasant ..

Wow Z, what a nightmare! It's amazing how bad it can be to lose power at low speed in a turn. I can remember a couple times when it happened to me and I had to jam my leg down hard to keep upright, so I know exactly what it must have felt like to not have anything to push against.

This game show clip is what I always think of when I hear the name Birkenstock. Not that it applies to these extremely helpful ladies, of course.

https://youtu.be/dqDv8fHHE-w?t=86

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If it surges, that's normal, upshift.