There's a horrible bridge near my place, and the constuction crews somehow felt it would be helpful to scatter gravel and tar around the road, while leaving nice big empty pits in the pavement at set intervals.
I was going about 25kph, following traffic, watching the road and being damn careful.
Then the car next to me hit a pit, his hubcap popped off and shot under my front wheel, and i ended up 5 feet in front of my bike in the middle of a 4 lane bridge with moving traffic, and a sore knee.
So the bike ended up sliding, and not just crashing down, but it ****ed out all the gas from the carbs onto the pavement, gouged my fairings (the gravel on the road really helped with this one) ripped my mirror off, and snapped my upper fairing where it bolts onto the frame.
I had it painted last month. by hand.
I primed it and it started back up, then drove home. no apparent issues aside from idling ackwardly at low rpms- should i be adjusting anything, calibrating anything, or looking for anything that has a tendancy to go wrong on drops?
I was going about 25kph, following traffic, watching the road and being damn careful.
Then the car next to me hit a pit, his hubcap popped off and shot under my front wheel, and i ended up 5 feet in front of my bike in the middle of a 4 lane bridge with moving traffic, and a sore knee.
So the bike ended up sliding, and not just crashing down, but it ****ed out all the gas from the carbs onto the pavement, gouged my fairings (the gravel on the road really helped with this one) ripped my mirror off, and snapped my upper fairing where it bolts onto the frame.
I had it painted last month. by hand.
I primed it and it started back up, then drove home. no apparent issues aside from idling ackwardly at low rpms- should i be adjusting anything, calibrating anything, or looking for anything that has a tendancy to go wrong on drops?
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