
Well this sucks.
Cage took me out the other day (Monday 3/27), changed lanes without looking and sent me tumbling across a lane of freeway traffic. Kat's totalled. Haven't heard official word from the insurance folks yet, but common...blue book is what $1500?
Haven't had a chance to pull what's left of the fairings off and check out the frame yet, but the forks are nuked as is the headlight stay.
If the frame is still in good shape, she'll get resurrected... eventually...


might not look too bad yet...

getting worse

that's fixable...

So's that...

This though...not sure yet.

From a different angle

Well that's clearly fuct...If the frame is true and the bike is salvagable, drop the racetech goodies into a new set of kat forks, or swap in GSXR forks?

Fixable, with enough free time...

Ugly, but whole.

Don't even know how that happened, I HAD a tank bag on there before hand. Unless that's from my knee...which come to think of it might explain why it's so sore.

Probably fixable...
All in all, I got lucky. Spot of rash the size of a fist on my side, and one the size of a silver dollar on me knee. ATGATT!!!
Helmet is toast. Jacket was a winter/waterproof mesh jacket, so it's toast - holes in both arms. Leather vest I wore over the jacket looks fine. Guess who is buying only leather from now on.
gloves are toast, have a hole all the way to the liner (got a heat blister from that) in one, and the other is ground down almost all the way through. Pants are done for, they were mesh too.
Little stiff and sore the first couple days on the left side where the car hit, but I'm back to ~90%. Left shoulder, wrist, and knee are still sore, but fully usable.
After my girlfriend came and picked me up, I went home and got my truck to get the bike home. Wasn't about to push it up the ramps in my beat up state if I didn't have to, so popped the key in, hit the button and...fired up. Since there's a quarter sized hole in the engine cover, and most of my oil soaked into the freeway, not highly recommended. But it worked. These engines are seriously bulletproof. Just ask the 115,000 miles on mine.
So...now I'm bikeless. Kinda...going to dig into the carcass this weekend and see if the frame is good. Whatever that outcome is, I've got my long-term-havent-had-a-chance-in-literally-almost-2-years project 1100, and my old ninja 250 that's been sitting for 4 years since I had to throw it in a storage unit for a couple months during a move and the carbs clogged up. So...which project is it gonna be?
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