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Offline go-fish

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Feelin Lucky? Part II
« on: January 18, 2008 - 05:09:12 PM »
The bike was a 2003 Buell XB12, 1203cc's punched out to 1450cc's, powdercoated frame, carbon fiber body panels, Micron Exhaust. Prepped by Appleton HD/Buell.

The incident happened in 2006 when I crested a hill and there was some patch work on some pot holes that was less than stellar. My steering stabilzer failed to do it's job and I spilled.
There was a cop behind me and he said I should look into a suit against the contractor that does the county roads. I wish he would have had his dash cam on!
I slid down the road getting 2nd and 3rd degree burns on my legs, bum, back, and arm. I slid into a canal and the bike landed right next to me, actually touching me. The canal was flood zone mandatory 10 feet deep and I ended up with a broke ankle from that.
I was wearing long sleaves, pants, gloves, and helmet. I came off the bike and hit my face on the pavement and busted my face shield off. It sickens me when I see lame brains wearing shorts and flip flops on bikes or worse girls in skimpy clothes on back.
Like my previous truck accident thread, I landed within eyesight of a cemetery. Scary. Wonder how many more chances I'll get. LOL.



I didn't walk away from this one, I crawled.
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Re: Feelin Lucky? Part II
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2008 - 05:10:18 PM »


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Re: Feelin Lucky? Part II
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2008 - 05:11:52 PM »
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Re: Feelin Lucky? Part II
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2008 - 05:13:52 PM »
Looks like you have lived a charmed life.   
Got a pretty good start on my M46 optioned Barracuda restoration but now it is on hold till I can gather more funds.  Still need a few parts for it.  SIU Graduate 75 AAS Automotive Tech, 94 BS Advanced Tech Studies, 1997 MSED Workforce Education and Development

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Re: Feelin Lucky? Part II
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2008 - 05:28:09 PM »
And I still claim they were unavoidable accidents. ;)
 I was trying to find pics of my first mopars for another thread and ran across these. I almost forgot they happend. I guess that's why I keep getting out on the roads.

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Re: Feelin Lucky? Part II
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2008 - 05:30:29 PM »
The last pic of me in the get away chair was about a month after. Still was going to the burn unit every other day. It was stil very painful to sit too.
I can't wait to get anoter scooter.
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Re: Feelin Lucky? Part II
« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2008 - 07:35:55 PM »
That bike had to be QUIIICK...

Probably a good thing the cop was behind you - you might have been going quicker...

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