Towing to get your bike out of the ghetto and back to the dealer after your wreck: $205.00
Insurance Co-Pay for the Vicoden that you'll need to get some sleep after separating your shoulder: $8.47
Estimate to replace all of the parts that you damaged when you wrecked: $6097.07

Embarrassment of having your bike totaled eleven (11) days after your bought it: Priceless

There are some things at the motorcycle dealer that money can't buy, for everything else there is a hobbled sport bike rider with a MasterCard.

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Lane splitting gone awry!

 

Ouch! That sucks dude. What happened?

 

I was splitting lanes (like an idiot) in heavy rush hour traffic on my way home from work and the girl in the car in front and to the slight left of me cut into my lane. I was in the process of changine lanes (leaning) and going about 25-30 mph faster than she was (she was stopped). I squeezed the front brake so as not to hit her, but the bike was way too far out of balance to brake, and I flipped the bike. I did a complete flip and landed on my shoulder and head just a couple of feet from her rear bumper, the bike flipped, landed on the windscreen/cowl and then dropped onto my left leg. The impact cracked the stator cover and all the oil dumped out in about four (4) seconds, it also snapped the foot peg the handle bar and f***ed up just about every piece of plastic on the bike.

The worst part was that it happened so quick and I flipped over and all so I was kinda disconbobulated and it took me a moment to getting my bearings and find the bike--I bet I looked real funny. Then when I lifted the bike up I was a little too wound up and I tossed it off the street (in the middle of heavy traffic) onto the sidewalk and scratched up the other side--this accounts for about $2000 - 2500 worth of the damage!

Oh well, I'm ok (if you can walk away it was a good accident, right?) and now I am finding the whole thing kind of funny... Hooray for gear

And I think I have learned my a**hole-urban-sport-bike-rider-splitting-lanes-in-traffic lesson! If I had just slowed down with traffic nothing at all would have happened.

 

Damn! What can you say to that???? Where I live (Orange County CA) if you dont split lanes count on at leat 2 hours of traffic for every 30 miles. Makes me think twice about Monday. Lesson for all I guess. Sux to be you though. At least you can afford full coverage. For my liter RR in California it is 2500 a year. Who can afford that kind of cash? Wonder if they will total it for that kind of damage.

 

Dude I hope it all works out for you.

In regards to RRip's post...

I might be wrong but I think Cali is the only state that allows lane spliting. Here in Ohio I know it is a no no. I am quilty of doing it just last week through stopped traffic racing a thunder storm home.[8D]

 

Dude that sucks. You have me thinking twice about splitting traffic.

 

keep it to 15mph, and drive with your High beams on. I know I need to get a louder pipe too. I love splitting lanes, funny when cops look at you like, *********kaaaaa. I wont do it in some cities tho.