Plastic repair isn't hard. The crack in the upper would be easy, but the lower two will probably be more difficult. That isn't bad. Get a mirror and get back out there.

 

i expected worst also........i know it sux just knowing you have cracks in your plastic. you feel like at every stop light people are pointing and laughing at the cracks even if they are an inch long. at least thats how i feel. like they say, it coulda been way worse.

 

good to hear you are ok and the bike has only cosmentic damage. its usually pretty cheap to replace the fairings if you look around. you can buy it off someone or go online and look for it. but as long as nothing is wrong mechanically, at least you can still ride the bike around. be safe out there man.

btw, i almost lowsided a few months ago on a high speed left sweeper (probably going 55mph) towards a curb and i managed to save it. in my head i was for sure i was gonna lowside but i just leaned the bike more and was able to avoid the curb and the ditch. you really have to trust your bike sometimes but i don't know if in ur situation it was too late.

 

Doesn't look too bad. Good to hear that you make it thru alive. If you give up on repairing that upper, let me know because mine is in about 4-5 pieces.

 

Gald everything turned out ok...

I'm a little skeptical when I hear "I know I couldnt have made the turn". I guess I'm of the notion I'm going to try and make that turn vs. standing it up and for sure running it off the road into a tree, rock etc.. on a head on impact.

You were going 45mph?? I guess the turn was a 15mph? Off-camber or no? Do you think you could have gently eased off some throttle (not chop) to scrubb off some speed, dump it in really deep (countersteer) and really try to look through the turn? If you made it through the turn in, a little light maintenance throttle at or a little before the apexto unload the front tire might have helped as well.Trust these bikes and your tires and I think maybe it would have gotten you through with a little pucker but clean.

Who knows though but you do have to make a really instinctive decision in a split second. I try to play these things out in my mind alot so when it does happen (overcook) I dont get the target fixated, brake freeze up and can actively try to mae the best of a bad situation.

 

Hound is right, the bike will take almost any corner. its all in the rider. I made the same mistake you did, twice, before I gained confidence in myself and my bike.
now, the thought of not taking the corner never enters my mind. If Im really cooking it and come up on a surprise corner, a light finger on the front brake as I lay it over, but just barely, then some throttle to keep the front tire from overloading, and just lean like your life depends on it, it does.

the other solution is not to be overcooking corners. I know you didnt do it on purpose, but try to keep it down a notch until you have confidence in the corners. we had a young rider killed locally here a couple of weeks ago. only had the bike like 2 months, took a corner a little too hard, overshot the corner right into a towtruck. 19yr old, dead. RIP.

 

it was a 25-mph turn, so yeah.. it was pretty sharp. Anyway, I've taken it faster than 45 before; I was just distracted while I was riding and wasn't paying attention to my lane position. I'm almost positive if I'd have done a correct inside-outside-inside turn, I'd have had no problems. And the more I think about it, the more positive I am that if I'd have commited to the turn more, I could have probably made it... but I kind of freaked out when I realized I was going too wide (I'm absolutely terrified of lowsiding the thing)... at least I didn't brake hard while leaning, right?

Anyways, I'm hopefully going to order flush-mounts and carbon fiber mirrors tomorrow... then when they come, I can get 'er back on the road again

 

could have been worst. glad youre okay!~