I was actually turning into a guy's driveway. The first 5-6 feet of it is that real soft what i call "creek bottom sand" and its about 8-10 inches deep and thats what saved the bike from any damage. It cushioned the fall so everything turned out really good.

 

Off roading huh ???

 

hahaha - yeah, I was trying to imitate the palm forest scene in Torque man!!!!

 

mad new people here seem to go down under 10mph because of debris why is that? maybe throttle control in certain situations, the guy that owned my bike before me dumped it turning out of work on rocks.

 

Glad you and bike are ok, sounds like you did a great job and not panicing at all.

 

txf4igrl- good job taking care of your baby . if you gotta go down just be happy there is no damage . so yesterday was like graduation for you ? LOL we should havea party for ya !

i did that with both my f3's.....well kinda. lol when i 1st got them home parked there in the garage i put them onto there sides to see if i could pick them up alone just incase so when i did go down i knew i could. i didnt violenty kick them over or anything but i did lay my babies onto the ground ... it still sucked seeing them on the ground

 

well we busted the bikes back out today - wiped the sand off and hit the twisty's hard!

 

You guys know who Troy Lee is? He hasdone many of the custom helmets and bike graphicsfor the pros. Well he said that a lot of guys will either drop their helmet the INSTANT they get them or have him do it for them, just to get it out of the way. SO they won't crash in a race, they would rather ding it up a little now than hugely later. He thought it was really weird. It was in an issue of SPEED magazine about 3 years back, with the white mazdaspeed rx-8 on the cover.
Sweet, yours is outta the way!

 

no one on here should call you a moron.Sheit happens.Learn from it and move on. Glad you nor the f4i took any damage.I have had a serious wreck once and I dropped the damn bike against my washer like a month ago doh lol

 

hahaha - I'm sorry that you dropped your bike but your admission just made me feel a 1000 times better about the sand!!!