Sorry no pictures.

Just want to remind everyone not to ride when they are angry.:banghead:

was in third going about 35 just a t-shirt :banghead: Stupid.

Helmet save my life for sure. Lots of road rash.

All the controls exploded, bars bent inhalf, lots of rash and worst of all yoshi ground down pretty far.

I was wondering what kinda files I would need to clean the pipe up
and how to so called "buff it out"
same with the plastics......:thumbsup:

Oh man! Sorry to hear about that! I did this very same thing when I was 18 on my XL600 and if I had not been wearing my helmet, I'd have lost my front teeth, my lips and my nose! The bike cost several hundred bucks to fix...in 1986 dollars! Lesson learned, for sure. I hope to avoid the urge to wheelie on the bike I just bought, mainly because I'm not good at it!

Best of luck with getting the bike (and yourself) back into riding condition!

sorry to hear that. i lowsided going relatively slow with just t-shirt, shorts and helmet, just a little rash. road rash teaches you a lesson real quick, wont do that again will ya now.

Glad to hear you are halfway ok ;) "All gear all the time" (AGATT) is a great motto. I say great motto because I find myself cheating sometimes too. I was in the front yard last year and I looped my DRZ. Snapped my Renthal bars....

Got any pics (the rash and the bike) ;)

sorry to hear about the DRZ, that's lesson to be learned to everybody that doesn't always wear a helmet because you never know when your brain is going to tell you hand to twist the throttle and bring the front end up, and then the same thing that happend to you can happen to anybody

I have a long time friend who was on a MT bike with his Fiance. She fell and hit the side of her head/cheek doing less than 10 mph. They went home and she started complaining of a headache. It got worse so off to the emergency room they went. Fast forward two years: She is in a permanent care facility and will be bed ridden forever. She can't even talk! The diagnosis was:
A subarachnoid hemorrhage, it is bleeding into the subarachnoid space—the area between the arachnoid membrane and the pia mater surrounding the brain. This may occur spontaneously, usually from a ruptured cerebral aneurysm, or may result from head injury.

Remember Indian Larry? He was doing about 8mph. Never even woke up. I think he died the day after the stunt.

Yeah if you hit the right spot!!!!!

I read on advrider about a guy who was just moving his bike in the garage. (Bike off) and slipped. He hit his head just right and passed away :( Now I"m not saying I'm going to wear a helmet when I move my bike in the garage but man.....

Always wear gear, as sweat dries faster than blood. I suppose that's enough lecture, you figured it out by now anyway.

Sucks that you looped it tho! Pain and cash are always the end result! Heal up quick and get that bike fixed! Good luck!

glad you were wearing your hemlet and aren't too bad off. Maybe invest some muffler sliders in the future and hopefully prevent any further damage to the muffler? YOu can get them here:


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Anyone playing around with wheelies should be just waiting for the infamous loop. I almost looped it once just playing in front of the house while my wife was snapping pictures. The pic doesn't look near as dramatic as it felt! :bonk: :lol:

Been there, done that...looped a wheelie about 5 years ago. I was wearing gear, but no boots on a dirt bike. It was a slow wheelie, and sharp pegs landed on my leg and cut me to the bone. I was in the hospital for 6 days with leg infection on morphine. Wheelchair for a month. I was riding again before I was off crutches...crutched to the bike and got on (and that was a heavily modified RD!), get off the bike next to my crutches and crutch away....learned my lesson, and now I ALWAYS wear full gear. I've crashed twice since on the street on the throttle, and didn't have the slightest of injuries wearing full gear. Probably crashed 50 times since on the dirt wearing full gear, riding MX track or desert, and never been injured with full gear. It was just the one time with no boots, learned the hard way...but will never ride without full gear INCLUDING boots again...even just to the store.

Thanks for all the support. My body is almost back to normal 2 weeks later.
Bike is shot now. started bending and soldering it up.
I had a DC socket spliced into the wires behind the headlight shroud.
(orange for hot and black with white stripe for ground)
after the crash im not getting power to it anymore. im clueless.
disappointing working on a bike that I cant afford to bring back to where it was.