[ST] BROKEN STUFF...... explained

["STeve Duncan" <xhippy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

thanks tom, brian, john and all for your thoughts. i am going to an 
orthopedic specialist today and get checked out.  this is a damn painful 
injury now that i've run out of vicoden (hillbilly heroin).

i seem to be much better at going fast than slow  :]   i wish i had some 
glorious story to tell about my daring-do.  but the truth is i was making a 
5mph u-turn at the end of an awsome run across hwy 123 in north/central 
arkansas. the dragon or 28 or others in n.c. have nothing on ark 123.

i was up there to hook-up with a group i had never met in person ("motolist" 
on the net).  as i was coming north i met a group coming the other way that 
i thought was them.  at the end of 123 (intersects 74) i decided to go back 
and catch them.  the road had much more slope than i realized and as my bike 
turned, picked up speed quickly and i simply lost my balance and WHACK! my 
shoulder is bouncing off the pavement.  this happened so fast i did not 
realize i was even falling 'till i hit the ground.  all at a rapid 3 to 5 
mph!!!!

looking back i realize that i was NOT concentrating on the job at hand, 
rather, already planning my strategy to catch the group.  stupid is as 
stupid does.

word to the wise....bad things can happen at ANY SPEED.  always keep your 
concentration level at maximum, or you may end up having to "fess up" to a 
moronic event like me (or worse).

i've been riding 30+ yrs, over 300,000 miles, had many a "get-off" in 
various situations up 80 mph.  this is the worst i've ever been hurt, ever.

y'all be careful out there, all the time.  don't join the "stupid move 
club", i'm the president and i don't need any new members.  ;-]

bike seems ok, gouged faring and left pannier outer shell.  it landed on the 
left side (downhill) and was still running.  when we started it up there was 
a large amount of white smoke from the exhaust and oil dripping out the 
belly pan.  i guess oil got in the air box, but she was running fine and 
started fine the next day (still a little oil drip, no smoke).

i was wearing my triumph perf leather jacket w/armor.  happy to report that 
the armor worked well as i did not even have a bruise or soreness in my 
shoulder, which absorbed the entire impact of the fall.  well except for the 
broken clavicle part.  the collar-bone must be the easiest bone to break in 
the human body.  or i'm just gettin' brittle.


steve d.
"underdawg"

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