Do Not Try This!

This is not a pretty picture but the outcome is better than expected…

(Not  Proud but want to explain that I feel fortunate I did this on a Vision)

I have had my Vision for over a year and 24,000 + miles.  It’s been my daily driver and weekend cruiser.  I have gone around, avoided and otherwise circumvented the onslaught of misc. road hazards associated with riding in canyons that have rock slides on a fairly regular basis.

Well this time I was not so fortunate in having the ability to miss another one.

Same road as before steep hillsides and drop off’s. It’s daybreak and jack rabbits crossing my path abound. I focus on a something to the side of the road and look back in time to see a small mellon sized rock crossing my path. Well I think I had about .500 sec to do something.

I did what I could to avoid without getting into a drastic lean/ turn on my down hill run @ 50 mph. (Hill on side, drop off other side) In other words I hit this rock with the edge of my front tire and  caught air!

The bike did not really change its path or attitude and I can say while the Oh !@#$’s were going thru my mind I did not ever feel that I was not in control!

When the bike landed I had an immediate vibration / shimmy and knew I had bent the rim.  I was thinking if its only bent I could ride it back home but in all actuality it was all the way flat…  I was able to stop easily and thank goodness I had my AAA card with MC towing on it.

New rim and tire are on the way…

I do recall a post about a year back where someone had overtaken some sort of plywood or sheetrock and went into the weeds with a positive outcome and I reflect on that as this is another instance of fortune.

Many folks are in disbelief that I was not on the ground. I am thankful that is true.

This bike is may have kept me from some otherwise unfortunate outcome.

Ride Safe and Ride often!

JSP…

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