It's not the cobra but it's an update. New daily. 2007 CBR 1000RR. I'm gonna try to get some things rolling on the cobra next week or at least by the weekend after this one coming up.
Sick bike my brother had one in all black.
It's not the cobra but it's an update. New daily. 2007 CBR 1000RR. I'm gonna try to get some things rolling on the cobra next week or at least by the weekend after this one coming up.
Sick bike my brother had one in all black.
Tueday April 12th in the early afternoon I was riding my bike. I was wearing jeans, a t-shirt, and body armor over the shirt as well as a helmet and gloves.
My buddy picked up my bike from the impound and took these pics the next day.
They didn't recover my armor or left glove but they cut my pants and shirt off me. This was all that was left. Blood and dirt on my helmet and necklace and watch pin broke in half. I slid on my face after I ate it apparently do to the wicked scrape marks and cracks on my visor and front of my helmet as well as the cuts on my neck.
These are daily pictures of my recovery from after surgery to a week later as they removed my staples to 2 weeks after when I removed the butterflys.
Here is a pre-op picture set of my left shoulder and a little explanation of the damage.
A week ago I got the pins removed from my right arm. Here are some pics for all you hard core fans.
-updated-
Also as of yesterday I'm able to lift my left arm over my head. If you've been reading along I wasn't ever supposed to be able to do that. If I was at all it would be 9-12 months. It's been 6 weeks.
It's been a while.. Almost a year actually. Time to get back in the game.
I kept the bike. Have had lots of fun with it. I also kept the cobra and the engine. Time to have fun with that.
Digital
Haven't heard from you in a while and all this time I thought you were avoiding me. I'm glad you're OK. I've had my share of "get-offs" but was never injured to the extent you were. Last episode was a high side from too much power in a turn on cold tires that broke my collar bone. Here is a vid of riding The Angeles Crest Highway about 10 minutes form my home in Los Angeles
Motorcycle Racing at Angeles Crest Hwy 2, Part 2 - YouTube
I've taken my Cobra up there but it's even more dangerous in a car (bikers get killed up there on a regular basis) but this road is a blast on a bike and it goes on for 55 miles :banana:
Living so close to this kind of road is not good! I was up there every week and know every curve which gives you a false sense of security. I knew it was only a matter of time. Low and behold I stuffed my TL1000R into a guardrail fending off a 996 (thank god for Vanson road race leathers :bowdown.
Ditch the bike keep the Cobra. I'm sure your injuries make it more difficult but you will get bored after a while not wrenching on something.
Russ :beer:
I have pins. I have scars. Worst of them came from crashing sport bikes. You are going to feel that shit and fight it for the rest of your life. I just read this entire thread and I mean no disrespect when I tell you to sell that ****ing bike. From what I've gathered you have a hard time not going stupid fast. The bike tried to kill you once. Next time it may get the job done. Doesn't look to me like you've got the shoulders to be taking another fall and if you live through the next one you may wish you hadn't. Ten years ago the little breaks and such didn't hurt. Scars were cool. Every ****ing day now when I try to do this or that and it hurts I think "dammit I wish I'd never done ________ (insert stupid here)".
I still love sport bikes and could spend hours remembering the rides and good times. But I'm also lucky to be here after some of the stupid things I did.
Oh btw who were the douchebags that started trashing up your thread a page or two back? Something to be said for the fact that you literally built your turbo kit. Seems like nobody anymore knows how to build anything. Just dial a number and give em the visa card. Then pay somebody else to install the stuff you bought. Then go brag about how you "built" your car lol. I looked into having somebody tackle some projects on my car simply because I now have more money than time. Didn't used to be that way. Ultimately I couldn't do it. I'll make time one of these days to do it all myself like I always have.
I love my bike too. Sold my last sport bike four years ago and still miss it like crazy. Bought a brand new drz 400 this spring. Cruising the back roads, across the fields, and through the pastures scratches my itch without the risks a sport bike brings. I get to enjoy riding with zero traffic around me and the only risk is if I fail to do my job as a rider. I had six sportbikes and put probably 50k mikes on them. Totaled one, beat the hell out of another in a low side (damn chip seal on a corner got me), and had good luck with the other four. Everybody I knew and used to ride with wore full gear all the time but we still got hurt. Every one of us ended up with broken bones and busted bikes. Its part of it and a part that was no longer worth it to me.
Was trying to convey to the OP that the things you can ignore at 20 come back and hurt again down the line. Those pins and such in his arms and shoulders are going to be there to remind him forever. Every time the weather changes they will ache. When its cold they will ache. When you slam into something accidentally it'll make you piss your pants. Sometimes its worth knowing what's down the road so you can make an informed decision what route to take.