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Good morning, First let me say that I Thank God I’m still here and I’m glad it wasn’t worse than it was. I had an unfortunate mishap this weekend with my Christian Sport Bike ride Saturday. Me and another guys crashed on ST RT 555 which is South of Zanesville. We were only on the road about 2 minutes or so when we approach a slight sweeper that tightened up at the end. The turn wasn’t really that bad and we had ridden on plenty other turns that day that were tougher to get through. With that said we’ll have to chalk this one up to new rider error. I can’t speak for the guy in front of me, but I was victim of target fixation. When you’re in a turn you are supposed to look through the turn because where you look the bike will go. Well, the gentlemen in front of me went wide in the turn and ran off the road. I saw this out of the corner of my eye but continued to look through the turn. However, once he hit the ditch I saw a big splash of water and that caught my attention and I fixated on the area the splash came from….that was my mistake. I locked up my rear tire, not wanting to use the front brake in mid lean (that would have caused a crash as well – go figure), causing me to straighten up but not stop in time to avoid going off the road myself. If I had continued to look through the turn and then stop to check on the guy I would have been ok. Unfortunately this was not the case and instead of having one incident on the ride Saturday we had two. This was the first time I have been down in this manner and I hope it is the last. Again, I have to Thank God for allowing me to still be here and to have been with a stellar group of guys that help the other guy and myself get our bikes out of the ditch and back home. I just have a little soreness in my neck as of today and the other guy has a twisted ankle. When you see the bikes in the pics you would think we would have been hurt worse. The video below shows the splash and then me going off the road. I am wearing the red jacket (full gear, leather jacket, boots, and pants) and my bike is the black one in the pics (in case you didn’t know) [ATTACH]1015[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1016[/ATTACH] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Q15iDgEr4

Hey guys, yeah i'm cool. I'll be posting pics later, but here is the link to the crash. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Q15iDgEr4 The turn wasnt even that bad.

i can deal with those wind speeds. :-)

http://www.weather.com/outlook/recreation/outdoors/wxdetail/43231?dayNum=1 20% isnt enough to keep us from riding. Hope some of ya'll can join.

Same guy, he did my undertail. He's a good guy. I'll probably use him again in the future as well. Chet is his name.

LOL!!!! People are probably going to start flaming us about all these posts for the CSBA rides every month......i think this is the 3rd thread for the one on Saturday. Oh well. I usually post them in the Columbus, OH section. BTW - I'm praying it dont rain on Saturday....30% change isnt gonna keep my inside though anyway.

i liked BB. Torque was terrible, but i bought it from odd lots when it was $3. :-)

I'm all over this one. :-) http://www.ohio-riders.net/showthread.php?t=24798

My condolences to the family. :-(

Bump....next week!

we got some nice looking ladies on this board.

Good luck with the sale Rusty!

everytime i drive through cinci there is an accident on 71 south of kings island and north of downtown.....funny though how i want to ride the little stretch of road though all the way to Covington....how dangerous would that be?

shouldnt be that bad, just lean into it if you have to and be careful

I dont have one, but i would take a pic in one if anyone has at least an XL to spare. :-) Dont want to do the young kid tight tee-shirt thing....got a little gut now due to A.G.E. Let me know.

oh yeah, if this the best route what should i be looking out for? I know some of you have riden these roads and i never have. Thanks again