Sunday afternoon I was headed down to Houston woods and my back tire slipped out in a curve @ about 40 mph....then it caught and started a tankslapper....I actually was able to pull out of the slapper by grabbing the throttle but by then I was down in a ditch...I thought I had it but looked up and there was a concrete driveway/culvert right in front of me...I was barely hanging onto the bars and didn't get ahold of the front brake, but judging by the marks in the grass i must have hammered the back brake and skidded and wiped out....slid across the concrete driveway and into the grass on the other side....got up right away and picked up the bike and she started right away, shifter linkage was snapped, but I rode it 10 miles back to my buddies house in second gear... Let me say if I hadn't had the leather jacket/gauntlet gloves on i'd look like wheezle after his wreck...the helmet didn't have a scratch on it tho Wish I had kneepads, I woulda walked away without a scratch. Jeans didn't do much Rider stupidity....was riding on a back tire that has a real slow leak (34psi when we checked it after the wreck) and I was pretty hard into the throttle in the corner. Crash and learn. Just REALLY thankfull I had gear on. Before: After: Right side is all rashed up and cowl is broke and somethings wrong with the forks LSL case saver/slider did a great job The Sato slider was a epic fail it was ripped completly out of the base my knee its pretty. Rode 10 miles like that baller cutoffs....did the right and was like wtheck, might as well do the left after 4 hours at the hospital (they had fun with me, got a kneecap pressure test, 500cc of saline injected under the kneecap) all stitched up and I get to wear this sweet leg brace for 2 weeks so i dont rip the stitches out. I'd say I'm pretty lucky I avoided a wambulance ride