On Wednesday the front sprocket came off my Ninja while I was doing 40 mph :( It came off and moved backwards jamming the chain between the swingarm and the frame and locking the rear wheel making me skid all over the road. I managed to control the slide for 15 metres or so but eventually dropped the bike on the right hand side smashing the front indicator lens, front footpeg bracket, cracking and scratching the fairing and scratching the right hand mirror, front brake fluid reservoir, front brake lever, rear brake lever, front indicator housing and some of the rear plastics. After lifting the bike off my leg and dragging it to the side of the road (with the rear wheel locked from the jammed chain), lifting it onto the kerb and dragging out of the way I then had to leave the bike and walk 1 mile home as I had no other way of getting home at the time. When I got in I realised some damage had occured to myself. I have cuts and road rash up my right hand side waist down (wearing leather jacket but only jeans and trainers on my bottom half - short journey so didn't bother with full protection :() some pretty serious road rash around my ankle (bone exposed!!) and a broken and bruised big toe with a black nail as well. Feeling a bit sorry for myself at the moment lol - although I know everything could have been much worse. I had just dropped my younger brother off at college and can't imagine what might have happened if he had still been on the back of it at the time - I'm just thankful that the drivers behind me weren't following too closely and were paying attention so I did get run over and seriously injured (despite none of them getting out to help me get the bike off my leg and get it out of the road :eek: - although one bloke did afterwards get out to check I was OK so many thanks to him :))
On Wednesday the front sprocket came off my Ninja while I was doing 40 mph :( It came off and moved backwards jamming the chain between the swingarm and the frame and locking the rear wheel making me skid all over the road. I managed to control the slide for 15 metres or so but eventually dropped the bike on the right hand side smashing the front indicator lens, front footpeg bracket, cracking and scratching the fairing and scratching the right hand mirror, front brake fluid reservoir, front brake lever, rear brake lever, front indicator housing and some of the rear plastics. After lifting the bike off my leg and dragging it to the side of the road (with the rear wheel locked from the jammed chain), lifting it onto the kerb and dragging out of the way I then had to leave the bike and walk 1 mile home as I had no other way of getting home at the time. When I got in I realised some damage had occured to myself. I have cuts and road rash up my right hand side waist down (wearing leather jacket but only jeans and trainers on my bottom half - short journey so didn't bother with full protection :() some pretty serious road rash around my ankle (bone exposed!!) and a broken and bruised big toe with a black nail as well. Feeling a bit sorry for myself at the moment lol - although I know everything could have been much worse. I had just dropped my younger brother off at college and can't imagine what might have happened if he had still been on the back of it at the time - I'm just thankful that the drivers behind me weren't following too closely and were paying attention so I did get run over and seriously injured (despite none of them getting out to help me get the bike off my leg and get it out of the road :eek: - although one bloke did afterwards get out to check I was OK so many thanks to him :))
Regards,
Vern
P.S. AND the zed has a flat battery :( lol