Hey guys, I bought a 94 Yamaha YZF750 last fall. It didn't run and the rear shock was blown, both of which were easy enough fixes. Night I finished the rear shock I took it out with no previous riding experience and tested to see if it was fixxed. Did about 180kph on the highway with no issues then backed off and took it easy. Went to take a right off a stop sign and didn't know you shouldn't give much throttle till your all the way through the corner. Instead of it just spinning and just letting me fall, it hooked and sent me straight into a meridian, broke my collar bone and possible something in my hip (hospital didn't x-ray my hip) but I got up a rode the bike home before going.
Since then I've been slowly working on a street fighter conversion because it's gonna cost way too much to bother fixxing the fairing. The bike now sits in flat white primer (and is staying that way) and I'm still waiting for some money to order the new headlights to finish it off.
She's not the prettiest thing out there, but it runs and rides great and that's good enough for me
P.S. I did all the paint myself but I don't have much patience for that kind of stuff so it's not 100%, will probably redo it next winter
Topic: Small mistake, lucky turn out (Read 483 times)
