Whats your Protection?

[Lao Jia Hou]

I'm guessing you were not running your helmet cam. Will just have to roll that little movie in my head.

This will probably be on Youku, if any of the several laughing pedestrians with mobile phone cams were quick enough.

Consider this: Your hand certainly would be broken if you'd accomplished this with the Jialing. And maybe your leg too.

You're absolutely correct - and this morning, my JH600 went in to have its hand guards installed (it needs special brackets fabricated).

I think what happened was when the bike went down, the end of the clutch lever took the brunt of the impact, and squeezed my hand between the grip and the lever ... like a vise grip ... ouch ... damn, that REALLY hurt ... and it didn't get better until I figured out that I could lift the bike up.

Don't want to jinx you, but you once said you'd never had a getoff in, like, seven or eight decades of riding. Does this now count as your first?

Well, I've had many bikes fall over while on the stands (wind, me using the bike as a hammock, coming off the center stand over a curb, not being aware that my side-stand is actually not down, etc), but never when the bike has been in forward motion ... I'm such a sissy-rider! So, no, my record is still clean ... but this is probably event number 1,000 of me making an idiot of myself.

Summer-riding is coming ... which means female summer attire ... oh oh.