10-27-2010, 10:10 AM
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Thats a picture from our vacation this past summer in North Carolina along the Blue Ridge Parkway. We were attempting to drive up a VERY steep gravel incline with a mountain on the left and this seventy foot ravine on the right. The rear tire started to spin and lost traction. It headed for the side and when I knew I couldn't control it I told the wife we had to bail. The bike is heading off the side and I pushed the top of the windshield to get away from the bike. The shield snapped and I turned to grab the wife to get her off too. We were kind of standing there stuck in the sand and rocks. The bike stopped against a small sappling keeping it upright. I push the wife up onto the road with the bike and trailer stopped. IN the end the bike had a broken left mirror and the windshield snapped. We ended up finishing the vacation, got the bike fixed and came home. We were a bit banged up. My left leg was bruised from about my knee to the bottom of my foot.