46dodge
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- 2014 Triumph Rocket Roadster
Hello everyone, I would like to take this time to introduce myself and to tell a recent story of my 2014 Rocket roadster and I bonding.
I take my Rocket to my local dragstrip a few times a year during test and tune days just to have some fun but last October the fun stopped. Everything in this account I have pieced together from what people have told me that were there as I still have no memory of any of it. The last thing I remember is pulling up to the line, when I got to the 1/8 mile mark the lower radiator hose split and covered the rear tire with coolant and down I went, you guys know what a stock rocket will run in the 1/8 mile so I don't have to tell you how fast I was going when I hit the ground. There is a large dent on top of my tank from where my helmet hit the tank as I was falling off the bike and knocked me out cold which is what I think saved me because somehow I didn't break any bones and my safety gear did what it was designed to do and kept me from road rash I didn't bleed at all, no cuts no scraps, nothing but very badly bruised muscles and joints. I spent 2 weeks using a walker to get around then another 2 weeks with a cane. I still hurt on my right side which is the side I landed on but it is getting better everyday. As for the bike, it looks like it went down on its side and stayed there and slid across the track and hit the wall with its wheels and rode down the wall then popped upright and stopped because the friend that went and got the bike off the track told me when he got to it it was like someone leaned it against the wall and walked away.
I take my Rocket to my local dragstrip a few times a year during test and tune days just to have some fun but last October the fun stopped. Everything in this account I have pieced together from what people have told me that were there as I still have no memory of any of it. The last thing I remember is pulling up to the line, when I got to the 1/8 mile mark the lower radiator hose split and covered the rear tire with coolant and down I went, you guys know what a stock rocket will run in the 1/8 mile so I don't have to tell you how fast I was going when I hit the ground. There is a large dent on top of my tank from where my helmet hit the tank as I was falling off the bike and knocked me out cold which is what I think saved me because somehow I didn't break any bones and my safety gear did what it was designed to do and kept me from road rash I didn't bleed at all, no cuts no scraps, nothing but very badly bruised muscles and joints. I spent 2 weeks using a walker to get around then another 2 weeks with a cane. I still hurt on my right side which is the side I landed on but it is getting better everyday. As for the bike, it looks like it went down on its side and stayed there and slid across the track and hit the wall with its wheels and rode down the wall then popped upright and stopped because the friend that went and got the bike off the track told me when he got to it it was like someone leaned it against the wall and walked away.
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