OOH never a good thing.. but any crash you walk away from, is a good un on a bike.
only had ONE 'bad' crash, a few drops if i'm honest, rider error mostly.
that one was early on that bothered me for ages, though.
sharp R/H bend, diesel on road, just started raining about 5 mins before i got to that part of the road, i hit the diesel, as ya do.
much fun wrestling the bike back up on the Ice rink the road had become
friends in following car. say :
i departed bike,
bounced once or twice,
boots hit pavement,
which flipped me up into lamppost,
and dumping me on the deck.
lucky avoiding hitting post, legs akimbo while moments earlier sliding, rather gracefully towards it.
Bike careered into pub garden fence, bounced off, thank god, and meandered back onto road for a few yards before deciding it was tired, and lay itself down to rest.
Bike a write off,
Me, not too bad, bashed up ribs, and one badly sprained ankle..
got lucky ?..., YES indeed.
Back on the road a few months later older & wiser.
Silly thing was, I was more scared of telling the folks i'd binned the bike, then how they would react that their son had 'potentially' avoided being badly injured.
how our minds misread such situations.
