Total noob, freshly dislocated shoulder, saying hi!

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matbee

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Just registered on the forum. Bought the bike in January, started riding in March.
First day I had it, I lost traction in the rear tire at 30km/h and landed on my shoulder, dislocating it. Exciting times.

I'm alive!

Here's a picture of me (Yellow Grom) and my brother (White CBR125R) from this weekend. Boy, are we cool.
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Welcome to the forum!
If you want, I can use the grom while you recover! ?

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I've got a pair of tires I want on my grom, any idea where I could bring it? I'm downtown, front/spadina area.
 
matbee said:
Just registered on the forum. Bought the bike in January, started riding in March.
First day I had it, I lost traction in the rear tire at 30km/h and landed on my shoulder, dislocating it. Exciting times.
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Ouch. Sorry to hear that. Did you lose it in a corner and high-side off the bike?
 
Glad you are already laughing about it. What happened exactly? Those are both really fun bikes btw.
 
Glad you ok. I've been riding a few times each month but super slow and as strait through corners as possible. Always a risk but this winter has been mild with not much sand in my area.
Heal up quick and back on two wheels!!!
 
GWS and welcome. Never heard of The Grom before this thread...cool ride!
 
JZ67 said:
GWS and welcome. Never heard of The Grom before this thread...cool ride!
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Really? This is a cool custom one that I saw. Iirc a place in Brampton does them:
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You have boots?

Joe Bass, are you taking up cycling? Here's some inspiration for us.
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The Fixer said:
It's a wasted crash unless you learned something from it. So what did you learn?
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What I learned:


Rev match properly.
Don't aggressively slow down if you don't have to.
Easy on the throttle, kiddo, you're new.
You don't 100% know the conditions of the road. I don't care how many times you've driven up and down this road. You don't completely know it.
 
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Furpo said:
Glad you are already laughing about it. What happened exactly? Those are both really fun bikes btw.
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Coming to a stop, rev-matched improperly on a down shift, rear tire locked up and skid on loose dirt on the road. Low-sided, landed on my shoulder and slid a few feet. Bike was okay, just broke a turn signal stalk, but glued+taped it back together.

Thankfully there were a couple pedestrians who helped me up, and sit me down to lean against a bus shelter. I couldn't move my arm, so it was either broken or dislocated. There was a cop who showed up in < 15 seconds, he was across the road and heard me skid. Had an ambulance ride, and sat in the Emergency for a few hours to get X-Rays, and eventually they knocked me out to place my arm back in. All in all it took about 12 hours from Accident -> back home.
 
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