Kickstand wrote:
roadking wrote:
After I saw a gold wing accident (a story I don't want to share) I was never a fan of those bikes.
Well, you got me curious... but I won't ask... but I want to.
2 sheets with feet sticking out of them, a gold wing upside down on its bars and seat, a debris field 50 feet long, clothes all over the place.
I was traveling south from salt lake city into nevada at night alone. I saw a couple on a wing, man and woman leave the gas station/cafe right as I pulled in, we waved to each other.
I stopped gassed up got some thing hot to eat and then left. As I got into NV, the road was being worked on. The Slow lane had been repaved and the fast lane was rough surface ready to be paved. There was a 3" difference in the 2 surface heights. I had to pass a car as I went from the smooth surface of the slow lane into the fast lane I dropped down 3 inches, kinda caught me off guard and pulled the bars a little. After I passed I went to get back into the slow lane because it was so smooth vs. the roughed up fast lane. As I went up the edge the bike almost went over at 80+mph. I caught it and learned a lesson. I was pretty shaken up thinking about what would have happen if I lost it... Just then, I come up on an accident scene... Fire trucks, ambulances, highway patrol cars, flares - the whole enchilada...
My bike has a low center of gravity, No massive storage boxes up above my seat. If it had, I would have lost it when I reentered the slow lane. The bike jumped over the ridge in the lanes and almost high sided me. I'm thinking that Gold wing did the same thing I did but because of the massiveness of the bike and top heavy nature of the seat compartment added with the weight of a passenger those poor people had no chance.
Once you see something like that, it stays with you. Every time I see a wing now thats what I'm reminded of. And why I don't like to talk about it. But maybe by me telling what happened you guys will have a heads up if in case you find yourselves in that situation.