Dateline: Today... 9/25 Heading up to Devils Lake from the Chicago area. Beautiful day for riding! We were just north of Mt Horeb, WI along County JG. A beautiful stretch of road for bikes if there ever was one. Nice wide sweepers, no traffic, good pavement conditions. Til I hit the right-hander at about Bergum Rd. Gravel in the MIDDLE of the road. Right in the curve at posted speed limit - maybe less 40mph or so. I went down like it was black ice. No warning.. no nothing. Entered the turn, then BAM!! Lowside. The results... Gear: Pilot - rashed knees, hip, elbow, thumb. Feels like a bad bruise to the right shoulder/back. It only hurts when I breathe :-) Nolan N102 - anything that could fly off DID fly off. BUT... NOTHING was broken!! It all snapped back together. Big scrapes in the visor that woulda been my face. Chin bar held Joe Rocket Phoenix Jacket - also did it's job. I think the sleeve twisted on my arm resulting in a small hole in the outer layers and some road rash to one elbow. Joe Rocket gloves (don't remember the model)... held up well, but I think I imbeded a piece of gravel in my thumb, but don't recall a hole. Levis - no tears! But road rash to the knees and one hip. I had a knife in a belt holder that probably saved some of my a$$, literally. A few scrapes to the iphone but nothing major

The bike (a 99).... *sigh*. The upside: It was drivable, but the trip was over...we headed back home. The Rifle windshield was pretty amazing... all screws broke loose... except for that LAST one :mad: That one stayed, and the windshield cracked off at that one. Base is fine. Had to ride home with no windshield :-P Just about all right-side forward plastic is damaged. Piece missing at the turn signal. Right side bag is now "vented" - but didn't break off, and the antler seemed to hold up. Maybe a tad bent, but it worked fine. Right mirror boot damaged and a big scrape at the end of the right side fork. Pix forthcoming. As I said... at least it was drivable. Nothing bent, no controls or pegs broken, nothing floppin off (too bad)... for that, I consider myself lucky. Mechanically sound! (drove it the 200 miles home), so the its all just cosmetics. At least til I wake up tomorrow unable to move :-( So a warning - be careful of gravel on ANY road with gravel shoulders!! None of the 50 curves before that showed any signs of gravel. A guy who lives right there came to help me and my buddy right the bike and to see if I was OK... said I'm the 3-4th bike to wipe out in that corner this year. Now I'm thinkin I should have filed that police report... AND called the ambulance chasers ;p Can't afford me a C14 just yet...