Not to long ago before the snow hit on a Friday afternoon it was 45 degrees and sunny. It was time to get in my last spin on the bike and fill the gas tank.

I rolled my bike out, fired it over and warmed her up for a few minutes. We rolled down the driveway.

At the stop sign (less than one quarter of a mile from my house)at the end of the street I live on I sit waiting for traffic. I was flat footed looking right and left just waiting.

Next thing I know I am grabbing at the brake lever trying to stop the bike as I am now moving out into the road while traffic is still flowing. I am squeazing for all I am worth as the ass end of the bike starts to kick out to my left side. I do not have the rev's up I am not cracking the throttle. What is happening?

Then I feel something in my right hip and lower back and I turn my head back to see a car, a fender, door, and window.

This stupid women was on her cell phone driving me right out of her way. She stopped either at the intersection or when she saw my helmet in her window, I am not really sure which.

When I got up off the ground and picked up the bike she was out of her car. She spoke no english (at the time anyway) as one guy was yelling at her "what are you f**king thinking".

The damage down the side was sad to look at. Not really bad but more like someone took a grinder and stabbed at the side of the plastic and the engine case. The brake lever was curled and the mirror pushed hard enough on the fairing it snapped my Zero Gravity windshield. Oh and the Staintuned pipe got scratched.

After i got my report number from the cop I did not even bother to get the gas. I rode straight home.

A couple of days later the claims guy gave me a check for 50 dollars less than totaling the bike.

Soon there after I found another bike to buy for parts to repair mine. It made sence I got a whole bike for parts rather than just a few parts. Well now I find the bike is in better condition than I had thought and I am torn as to what I will do.

Do I make one a street fighter and box all the extra parts?

Do I make the newest bike set up with bags and a Garmin?

Do I leave them both as is?

For now I really just need to replace the brake lever. I can repair the right turn signal with epoxy. the fairing I think I will replace with a new set of fairings because I do not like the color match from the newest bike.

I am still guessing....

I think I would like to put a straight bar on the factory triple tree but I need an converter.

To think I was so happy to tell my friend that I bought the bike from the good news that his old bike was in a calender and it was wrecked almost all in the same day. :goofy: :goofy: