Well.... funny you should mention that. (cracks knuckles)
Been riding it a lot since the wife smashed her van and is driving my Lexus. Over 1,500 miles in less than a month. Already had the first service done.
BUT..
I was on my way into town Thursday night to pick up something from Academy, and was stuck behind a guy that was on his phone and driving slowly for a few miles. When we entered a passing zone, I passed him. This apparently was not okay with the driver.
He sped up and started riding my
, flashing his brights, honking etc. When we got to the next intersection there was a car in front of me that was waiting to merge, and the guy behind me was still going nuts and honking.
So I put my kickstand down and walked up to his driver side window with my hands up next to my helmet like
View attachment 11452 and said "What the f**k are you doing bro?"
The driver looked at me, didnt say a word, cut the wheel towards me, punched the gas, and grazed my legs. He then knocked my new bike over, ran over the back of it, hopped a curb and took off. He almost collided with a few cars as he whipped into moving traffic. It happed so fast that I was just standing there for a minute trying to process the chain of events that just transpired.
When he ran over my bike the clutch lever was jammed so I couldn't get it to start or chase him down. Had to push the bike off the road and called the cops. While I waited for the police a guy came up behind me and said, "Are you okay buddy? I saw everything. I chased him down and got a picture of his license plate."
The Good Samaritan was a super sweet guy. While we waited for the police he told me he drives 30,000 miles a year and commutes almost 4 hours a day. He gave a witness statement and provide a description of the truck and the license plate number. Said to call him if he can do anything else to help. It was one of those inteteractions that restore your faith in humanity.
I eventually was able to fiddle with the clutch lever and got it going. Rode to Acadamey where I started to feel really sore. Legs and knees were burning. Left ankle and heel were very tender. The adrenaline had worn off at that point.
Got a call from the police within 45 minutes of leaving the scene. They said they had him detained, but the driver claimed they feared for their life and planned to find me later to fix my bike
, and wanted to just exchange insurance information. I said I wanted to press charges so they thanked me for my time and hung up.
Called my insurance with his plate and they were able to look up the policy on the truck. Filed a claim through them. Haven't heard back yet from the adjuster. It is still ridable but has a lot of cosmetic damage and some broken parts. The local KTM dealership is writing up and estimate for me to provide to the insurance company.
I actually just got back from urgent care when I read your comment. Legs are still kind of sore so I wanted to get checked out. They think my lower back may be tweaked because of the burning sensation in my legs. Got a steroid shot in the bum and I will be contacting an attorney when I finish writing this.
So yeah... but up until that point it's been great. Got it resprung for my weight and its pretty much dialed now
I was able to ride it on some enduro trails at the local offroad park with guys on KTM trail bikes and the owner of the local KTM dealership on his SX bike. They were all very impressed that I could throw that big bike around like I did and one said "You are my hero dude. I can't believe you're riding that thing like that." Really made my day.
The auxiliary tank kit from the Czech Republic was delivered today and I didn't have to pay any tariffs on it, which is also pretty cool. Need to install that and the cruise control system soon. Kind of buried at the moment with swapping the transmission in my Mom's Lexus GX460 so the bike stuff will need to wait until I get that squared away.
