One family's journey on the road to debt freedom....following the principles of God and Dave Ramsey.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Crashed but not burned....
Well, one of the ways that my family is saving money is that I ride a 150cc scooter to work. It gets about 80+ mile per gallon so I can back and forth from work on about a gallon a week. That is definitely better than a gallon each time I go to work. It also helps free up our family car so that Tim can use it for whatever the kids have going on with after school activities, volunteering, or anything else. Well, today was the first time I actually drove it in actual rain. I've driven it in the mist before but the streets weren't actually really wet so that doesn't count. I hadn't gotten but 2 blocks from my house and was trying to make my first left turn from a stop sign and I started hydroplaning in the spin. I ended up dropping my bike and breaking the right rear view mirror( It's still attached but hanging from the wires). I'm all right. Got the bike picked up and test drove it around the block again. Everything seemed find so I proceeded with heading into work. The rest of the ride went well considering now that I had an increased knowledge of how to handle, and not handle, the bike in the rain. It sucks that I broke the mirror but I'm hoping a little duct tape can mend it nicely for a few weeks. Mechanically everything else seems fine and I'm fine( gotta love all the protective gear I put on for the 10 mile trek).
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my goodness i bet that was scary, bless your heart! Glad you are okay, and glad your bike didnt take it too hard :/
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