Won't be there tonight or for a while. Took a spill on I-410 in San Antonio last night.Two fractured ribs and battered and bruised from head to toe. But I live to ride another day. Accident happend at rush hour in bumper to bumper traffic in a construction zone. Basic story, while traveling west bound in the left lane the Suburban in front of me suddenly slams on the brakes and veers into the jersy wall, while looking for an escape route I notice the guy behind is not reacting so my only option is to veer onto the left shoulder also. The shoulder is littered with gravel, sand and general construction debries. I lose the front wheel and go down on the left side and slide about 10 feet into the trailer hitch of the Suburban. The brunt of the impact was taken by the front forks which are trashed along with the front fender and the headlight. Amazingly the only other damage that I could detect at the seen was the left foot peg. Thanks to my couragous and selfless willingness to act as a human crash bar there was no damage to the tank or any other part on the left side.Safety equipment: It was a warm and beautiful night and I was going to leave in tee shirt and my half helmet. But at the last minute I decided to put on my full face helmet and actually went back into the house to get my leather jacket. Thank goodness for both. I took a pretty good hit in the left temple and cheek and had in not been for the full face helmet I am pretty sure that I would not be writting this today. I am going to throw away my half helmet so I am never tempted to use it again. The leather jacket equipped with padding and double leather in the shoulder and elbow for sure saved me some serious damage and pain.Damage to the Suburban? I bent the little bracket that holds his trailer light socket. Guess I showed him!!!!See you guys in a couple of weeks when the X gets out of the hospital.
