Hello All,
I just found out yesterday when I went to my local H-D shop to meet up for a ride. That a friend of mine had crashed his Red Jester a few days prior. Luckily it was a single vehicle crash where he hit some loose gravel on the side of the road and low-sided the bike and slid it over an embankment. For the most part my friend is ok, but he did recieve 40 stitches to the head and has large abrasions on his hands and arms. He Also broke 3 ribs where the left mirror got him. I went and looked at his bike and almost cried. I don't think a peice of painted metal or plastic wasn't scratched, dented, or broken. The initial insurance estimate was around $15,000. The bike was ridable because one of his buds rode it to the shop for him but it is a wake-up call. He told me it was the first crash he has ever had in 35 years of riding.
Mark