# Not a matter of if, but when - destroyed my bike **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/not-a-matter-of-if-but-when-destroyed-my-bike/267754 **Category:** Shift518 Automotive **Created:** [September 21, 2013, 9:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/not-a-matter-of-if-but-when-destroyed-my-bike/267754 "2013-09-21T09:02:35Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 24
### Author: ![Ilya](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ilya/32/6404_2.png) [@Ilya](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ilya) #### Post date: [September 21, 2013, 7:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/not-a-matter-of-if-but-when-destroyed-my-bike/267754/24 "2013-09-21T19:28:00Z")
> [@NYSpeed / OSYN Track Days 2008 \[Next Day: Sept 13th\] \*NEW: Track Timing System!\*](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nyspeed-osyn-track-days-2008-next-day-sept-13th-new-track-timing-system/44963/539): > > Glad to hear you mastered the 300 in such a short time! > [@the z doesn't fare well in the snow....](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-z-doesnt-fare-well-in-the-snow/53459/32): > > Great idea with looking at a 600 next. Your insurance will probably be very affordable after totaling a 300… Oh, shut up. The both of you. You or I will never master any bike 100% and if you say you have, you’re full of it. Maybe if your last name is Stoner or Rossi. I spent every day, just about, on that thing and did 3,9xx miles in under 3 months. Am I a master? No. Do I feel comfortable on A bike at this point (especially the 300)? Absolutely. If I hadn’t crashed this bike, the plan was to at least ride next season on it again. But since it’s likely done/gonna cost a boat load to fix and since the future (which initially was a few years down the road) had me getting a 600 ANYWAY, if I do get on a bike in the spring, it’ll just be a 600 instead of spending money AGAIN on another 300 which will only get sold down the line. Screw off and get off your high horse. Also, for the record, I don’t think many of you would have made it out of that corner unscathed. Someone (FD?) cleaned it up as I went to look again today and it’s much cleaner, but at night coming around a corner it would have caught every single one of you by surprise and most of you would have had the same result or close to it. I was shooting for the grass, but simply didn’t make it. If I had gotten it to the grass and not have gone airborne/gotten separated from it…I likely would have rode it home and this thread wouldn’t even exist. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/not-a-matter-of-if-but-when-destroyed-my-bike/267754)._