# 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")
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### Author: ![Vovchandr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vovchandr/32/6275_2.png) [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2013, 9:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/not-a-matter-of-if-but-when-destroyed-my-bike/267754/32 "2013-09-21T21:56:35Z")

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> [@the z doesn't fare well in the snow....](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-z-doesnt-fare-well-in-the-snow/53459/33):
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> 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.

I’m sorry, this isn’t about me, please continue the argument with yourself.

> [@Ilya"](#):
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> Why ‘oh boy’? I’m simply remarkng on the fact that I am considering getting on a 600 _eventually_. **I have no plan to do it any time soon as I plan to bomb around on my girly Ninja 300 for a long time until I _master_ that little thing.**
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> Relax. lol.

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