flipped my banshee

[Handyman]

This happened to me in Sept '07 but I' thought I'd share anyway...

I was at Sand Mt with the US Navy on a 4 week training detachment and had the weekend free. Myself and 4 other people went out to ride for a few hours... I had to rejet my 421 cheetah powervalve motor due to a drastic weather change from the previous weekend. I unloaded and did my initail tet run to see where I had to go as far as jetting...i would do some adjust ments and do a test run...did this 4 or 5 times and finally got her dialed in... I was doing my last test run(in my owns tracks from the previous runs) and pinned her in 3rd gear on good sized flat stretch.. just as I hit 4th gear I saw an elevation change out of the corner of my eye and then I saw the 3 foot dune...The way the sun was hitting the face of the dune I could not see it..it blended rigth in...I had enough time to come off the gas and that was all I remember. I do remember flying through the air side ways looking down at my banshee and then nothing....i woke up on my left side spitting sand out of my mouth,,,the guys I was with were already at my side....I got my shee and it started right up and went back to the truck....i was drug to the hospital where I found out I had 3 broekn ribs and a broken coloar bone. the banshee had flipped and landed on the handlebar/radiator/bumper at the same time and landed back on it's wheels facing the direction I just came from The banshee incurred a bent steering loop( bent about 1.5 inches back) a smashed front bumper, a bent bvolt tabs for the front bolts for the front plastics and bent handlebars... I think when it landed on the wheels it screwed up my left rear hub because it now has some movement when torqued down on the axle... fromt where I left the ground to where I landed was about 60 feet...and the banshee landed about 10 past that.... I figure that when the front end came up I face lanted into my front fender bending the mounting tabs and broke my visor on my helmet....i got the frame back in place by tying some tie down straps to the steering loop and wrapping them around a tree and ratcheting the straps so the back tires came up off the ground about 6 inches and then bouncing on the rear end.. this was done about a week after the wreck 3 broken ribs and my arms in the sling for teh broken collar bone.... if you didn't know it you couldn't tell it had been flipped.....

[2000BansheeBoy]

that suuuucks. I flipped my banshee once pretty bad because of a jump of competition hill that went wrong and I actually bent what you were probly talkin bout. all it took was the mechanic at the shop i go to to have me sit on the seat, him stand on the front wheels and him jerk it up as hard as he could.

[SHOWTIME]

i might stop reading every ones crash
stories. hahahaha im getting bad images
in my head.

[Twistedtrik]

You the same Handyman from BHQ? This sounds oddly familiar. Sounds like a bad one there.

[Handyman]

Yes, same person....

[QuickSand]

Sorry bout your accident, daytime dune riding is hard, you're right bout recognizing the terrain in broad daylight!

Are you all healed up now?