G-Dog, I can only imagine your supply, selection and subsequent order of words immediately following this incident. I gonna assume it wasn't a one-kick start? The bike can smell when you're wearing a pair of Vans. Let me know if "chicks dig scars" still works. I have some of my own. Well done....lol.
I wasn't wearing Vans... was actually wearing these Dockers Leather work shoes that have kinda-like a boot-like sole to them. I specifically chose those shoes as I was leaving to go check-out the bike... thinking that I'd no doubt need a pair with decent toughness in the arch. Which they are... the kick-start lever was just loose ans sloppy. This "sloppiness" (and the fact that it had just finished pouring raining hours before) allowed my foot to slip-off the bottom of the kick-stroke, thereby allowing the level to shank me oh-so deep and oh-so hard.
Suprisingly... I didn't unleash an onslaught of explatives... I was embarassed about the situation and wanted to "man-up" to salvage my dignity in the face of this total stranger I was about to buy "The Beast" from.
The scar it has left behind took FOR-FREAKIN-EVER to heal because that area (right alongside the edge of the shin bone!) has very low blood flow. It didn't even bleed that much... until after I got home and gave it a good cleaning. The initial wound just exposed a bit of sub-cutaneous fat on the part of the edge near the bone.
By the way... did I mention how much I freakin' LOVE this bike?
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'Cuase she's the...
Sand-whoop blasta...
Berm-ripping disasta...
and ain't a d**n thing gonna getcha up a hill fasta,
then the...
mighty vibes of the big mean green
known to break bones if you don' treat'er like a Queen.
'cuase she can...
blast from zero, to the speed of Hyper-Space
whicha eyes wide-open, big grin on ya face.
handin' out 'da beat-downs
to ev'ry fo-fiddy (450) in 'da place!
At the top, of the predatory chain...
ain't no surpise dog... it's a KX500 mang!
