accidents - an unpleasant subject

[Gone in 60]

Sorry to hear about your wreck! Coming up on sudden pavement projects is not fun.

[alprider]

@Cormanus
I never thought about this, are your streets and traffic "left", but all the motorcycle controls "regular"?
In this case it's just a little different, you got to use the hand brake instead of the foot brake: line up on the left (instead of your right), now continue as described before. All set, BUT it is a little more "mentally demanding". While using the foot brake in a right side lineup makes you use the left foot for balancing (you can't get it wrong), you could use the wrong foot in the left line-up and loose balance. So you have to focus on using the "downhill" foot for balancing the bike consistently, consciously, every time. It's not as automatic as before.
I am sorry if the description got a little complicated. It's just hard to describe. May be you need to find that youtube video.

this "triangle turn" is for me nothing specal bcos often are here the parkingplaces small and not horizontally you park uphill and after.... .... ...i use always only the handbrake...bcos if its not total steep / your leg is not real to short it helps a bit with the lower foot just only a bit with the tiptoe for a good balance...or its no matter roll back right or left side

or because too : if its specal small way so i look on wich side i can eventual little roll back over roadside...

and by slippery offroads you can take the clutch as brake....

[GoldOxide_imp]

I recently wrecked on my 2016 Moto Guzzi Eldorado. The bike was totaled. I subsequently bought another Guzzi and a CB1100 with the proceeds. The wreck was entirely my fault. The funny thing is, I had just done a trip the previous week to Monterey, Ca (from San Diego) and back down through Big Sur with no problems. But on this day, I was riding the Eldo and they were repaving the road and they had those rumble strips which are devastating on a long Cardan shaft bike. I decided to go around but, the difference in height between the new pavement and the old was 5". Once I turned into the new pavement, I crossed up and slid while watching my bike go into its death throes. This was not an accident as that implies that no one was at fault. It was my mistake. The previous time I went down was on Palomar mountain. I was going up the east side and when I came around the corner before the general store a squid did not stop at his yield sign and and I went down. Thank God I was wearing full leathers. That was not my mistake. Riding here in SoCal is dangerous especially in the heavily trafficked areas and not so bad once you get on the back roads.

Sounds painful (one eye open, teeth clenched) imagining your story.

Sorry to learn. You do write with honest and fair spirit. I reckon your are generally unhurt?

[j3gq_imp]

@Cormanus
I never thought about this, are your streets and traffic "left", but all the motorcycle controls "regular"?
In this case it's just a little different, you got to use the hand brake instead of the foot brake: line up on the left (instead of your right), now continue as described before. All set, BUT it is a little more "mentally demanding". While using the foot brake in a right side lineup makes you use the left foot for balancing (you can't get it wrong), you could use the wrong foot in the left line-up and loose balance. So you have to focus on using the "downhill" foot for balancing the bike consistently, consciously, every time. It's not as automatic as before.
I am sorry if the description got a little complicated. It's just hard to describe. May be you need to find that youtube video.

this "triangle turn" is for me nothing specal bcos often are here the parkingplaces small and not horizontally you park uphill and after.... .... ...i use always only the handbrake...bcos if its not total steep / your leg is not real to short it helps a bit with the lower foot just only a bit with the tiptoe for a good balance...or its no matter roll back right or left side

or because too : if its specal small way so i look on wich side i can eventual little roll back over roadside...

and by slippery offroads you can take the clutch as brake....

@alprider
can all of this (may be) translated into something that the average guy or gal can understand without frequent look-ups on a still to be created subsection for the handicapped night (bike) riders in
https://www.urbandictionary.com/
I think you got ahead of yourself this time