Had a 'hard down' tonight....

Unlucky gcrank,you can never plan for that situation,good job you were going no quicker. Take it easy,re-group and I hope its not destroyed your confidence,you will return i'm sure.

Yes lads, Im feeling pretty puny today. My 'plan' to go pick up the bike has been thwarted.......
I know I have to disassemble the now bashed and bent N-R Performance left rearset/shifter; its in 3rd gear and does roll with clutch (lever broke half off) pulled but thinkin Id prefer to have neutral.
Hope my custom $400 BRG paint/tank arent done in. I think it came down hard and fast on the left when the deer ran my front wheel to the right; physics always wins. The rear sliders I had turned and mounted in the oem t-signal, the left footpeg (until it snapped off, then it was the shift assembly) and the clubman bar end made the contacts 'I Think'.
I was catching up with overdue maintenance then was going to do a spiff & buff in prep (so I thought) to put it up for sale. Not sure if I can even turn a wrench to free up the shifter today.
Sadly the little deer is scavenger food.
***Btw, with the forum change over and covid, et al, do we know what happened to N-R Perf?. Think he was Solo2racr? I hit a dead-end on a net search for N-RP and he was last on Nov.11, 2019.....

Thank goodness for friends who'll turn out for you like that. Sounds as if with some patience and a few parts, you'll both be back in shape soon enough. Always sobering when these things happen. Not 2 weeks ago I learned that a good friend who's been riding forever had a nasty incident and is now minus his foot. So glad you're still whole.

Wanted to drop the left rearset/shifter but bike is just sitting on the garage pad with sidestand, not a convenient angle nor height for a compromised old guy. Did get the two main bracket screws out but the shift rod clamp is too much/too far.
When it went down the non-folding knurled alum footpeg broke off then it rode on the shifter peg bending and jamming the lever into the bellcrank rod, etc.; ie, a bit of a mess.
Im sure most of the pieces will flatten back put with some care (have a bench vise and a 10ton floor press), just wanted to get the stuff off, spray degrease and have in a pan to sit in my chair and consider..... I cant put the stockers back on, sold them years ago. It wasnt that they were 'bad', just not the CR look I was committed to, and the rearsets were comfy enough for me. Then Yam made available the factory version which position the feet about the same. It is a good 'mid'reaset position, imo, for a street bike.
Idk if I had the centerstand on if the 'pull-down ear' would have provided a slider point to keep from mangling the shifter and linkage. Certainly would make routine service easier! Its long gone now too.

One week + some hours out from the 'incident' and Im healing up pretty well. The r-rash is doing very good, no dressing required any more on the left arm and shoulder. The left knee is still a messy, painful pit of despair....
SOTG/SOTT is a bad idea. Some good 'slider gear' pants and jacket would have saved most of this missing skin! DUH.
The shoulder and ribs, not so much, they still would have taken the hit. They are also progressing decently, enough to get around, in & out and mess with the little bits on the bike some.

Trying to do too much too early after a down, eh? Sounds familiar. Our bodies need that little bit extra time to recover once X number of years have flowed under the bridge. 

Likewise the sliding gear/padded jacket is a must in all weathers, even heat, so there comes a point, maybe 25 to 30 degrees, and it's just too hot to ride because I refuse to ride shirt sleeves and jeans. This one time I was so lucky. I had intended to go out in jeans, light jacket, and was actually getting on the bike when it started to rain, so on with all the gear and that was the time I came off. (Lost traction at the rear, went into a tank slapper until it locked and threw me over the bars.) Still have those nylons and they saved my hide no doubt. I slid maybe 30 feet, mostly on my rear, bike sliding along catching me up, sparks coming off the pipe, luckily into the verge, not oncoming traffic.

They patched me up at the hospital, strapped my ankle, my old dad came and got me, took me to where the bike was propped against a tree, admired the scrapes in the tarmac and then I rode it home with bent bars and gear lever. 

Still see it now, so I understand your fawn nightmare on repeat. It will all seem different in another couple of weeks and the PT will hurt at the time, but work wonders. 

Two weeks out at 6:30 tonight. I have been getting out and drove the car to have a nice visit at a friends place last night (he is an XS650 maven) and got some good repair advise and some bits & bobs. Spent a couple hours in the shop salvaging the broke off rearset footpeg and a miserable couple hours early aft out on the garage pad in what they say was 111*f temp-index doing some stuff on the bike. I think I have it ready for a slow speed road test When I get the rearset/shifter done up. That is gonna take a while yet.
If I had only kept the oem pegs, shift lever and brake! I was committed then to the cafe racer and not thinking of 'what if', I sure would have stuck them on for the trial run.
I had thought that maybe today I would take my bicycle out to get used to 2 wheels under me, maybe even my lovely Suz TU250X USA model '09 but Im hot, sweaty, tired and my heart isnt quite in it yet.
Maybe tomorrow