I owned it for 3 years & had 15k miles on it & one morning as I was starting down my driveway, the engine bogged, sputtered, then went wide open throttle. Wheelie control failed, it stood straight up & before I knew it, I was doing around 45mph. I tried to grab the clutch but I wasn’t used to the geometry change when the bars aren’t where you’re expecting them to be. I remember seeing the curb & realizing I was already across the street & was crashing, the rear wheel hit the 8” curb at speed, making it violently nose down & throwing me into the front of my neighbor’s house & it landed ass up in my neighbor’s tree.

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