A heart beat. Or the blink of an eye. If you’ve been in a motorcycle accident, you probably know that a split second is all the time it takes for things to go from normal to terrible. In that very small amount of time, you have to make a number of very critical decisions which, when it’s all over, will have determined whether or not you saved your skin. Riding a motorcycle, you automatically open yourself up to the risk of serious personal injury in the event of an accident. And unfortunately, it’s most often not a matter of IF it will hurt, but more a matter of HOW BADLY it will hurt.

I was recently involved in a traffic accident where I could have been very seriously injured. The road was damp, and the car in front of me stopped quickly, forcing me to make one of those snap decisions. Just like anyone else, I chose my physical safety over the well-being of the motorcycle, my long term ride project, a 2005 Kawasaki ZX-10R. I walked away from the accident unscathed, thanks to my riding gear and the knowledge of how to take a fall.
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First, I am going to show you how I installed the Driven rear sprocket. I began by removing the rear wheel, after stabilizing the bike with a front and rear stand of course.

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Puig Windscreen

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