Yeah... the bike took a nice slide thro ugh a freshly coated country road. No signs were posted. No injury to wife and I and bike except crash bar, clothes and ego. Now I have fun job of removing tar from the bike.
I have only been "down" three times (knock on wood).
1) Popping the clutch on my first bike, from higher rpm at a stop, thinking a 250 had so little power it wouldn't matter. WRONG. Instant wheelie and threw me off the back of the bike onto my ass. Light damage (standard stuff- turn signal, clutch lever, shifter, one plastic). Lesson learned.
2) (The point of my post) Second bike (ZRX), we cut through a mall parking lot early in the morning. No signs. Very high humidity with dew. They had just "sealed" the pavement and it was [apparently] ultra slippery, especially with the dew, I braked too hard for a stop, locked the front wheel way sooner than I could have imagined and slid over before I even knew what happened. Would have been minimal damage except that I mounted my air horn trumpet on the mini fairing (that turns), which slammed into the tank, destroying the tank AND the fairing. Ooops. Two lessons learned.
3) On the Concours, got near heat stroke in forever stopped traffic, was adjusting jacket and allowed the bike to lean just a little too much and it was then unstoppable. Almost ZERO damage, due to having the canyon crash bars.
Glad you are OK.
Glad you had crash bars
I am sure some lesson learned.
Get back on!