How many times have you crashed on the road?

[Animus]

Ever since I began riding road bikes at 15 I've heard the age old saying "it's not if you will crash, it is when you crash" and in the past 12 years have crashed three times on the road.

Would you be so helpful as to tell me how many times you have crashed on the road?

[nathanwhite]

So far, just once, Dont know exactly what happened, but I know it happened because I pulled the front brake in a corner :facepalm: I know it was ridiculous, but it takes a lot of work to overcome SR#1

[avgas]

I put 5 times. But to be honest there was only 2 decent crashes and the rest were just minor "whoopsies" (sub-20kph).
For the reference been riding on the road 14 years. Not that it really counts towards anything. Good crashes were in 1999 and 2004.
One is 2004 was a reality check and I slowed the fuck down since then.

[Animus]

out of the three I've had one was serious and required a hospital visit, while the other two were low speed. The last one was around 2007 and resulted in broken ribs, fractured wrist and a whole lot of road rash! Bloody jeans got yanked down over my hips. Don't know how or why but I got up and rode my RGV250 home about 2km away then sat on the couch bleeding until someone came home and took me to the hospital.

[Bassmatt]

None for me, but 2 or 3 VERY close calls.

[Parlane]

One lowside, front wheel went down when braking on a straight piece of road on give way triangle paint :( It was wet. :facepalm: At about 30km/h... And I rode my bike until it came to a stop. Bruised hip and that was all. Helmet never touched the ground, nor did my jacket. Pants got a tiny rip in them and gouged the rubber on the fastener buttons for my RHS pocket.

Bike was worse off than me :angry: Cracked fairings, gouged clutch casing etc. Sadness!

[Banditbandit]

Riding since 1973 - crashed ten times .. walked away from every one.

Hit two cars doing stupid things in front of me ...
Braked too hard on a wet road ...
Twice hit pea metal road patches with no warning signs
Braked too hard on a metal surface ...
Was drunken and should not have been riding on a pissing wet Wellington night ... (24 years ago)
Major tank slapper in a right-hand corner at 110 klicks ...
Slid out the back wheel and lost it (low speed) ...
Low speed dump when the Triumph broke a clutch cable and I didn't get it down the gears fast enough ...

[cheshirecat]

I get a bit supersticious about this, so wont mention how many. Slowed down a lot these days and don't even like group rides unless with riders I trust. Tend to view the Rimutuks as a narrow, looney rich backwater lane.

[Animus]

whoah starting to realise I maybe should of added options above six times! Assumed there would not be many people with over six times down on the road...

[sgtp]

sub-40km lowside going down a hill around a corner. Oncoming car triggered sr1 and the front wheel locked. It was a big wakeup call to ride smart, and I got off easy by not injuring myself more than a buise.

[bluninja]

2 RTA's

1st Aprilia RSVR versus tractor. The tractor came first, I came second, the bike came 3rd. Lesson to learn...if you plan your overtake and something happens, pull back in and start your plan again. On my original plan I would have been on my side of the road before the farm entrance.

2nd SV650S versus 3 polish students. It was like a seen from a cartoon. 2 lanes of cars set off from the traffic lights and me in an empty 3rd lane. 3 students sprint out from behind a wall and across the front of the cars causing them to brake. Despite braking when the cars did I was approaching the lights at 50kmh and accelerating up to 80. The students having run across the cars stopped in my lane laughing and patting backs until they saw the headlight and heard the horn. They ran one way and then the other and despite braking in a straight line one of them managed to line me up and jump onto the front fairing. I flipped him over the top of me with my head and came to a stop about 2 metres past the impact. Behind me was, just a shoe in the road!!! The 3 students were doing a runner as they expected to be arrested for what they had done.

The police were called, and an ambulance for the student. He had a few scrapes and a bruise on his cheek. My fairing mounts were snapped and I had to claim off my insurance. I had a rather sore neck.

Lesson learned....fit machine guns to the bike and mow em down, then pick your path between the corpses.

[Animus]

what's an SR1?

[Parlane]

what's an SR1?

Google didn't help me either :( Not even sure what an RTA is.

[aprilia_RS250]

what's an SR1?

Keith Code, Twist of the Wrist, SR-Survival Reactions.

I read the book once a year during xmas holidays when I have time. You get to the point where you're actually repeating lines to yourself as you approach corners etc.

It's has probably saved my life many times as it teaches you how not to ride a clown, and tells you what to do when the rear starts drifting out on you etc etc etc.

[Spearfish]

Never yet just plenty of almosts.

I would like to be able so say it as if I'm gloating but with the "its not if, but when" statements ringing in my ears it can make me over think every "event". If you know what I mean?
I put my shit start to riding a two wheeled anything at the start of this winter down to the same thing.

[DrunkenMistake]

Twice,

Rode up the back end of a car at 50km, came round the corner and got blinded by the sun for a moment, and apparently the car infront of me had stopped to turn..

Second was a low slide around a round about.. Cold tyres + man hole covers = Ohhhh shit.:facepalm:

[Ntoxcated]

First was a SR when I'd been riding for a month. A car on the motorway decided I was following too close (probably true) and locked up all four wheels. I snatched the brake rather than squeezing it on, lost the front and ended up under his car.

Second was doing a U-Turn in the dark and failed to see the pot-hole in the middle of the road.

Third was a patch of diesel on a wet road around lake Taupo.

Latest was a reverse SMIDSY. As in I thought I had visibility over some parked cars, but obviously didn't and pulled out in front of a car that wasn't there :blink: We both stopped in time, but my foot slipped and I couldn't catch it and basically dropped it on it's side :facepalm:

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No proper crashes, one drop when I was learning, about to pull out of my driveway put my feet up too soon and stalled.

[Parlane]

First was a SR when I'd been riding for a month. A car on the motorway decided I was following too close (probably true) and locked up all four wheels. I snatched the brake rather than squeezing it on, lost the front and ended up under his car.

That'll teach him!

[Daffyd]

Google didn't help me either :( Not even sure what an RTA is.

Road Traffic Accident

[Animus]

Keith Code, Twist of the Wrist, SR-Survival Reactions.

I read the book once a year during xmas holidays when I have time. You get to the point where you're actually repeating lines to yourself as you approach corners etc.

It's has probably saved my life many times as it teaches you how not to ride a clown, and tells you what to do when the rear starts drifting out on you etc etc etc.

246720

cheers for the reference! I will check the book out if this guy writes as well as he takes care of his silky hair it should be a goldmine

[EJK]

Quite a few times. Once trying to pop a mono. Good times....

[Parlane]

Google didn't help me either :( Not even sure what an RTA is.


....

I got a lovely negative rating on that comment:

"nope I dont care, and you dont even know whats going on so fuck off "

Seems related right...

[sugilite]

Nine times, everyone one of them my fault.

[skippa1]

3 times -
1st in 1983 - Yamaha TS650, low side at 50kmh. Ripped jeans dinged tank bruised pride. - lesson was, watch out for gravel at intersections when cutting corners
2nd in 1987 - CB900, just started moving at the lights in Greenlane and a student went through a redlight and hit my front wheel cleaning me up as well. No damage to me, bike broken cosmetically. Lesson - students are cunts
3rd April this year - 2007 Speed Triple. Lowside at 85-90kmh, change in seal. Bruises and bumps I am still finding - bike a write off. Lesson - take time to smell the roses/slow down and enjoy the ride.

[Quasievil]

Once, in 1982 not my fault

and katman can suck my knob:yes:

[Shaun]

20 times easily before I started racing and then there was more bahahhahahahah:woohoo:

[rossirep]

iv put down 6 times, but a few were just silly off's, white lines in the rain, flipped a bike going up hill 2 up when i first started to ride many years ago, but i did crash and write off 3 bikes over the years, gsxr x 2 and r1 x 1.. oh the joys of road riding aye...lol,

[ducatilover]

1 lowside.
1 epic slapper.
1 fall off the back.

I'm trying everything on for size.

[Banditbandit]

A mate of mine - in a drunken conversation with someone who claimed to have been riding for 40 years and had never fallen off - said "If you haven't dropped a bike you aren't riding it properly ..."

[Oblivion]

None yet, But, there probably will be once I become a full certified motorbicyclist :headbang:

[george formby]

3 proper ones, the rest where just sudden route changes & involuntary Keck crapping. Gotta love that " look where you want to go" advice. Saved my succulent bacon a few times.

[Maha]

10% of the voters are either real average or non vigilant riders...:corn:

[Mungatoke Mad]

Once leaning into a left hander coming off a bridge black Ice 1am below freezing slid into the bank about 40 kph I was wearing jeans & got gravel rash down 1 side of my leg it was so dark I had 2 crawl on my hands & knees feeling 4 my bike when I got it started I had 2 adjust my riding style to suit the new handle bar position 20km home & it took a hour soaking in the bath 2 get feeling into my body & begin 2 feel all the sore bits.

[Road kill]

Since 1973 "twice.
First time was about 76-77,,rode up the arse of a car that had changed lanes in front of me while I was admiring myself in the shop windows,,or something like that.
Bent the forks on my T500 an taught me a lesson.
Second was in 88 when I decked my Norton 850 at speed,,destroyed the bike an damaged myself 3 months in Middlemores worth.
Since then I've ridden off the road by mistake once "but didn't put her down.
I've always hated that old saying,,it's not if,,it's when..,,,must of been a real prick that came up with that one.

Mrs just told me I lie,,,was dropping into a corner in Pukekohe town center on CB550SS at about 45-50km when I saw the diesal rainbow all over the road,,front end washed out,,broke left hand mirror,small cut on side of hand as cuff of glove rolled back,,,,Bastards waiting for the buss all clapped an cheered.
So it's been three,not two.

[Motu]

The poll only goes up to 6 - I could easily double that off the top of my head,and add half a dozen more if I thought harder. But that's over 41 years riding,and my last dump on the road was 20 years ago or more. All 100% my fault,I'm not involving anyone or anything else in the blame game. By my late teens I had noticed the common denominator in all my crashes,and set about an improvement program...but still managed a few more. Just a bit over enthusiastic - I've always thought the limit is something you should take a look at from the otherside.

[onearmedbandit]

GSXR750 - came around a bend in winter to find a farmer moving his herd of cows.
Z440 - Car entered a round-a-bout in front of me, hit the back of him.
GSX750 - Too fast through a bend in town cranked over, washed out the front.
GSXR750 - Too fast through a hairpin, ground out engine casing, lost the front.
GSXR750 - Too fast into a downhill decreasing radius negative camber corner - highside.
GSXR1000 - Too heavy on acceleration through an intersection (not excessive), lost back end over old'ish diesel.

Chronological order. All I walked away from, except the last two. Whoops, that's six and I voted five. Oh and that's over 18yrs of road riding.

[Grant`]

Personally I have come off once, when I first started riding about 6-7 years ago.

Surprised there is not an option after 6 or more for "DMNTD" :innocent:

[Oakie]

Dunno if my one event on the road was a 'crash'. I was doing a very slow U turn, hit some gravel and fell over.

[YellowDog]

I haven't voted as I don't want to tempt fate.

I came off my bike at low speed in 2010 whilst moving off from a roundabout over something slippery. There were no other vehicles involved. It was the first time I'd hit the turf in around 27 years (or so).

I've not ever had a crash or an off at any kind of reasonable speed, but tomorrow's another day :yes:

I tend to be a little less wreckless these days.......................

[TOTO]

5 years
6 crashes
4-5 stationary drops

All crashes have been due to my own stupidity !

[Oakie]

I tend to be a little less wreckless these days.......................

And I hope you continue to be wreck-less.

[sleemanj]

Mmm, define crash.

Dyers Pass road many years ago, 2 bike collision. I'll count that.

Outside my house 10 years ago, ice or mud or something, don't think I'll count it since nobody was there to see.

Port Levy Little River road summit, 11 years ago, front end lost in deep gravel. That came close to the edge of a steep drop so I'll count that, mortality factor.

Harewood road, couple years ago, came off through at a roundabout doing 70 to 80, I'll count that since it had to be spectacular with spark trails from the various ground-off components and there were plenty of witnesses :-)

Road at back of airport about 6 months later, lost front end on loose gravel while avoiding oncoming pedaller, I'll count that since I almost collected him.

Lees Valley road, earlier this year, lost front taking a downhill dirt/gravel corner a bit quicker than my low-on-tread road tyres and ability were up to, I don't think I'll count that one since nobody was there to see it.

So that's 4 or 6 depending on how honest I am.

That's the on-road bike crashes only. I'm, not going to even think about off road or non bike "incidents".

[Conquiztador]

3 times in 45 years.

Mid 80's Triumph Bonnie 750 in Italy in a drunken state missed a 90 degree turn at just over 100k/h... One week hospital and bent forks and other damage. Rode back to Sweden after bending the bits so the bike would go straight-ish...

A couple of years ago in a roundabout on BMW K100. Wet and I was not concentrating. Very slow speed drop and no damage really (apart from dented pride)

A year ago BMW K1 first ride after getting her home. 2 Km's down the road realised I had forgotten something and attempted a U-Turn for first time with her. The 7.5 meter turning radius caught me as I was planning a 4 meter U turn with feet on footpegs... Scrapes on r/h side of faering. Bummer. Now do U turns with her with both feet down.

[Rhys]

GSXR750 - came around a bend in winter to find a farmer moving his herd of cows.
Z440 - Car entered a round-a-bout in front of me, hit the back of him.
GSX750 - Too fast through a bend in town cranked over, washed out the front.
GSXR750 - Too fast through a hairpin, ground out engine casing, lost the front.
GSXR750 - Too fast into a downhill decreasing radius negative camber corner - highside.
GSXR1000 - Too heavy on acceleration through an intersection (not excessive), lost back end over old'ish diesel.

Chronological order. All I walked away from, except the last two. Whoops, that's six and I voted five. Oh and that's over 18yrs of road riding.

I can see the the common denominator GSXR' s :shutup:

[xen]

None, and really hope to keep it that way :yes:

Had a close call where I froze on a one way curved bridge and forgot how to turn, ended up in the gutter but just missed the railing phew

Oh and one time riding my dirtbike back to the car, going up a hill bit of lean and gas = lowside.. hmm knobblies on road are shiiit

[tigertim20]

Ever since I began riding road bikes at 15 I've heard the age old saying "it's not if you will crash, it is when you crash" and in the past 12 years have crashed three times on the road.

Would you be so helpful as to tell me how many times you have crashed on the road?

define 'crash' See, stalling a car means turning the key and carrying on, stalling a bike can often mean losing your grip, and the bike falling over and getting damaged, which i dont really class as a crash.

The statement would ring much more true if it was
'its not IF you will damage your bike, its when'.

Such an attitude is negative, and really not that helpfull. You are obviously human, and not perfect, so sooner or later you WILL make a mistake. and that mistake MIGHT cause damage to your bike, and it MIGHT cause you injury (or death), but none of the above listed reults of a mistake are certain.

[Newo]

define 'crash' See, stalling a car means turning the key and carrying on, stalling a bike can often mean losing your grip, and the bike falling over and getting damaged, which i dont really class as a crash.

The statement would ring much more true if it was
'its not IF you will damage your bike, its when'.

Such an attitude is negative, and really not that helpfull. You are obviously human, and not perfect, so sooner or later you WILL make a mistake. and that mistake MIGHT cause damage to your bike, and it MIGHT cause you injury (or death), but none of the above listed reults of a mistake are certain.

what he said :facepalm:

[superman]

None so far... but haven't even been on the road for a year yet. Nearly collected a cow at 1am the other morning though... :blink:

[Resto lad]

dig this, a front wheel tuck at about 60-70km caused by me letting pressure out of the front tyre cause there was lots of tread on the out side, :woohoo: I know, I know, it was the 250cc years and i am a tight scottish bastard. hey I fallen of both road bikes I owned, pushin my skills boundry cause im pretending iam the naki ginger (konini street) at the isle.

[Resto lad]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]246720[/ATTA
if this guy writes as well as he takes care of his silky hair it should be a goldmine
HA !!!! that golden silky smooth shiney hair is very off putting. unless ur a hairdresser, still thats me judging by the cover. must get to that superbike school
then i 2 will be a Keith convert.

[varminter]

Cold, liter v-twin, gentle bend, bike prone to occasional hiccup and chose this time to do it. Big lurch, me on the deck, bike picked up by three lovely ladies:yes:. This doesn't count times forgetting to put stand down or two up, and the road with a steeper camber than my leg could reach.

[quattro]

A chemical sprayer hanging off the back of a tractor broke loose and clothes-lined me in March. I got knocked back the way I came. I took the blow across my chest, head and right arm. I was lucky I wasn't decaptiated!! I got away with a swollen throbbing arm and some cuts and bruises. The bike didn't fair as well. It died and I lived. That's the right way round!

It was a freak accident and his insurance company were anxious to keep me happy!! That's what's paying for my little NZ adventure!!

[hellokitty]

:facepalm: I have done 2 stationary "drops". Once when my feet where stuck in the foot pegs :blink: and another time when an old lady drove into me :facepalm:

[fatzx10r]

twice and both were my fault. i had a low speed head on with a car once at an intersection, and threw my bike into a bridge the other time doing some rolling burnouts lol

[Goblin]

I voted 4 times but its 5. Forgot about the last time when i lowsided on a roundabout after failing to avoid a thick line of oil on the road. Two were due to riding above my skill level and other two were SMIDSYs.

[Katman]

In the first 20 years of riding I had more accidents than I could ever recall. (And I can't think of one of them that was anyone's fault other than my own).

None in the last 10 years and I'm determined to keep it that way.

[pzkpfw]

Do gravel tracks count as "road"?

Crashed twice. In 1990, both on the same day on the same "road", on my RD250/350LC. The gravel track to the T.V. transmitter on the North side of the Manawatu gorge had just been thickly re-metalled, and I lost it on a downward sloped right-hand bend. Partly because my girlfriend (now Wife) kept slidng forward and I was getting pushed up onto the tank. Second off was at bottom of that "road", came 'round a corner to find a car stopped right in the middle of the track, with both front doors open. Nowhere to go. Brakes, deep gravel, bars already bent from earlier off, down we go again.

Learned a whole lot of lessons that day.

[superman]

In the first 20 years of riding I had more accidents than I could ever recall. (And I can't think of one of them that was anyone's fault other than my own).

None in the last 10 years and I'm determined to keep it that way.

:shit: Katman?! Someone must have hacked your account aye...

[Quasievil]

In the first 20 years of riding I had more accidents than I could ever recall.

You of all people shouldn't come on here and tell us about your crashes, its fucking funny you did though
You sound reckless dude, for me as said once back in 1982 smidsu

anyway suck my knob, and come down to the taupo track on the 23rd I will buy you a coffee :yes:

[Katman]

You of all people shouldn't come on here and tell us about your crashes, its fucking funny you did though
You sound reckless dude, for me as said once back in 1982 smidsu


I spent my teens and early twenties riding like an idiot because I was an idiot.

I also spent five years as a courier riding like an idiot because I got paid more if I rode like an idiot.

Taught me a couple of things though - 1, riding like an idiot only lasts so long and 2, it taught me to recognise other idiots.

[Parlane]

2, it taught me to recognise other idiots.


So does a mirror :woohoo:

[Katman]

So does a mirror :woohoo:

Remind yourself of that each time you're brushing your teeth.

Self-examination doesn't always have to involve sticking your finger up your arse.

[Parlane]

Remind yourself of that each time you're brushing your teeth.

Self-examination doesn't always have to involve sticking your finger up your arse.

In reply to both statements:

Why? Will you be behind me?

[oneofsix]

In reply to both statements:

Why? Will you be behind me?

If he is it might be a good reason to stick your own finger there to keep others out :innocent:

[Brett]

I put down three times, but they were all sub-30kph so hardly worth noting. Had a couple of 'moments' on the track at 150kph - 200kph and some open road speed 'moments' but so far I have managed to save them all. (Touch wood).

[Quasievil]

I spent my teens and early twenties riding like an idiot because I was an idiot.

I also spent five years as a courier riding like an idiot because I got paid more if I rode like an idiot.

Taught me a couple of things though - 1, riding like an idiot only lasts so long and 2, it taught me to recognise other idiots.

And Coffee on Friday, we need to Man bond and find the love for each other we once had :love:

[Taz]

I've crashed once in 27 years on the road. Plenty of times at buckets. Countless times in the dirt.

[LBD]

4 times in 36 years of road riding....but in that only one low speed drop on liquefaction silt in Chch in the the last 28 years...something to said for bullet proof youthful stupidity

[hellokitty]

anyway suck my knob, and come down to the taupo track on the 23rd I will buy you a coffee :yes:

Wow, that sounds hard to resist....


I've crashed once in 27 years on the road. Plenty of times at buckets. Countless times in the dirt.

Dirt doesn't count surely! If so I have crashed many many times..... always on my own while doing something retarded (often on someone's lawn) that involves deep mud/sand/gravel/grass and getting some air.

[spannermad]

1: Head on with a ute in 1983. Ute cut the corner and I hit it in the lefthand headlight and wrote it off.
2: Shit in brake fluid and had a front bake lock up at 160k, brakes wouldn`t release.
3: Hit lose chip on a corner just outside home and front end slid out at about 30k.

[otter]

4 times for me(in the last year too)...
1 big one when I thought regular jeans were ok...taken to the hospital and now one of my knees is missing 40% of a patella tendon and can't feel most of my knee (that's coming back), sucks big time having such a weak knee...but I ride on.
I got wise after that and brought some motorcycle pants.

Next was trying to overtake a car in a 50k zone...bad idea, I grabbed the brakes and my bike fell over. I've since learnt that it's just not worth it and have since been thinking about overtaking just to have the car pull off to the right when I would've been overtaking.

Next going around a roundabout in the wet lent over...1 second I was thinking to myself that it was lent over pretty hard, next I was lying on the ground in the middle of the round about.

Finally, braking moderately in a straight line coming up to traffic lights, hit some oil or something and the front end just tipped over, went for a wee slide, got up and rode on.

The thing that's the most annoying to me is having to pop 50$ on new handlebars every time. I like to think that I ride reasonably safely around cars after my first 2 crashes and that I'm just unlucky :(

[Quasievil]

I like to think that I ride reasonably safely around cars after my first 2 crashes and that I'm just unlucky :(


Dude Im guessing youre a young chappy or a newbie ?

It really sounds to me like you need to get a bit smoother in your riding, and or at least settle down a bit?

If you want Im happy to ride with you a bit and perhaps give you a bit of guidedance and mentoring ( I started the KB mentor thing but since it turned into a big cock award I pulled out) I have helped many riders in the past.

Drop me a pm if you want.:yes:

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big cock award I pulled out
:laugh:

I just can't help myself at times.

[otter]

Dude Im guessing youre a young chappy or a newbie ?

It really sounds to me like you need to get a bit smoother in your riding, and or at least settle down a bit?

If you want Im happy to ride with you a bit and perhaps give you a bit of guidedance and mentoring ( I started the KB mentor thing but since it turned into a big cock award I pulled out) I have helped many riders in the past.

Drop me a pm if you want.:yes:

Cheers,
PM sent.

[Katman]

( I started the KB mentor thing but since it turned into a big cock award I pulled out)

You and Stoney would make a lovely couple Brett.

[Animus]

Thanking you all for voting and even providing detail of your crashes, has been enlightening to get an idea of how many times people have hit the road to compare to my own record. Seems to me that there are two types of crashes that make up the majority, the 'crashed caused by pushing the boundaries' ones and 'crashed caused by uncontrollable external environment' ones. It's heartening to see that there are folks out there that have spent decades on the road without crashing, a friend of mine subscribes to the view that with vigilant riding (i.e. paranoid of every moving object and surface discrepancy) and a good idea of your limits crashing can be avoided and I'd like to think this is the case.

P.S. How does the KB big cock award work? What prizes are there?

[pzkpfw]

P.S. How does the KB big cock award work? What prizes are there?

A big cock is its' own reward.

[Katman]

A big cock is its' own reward.

I feel blessed.

[sugilite]

( I started the KB mentor thing but since it turned into a big cock award I pulled out)


I thought that "ME" after my name was just to remind me I'm myself, but all along it stood for "Mammoth Entity". I don't know about other mentors, but I never hear from anyone, like ever. It may be where I live, or my breath, I've never worked it out.

[hellokitty]

Seems to me that there are two types of crashes that make up the majority, the 'crashed caused by pushing the boundaries' ones and 'crashed caused by uncontrollable external environment' ones.


Make that 3 types - my crashes where of the ":facepalm: d'oh! :facepalm:" variety, where there was really no excuse for such low speed/stationery retardedness.

[Juzz976]

One low speed high side...damn new tires

[BAY CITY MOTORCYCLES]

One low speed high side...damn new tires

Was a nice burnout the night before though! :scooter:

[Flip]

Twice in 36 years.

I fell off in 1978 riding around the Chch summit road near castle rock, too fast and far to little skill. I technically ran wide on a reducing radius bend and rode off the road surface, the bike went over the edge, I had minor injuries.

I was knocked off last year when car turned out from a service station across my lane, in rush hour, right in front of me. I am still a bit pissed off about this one because I slowed up as I didn't think he had seen me, I am sure he did make eye contact and completely stop just before he took off to pull into a gap that had been created on the other side of the road. I broke my thumb, he was charged with careless causing and lost his license. He was driving a company car and his employer did a H+S investigation on him as well. I have been told he was lucky to keep his job.

[george formby]

A big cock is its' own reward.

That only goes so far, but not all the way.


Thinking about it, I have crashed in a car more than on a bike.

[Flip]

It's big enough to keep him happy!

[Zedder]

I've only had one low sider so far (touches head) in 15 years due to oil on the road but at least half a dozen "near hits". These have been mainly from a certain ethnic type of driver.

[Matariki]

Once, but it was the other drivers fault. I got hit by a mobility van that failed to give way. :facepalm:

It was near fatal and now my bike is at the wreckers.

[pete-blen]

Have no idea..put down 6..
But its way more than that...
Only once hitting something..
a few time running out of seal
mostly loseing the rear end

[Parlane]

I thought that "ME" after my name was just to remind me I'm myself, but all along it stood for "Mammoth Entity". I don't know about other mentors, but I never hear from anyone, like ever. It may be where I live, or my breath, I've never worked it out.


Well your location could be more detailed...

[Zedder]

Well your location could be more detailed...

How much more detailed?

[Daffyd]

1) Struck a patch of diesel coming into Balclutha in the rain. High sided and nearly ended up under the front of a ute. (Going to '06 March Hare. Twisted ankle and sprained thumb. Broken clutch lever and windscreen.)

2) Straight off a tight left hander. Could have made it, but would have spent too much time on the wrong side of the road. Instead I chose to "view the scenery." (Going to '06 Glenorchy rally. No injuries to me or bike.)

[sugilite]

Well your location could be more detailed...

Good point, though it is listed in detail on my my actual profile. I just changed it to show up on every post I make, which is not that many.:shutup: I just went for the general region as I live 25 km's from the nearest town and this area has a identity crisis anyway, it is on the Northern Waiarapa's electrol role, but is also described by the press as being the Manawatu, and or the Southern Hawkes Bay, so take your pick :lol:

Other "ME's" I've talked to report the same thing though, they get the odd online query, but it is very rare to get riders wanting on bike sessions. (Oddly I have mentored more mentors than newbies :blink: )

I suppose I should say 8 of my 9 crashes were all in the 1st three years. The 9th one was in 2006 and is the only one I've had in the last 22 years. It was the worlds smallest high side onto a nice soft grassy traffic island. :violin:

[Parlane]

Other "ME's" I've talked to report the same thing though, they get the odd online query, but it is very rare to get riders wanting on bike sessions. (Oddly I have mentored more mentors than newbies :blink: )


It's not exactly well advertised.. I didn't know it existed until Quasi made a reference to it. Before that I'm not even sure I took notice of the green :Me. :\

[Zedder]

How much more detailed?

Not playing the game today Parlane?

[Parlane]

Not playing the game today Parlane?


Haha, I knew what you were trying to do :innocent:

And almost any level of detail would be more than "by my riding gear". Also by the time I read your question, my comment had been answered :)

[sugilite]

It's not exactly well advertised.. I didn't know it existed until Quasi made a reference to it. Before that I'm not even sure I took notice of the green :Me. :\

Click on the main "Forum" tab at the top of any page and there it is in the first group in the survival skills section, which is probably where it should be. I think the survival skills area would be a point of interest on the site for most newbies. Maybe it could be pushed more from the home page, other than that, I'm not sure it could be pushed further than that unless it was mentioned in a welcome to kb letter after sign up or something.

[Zedder]

Haha, I knew what you were trying to do :innocent:

And almost any level of detail would be more than "by my riding gear". Also by the time I read your question, my comment had been answered :)

Damn you're good!

[bartshumandad]

You could ask;

How many times have you crashed on trackdays?

And, more interestingly, (going back to road riding) what percentage of crashes were a result of other vehicles actions? (as opposed to your personal ambition outweighing your talent [thanks Casey Stoner]). Or maybe break it down to what percentage do you consider a result of your own actions?

Personally, 2 out of my 3 were a result of my own lack of talent!! (As of course will be the majority of Track day crashes! Score 1/1 for me there).

[Gone Burger]

Once and one time too many. Will make sure that it never happens again as long as I am a rider, and that will be for much of the rest of my life. Lucky enough to still have my life so time to shape up, retrian my mind, re-learn all the basic skills and continue to learn with training along the way so that I never let this happen again.

No cars or other people incolved in my crash. Just me verses the road. It couldn't have been more wrong and should never have happened. Still, it's in my control to make sure it doesnt ever again. Can't risk coming off eaither way, and one knock and that could be me done and dusted. Have already booked in for my first training session later this year. One I have done 3 times before but need to go back and do again. Cant wait.

[Paul M50]

I have been riding bikes for over thirty years and I get as big a kick out of it now as I ever did. I have come off and been knocked off many times. The simple fact is that if you clock up enough years and enough ks then there is a very good chance that at some stage the odds will catch up with you. While every rider should do all they can to aquire and maintain skills, and to ride within that skill level. The fact is bike riding is excitment and risk. If you can't accept the risk you should not be riding a bike.

[yamahaggis88]

Nothing major yet, dumped my bike and myself under it at work, was wearing shorts and caught one of my work boots on my left hand peg, shat myself, went over with the bike :facepalm:

Second was a very close call a few weeks ago coming down the Whareratas just out of Gisborne, coming into a 55 downhill left hander, doing about 90, decided to drop a cog, blipped throttle, bike missed, dumped clutch, back end locked up as i was starting to lean, luckily never binned it, scary experience nonetheless.

[Bonez]

Not as many as Katman it would seem.:innocent:
In over 30 years of riding only one time I was put in hospital-f'kn f'kn cages:shutup: Moral-don't be dressed up in brightly coloured full kit in a 50 k zone coz yuz is a targit.

[Turnkey133]

My first 5 crashes were 19+ years ago when "I was young dumb and full of cum"! :bash: I have been riding again for 3 years now (16 year break) and I have had one slide 2 1\2 years ago due to inattention. I have learnt now what my riding limitations are and only ride within them. I ride in all weather conditions apart from snow.

[Turnkey133]

Once and one time too many. Will make sure that it never happens again as long as I am a rider, and that will be for much of the rest of my life. Lucky enough to still have my life so time to shape up, retrian my mind, re-learn all the basic skills and continue to learn with training along the way so that I never let this happen again.

No cars or other people incolved in my crash. Just me verses the road. It couldn't have been more wrong and should never have happened. Still, it's in my control to make sure it doesnt ever again. Can't risk coming off eaither way, and one knock and that could be me done and dusted. Have already booked in for my first training session later this year. One I have done 3 times before but need to go back and do again. Cant wait.

Do an advanced riding course. I did mine at Mansfield race track and I can tell the differences between the have and the have not’s when following another rider!:gob:

[Nastrond]

Haven't actually gone down yet but got side swiped by a car on the market road off ramp in Auckland. Got a tank slapper but luckily managed to keep it rubber side up

[g spot]

my last one was in 1996 230ks round bend smack straight into ford cortina lucky only got bruises an scrapes slowed down abit now nothn over 200

[Old Steve]

Low sided in the wet at a roundabout this evening (posted thread tonight). Not hurt - deep bruise in my shoulder and badly injured pride, but important lessons learnt. But scraped my baby.

[Parlane]

Low sided in the wet at a roundabout this evening (posted thread tonight). Not hurt - deep bruise in my shoulder and badly injured pride, but important lessons learnt. But scraped my baby.

Blame it on the oil!

[paturoa]

Twice in 35 years, with the last off on the road was 29 years ago.

Though to be honest I've had numerous "close ones" over the years, but only a couple of "should haves".

Thinking about it a bit more, all of the close or shouldas I can remember since 82 (last off), would have been the other person's fault.

[davebullet]

I put never. Didn't include the stationary drops. One on gravel the other on snow / ice. None on speedy (touch head)

[MikeD400]

Im so shit scared of scratching my bike's that when i have a near come off eg (turning left at a round about and front wheel sliding) its like my left leg turns green and pumps up like the hulk and i slam my foot against the road and me and the bike stand up and carry on lol.

Havnt come off yet ::TOOOOUCH WOOD:: had a couple of close calls like this tho.

[Infilt8tor]

1 Blowen into a ditch easter 1982,:doh::doh::doh:
2 was pillion & hit a car doing a you turn,
3 spat the dummy racing at manfield 1982.
4 Ice in wellington on horokiwi hill.
5 Ditch again avoiding a stupid cage driver
6 nose dived a three wheeler in to the creak
All others hooning at South Beach Wanganui.

probably more to follow..... god i love riding bikes.... beats being shot at

Ex Soldier.

[durp]

Ive sort of had one. A guy pulled out directly in front of me, and i locked up the brakes and came off it. That was about when i first started riding. But hey, an accident you can walk away from is always lucky.

Especially since then, but always have, I just assume everybody on the road doesn't see me. If i'm coming down a road and theres someone who's waiting to turn out, i just assume they don't see me and i let off the throttle a little bit, and hover the horn with my thumb and prepare to use both brakes.

Being conscious of where my bike is in relation to other cars on the road makes a big difference. Never ride in the blind spot. And always look in your mirrors even if ur not doing anything: I knew a mate of mine once who was sitting at a stop light and he looked in his mirrors at a truck coming up behind him. he wasn't sure if he was going to stop, so i put the kickstand down got off the bike and stood to the side.... the truck smashed into his bike and sent it flipping over cars. :shit:

[Parlane]

I knew a mate of mine once who was sitting at a stop light and he looked in his mirrors at a truck coming up behind him. he wasn't sure if he was going to stop, so i put the kickstand down got off the bike and stood to the side.... the truck smashed into his bike and sent it flipping over cars. :shit:

Why didn't he pull to the side, I assume that would take less time than balancing your bike on it's stand...

NVM: Obviously he knew the bike would be a write off. And he didnt like it so much.

[dmc]

I'll claim 2 but thats just real accidents, on the adventure bike there was plenty of off's but won't class them as accidents.
First was on the hill top road to Akaroa, little hot into a tight corner and all was going good but the knobblies gave up the ghost when I hit grit in the middle of the road and it spat me off, was happily sliding down the road til the luggage rack hooked my boot and broke my ankle, the boys loaded me back on and had an interesting ride back to town :facepalm:
Second and most recent was the worst, cruising into town a few months ago got half way round the slightly damp QEII round about and the bike turn round on me when I hit diesel and high sided me, out come was a free trip to hospital in an Ambulance and no bike riding for quite a while. :crybaby:

[reemit]

its like my left leg turns green and pumps up like the hulk and i slam my foot against the road and me and the bike stand up and carry on lol.. Ive done that too, its like really wierd.

Mine were all over 25 years ago. These are just the ones I can remember.
FS1E more than twice into ditches and fences.
RD350LC back end let go whilst scraping round a junction, I tried to get up too soon and the kerb flipped me over backwards. Landed on me AGV and got concussion.
Z1000ST wheelie, road went right, I went straight on - Dumdum
Z1000ST 100kph whole road covered in cowshit - so was I, when I stopped sliding.
CBX1000 Moto Martin, embedded into side of old man Herbert Roberts's Cortina outside pub, after he had "one for the road". I should have been toast, cops threw book at him. One arm shorter than other now (mine that is).
Had lots of close calls but managed to see it coming. Nearly had one tonight though on me streetfita, after a retard aimed his banged up corolla at me over the double yellows for a laugh. Twat!

[TIBLE_90]

got hit by car once 3 years ago, totaled bike and landed me in hospital for 6 days. Been riding for 5 years now. Hope all goes well from here on out:shutup:

[Driftmonkey]

None. I like it that way. It's funny, seeing as I've ridden for a year (like a fucking idiot) or so now. I've had a few times where I've come close, though. Coming up to a corner at a slightly higher than normal speed and the rear wheel locked up sending me into panic mode, had my eyes locked onto the ditch I was inevitably about to go into... buuuuut made it thankfully. :yes::yes: All of my other related 'near crashes' were similar situations, came into a corner too quick and underestimated the turn. Probably only happened because I was learning.

[Maha]

Really? a year in and you have the words ''All of my other related 'near crashes'' to use? seriously, you need to have a little more respect for your life and your family/mates... they are the ones who will continue to hurt after you kill yourself as a result of having very little in the way of the skills needed to ride a motorbike.

[FJRider]

... Probably only happened because I was learning.

I would say it only happened ... because you weren't learning ... :rolleyes:

[eldog]

3 times, none related to speed or alcohol or taking risks. All under 70kph
All things I didn't know about until after accident(s) happened. I would have avoided all of them with what I know now.
All avoidable if I had known what to do and what to look for - that's why I do training, read motorbike learning books and take things easy, one step at a time. and ATGATT that has saved me most.

Learnt from every accident I have had, each case different causes and I have walked away no major damage (impact pads in gear help)
I try and help others 'discover' what some of these causes are so they can avoid them (or plan ahead).
Few want to listen to an old bugger. Even if one listens I am happy.

[Akzle]

twice at fault, single vehicle (motobike).

one vs ditch - gave up on going around the corner,
one just having a liedown after some sick 270 skiddage.


three, if you count coming round a hairpin (drunk, no lights, at night - i was a fucking clever one.) to find a car stopped dead centre, epic somersault.

in *mumble mumble* years of riding. >10 <20.

[george formby]

Dredgealicious.
I'm to old to remember. Crashed through just about every hedge in Northumberland as an under skilled over enthusiastic yoof. Must have had an angel on my shoulder and a demon in my ear.

[sugilite]

Oh, a thread dredge. My tally still remains at just 9, same as when I first posted in this thread. I must be slipping, or not as the case may be. :scooter:

[mossy1200]

Hit some diesel on a roundabout back in 1993 with a new back tyre. Ended up standing beside the bike. Does that count?

[puddytat]

Hit a U-turning ute on me XR250 way back when they first came out at about 70k & remembered Freeths advice about unhooking thumbs before impact & to look at your toes while flying so you roll on impact with the road.....
it worked. Not a scratch on me.
Bike was pretty munted though & got a little more munted when I got home as I took to the tank with a hammer just to make sure I got a new tank as I'd dropped the bike a few weeks before & it had an unsightly dent in it:shifty:

Target fixating a bank in the Buller Gorge so its just 2.

[caseye]

Has anyone seen Cassina?
Sure he'll put you all to shame with his ability to be involved, but not involved and walk away, never his fault, not even a little bit.
Love to see if she/he,it actually tells you how many?
None, not anticipating any either, I try hard to make sure I am as safe as I can be while riding, these days I have my wife riding in front of me and that takes some doing as I am constantly pulling in the 6 feet of gap between her and usually the car following her, sometimes a bloody bike and brake checking them to get their attention and their road users skills back to something like normal.
But hey, tell me to stop because it's going to happen, Fuck off, it isn't.

[vifferman]

Riding since 1973
Me too!
Had a few; wrote off my first bike (Christmas Day, 1975, my fault) and my last VFR a few years ago (not my fault, but there were things I could have done to prevent it). I've also run over a cyclist, and a pedestrian; low-sided on gravel roadworks on a corner (obscured by pedestrians wandering on the road); and the dumbest crash was locking up te front wheel bedding in the front brake pads on a slippery, tarsnake infested road.
Wrote off my first car too. That was on the road.:crazy:

[JATZ]

Define "road" :innocent: :D

I've had a couple on farm tracks, some on skidder tracks, a couple on no tracks, 1 or 2 on gravel roads (1 of which hurt a bit :rolleyes: ) and 1 on a sealed road (ice)
All were my fault 'cause I was in control of the bike.....or not :msn-wink:



Hmmmm, all that in 8 yrs. Maybe I should stop now ?

[Ender EnZed]

I ended up standing too when I hit some ice in ChCh years ago. Such a crash would make a good video eh.

So anyway, just how many times have you crashed?

[nzspokes]

Two. First an Indian guy decided to go for his driveway right in front of me, from opposing traffic. His argument was I should have been nice and let him go through. This didnt work out well for him in court. Next was an Indian lady that entered a roundabout I was on, was more of a fall over as my foot slipped as I put it down. We only just touched. Bike just needed a brake lever.

I keep an eye out for Indian drivers these days.

[nzspokes]

Is your wife putting you under pressure to keep up?? Will you blame her if you come to grief?

You are an idiot. HTH.

[nzspokes]

I bet you think there is no such thing but I have seen it myself. It is something that no one will admit to of course in case they are thought of as being a wimp or something. Maybe you ride under pressure to keep up yourself and I have hit a raw nerve eh sport?

You are still an idiot.

[george formby]

Two. First an Indian guy decided to go for his driveway right in front of me, from opposing traffic. His argument was I should have been nice and let him go through. This didnt work out well for him in court. Next was an Indian lady that entered a roundabout I was on, was more of a fall over as my foot slipped as I put it down. We only just touched. Bike just needed a brake lever.

I keep an eye out for Indian drivers these days.

Has this experience put you off curry and naan?

[nzspokes]

So people who state observation/opinion of dangerous riding practises are idiots?

No. Just you.

It's practices. HTH.

[nzspokes]

Has this experience put you off curry and naan?

No. Had a good Butter Chicken for dinner to be fair.

[george formby]

No. Had a good Butter Chicken for dinner to be fair.

Phew. Thought I might have to start a thread about how what you eat affects your road skills. :laugh:
I like Indian & Asian.

Oh, back on track. Only had one off involving road furniture. A Volvo towing a caravan. No, not his fault. I bounced off his extended wing mirror but kept it together until I hit my mate and his Honda Dominator parked across the passing bay ahead. T'was on a single lane road in the Scottish Highlands. Blame? The two chicks in the VW Golf soft top who flashed their tits at me as we passed. I just went to pieces and totally missed the car & caravan.

[Conquiztador]

Phew. Thought I might have to start a thread about how what you eat affects your road skills. :laugh:
I like Indian & Asian.

Oh, back on track. Only had one off involving road furniture. A Volvo towing a caravan. No, not his fault. I bounced off his extended wing mirror but kept it together until I hit my mate and his Honda Dominator parked across the passing bay ahead. T'was on a single lane road in the Scottish Highlands. Blame? The two chicks in the VW Golf soft top who flashed their tits at me as we passed. I just went to pieces and totally missed the car & caravan.

Let me get this straight... U guys ride Hondas and the girls flash their titties to you... Right... So now back to the beginning. What REALLY happened?

[Akzle]

Only twice on my own once braking on the downhill of a bridge in the wet and twice on ice. 2 dogs ran into me and I was hit by 2 muppet car drivers. So total 6 times

so 2x 100% you. And 4x that were probably >50% you.

How many years have you been riding?

[caseye]

Only twice on my own once braking on the downhill of a bridge in the wet and twice on ice. 2 dogs ran into me and I was hit by 2 muppet car drivers. So total 6 times

Is it just me or what?
Once on a downhill, in the wet (admitted, own fault) 1. (But admits readily to 2 which still isn't right if he did crash twice more on ice, after the one in the wet, it Becomes 3!)

Twice on ice? 2.

Twice, didn't see dog running at him? 2.

Twice didn't see muppets who drove into him? 2.
( what did they do to deserve that title?)

TOTAL, so far. 7!


Sorry folks this wasn't a bad thread until I opened my big mouth and asked the stupidest question.

I promise I won't do it again.

[Luckylegs]

Is it just me or what?
Once on a downhill, in the wet (admitted, own fault) 1. (But admits readily to 2 which still isn't right if he did crash twice more on ice, after the one in the wet, it Becomes 3!)

Twice on ice? 2.

Twice, didn't see dog running at him? 2.

Twice didn't see muppets who drove into him? 2.
( what did they do to deserve that title?)

TOTAL, so far. 7!


Sorry folks this wasn't a bad thread until I opened my big mouth and asked the stupidest question.

I promise I won't do it again.

Nah, 2 dogs ran once, not a dog ran twice

[Luckylegs]

Oh and while we're in the confessional. I've had just the one. A small lie down in a ditch after giving up on a corner back before I got better at planning corners

[Akzle]

Sorry folks this wasn't a bad thread until I opened my big mouth and asked the stupidest question.

I promise I won't do it again.

that oughta teach you for using the c* word.

[george formby]

Let me get this straight... U guys ride Hondas and the girls flash their titties to you... Right... So now back to the beginning. What REALLY happened?

Wash your mouth out, I ride a Yamaha, the Honda was parked in a camp fashion. I was young & easily distracted. Possibly even euphoric at the time, the sun was shining.

[ellipsis]

...my most memorable two wheeled off was pedalling like fuck to beat my best time back from Governors Bay on my really high tech Healing 10 Speed, that weighed about as much as a small motorcycle...I was that intent on beating my record that as I approached Lyttelton and the roundabout outside the tunnel I was head down and arse up...I ran into the back of a Holden station wagon ...smashed my front teeth on the back window...on another occasion on said Healing, I had got back to Lyttelton and was just about to turn left up the hill by the British Hotel, when old Bob, a tally clerk on the wharf pulled out on me...he was on his XL Honda...I flew thirty feet before hitting the deck on the opposite side of the road...Bill who was just opening his shop, Mason Struthers Hardware, had just stepped out onto the pavement as I landed in the gutter beside him...he thought I was pissed and had just fallen in the gutter...my 10 speed was pretty fucked...

[Akzle]

I was young & easily distracted. Possibly even euphoric at the time, the sun was shining.

ahh. Fuken sun. Shit will get you every time.

[caseye]

...my most memorable two wheeled off was pedalling like fuck to beat my best time back from Governors Bay on my really high tech Healing 10 Speed, that weighed about as much as a small motorcycle...I was that intent on beating my record that as I approached Lyttelton and the roundabout outside the tunnel I was head down and arse up...I ran into the back of a Holden station wagon ...smashed my front teeth on the back window...on another occasion on said Healing, I had got back to Lyttelton and was just about to turn left up the hill by the British Hotel, when old Bob, a tally clerk on the wharf pulled out on me...he was on his XL Honda...I flew thirty feet before hitting the deck on the opposite side of the road...Bill who was just opening his shop, Mason Struthers Hardware, had just stepped out onto the pavement as I landed in the gutter beside him...he thought I was pissed and had just fallen in the gutter...my 10 speed was pretty fucked...

Yep, well now you've done it.
Remember those collapsible Rally 20's???????????
On the carrier on the back my mate steering, down hill.
OK, down the slalom it's Griffith Street in Put a Ruru, some of you may know it, but I can assure you, not as intimately as me.
10 maybe 12 two biggish lads, he lived there, w'ed done this before.
Off we go from the top, got about half way, speed wobbles! uh huh.
3/4's and we're flying man, OK, take the right hand turn into front of Aunty Jeans from McKenzie's, place.
Nope, handle bars turned nothing else, at about that moment we're both shaking our heads , going, Oh, No, this is gunna hurt.
Then the thing literally collapsed, course we liked that about it normally, BUT not right at that moment.
He rode a two wheeled pygmy rocket across the road and through the trees into the High Schools grounds, straight through the 8 wire fence, unharmed. Had a lot to do with riding(if you could call it that by then) a bit like ol man Munroe on his Indian, spread from the front to the back, went through between the wires.
Me, well I got to see Aunty Jean, as they feed me, my front teeth and what was left of my hands, knees and face into the Ambo, hello Mr Jarrett.
Doctor first, Doc Allen.
Then Dentist, that Barstard Sinclair, didn't even give me an anusthetic ( See what I did there?) got one of em back in, the other has been missing ever since.
Scars took awhile and to this day when I see one of those R20's I get this uncontrollable urge to run, the otherway!

[george formby]

ahh. Fuken sun. Shit will get you every time.
Especially in Scotland. People still hide when it comes out.

[ellipsis]

Especially in Scotland. People still hide when it comes out.


...it came out twice I think when I lived in Aberdeen for a couple of years...I have a photo to prove it...

[Driftmonkey]

Really? a year in and you have the words ''All of my other related 'near crashes'' to use? seriously, you need to have a little more respect for your life and your family/mates... they are the ones who will continue to hurt after you kill yourself as a result of having very little in the way of the skills needed to ride a motorbike.

Yep. A years riding worth of 100% full throttle everywhere and anywhere has taught me alot of things. Awesome riding skills being one of them.

Come close to crashing a good 90~100 times now. The andrenaline rush is unbelievable.

[mossy1200]

Yep. A years riding worth of 100% full throttle everywhere and anywhere has taught me alot of things. Awesome riding skills being one of them.

Come close to crashing a good 90~100 times now. The andrenaline rush is unbelievable.

All you need now is a bigger bike to increase your conversion rate.

[Driftmonkey]

All you need now is a bigger bike to increase your conversion rate.

Getting a ZX14 on finance. Hows that sound? :clap::clap:

[mossy1200]

Getting a ZX14 on finance. Hows that sound? :clap::clap:

Like a short term solution.

[Driftmonkey]

Like a short term solution.

All seriousness, though. I know my limits and I know when to ride fast and when not to. I also very well know what the consequences are when (not going to happen, though) I actually do find myself in a collision. I'm stupid but I'm not dumb. Cheers to the good guy who saw through my sarcastic comments and had the heart to revert from attacking me to actually giving me a few good words, much appreciated mate :cool:

[Maha]

So you're full of shit as well? what a fucking drama queen.

[sugilite]

Two. First an Indian guy decided to go for his driveway right in front of me, from opposing traffic. His argument was I should have been nice and let him go through. This didnt work out well for him in court. Next was an Indian lady that entered a roundabout I was on, was more of a fall over as my foot slipped as I put it down. We only just touched. Bike just needed a brake lever.

I keep an eye out for Indian drivers these days.

Your a glutton for Indian takeout eh!

[nzspokes]

Your a glutton for Indian takeout eh!

I see what you did there.....:lol:

[Dogboy900]

Twice on the road if you don't count a couple of times I laid the bike down at a standstill while stopped on wet paint... And one time i was sure I had put down my side stand but hadn't :/
The first was along Vivian Street in Wellington just outside Motorad. Free flowing traffic and a bike following a couple of cars behind me. I was trying to see what bike it was in my mirror when the car in front of me stopped for.... Still no idea actually there was nothing in front of it, So I grabbed a big panicked handful of brake, lost the front end, and performed a most acrobatic tumble across the lanes to spring to my feet on the footpath. Totally my own fault and lack of skills.

The second was in Mount Vic Tunnel, I was heading through towards Haitaitai and traffic into town was crawling along. Squeal of brakes and a furniture truck lurched head on into my lane taking out the back corner of a car in front of it and hitting me head on. Luckily I was thrown down the tunnel beside the truck (I think I abandoned ship but not really sure). My bike went under the front wheels. As I limped back to the front of the truck I could hear the driver screaming "get him out he is under the truck". Poor bugger just about had heart failure when I tapped him on the shoulder and explained it was me on the bike and I was alright. Spent the next 5 minutes comforting him, I think he was in shock. Broke my toe and bruised my legs but pretty much OK... Bike was totalled :(

[Kittyhawk]

Do rolling stoppies on a gravel carpark count? :spanking::spanking:

[Swoop]

When this thread was started I was on 0 crashes.
Still am.

[Akzle]

When this thread was started I was on 0 crashes.
Still am.

pussy .

[milktown]

1st. overshot a corner on my first 125cc scooter. landed in soft muddy grass resulting in a dislocated shoulder. popped it back in by picking the dang thing back up.

2nd. t boned at a round about going 50ks. lucky to only get away with scrapes and bruises. my cb750 wasnt so lucky. drivers excuse was everyones favorite "aw man i didnt even see you bro". took the insurance company almost a year to sort out the repairs.

[Swoop]

pussy .

I have no idea if / how many crashes that KB member has had. Perhaps ask him directly?

[Maha]

I have no idea if / how many crashes that KB member has had. Perhaps ask him directly?

He has more helmets than anyone I know....for certain.

[Banditbandit]

When this thread was started I was on 0 crashes.
Still am.

I've added one ... now up to 11 times off ...

The last one was at a roundabout - I glanced up and no cars were coming ... when I looked back at the road the car directly in front of me stopped .. I stood on the brakes, missed hitting the car, but the front wheel locked up, skipped and the bike went down. Minor damage to the bike (didn't even break a mirror) and a sore ankle and left hand (it was still wrapped around the bars when the bars hit the road .. bent the bars but didn't break any bones in my hand)

[awa355]

Yep, well now you've done it.
Remember those collapsible Rally 20's???????????
On the carrier on the back my mate steering, down hill.
OK, down the slalom it's Griffith Street in Put a Ruru, some of you may know it, but I can assure you, not as intimately as me.
10 maybe 12 two biggish lads, he lived there, w'ed done this before.
Off we go from the top, got about half way, speed wobbles! uh huh.
3/4's and we're flying man, OK, take the right hand turn into front of Aunty Jeans from McKenzie's, place.
Nope, handle bars turned nothing else, at about that moment we're both shaking our heads , going, Oh, No, this is gunna hurt.
Then the thing literally collapsed, course we liked that about it normally, BUT not right at that moment.
He rode a two wheeled pygmy rocket across the road and through the trees into the High Schools grounds, straight through the 8 wire fence, unharmed. Had a lot to do with riding(if you could call it that by then) a bit like ol man Munroe on his Indian, spread from the front to the back, went through between the wires.
Me, well I got to see Aunty Jean, as they feed me, my front teeth and what was left of my hands, knees and face into the Ambo, hello Mr Jarrett.
Doctor first, Doc Allen.
Then Dentist, that Barstard Sinclair, didn't even give me an anusthetic ( See what I did there?) got one of em back in, the other has been missing ever since.
Scars took awhile and to this day when I see one of those R20's I get this uncontrollable urge to run, the otherway!

You wouldn't have been the first to come unstuck on Griffith hill. I went down it on a mates 500 Daytona. The bar clamps were stripped out baring two bolts. Hard braking meant having the 'ape hangers in line with the elbows and the bar clamps. Anywhere else and the handlebars would fold forward. Seat just sat on the frame. Didn't crash (is it a crash if you dont come off?) but run over the footpath into the fence.

Jean Kay, yes I knew her well. Ted Jarrett racing down to the St Johns stn in his old Morris 12, later replaced with a mk1 cortina.

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[_Shrek_]

one on road hit diesel on wet road wrote bike off but walked away, lost count off road on tracks & metal roads etc... :corn:

[Erelyes]

I've always hated that old saying,,it's not if,,it's when..,,,must of been a real prick that came up with that one.

It's a fatalistic view, but look at it in context. Do anything for long enough and it's a case of 'when' not 'if'. Driving a car. Flying a plane. Screwing without a rubber. Heck - screwing with a rubber.

All we can do is try to deposit enough in the bank of experience, that when shit happens you can make a withdrawl.

Oh - and zero for me. A couple dodgy moments where I've got the rear end a bit jiggly in the rain (or once in the snow), under a bit of power... but nothing pants soiling.

[Autech]

Once on the road a year ago on some gravel.

Once on track one month ago on some oil. Picking that number will go up soon though with me cracking into some racing :Punk:

[f2dz]

Once for me. Scored a sweet ride in an ambo to boot.

[willytheekid]

Ohhh fuck...here we go :facepalm:

Ok FINE!!
I don't drive cars and have ridden bikes all my life, I ride daily, and I used to be COMPLETELY INSANE!.

Hence Ive had:

Three head ons.
Been hit by three drunk drivers
Once slid out & got stuck under a parked car!(They had to jack it up as the sump plug was through my helmet:facepalm:), flipped em, dropped em, slid them, highsided em, low sided em and even had one burst into flames between my legs :blink: (To name a few!)

Personal damages so far:

Broken lower back

Crushed & rebuilt left ankle

Chipped hip
Collapsed neck (Which left me paralyzed for nearly two days, ala berg...HI BERG!!:wavey:)

Numerous skull fractures

Two shattered knees (Require total rebuilds...but-ACC!)

Dislocated shoulder with a completely blown AC joint & Nerve damage down my left arm (Nearly had it amputated after a drunk hit me right OVER a roundabout...yes....it hurt!...alot!!)

Oh and Mild Brain damage from Fluid on the brain (Just my memory recall tho....I think?:confused:)


so there it is....yes, I have crashed ALOT!!! - dirt bikes, road bikes, race bikes, speedway you name it!, Ive probably crashed it.


So don't be like me and learn this shit the really, REALLY!! hard way (it hurts..alot!), ALWAYS wear the fucking gear, ride within your own limits, and don't push it on the road! (save it for the track)

and remember...FIRE BAD! MmmmK
http://honda-cb750-s.456789.n3.nabble.com/file/n4027649/motorcycle-fire.jpg
....FLAME ON BITCHES! <_<...FOR I HAVE CRASHED!! (ok...Alot!:laugh:)

[Swoop]

... and I used to be COMPLETELY INSANE!.

Can I get a second opinion on this bit please?

[willytheekid]

Can I get a second opinion on this bit please?

:laugh:, to crippled and sore to get into to much trouble nowdays mate.

...have been crash clean for many many years now (except for that drunk in the 4x4 a few yrs back that hit me on the Guzzi)

Im behavin now :yes: (Honest!)

I IS ALL RESPONSIB....RESPOON...:facepalm:...IM FUCKING TRYING OK! :laugh:

:love:

hay, at least Im honest about fucking up on bikes most of my young life lol

[caseye]

:laugh:, to crippled and sore to get into to much trouble nowdays mate.

...have been crash clean for many many years now (except for that drunk in the 4x4 a few yrs back that hit me on the Guzzi)

Im behavin now :yes: (Honest!)

I IS ALL RESPONSIB....RESPOON...:facepalm:...IM FUCKING TRYING OK! :laugh:

:love:

hay, at least Im honest about fucking up on bikes most of my young life lol

We know!
But Willy, talk about how many times you WOULD have been involved in accidents but for your well developed sense of situational awareness and obvious desire not to be involved in other crashes.
Please.

[willytheekid]

We know!
But Willy, talk about how many times you WOULD have been involved in accidents but for your well developed sense of situational awareness and obvious desire not to be involved in other crashes.
Please.

:niceone:
Tis very true!

...just a shame I had to learn the bloody hard way tho :facepalm: (winter just hurts!)


I just try to survive nowdays :yes:...and with much heavier traffic flows on the roads, thats challenging enough for me thanks (Ya just can't do the shit we used to get away with 20+yrs ago...hell, we used to "cruise" at 100mph everywhere, straight line it down the centre line, and never stopped for cops (Unless ya knew them) - mind you, thats what growing up & riding with packs of old ulysses bmw riding "mentors" gets ya tho :lol:...aging gracefully my arse!)

Survival...yeah, that keeps me occupied enough nowdays thanks :yes: (but I do still love a good scratch in the hills :msn-wink:)

[_Shrek_]

bmw riding "mentors" gets ya :lol:...

in lots of trouble if ya not careful :rolleyes:


Survival...yeah, that keeps me occupied enough now days thanks :yes:

aye treat'm like they're out to get ya....


but I do still love a good scratch in the hills :msn-wink:)

where I get my kicks... the Nevis road is a fun place to go fast :whistle::whistle: