How many accidents have you had and what caused it/them?

[puddy]

I've been reading the Safety in Motorcycling thread which got me to thinking about my own conduct on a bike, the accidents I've had, their causes etc.

I'm 43 and have been riding since 14. Have travelled about 350,000kms on bikes. I have my fair share of times when I've ridden like a FUCKWIT. Never been done DIC, but did lose my licence once for excessive speed.
MY ACCIDENTS.
Two crashes in the first month of riding wearing bugger all gear. A mate gave me his bike and gave me a 30 second brief on the controls, then I was off. A couple of grazes and hurt pride.
Rode into a drain (inattention, object fixation, and lack of skill).
Hit by a car that ran a red light. Full gear, very lucky, just a few bruises. Just needed a change of drawers!
Another car failed to give way and I clipped the back of it then slid down the road. Good gear, but a dislocated shoulder.
Went off the end of a bend (too fast and inattention). Bumps and bruises.

Between myself and six mates, we have had an accident (thus far) every 50,000 - 80,000kms, and two thirds of our accidents are our own stupid fault!:facepalm:
Lastly, I have known five guys who have died on bikes and of those, three were rider error, one was arguable, and one was a car driver.
So to me more than half of the 'blame' for motorcycle accidents should be shouldered by us.

How does this compare to everybody else? Are my mates and I short on skill and long on luck?
Cheers.

[hayd3n]

2 decent crashes im guessing ive done 80.000kms
first
my fault
too fast for conditions i misjudged a 55km corner and it contained gravel so i did a super man up a bank and landed in long grass
no damage to me apart from bruised ego 80-100kms crash
fixed bike in 3 days (including all fairings) clipons and radiator

second crash a year later
i arrived a accident scene mid corner ( devils staircase) mid rally
and i had to take evasive action up a rocky bank no damage to me, but passenger had a nice bruise on her ass thats all,
she recovered fine!! wimin dont need to sit in the kitchen anyway:facepalm:

the accident was a car vs bike mid blind corner:facepalm: and my m8 is still recovering almost 2 years later the car was over the centre line and my m8 hit it head on with his late model triumph America he suffered 1 broken leg 2x fractured hands
i arrived 3 minutes later to about 10 ppl standing in the middle of the farking road they looked a bit worried when i arrived to the apex luckly i went for the bank and not them or the bike or the cars parked everywhere
i had to go out and stop the oncoming traffic myself!!!!!!!!! ffs

its now a posted 75 km corner
wasnt when i went thru

also it appears the 2 crashes ive had
i always found different color fairings or bumpers in the same locations

[slofox]

Two what I'd call accidents in 43 years of riding. And a couple of gazillion km's I suppose - no idea really.

1.) Newbie rider, got rolled by a car failing to give way when he was turning right, across my path. He didn't look. I didn't look well enough either. These days I'd be well aware that he wasn't watching me and would be ready to evade or stop.

2.) On the track. Had the brilliant idea that I could dive through the corner inside that oil spill from the last race. Guess what? WRONG! :facepalm:


Couple of "involuntary dismounts" as well but hardly in the "accident" category. Once when there was wet cement on the back tyre. Low speed lowside. No damage to man or machine. Then a front wheel scrub-out on a newly sealed driveway. Embarrassing but no damage of note.

Oh and I ran into a sheep on the road once. I was fine. The sheep disappeared so I guess it was OK too...bent brake pedal.

[caseye]

Over thirty years since I got my bike licence, only really been back on a bike for the last 4 - 5 yrs after nearly 17 yrs (thanks kids) without one, but all the really close calls I've had, have almost exclusively been down to me not paying ATTENTION and making sure of the car drivers intentions before committing myself.
No actual offs involving others on the road at all and I intend to keep it that way.
Puddy what you have said is 100% correct for me and I reckon for many others who will honestly critique their own performance the results would be the same.
Ol Katman is closer to the truth of this matter than many here in KB land would like to think and I support his stance and his message. We need to be seen to be taking responsibility for our own actions as motorcycle riders before we can expect that any other road users will give us the time of day.
Many motorcycle riders ride hard, when appropriate, a lot just ride hard and think it's their God Given to do so, these are the riders who continually give the rest of us a bad rep with Joe public and of course our Gubberminty officials.
Change from within if it can be achieved is the actual answer, putting two fingers in the air and saying F u all I'll ride as I please will continue to lower our standing with the general community and the law/lawmakers.
There ya go Patrick, I've said it and I stand by it, stand by for incoming.

[unstuck]

45yrs old and been riding on road since 14(off road since 7) 2 crashes. CB750 when I was 15, wet corner,too fast,stoned. Few grazes and bruises. T500 18yrs long straight, big left,no talent, off road over fence into paddock,sprained foot, blood nose.Heaps of offs off road though.:yes: They have all been my fault.

[puddy]

On almost every KB ride that I have attended where there has been 20 or more bikes, there has been an accident, and they have all been pilot error. :facepalm: Seems to me that the best thing that we could do to be safer when riding is pull our heads out.....

[george formby]

A few when I was a youngun trying too hard, running out of rubber / ground clearnce. Otherwise I'm touching wood as I type (Kauri ya sicko). Nothing for decades.

[Hitcher]

There are few occasions when motorcycle accidents aren't due to rider error. Most of mine can be attributed to that cause.

[rossirep]

ts185er = flipping it while 2 up going up a steep hill

vt250 = car driver doing uturn in front of me and taking me out

gsxr750 = write off due to speed on my part and car pulling out of drive way, both car and bike were writen off

gsxr1100 - write off due to low side while leaning over to far and giving it to much gas tryin to show off

yamaha r1 = write off due to bald tyre and to much gas while getting knee down on the road in front of mates

and im sure there have been a few others in there to, but they are the main ones..

[ducatilover]

3 of them. Two were due to being a knob, on was due to being a blind and inattentive noob:facepalm:

[theseekerfinds]

4 decent offs in nearly twenty odd years of road riding, all can be attributed to my own rider error..
1. KDX200, day time ran wide on a bend and lowsided into a box kerb, pride the main casualty but a few bruises to show
2. ZX-10 (the original one), night time fresh road works that had a half arsed tidy up performed by the council "workers", lowsided on the loose stuff throwing my pillion and I off and across the road, thankfully no oncoming traffic and the bike was rideable
3. ZX-10 wet weather, day time, I was followng too close and was unaware of the car in front of the car in front of me which was sitting in the middle of the road, the car in front of me braked heavily and to this day I still swear he had no brake lights because I had no time to react before realising the car in front of me was at a standstill. locked the rear up, rear end came around and I highsided over bike into a tree while bike struck the box kerb and cartwheeled into same tree. the worst aspect of this was I was briefly unconscious and when I came to someone was trying to remove my helmet. bike was pretty buggered but I felt ok until I woke up after a sleep then I felt pain everywhere.. was only 100m from home so wheeled her home and shipped her off to bike shop for expensive repairs.
4. Bandit 400, night time, speeding up Ngaio Gorge and failed to brake early enough for a right hander, went straight over kerb and into bushes much to the amusement of the drivers I had just passed. no damage to bike aside from busted clutch lever and bent gear selector.

My accidents can be attributed to rider inattention and the two on my trusty ZX-10, which I did over 50,000 Km on were also a result of being impaired by a natural substance grown extensively here in NZ.. the first on the KDX can be attributed to inexperience and the fourth one to sheer stupidity. but they were all my fault. as an aside all of my crashes except the one on the Bandit occurred prior to undertaking any formal training and I now attend as many training courses as I can because I feel they do improve my skills and keep me aware of what to do when things come up.

I am a far more attentive rider since the second crash on my ZX-10 and I am also a rider who believes in trusting no one not car drivers, bike riders, pedestrians or truckies.

I have also lost several mates to bike crashes one of them hit a cow at an estimated 200Kph and killed the cow, totally destroyed his ZX-7R and left very little of himself whilst another, one of my closest friends, was killed when some drunk walked out in front of him and stopped in the middle of the road to make him swerve, with no distance to react he was unable to swerve, struck the drunk and was thrown into a pole and died instantly while the pedestrian is a paraplegic. his GSX-R750WT was virtually unmarked aside from minor gravel rash..

[superman]

1 year, 19,000km, 0 offs.

Must be bulletproof.... :shutup:

Have nearly:

Hit a cow
Hit a buffalo
Hit a bunch of horses
Been wiped out practising emergency braking in the wet
Been wiped out from tankslappers
Been wiped out due to roundabout cutoffs
Been wiped out in a corner due to tar-snakes
Lets hope I'll only add to the list of nearly's.

[caspernz]

Two accidents in my 25 plus years and 750000 km plus. Both largely my fault, both happened in first year on a bike.

First one was front end washout on a slippery patch in a bend, just started raining. Minor damage to bike, ego badly bruised.

Second was rear ending a car at low speed, just not watching the road closely enough....distracted by a skirt and long legs on sidewalk. Car and bike with minor damage, ego fared worse.

Since then, mostly near misses, which get fewer as you gain experience. Worst is livestock on the loose, very unpredictable, bit like commuters running late for work....

[davebullet]

A couple of stationary drops. One when learning - no damage to anything. Another at the cold kiwi on snow - again no damage.

Only done about 35,000kms total and had an off 2 weeks ago. 100% rider error (end of a long ride, inattentive, running wide on exit, into ditch, tucked the front). Only going about 40kph at the time. Needed help to get the bike off.

Speedy will return....

[Latte]

1st month of riding I panic braked and ran into gravel at ~30kph out clevedon way, had managed to slow the bike from some insane speed (for an nsr). Sore shoulder for a few weeks and some plastic welding on the bike. Had been riding like an absolute squid so was so so lucky. On the same road on the same day someone had died running wide into a truck.

Since then (10-12 years ago) 2 recent lowsides at track days. I don't really count these as I'm there to find the limits in a relatively safe environment. But shit they've been expensive.

[MaxCannon]

Two (well unless you count dropping it in the driveway because I was in too much of a hurry and didn't put the stand down properly).

One on the back straight of Pukekohe. Riding beyond my limits, trying to pass someone at a track day when I should have waited.
Ended up on the grass at 250kph. It's a wild ride for sure.
Since the grass was wet and I thought it was too risky to try and join the track again I aimed for the gravel trap.
Bike dug in and flipped over on it's nose. I shot up in the air and landed square on my (apply padded) backside.
A few scrapes on the paint and dirt on my suit but otherwise all OK.

Second one - a month later at Hampton Downs. Lowside at turn. I couldn't figure out how I'd done it for ages.
Now I reckon it was case of entering too fast, not getting in the right body position, too much throttle and overloading the front tyre.
Didn't even feel the impact with the ground (always wear your back protector!).

[SMOKEU]

I'm still a noob, only got around 18,000km of riding but I've never crashed a road bike. I have crashed a dirt bike about a year ago and broke my hand. Still haven't recovered fully from that.

I did have a low speed (walking pace) bin on my old scooter (it was similar to a Nifty 50) due to gravel when I was turning into a driveway. I blame it on the small wheels as I've ridden my old CBR250 into the same driveway at the same speed and haven't had any issues.

[Sable]

Dug in a fixed footpeg going round a corner hard and the bike rotated around its axis. Hit a patch of gravel in the middle of a corner. Went to pull over in a really thick seafog and hit a road sign. Hit a patch of diesel. Got taken out by someone who stopped at a stop sign then hit the gas anyway.

[Fast Eddie]

aww I love swapping crash stories.

ill just pick my favourite one. I was riding down memorial ave in chch at say 60kph and an asian high school kid run across the rd infront of me with his mp3 player/earphones in. didnt even look left and right. tisk tisk.

anyway, I remember wondering why there was this kid infront of me.. then black out. then sorta came to and I was way further down the rd, the bike was under a parked car fairly mangled and the kid was further up the rd not moving :S

in the end he was ok, with internal bruising/bleeding and some sort of leg injury and I got a sweet neckbrace.

I'll prob pass the blame onto the kid if no body minds.

[ducatilover]

I'll prob pass the blame onto the kid if no body minds.
You weren't wearing HiViz and you didn't wave!

[Katman]

I'll prob pass the blame onto the kid if no body minds.

We'll let you pass the blame if you like.

But could you have avoided it?

Now, there's another story.

[FJRider]

We'll let you pass the blame if you like.

But could you have avoided it?

Now, there's another story.

I've had a few "incidents" with joggers ... with their I-pods on, they are in their own little world. They just forget they are on a public road, and dont hear ANY vehicles approaching from the front OR rear ... cyclists are in a similar group (although being a bigger "target" doesn't seem to faze THEM ... :laugh:

[Katman]

I've had a few "incidents" with joggers ... with their I-pods on, they are in their own little world. They just forget they are on a public road, and dont hear ANY vehicles approaching from the front OR rear ... cyclists are in a similar group (although being a bigger "target" doesn't seem to faze THEM ... :laugh:

Once again, the fact that they might not be aware of us doesn't mean it's not in our best interest to be aware of them.

[oldrider]

I've been reading the Safety in Motorcycling thread which got me to thinking about my own conduct on a bike, the accidents I've had, their causes etc.

I'm 43 and have been riding since 14. Have travelled about 350,000kms on bikes. I have my fair share of times when I've ridden like a FUCKWIT. Never been done DIC, but did lose my licence once for excessive speed.
MY ACCIDENTS.
Two crashes in the first month of riding wearing bugger all gear. A mate gave me his bike and gave me a 30 second brief on the controls, then I was off. A couple of grazes and hurt pride.
Rode into a drain (inattention, object fixation, and lack of skill).
Hit by a car that ran a red light. Full gear, very lucky, just a few bruises. Just needed a change of drawers!
Another car failed to give way and I clipped the back of it then slid down the road. Good gear, but a dislocated shoulder.
Went off the end of a bend (too fast and inattention). Bumps and bruises.

Between myself and six mates, we have had an accident (thus far) every 50,000 - 80,000kms, and two thirds of our accidents are our own stupid fault!:facepalm:
Lastly, I have known five guys who have died on bikes and of those, three were rider error, one was arguable, and one was a car driver.
So to me more than half of the 'blame' for motorcycle accidents should be shouldered by us.

How does this compare to everybody else? Are my mates and I short on skill and long on luck?
Cheers.

With all due respect.

I don't think it's healthy focusing overtly on accidents, I prefer to dwell on the thousands and thousands of miles/kilometres that I have ridden without negative incident!

I have just been for a wee blatt to top up the tank on the bike, a couple of K's ended up being a ride from Otematata to Omarama and back, felt so good I then went around Lake Aviemore, then down to Kurow and back home, where it all ended too soon!

Why did I put myself in front of all that danger .... because there was no danger, simply a shit hot lovely ride on a nice day on a great bike! :ride:

[Fast Eddie]

You weren't wearing HiViz and you didn't wave!

haha hindsight eh :) the hi viz may not have helped I don't think. He didnt look up from his mp3 player at all.. when I realised he was crossing into my path and it was going to happen he still hadn't looked up.. he didn't know what hit him until after it all happened

[Fast Eddie]

We'll let you pass the blame if you like.

But could you have avoided it?

Now, there's another story.

:rolleyes: yea.. I could have avoided it but I figured I had nothing else on that arvo and I was bored of my new bike.. time to plow it into a pedestrian and see whats what.

[puddy]

With all due respect.

I don't think it's healthy focusing overtly on accidents, I prefer to dwell on the thousands and thousands of miles/kilometres that I have ridden without negative incident!

I have just been for a wee blatt to top up the tank on the bike, a couple of K's ended up being a ride from Otematata to Omarama and back, felt so good I then went around Lake Aviemore, then down to Kurow and back home, where it all ended too soon!

Why did I put myself in front of all that danger .... because there was no danger, simply a shit hot lovely ride on a nice day on a great bike! :ride:

Sorry, I probably didn't structure it properly. Probably should have been a poll .......... total accidents/rider error. My intention was not to focus on the particular accidents, but to highlight the fact that as a group the majority of our accidents are caused by us and not by other road users. Just sometimes when I read some threads here or elsewhere, I get the feeling that some feel that it is other road users that should improve their skills to ensure that we (motorcyclists) live longer.

[avgas]

27.
Me and my obsession with cubic numbers. I used to only have 9. But when I had the 10th crash I just couldn't stand the pressure so I went out and had 16 more.

Only one or 2 were ever serious.

[Mark Nansett]

Well if you wanna get involved in an accident - go on the LIONS Coast to Coast ride from Himatangi to Akitio. Did this for the 1st time last Sunday and likely won't bother again as it was spoiled by some guys who wanted to display their trackday prowess on the unmarked, bumpy, windy back-country roads. These roads should be approached as low speed fun rides - not races. Most were sensible...a few like us just wanted a slow amble..two-up and can't be buggered risking the arse for the sake of getting to the finish 7-8 mins earlier just to wait for everyone else. We kept moving over and waving these guys on past - and some gave us back a friendly wave...but we really just wanted them off our tails...Knees down and flinging themselves into blind corners without a thought for country drivers in utes coming the other way. We saw two bikes go down - a Suzuki went through a farmers fence and down a bank just about 30 seconds from Pongaroa and a Harley went down on a 90 degree turn onto a bridge - I think that may have been a gravel skid..perhaps went onto the verge to come to a stop and went whoopsie.. but the black Suzuki did not look good on the back on the trailer at the finish at Akitio...hope the rider was OK..he'd just gone past our bike a few seconds before he crashed.
I guess I'm just too old for that crap....and guess I would like to be that confident/rash with riding too - but maybe I'll live longer to ride on longer..:no:

[shrub]

My first off was the weekend I bought my first bike. I didn't know at that stage that grabbing a big handful of front brakes in the wet and trying to turn at the same time was a bad idea and the next was about 3 months later when I learnt about white lines. The next after that was about 2 years later when I had a lesson about how drinking tequila influences riding bikes, and that lesson wrote my bike off and ended up with me in hospital for 2 months (I was pretty badly broken).

The next lesson was about a year later, and I found out that cowshit in the middle of a corner ruins traction. I stayed upright for a few years after that until I learned that riding an old and badly maintained bike back from buying it is sometimes a bad idea because when I hit the brakes loose handlebars meant I ended up in front of my bike instead of on it. The final off was in 85 when I discovered that racing an XT550 down a gravel road is not such a good idea when you're two-up on a CB900.

All of them were caused by me, all of them hurt to varying degrees, one damn near killed me and some of them cost me a lot of money, so I have decided that I will do my best not to have any more. So far it's working.

[nadroj]

With all due respect.

I don't think it's healthy focusing overtly on accidents, I prefer to dwell on the thousands and thousands of miles/kilometres that I have ridden without negative incident!

I have just been for a wee blatt to top up the tank on the bike, a couple of K's ended up being a ride from Otematata to Omarama and back, felt so good I then went around Lake Aviemore, then down to Kurow and back home, where it all ended too soon!

Why did I put myself in front of all that danger .... because there was no danger, simply a shit hot lovely ride on a nice day on a great bike! :ride:

With all due respect also, I feel an insight as to how people (riders) analyze the incident they were involved in can be an indication as to whether a lesson is learn, not as to what happened, but to how the incident may have been avoided.
Admitting fault is the the precurser to lesson learned!

[cold comfort]

With all due respect.

I don't think it's healthy focusing overtly on accidents, I prefer to dwell on the thousands and thousands of miles/kilometres that I have ridden without negative incident!

I have just been for a wee blatt to top up the tank on the bike, a couple of K's ended up being a ride from Otematata to Omarama and back, felt so good I then went around Lake Aviemore, then down to Kurow and back home, where it all ended too soon!

Why did I put myself in front of all that danger .... because there was no danger, simply a shit hot lovely ride on a nice day on a great bike! :ride:

Great to hear you are still taking advantage of having the Tiger in the shed. Hopefully with the "summer" coming up it may happen again soon!:niceone:

[Grubber]

On almost every KB ride that I have attended where there has been 20 or more bikes, there has been an accident, and they have all been pilot error. :facepalm: Seems to me that the best thing that we could do to be safer when riding is pull our heads out.....

One thing i do is....not ride in large groups!
That way, the idiots that seem to think they are better n everyone else don't get the chance to try and prove it with me around.

Been riding for 40 years and I've had 2 road crashes. First one was trying to hill climb over a barb wire fence due to large animal on the road. The fence won.
2nd one was my fault, too quick into a corner with known gravel hazard that left me no where to go but down. Couple of broken ribs and bit of bike damage. That''s my lot. I do ride quick but tend to be very vigilant as to where i do it. comes with having eyes in the back of my head.
I spend a lot of time scouting the area as i ride. Seems to help a lot if you can see potential hazards before you end up hitting them.:nono:

[shrub]

One thing i do is....not ride in large groups!

Amen to that. I avoid riding with any more than 3 to 5 people i know and trust and I'd say 90% of my riding is either with my son or with a couple of other people that I have ridden many, many kilometers with. On the few occassions I have joined larger groups I have ended up either dropping out or regretting the decision because of idiotic behaviour. I have also found a few people I will never ride with because despite allegedly being experienced riders they do shit that scares me.

[onmybike]

For me, who is about to return to riding after 12 years away this a good way of remembering my history and the painful lessons. Not as many as others here but have had intervals between bikes. Buy one, break it, sell it, get a car, buy another one.

1st was at aged 7 at the Easter show on a Honda 50 (i think) got cut off, high-sided a parked truck next to the track-broken arm
2nd was on mates Gn250 at aged 16 with him on the back. Going too fast, braked too hard on bend-no real damage but got a smack in the guts from my mate (just a little one).
3rd was a 19ish talentless plonker (me) riding my near new Bol D'or over a rise in south Auckland at night, front wheel came up, i came off, bike hit a pole with a fullish tank of gas and BBQ'd itself when tank split, meanwhile i continued down the road and had bruising from the initial fall.
4th was 12 years ago (in my thirties by then) car turned into a driveway in front of me but stopped mid turn after seeing me, I managed to put the bike up the same driveway- a little paint on the exhaust and my boot but all good- the boss wasn't happy though.

So this helps me remember that it's mostly me doing this to myself, I've got better but not perfect (is anyone?). Helps to remeber these while riding so you don't forget what can happen.

[GSF]

aww I love swapping crash stories.

ill just pick my favourite one. I was riding down memorial ave in chch at say 60kph and an asian high school kid run across the rd infront of me with his mp3 player/earphones in. didnt even look left and right. tisk tisk.

anyway, I remember wondering why there was this kid infront of me.. then black out. then sorta came to and I was way further down the rd, the bike was under a parked car fairly mangled and the kid was further up the rd not moving :S

in the end he was ok, with internal bruising/bleeding and some sort of leg injury and I got a sweet neckbrace.

I'll prob pass the blame onto the kid if no body minds.

Jesus, hitting a pedestrian would be nasty. My dad saw a guy on Symonds Street get hit by a motorcycle some time in the 80s, think the pedestrian lost his leg.

The most terrifying moment of my life was when I was riding past MOTAT and a little three or four year old kid got loose from his parents and ran onto the road about 25-30m in front of me. I've never done a faster evasive maneouvre, just dropped a shoulder and swung into the next lane. I had barely even checked to see if that lane was occupied, I would've rather been hit from behind by a car than run over a toddler.

[G4L4XY]

ts185er = flipping it while 2 up going up a steep hill

vt250 = car driver doing uturn in front of me and taking me out

gsxr750 = write off due to speed on my part and car pulling out of drive way, both car and bike were writen off

gsxr1100 - write off due to low side while leaning over to far and giving it to much gas tryin to show off

yamaha r1 = write off due to bald tyre and to much gas while getting knee down on the road in front of mates

and im sure there have been a few others in there to, but they are the main ones..


What a bike recker!!

[G4L4XY]

I'll add mine, was riding in the rain and I remember when you first start riding and well I guess all throughout too they like to remind you to watchout for the painted lines on the road.
Well I was well aware of that but I found myself heading around a left hand bend, not sharp and I wasn't going too fast but I ended up on that line and suddenly the front wheel slipped out in front of me, tankslapped itself away across the centre line (lucky no oncoming cars else I wouldn't be here today), feet came off the footpegs, I have no idea how but the slapping came under control and I managed to stop it before the ditch on the other side of the road.
All the [then] oncoming cars were staring at me with my head on the gas tank, heart beating as fast as a rocket, wondering wtf I was doing.
I'm always careful in the wet but that line screwed me over.
Done around 40,000ks in two years now, and yeah my other post was my first real accident, dropped it a couple times but they dont count

[Asher]

I had my first crashon Anzac day coming back from the big ride out to Little River. Heading back near the top of Gebbies Pass a cement truck had spilt gravel on a corner, I spotted it coming up the hill and slowed to around 35kmh but even that speed combined with a bad line caused my back wheel to wash out and i lowsided off the road.
Caused minor damage to the bike and scuffed up my leathers and boots.
Sure I could try and blame it on an unmarked hazard but it really came down to me underestimating how slippery it was and not taking a cautious line.
And I've done around 11k km's

[Road kill]

I'm 53 and been riding since I was 16.
Had uncounted little off's,none of them count because they didn't hurt much.
The two that did hurt,,hurt a lot and I live in fear of doing it again,,,,third time an all aye:no:
All of them have been my own fault for any number of reasons,,the two were both speed related.
Never been involved in a prang with another vehicle.
Touch wood.

[Tigadee]

What a bike recker!!

And a motorcycle dealer's wet dream! :laugh:

[unstuck]

Last one was about 4 weeks ago when the front brake lever went through my leg.:Punk:

[LBD]

3 accidents and 5 near misses in 40 years riding...in order...

1) A combination of loose gravel, youthful indestructibility and inexperience on a slow corner

2 and 3) Slow car turning left across my path without indicating.

The 5 near misses are similar to 2 and 3, or pulling onto road without looking for oncoming traffic

[darkwolf]

Haven't been riding long - 6,000KM - but before I was riding proper like a big boy, I was riding a friend CT110 around a lifestyle block driveway. Got a bit "comfortable" and thought I'd see what would happen if I wrung it out, found myself looking at the speedo and when I looked up my mates were standing on the corner I had planned to use as a run-off in case I couldn't stop it :facepalm: I put the front brake on, being the only brake I was aware of as I hadn't thought to ask and the front started to wash out so I got off the brakes and quickly assessed the situation:
gravel driveway,
left hander that I had no way of making it round,
mates standing like dear in headlights ahead,
tractor with bale forks to my slight right
electric fence hard right.

Decision: lay the bike on its side and hope for the best. Came to a remarkably fast stop by using my head as a brake with no helmet on. Got up, and saw only green from my right eye for about half an hour. Lesson well and truly learnt. Helmet always on, focus ahead, bikes have two brakes and importantly - don't be a dick!

[puddytat]

3....
My first accident was in a ford Anglia on Te Mata peak......my mate fucked up trying to impress a fat chick
2. Ford Falcon ute doing a Uey along from Manuels in Taupo......she fucked up cause she didnt see me
3 I fucked up in the Buller gorge once .

Been lucky with mostly scrapes & bumps.

[Ender EnZed]

How many accidents have you had and what caused it/them?

Some.

None of them would've ocurred had I not been riding like a cock.

[IlDuce]

During 1997 in winter, at 7:30am before school, entered carpark outside my work on VT250, doing about 20kph, touched front brake and instant hard bang down on ground on right side. Was a patch of black ice. Footpeg stabbed through my shoe and outside other side. Cracked fairing, scrapes on muffler. Local newspaper were on the scene, took photo and published in Saturday's paper.

[Muppet]

I've had a few.

1. Aged 18 and riding my 1986 CBX550F2 Integra that I'd saved up for, in pouring rain (Dad told me to take the car-did I listen? No.) High School student riding a bicycle, decides to do a U-turn on me. I hit her, we slide. No injuries. I sell bike after repairs-lost my nerve.

2. Ten years later on a 1991 CBR600FM, riding as part of a large group go around a right hand corner on the west coast too quick, panic and run off the left side of road towards a cliff. I jump off bike. No injuries.

3. Three years ago while riding on west coast a large tree falls onto road directly in front of me, I hit it, I fly for 16 metres, land and break my arm and hit knee on road causing extremely painful Edema injury (I had to look it up too). Tear open my thigh as I broke off handle grip with my leg, exposing metal bar riser, miss Femoral Artery by 10mm according to Surgeon. Four months off work.

I'm still riding.

[SPman]

A few over the last 40 odd years - all of which I've learnt something from (although one took a lot of pondering and analysis...), some due to being a newby (braking in the wet on a white line), some, part of a learning curve (if you lean a Suzuki T250 over too far, the side stand mount will dig into the seal and highside you...and also wear gloves!), some just stupid, (riding around Auk. stoned on a Kwaka triple...duh), some (most) preventable, a couple with circumstances totally beyond my control (the only way you can second or third guess wildlife on the road is to not be there in the first place.....)
Not too bad, everything considered

[Gone Burger]

Haven't been riding long (3 years) but had too many accidents already. 1

Memory is blank about what happened. Went over a blind brow of a hill, and the road sharply turned to the right. I continued straight ahead and down the bank, into a barbed wire fence. Was going 30km below the speed limit, and 15km below the police recommended safe speed for the corner. Broken neck, broken back, Shoulder, arm and leg with plate inserted. 5 hours waiting for rescue with no idea where i was, leg bleeding badly. Wish like fuck I knew what on earth I knew what I was doing that day. Major fuck up. Working til 5am on my second job that same day I assume to be that main factor behind it. Fatigue, and had not eaten and needed suger. New bike that I did not know how to handle either. Should never have been on it from the factors leading up to why i was riding in the wrong place anyway. Wake the fuck up or don't ride. Simple. Seems I am a slow learner.

[ellipsis]

....when I was fifteen, knew everything and owned a T250 Hustler...near new, I just about deconstructed most of the larger bits hanging off my body...first biggy was a major highside on the Summit Road above Chch...racing a mate, of course...10 feet down a bank with the bike on top of me...repaired bike, repaired ankle and set off for my next biggy...didn't make the corner by the white gates heading towards Corsair Bay just out of Lyttelton...instead of laying it down, it stood itself up...the bike went under the inch and a half metal rail on the fence, I didn't...took me right across the top of my legs/hip...then I followed the bike twenty feet down the bank...I remember my bike screaming its tits off...thinking I should get to it but realising my leg wasn't connected to my hip very well...was lieing there for a long time til my boss and workmate decided to find out why I was not at work...thrown on work trailer and dropped off at Chch hospital...repaired bike, repaired hip and set off for my next biggy...and so on...looking back, it aint half as painful now as it was then...I was still picking gravel from my thigh and knee up til about ten years ago from accidents twenty five years earlier...race related breaks dont count and there have been numerous amounts of those...I wasn't looking forward to my older years...I knew my past was going to make me hurt...I'm there now and I was correct in my thinking...there are still a few broked bones to come I reckon...hope not, but it's on the cards...

[Boob Johnson]

Had just the one, on the 13th June 2007 an 18yr girl (who was licensed for just 6 months) pulled out in front of me. I t-boned her & did a superman dive over her bonnet. In the process smashed my left hip to pieces & dislocated my left thumb. I now have 9 pins & a titanium plate screwed to my hip. She was fined $750 + $130 court costs & charged with careless use of a motor vehicle causing injury & ordered to pay me $1000 for "emotional damage". Pitiful really. The intersection is in the top ten of the countries worst "black spots" which is kinda stupid as you have a clear view both left & right (T-intersection). Even though I was doing 70km/h in a 100km/h zone (with headlight on) she still misjudged my speed! She said she saw me but thought I was further back so didn't bother to look to the right again & pulled out when I was right on top of the intersection. I had zero chance!

Had 3 bikes since then, the first of which I bought while I was still on crutches lol :facepalm:

[mossy1200]

23years
2 on the track caused by failure of bike to follow instruction about going around corners.
1 little ding on road. Car reversed into me and put crack in fairing.

[G4L4XY]

During 1997 in winter, at 7:30am before school, entered carpark outside my work on VT250, doing about 20kph, touched front brake and instant hard bang down on ground on right side. Was a patch of black ice. Footpeg stabbed through my shoe and outside other side. Cracked fairing, scrapes on muffler. Local newspaper were on the scene, took photo and published in Saturday's paper.

Upload the newspaper clipping :P

[G4L4XY]

I've had a few.


3. Three years ago while riding on west coast a large tree falls onto road directly in front of me,

Thats dumb luck, if it was america, they would sue

[crystalball]

Once again, the fact that they might not be aware of us doesn't mean it's not in our best interest to be aware of them.

Yup I am always very aware of predestrians now. I toot my horn when I see someone wanting or looking like they gona cross the road, makes them look and be aware of you as well.
My only crash was a school kid whom ran in front of me, he didint do to well after I hit him but i only had a compound fracture to the wrist. was his fault police said and I repaired my own bike....THE SILLY EMOTION PICTURES NEVER LOAD ON HERE FOR ME NOW POST JUST GOES BLACK!

[caseye]

None on a bike 0n the road, couple of pretty minor ones off road but last week I broke me leg in three places tripping over a water pipe.
So Now i can't even go out a ride for fun even if i wanted too. Bummer dudes.
Hurts too.