Muppet Racers...

[Two Smoker]

So lets see all the muppet racers...

the latest edition and the guy tieing for second place with 15 crashes... (Just behind Bruces 17)

The Two Smoken Swedish Chef

To Join, Beaker Bruce, Fozzie Daryl, Gonzo Gav and Dr Poos...

[vtec]

Haha, good job, saved me from having to do it.

Actually, I think I'll have to find a better resolution pic, and redo it for you even nicer.

[cowpoos]

Dr Poo's ain't binned on a track yet....but if its just about bin's in general...I'll win...theres not usually a week that goes buy when I don't throw one of the dirtbikes away and go for a roll in the grass!!!

[skidMark]

CP i thought you jumped off on purpose not to roll in the grass but the cow shit?

[HDTboy]

Are we counting track crashes, road crashes, dirt crashes or combined?

I'll have to start counting.

Is it crashes per year? Cause I'd be pretty high on that list.

I thought you had to have crashed (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showpost.php?p=464719&postcount=5) on GPR-70s to be a muppet

[Matt Bleck]

I know there's no such muppet, but gav should be "Tbag"

[kickingzebra]

T-bag mudd-monsta Gav...
GPR70s are sooo last week

[kiwifruit]

I crash on the track when im not racing, am i a muppet?

[Two Smoker]

Are we counting track crashes, road crashes, dirt crashes or combined?

I'll have to start counting.

Is it crashes per year? Cause I'd be pretty high on that list.

I thought you had to have crashed (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showpost.php?p=464719&postcount=5) on GPR-70s to be a muppet

Its crashes in total... And dirt crashes aren't counted... they are inevitable... (but it seems that track crashes are too...) I'm sitting on 15 after riding for 2.75 years... And thats big bins, which usually results in a broken bike, not those shitty, i fell off on the driveway ones...

[texmo]

In my year and a half of riding bikes I have had more the 40 crashes. two resulting in writeing off motorbikes, and 5 writing off the same scooter. I also broke a 60year olds legs when she jumped out infront of me (she was at fault).
And since I highsided my zxr at 140 on a gpr 70 front and gpr 100 rear according to bruce im a muppet.
edit: oh and I have never fallen off in a drive way, closest to that was when I was reading a map on my scooter somebody backed into me.

[skidMark]

40 fuck me no wonder acc levis for bike keep going up

fook me

[cowpoos]

Its crashes in total... And dirt crashes aren't counted... they are inevitable... (but it seems that track crashes are too...) I'm sitting on 15 after riding for 2.75 years... And thats big bins, which usually results in a broken bike, not those shitty, i fell off on the driveway ones...
and that means I have 5 in total if its big bin's only...road only!! none on the track yet....touch wood!

[Macktheknife]

In my year and a half of riding bikes I have had more the 40 crashes. .
Jeezus Texmo, Thats a lot more than I have had in 25 years of riding! What are you doing?
If you keep that up we will have to call you Igor (say it with a lisp)

[texmo]

Jeezus Texmo, Thats a lot more than I have had in 25 years of riding! What are you doing?
If you keep that up we will have to call you Igor (say it with a lisp)
All except 3 were on a scooter. I had two lowsides on motorbikes (one I ended up in a stream pinned against a 10foot rock wall I just went over with my bike on me) then other lowside was on the track and so was my highside.
The rest werent so bad fliped the scooter front and back. hit gravel and slid into a bank. got taken out by a car doing a ue. had one crash where I locked the front my bike bike in the wet at about 50km/hr for some car that pulled out infront of me thatwas park on the side of the road. one of the best was when I was doing 140km/hr on my vesta and it seized and highsided spitting me off in jeans what fun... hitching to a&e was a bit of fun too.

[kickingzebra]

I make 1 serious road crash, bike was taken up the arse by a nissan laurel. Bike lost the bet. 1 pathetic road crash, mud on side of tyre, cracked her over and she spat me off, Lowside again.

2 track crashes, both lowsides, one rear, and one front.

And I rolled a 4 wheeler and survived! That was my proudest achievement.

Crashed maybe 5 times on dirtbikes, never anything to write home about.

Ooh, and crashed a nifty fifty that I, err, borrowed without permission. Wheelied it into a wall side on, scraped paint, didn't drop her.
The owner was a rather lovely young lady with a firey temper. Not a happy camper. Spoilt my chances!! LOL

Thats in 7 years on bikes, only track crashes in the last 4 years.

[HDTboy]

Scooters don't count. I've had 8 (over 50kph) crashes in 18 months on a bike

[The_Dover]

And you fuckers give me shit for my 3 in 3 years?

And only two where I was at fault.

[SwanTiger]

This is an extremely encouraging thread for anyone thinking about purchasing their first Motorcycle.


And you fuckers give me shit for my 3 in 3 years?
Assuming that you follow tradition, you'll have a new bike by the end of this year, Dover.

[Mental Trousers]

Assuming that you follow tradition, you'll have a new bike by the end of this year, Dover.

No no. Insurance will pay out on another wrecked thou, Dover can put his arse back on a comfy seat instead of renting it out on K Rd and he wont have to sell the 750. Sounds like a perfect solution to me.

[Cajun]

Some of you guys really need to stop riding, or learn how to ride correctly or you ride along with your eyes shut or something.

In 10 years of riding only one small off. And i know alot of people who 10-20+ years with out problems

BTW Crashing on a track i know is different than the road, going around a track means sooner or later you will meet tarmat, i am more talking about road

[kiwifruit]

awesome photo texmo

[Mental Trousers]

Some of you guys really need to stop riding, or learn how to ride correctly or you ride along with your eyes shut or something.

In 10 years of riding only one small off. And i know alot of people who 10-20+ years with out problems

BTW Crashing on a track i know is different than the road, going around a track means sooner or later you will meet tarmat, i am more talking about road

The faster you are the more you crash.

[The_Dover]

or the more drunk you are the more you crash

or stoned

[Coyote]

or just plain stupid (as is the case with my 2 big offs)

[cowpoos]

The faster you are the more you crash.
nah....I don't believe that to be true at all....some people just arn't as switched on as others....heaps of slow people crash....a hand full of fast people crash....but not as many....TS.DSS3,loosebruce.....are just bad examples to be using...infact TS shouldn't even be used as an example,coz he ain't really fast ;)

[Cajun]

The faster you are the more you crash.

I know a few really really fast boys from around this way. And they haven't crashed in 10+ years, some use to race in early-mid 90's

You crash cause 9/10 you did something wrong. And this happens with people who are slow and fast,

But if you aren't paying as much attention as you should be doing silly stuff/show boating you are more likley gonna crash more, and those fall in to the 'you did something' wrong area.

[skidMark]

ive had....

car infront was moving into the median to turn right went way out....i starting to approach on the left...suddenly no indicating they swung hard left into thier driveway...went flying over thier bonnet....resulting in my elbow breaking and not ever being able to straighten my arm fully ever again.....cops decided mine and cagers fault....

a bus cut a corner while i was appraching a give wya heading straight at me i jusmped off the bike and the bus drove over it....bus drivers fault...

and last but not least...women was going same direction as me in the lane to my left slightly staggered ahead.....no indicating pulls a u turn....managed to slow down a fair bit so only hit at maybe 20 kph..(not like i was looking at speedo) and i got thrown up in the air landed on my feet running backwards.....looking at my bike going ka thunk onto it's side...

the 50 school girls at the bus stop didn't help just sat there laughing at me.... car driver drove off....

went back next day...tracked her down got her details...cops recently decided it was her fault....sent out letters.....then a week later (about 2 days ago ) the cops call up and say the storys don't match so we are revoking it you have to goto small claims....i was like ffs....the battle still rages on eh. ugh damn cagers.

[texmo]

BTW Crashing on a track i know is different than the road, going around a track means sooner or later you will meet tarmat, i am more talking about road
thats one of the most stupid things I have heard. People crash on the track because they push, I push on the road...

[dss3]

I don't crash, I 'learn'. I've 'learnt' 5 times so far this year. All on the track but. Screw crashing on the road, that shit will kill ya.

[Rossi Gal]

I don't crash, I 'learn'. I've 'learnt' 5 times so far this year. All on the track but. Screw crashing on the road, that shit will kill ya.
i do like your way of thinking..i had a real good learn 3 years ago on old taupo(bye bye bike) and two stupid lil lessons this year... taupo and manfield. and yup, bugger crashing on the road..ewww!! ouch!!

[Two Smoker]

I don't crash, I 'learn'. I've 'learnt' 5 times so far this year. All on the track but. Screw crashing on the road, that shit will kill ya.

I dont know... to learn means that you wont make the same mistake... How many times have you crashed due to cold slicks??? hehehe

[Two Smoker]

nah....I don't believe that to be true at all....some people just arn't as switched on as others....heaps of slow people crash....a hand full of fast people crash....but not as many....TS.DSS3,loosebruce.....are just bad examples to be using...infact TS shouldn't even be used as an example,coz he ain't really fast ;)

Mate... im not even close to fast... but closer than you :bleh:

[Cajun]

thats one of the most stupid things I have heard. People crash on the track because they push, I push on the road...



In my year and a half of riding bikes I have had more the 40 crashes. two resulting in writeing off motorbikes, and 5 writing off the same scooter. I also broke a 60year olds legs when she jumped out infront of me (she was at fault).
And since I highsided my zxr at 140 on a gpr 70 front and gpr 100 rear according to bruce im a muppet.
edit: oh and I have never fallen off in a drive way, closest to that was when I was reading a map on my scooter somebody backed into me.

Okay these are two comments you have made.

I believe you need to learn the road is not for pushing on. If you have crashed that many times. I think you need to slow the fuck down, and learn how to ride correctly, the major object of riding is not falling off, first and foremost.

Personally by those comments the accidents you have had, i believe u shouldn't be near a motorcycle on a road until you learn to control it correctly.
And well hitting a 60 year old i mean you should be watching where they are going, its not like a 60 year old is quick as the flash and jumps out of front of you in a split second(even if it was her fault)

You guys are making it sound 'cool' that you have crashed '#' times. its not that smart crashing. It costs you money, adds to acc bill on my regsration(if you get hurt), and sometimes lying about how you crash so can claim insurnace, puts up insurnace rates for rest of us, and also paints a bad picture of motorcycles in general to the public as well as the crash figures on national scale.

[MotoGirl]

Why are you goings gloating about how many crashes you've had? You're DELIBERATELY making yourself look like unskilled imbiciles who can't handle a bike haha

[cowpoos]

Mate... im not even close to fast... but closer than you :bleh:
don't let ya mouth write cheques that ya can't cash sonny boy.....bring it!!!

[cowpoos]

I don't crash, I 'learn'. I've 'learnt' 5 times so far this year. All on the track but. Screw crashing on the road, that shit will kill ya.
slow learner I guess?

[FROSTY]

Cant be much of a muppet.
2 race crashes in 2.5 seasons racing so far. 1 was a mechanical failure and one cos i was being a fuckwit.I forgot the basic rule---TO FINISH FIRST FIRST YOU MUST FINISH.

[slowpoke]

throw one of the dirtbikes away and go for a roll in the grass!!!

Now there's a motto to live your life by....

[slowpoke]

In my year and a half of riding bikes I have had more the 40 crashes.

STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[slowpoke]

thats one of the most stupid things I have heard. People crash on the track because they push, I push on the road...

Lemmee see if I got this right....you think THEY are stoopid?

[dss3]

I dont know... to learn means that you wont make the same mistake... How many times have you crashed due to cold slicks??? hehehe

Haha, smart arse. Crashed once at Taupo last rd AMCC, was on slicks and water was running across the track, had little slides there each lap, and then one lap it was a bit too big. Was running slicks because that's all I had. Still, can say I crashed in front of stroud and came second to him later in the day. Lesson: Like frosty said, got to finish the race

Then had crash at KB day, corner 1, yup, generator siezed, cold slicks, wow, they have like next to no grip. Lesson: Duh, cold slicks no grip

Then had a crash at Manfield, VMCC rd 2. Was pissing down with rain and first time riding on wets, got pole position but crashed going around the outside of lapped traffic chasing first place. Lesson: Take time lapping back markers, even top 3 would have been an ok finish

Then had a crash at Shaun Harris day, just a mare, dunno what happened there, think I may have been going faster than I thought, as we race more what feels like a nice slow warm up pace might be getting a bit quick for the first lap or so. Lesson: need to go a lot slower on warm up laps

Last excursion was VMCC rd 3. Just braked too late in middle straight chasing bruce, couldn't haul it up before the grass and flopped over in the mud. Lesson: don't get too excited chasing down the person in front of you!

So yeah, I guess that's a few crashes this year, and na, nothing to be proud of, but hey, your going to get that when you start racing. Would rather be getting decent positions with a few spills here and there rather that putting around mid pack. That is after all the whole point of racing. We are trying to find the limits of our bikes and ourselves. Didn't someone say if you didn't crash your not trying hard enough?

Oh, and forget road riding, i'm talking track here. Two totally different things. The reason I started racing is because I was pushing too much on the road. Not the place to do shit like that.

C you.

[texmo]

I agree with you daryl, I have learnt from all my misstakes. I wont highside like I didnt last round, nor will I lowside on tyres that havent been scrubed in properly, as for not crashing when your rear wheel locks up on you while banked over. I dunno about that.

Oh and 32 of my crashes were on the bucket track, had them in one day.