How many times have you had an off on the road?

[Sanx]

...have you binned it on the road? On the track doesn't count, and neither does dirt-riding - as everyone drops MXers eventually.

[Smokin]

Three times for me, all within the first 12 months of holding a license too.
Clean slate for the last 19 years, Touch wood.

[NighthawkNZ]

Three times for me, all within the first 12 months of holding a license too.

Twice... when I was young dumb and full of... learning

but haven't in the last 15 years... Touch brain (well its made of wood)

[MidnightMike]

Never *touch wood*

[Hitcher]

It's not polite to keep count of such things.

[Smokin]

Well my second drop was about 30 seconds after my first one, was sooo pissed off with myself for dropping my bike I gave it hell getting away from the scene and over cooked the following corner.:shit:

[Ghost_Bullet]

1. Bee in helmet, pulled over onto shingle locked and lost front
2. Wanker pulled out in fron on roundabout, leaning and to hard on front brake, lost front again.

Thats it. Fingers crossed and all that

[nigelp]

I had my first bin shortly after getting my learners, was on a KR250a, twin 2 stroker, very fun bike...pity about the scars and also the broken bones! Was only doing about 60 at time when I struck a pile of gravel laid down by local council contractors

[nighthawk]

twice for me.... first one was on an RD350 (1973)hit an open manhole had more damage to my pride than the bike,second time on the Rimutaka's got blown under a stock truck....... buggered a perfectly good bike ............

hope never to do it again.....

[chickenfunkstar]

Never, unless I count the time I lost my footing whilst trying to pakr on a steepish slope. Had my fair share of oh shit moments though.

[The Lone Rider]

Never binned, but closest to doing it was from cunts putting up a road block in the middle of the road and I happen to be going down the road on the way home from work near around midnight.

[Leong]

Once, in my first month riding. Too close to the left edge and ran straight off the road on a right hander. Saw it was a good place to crash and basically went where I looked. :bye: Know better now.....

Last Trackday I was passing someone under brakes at the end of the back straight at Taupo. But the bike 2 bikes ahead outbraked himself and ended up going straight in a cloud on dust. Was really hard not to follow him. Had to force myself to concentrate on looking where I wanted to go, and made it round the right hander. :yes:

[Oakie]

Not really a 'bin'. I was doing a u-turn, hit some gravel and fell over.

[jtzzr]

3 bins in my teenage years , means I`m not due for another ever (fingers crossed).

[ceebie13]

Isn't this a repost?

[Two Smoker]

TWO SMOKER WINS!!!! More than ten times (i think) not bad for someone only riding for three years... Slow learner aye????

[Toaster]

Never had an off and don't intend to.

[Deviant Esq]

Never had an off and don't intend to.
Same for me. Haven't had an off, and intend to do all I can to keep it that way. Have had someone bin right in front of me though, about a week ago. That wasn't very much fun, and although the guy was (relatively) unhurt, it was still scary when he went down.

[Switch]

I havn't had an off, although ive been close to it.
I think skidmark should be 10+ *cough*(scooters count mark)*cough* :nya:

[Toaster]

Same for me. Haven't had an off, and intend to do all I can to keep it that way. Have had someone bin right in front of me though, about a week ago. That wasn't very much fun, and although the guy was (relatively) unhurt, it was still scary when he went down.

Well, here's to the "haven't had an off" group!

[wilber]

2 in late 70's on xl250, 1 on tls 2years ago

[hazard02]

Only once about a year ago. Went through a roundabout a bit fast in the wet and something gave way. No serious injury or damage. I'm not going to kid myself though; its going to happen again one way or another.

[Denniso]

Personaly I don't like to call it an off/crash I like to think of it as a up close and personal road inspection . Still sucks though.

[CM2005]

once, roadtesting my race GP125..

[onearmedbandit]

4 times for me. All in my younger days. Don't worry, I'm still alive.

[Chaos83]

This conversation feels really taboo. I'll be knocking on any tree I can find 'til next ride. Only been riding for 4 years - never binned but a few close calls! Glad I still got my legs :sweatdrop:. *Knocking!*

[Ixion]

Sigh. This question (with poll) has been posited several times before. And the answer doesn't mean much unless you also factor in how long the respondant has been riding . If someone has been riding one week and not crashed it doesn't signify much.

Answer is still the same. Never, in about half a century.

[Smoggie]

1981 - Bar steward driving a taxi pulled out in front of me. One fractured right elbow (no padding or armour in them days). Touch the head, nothing since.

[Big Dave]

Lost count.

[LilSel]

.........

Your Avatar just stopped me working for the last 5mins lol...
Very therapeutic tho :rockon:

[LilSel]

I've had one off *touch wood*.
Learnt from it tho... soooo... all gravy :yes:

[lowededwookie]

I've had three.

The first, and only one where I got injured and wrote off my bike, was caused by a driver pulling out of an intersection.

The second was on the Wellington motorway just before the Johnsonville/Hutt turnoffs. The car in front of me for absolutely no reason slammed on his brakes forcing me to hit mine. Having had new pads installed that day the front locked and the bike dropped. Luckily we were only doing about 10Km. The thing that pissed me off about that incident was the tosser in the car behind me. As I was picking my bike up he was all "Can you push your bike to the side of the road so we can all move?" No "are you all right" or anything. No helping me push my bike to the side of the road. Needless to say that prick got the finger as I road past him up the middle.

The third was somewhat embarrassing. I had just picked up my bike from Wellington Motorcycles after getting new pads, new tyres, and some other minor bits done. I had just gone through Kent Terrace and was turning right into Cambridge Terrace when I hit a patch of diesel and the front went down taking me with it.

So with 17 years motorcycle experience behind me having only 1 major off is pretty good.

Actually I just lied. I forgot about the Akatarawas which makes 4 offs. I was heading up the Akatarawas from Waikanae when I came to a righthand corner. The corner would have been fine if the moron who built it didn't make the camber go to the left instead of the right. As such the bike wouldn't turn and I was heading straight for the edge of the cliff. The only thing I could do was an enforced drop, right the bike, aim it at the corner, and then take off. I seriously wanna smack the moron that built that road.

[RC1]

in 20+yrs riding lost count i think around 9 or 10 and all but 1 was my fault

[Crisis management]

I've lost count, basic stupidity and testosterone are a wonderful way of getting to know your local habitat.

I blame my mother, if i'd been a girl this wouldn't have happened!

Can I sue anyone?????

Does this make any sense?

Does anyone care?

All these questions and only one answer (42) how the fuck am I supposed to cope!!


I blame Spank for the pink cloud.

Have I missed anyone out???

[sunhuntin]

itll be 2 years this may since i got my license [man, i love my crappy l plate!]

have had one major incident where a bitch pulled out from a stop sign on my left without being able to see clearly in either direction. i was overtaking cars turning left. i hit her front bumper. sailed over the bonnet, did a few mid air rolls, hit the ground and rolled some more. bike was jammed under her car, backpack was on her bonnet, and topbox just missed my head.
she got nothing, i got a cast for a week. bitch. i wish now id slapped her with my helmet like i wanted to.

dunno if this counts, but there was the infamous fence post incident in december i think... guy i was riding with overtook on a corner that tightened up way too fast. i barely missed his back wheel, and went straight through the corner and ended up jammed between two posts.
[have just had the forks straightened this week, and man, what a difference!! i can lean into turns again!!]

[Bend-it]

Apparently it's your father's fault you're not female...

[Squeak the Rat]

Sigh. This question (with poll) has been posited several times before. And the answer doesn't mean much unless you also factor in how long the respondant has been riding . If someone has been riding one week and not crashed it doesn't signify much.



Yes it has and one of those people regrets having brought up the subject.

The point of one of the previous occassions was to show people who had only been riding for a short time that falling of ten times was not normal for an experienced rider, let alone a learner.

[Her_C4]

It's not polite to keep count of such things.


Oh thank goodness!!! Then I will rewind back to zero:done: :sunny:

[Sanx]

I wasn't looking to prove points to anyone - I was just interested in the numbers, and people usually have some fun(ny) stories to go with them

Obviously, the more you ride, the more likely it is you've had an off. To get a truly accurate view, you'd need not to consider the number of years a person's been riding, but how many kilometres they've covered on bikes; the same way that the general method of calculating accident statistics is not the simplistic "deaths per year" used by the government, but "deaths per million kilometres travelled". You could further complicate it by splitting the kilometres-travelled-per-rider and offs-per-rider into urban and rural categories.

I apologise for the repost.

[orange dog]

WOW, what a safe lot, good on yeh's
More than 10 for me but no serious injuries so I get to laugh at all of mine, reasons for which include:
Checking out the Varsity chics
Racing cars
Racing self
Showing off to girlfriend
Being distracted by mate falling off
Not tacking careful note of female asian driver
Learning about road paint & rain mix
Learning about worn roads and rain (no stones just tar)

Riding time: 21 years (15-36)
Approx Km's: 150,000
Bikes: 7

[pyrocam]

bah most of you never crashed? pssh
you haven't lived

[flash]

ive never crashed on a road bike, all it means is i havnt been pushing it hard :D. almost been hit tons of times if that counts though

[FruitLooPs]

None but I did manage to whack a cars wing mirror being the filling in a car/truck sandwich (them going opposing ways me going down the middle) coming down the port hills to sumner. Nearly packed my undies on that one. :shit:

Bit of 1 year of riding.

[Mr Merde]

After riding for 35 years and well over 1 million km, I have lost track of the number of times i've been off the bike on the road.

I have the scars and memories to remind me.

Trick is is to learn from them and get back on the bike.

Worst off was when I was 17yo and a kid tried to play chicken with me by running out in front of the bike. I hit him and the bike went down on top of him. At 30mph it wasnt a pretty sight.

Took me 6 months to get back on the bike. Just lost all confidence even though the cops and the kids parents said it wasnt my fault in any way.

Any way, prepare for the worst and invest in the best safety kit you can afford. If you never use it great but if you ever do you will be thankful.


Mr :shit:

[desmo dave]

Just the 1. On the back wheel going up a motor way overbridge and lost it but it was 25 years ago

[orangeback]

its not if ,its when
your turn comes around one day :bye: :bye:

[DEATH_INC.]

I've hit 5 cars, wrote one of 'em off (he had sunstrike so thought it would be a great idea to pull across the road into his driveway anyhow), crashed through a fence (recently upgraded the turbo and got caught out by how fast it accelerated), crashed landing a wheelie, crashed on the first corner after leaving a friends place early in the morning, crashed on a road covered in diesel and crashed trying to get my knee down on a roundabout. Oh, and flipped a KX and an XR on the road (does this count?) doing wheelies. maybe a couple of others I can't remember :zzzz:

[cowpoos]

I've never crashed!!

[The_Dover]

i've never crashed on the road

[sunhuntin]

well, if its miles you want... likely about 16,000 i guess. dunno how many i put on the 86 gn. had 10,000 on the 06 when i sold, and the virago is sitting on 44,000. [was 38 when bought]

[Hitcher]

Average km between "offs"? About 25,000km.

[graeme911]

Several minors over the years (2 from failed wheelies....). The best was getting taken out by a Statesman on the Rimutakas - he lost it on a bend and collected me on my side of the road.

[Toaster]

Your Avatar just stopped me working for the last 5mins lol...
Very therapeutic tho :rockon:

Yes I see the issue there........

[_intense_]

nothing for the first 5 years, then bam! a car runs me off the road.

// car : 1 me : 0

[bugjuice]

TWO SMOKER WINS!!!! More than ten times (i think) not bad for someone only riding for three years... Slow learner aye????
no, you just can't take a fukin hint!


i've never crashed on the road
yours always ended up far from the road, didn't they?!


i ain't answerin. i'll get jinxed.

[cowpoos]

nothing for the first 5 years, then bam! a car runs me off the road.

// car : 1 me : 0
how long ago was that???

and was that the day you got your honda??

[Devil]

Hrm, no crashes.
3 years riding, bout 65,000km.

[Rhino]

At the age of 15 on my Suzuki 50 stepthrough, I got into some thick shingle on the road round Lake Brunner (West Coast of the South Island.)

Since I was wearing shorts and a tee shirt, I spent several days picking small bits of out my arms and legs.

That tought me two things:

1. Always wear good protective gear.
2. Never tense up and fight the bike when it moves around on loose surfaces.

Touch wood, I have stayed upright on the road ever since (not so on the track.)

[FROSTY]

TWO SMOKER WINS!!!! More than ten times (i think) not bad for someone only riding for three years... Slow learner aye????
BRO ---doya really want to be announcing that to the world

[EZAS]

Crashed twice (on the road): some lady decided to stop in the passing lane up Waiwera (for no known reason). So I locked up and went flying past.

Second time was when someone looked me in the eye and then decided to pull out anyway (bloody cage). Crashed flipped (landed on my feet) and was kindly helped-out/pampered by a group of teen hotties who saw the whole thing and came running to my rescue.

[boomer]

i ride with crashers.. does that count??

upto now, never!!.... unless you call doing a stoppie, washing the bike twice, doing a u-turn over a white line and having shit tie downs....binning :D

and only once on the track :second:

[jade]

Ive left 1 or 2 minor incidents out.
Before reading this, you should realise that out of all my crashes, I have walked away from all of them with nothing but a grazed knee or elbow except for 1 - where I hit a car and broke my leg in 5 places.
I might have been fine at the scene - But I can tell you for sure, EVERY CRASH - the next day - every muscle in my body hurt - like I was hit by a truck. even small crashes.
I should also point out that Every crash but the one I broke my leg - I had gear on - when I broke my leg I had my jacket - but was wearing jeans.
Wear your gear everywhere.

10, that includes 1 small one at taupo track on the grass, hurt my pride more than my bike or me

First one was when I went straight past my house on a friday after beers at work, leaning the gn125 round the 3rd corner of 3 to get back to my place, I was running wide when a car appeared and I had to lean over far enough to miss it, lowsided - along road, hit curb, along persons lawn and into tree, gave me a fright, got it started, Got home, got high. sprained ankle and a skinned knee, went bowling that night LOL!

Next I got a nsr250 2 stroke
Recipie for danger. Learner - 2 stroke
First time I binned it was pulling out of a road right on to another road
Too much power on wet road, Highside at 10kph,
Next was
showing off with my mate through takapuna a car pulled out on me after I accelerated to bowt 60 - I locked front and went for a slide while my bike slid into the oncoming car - rode home with flat rear tyre.

This was the only crash I didnt walk From.
NSR250, everyday I would go riding before work, half an hour to an hour, one day, I woke up late and went straight to work - a 4-5 min trip including the 3 traffic lights.
Came round the long right hander a little above the speed limit that my work was located on - oncoming car decides to pull across my path into driveway - makes it halfway before I hit it.
Broken Femeur in 5 places - no other scratch on me
7 days in hospital - 80 staples - 4 months off work - 40cm rod from knee to hip - No side effects or immobility 1 and a half years later

Next crash - I spent 4 months on acc rebuilding bike - had to make brake calliper mounts onto the forks - 15 mins into the maiden voyage (2 weeks after I ditched crutches) the discs had been rubbing on the callipers = front wheel locked on me at 60k - I went over the handle bars and up the road.

Sold the nsr and got a aprilia rs250, Mint. rode it for 6 months day and night and never got a scratch on it
Unfortunate asian man knocks me off it - on my way to court against the lady who broke my leg

Got it written off and got a 2000 rs250, crashed it 4 days after i got it, after coming into a corner too hot, doing a stoppie at 120 and hitting the far side of a ditch and flying thru the air for 10m then sliding between two fences for 20m
Bent Frame - front wheel 75mm backwards - got frame straightened while I did the fairings - have now ridden it for 6 months daily without any crashed, but near misses can happen - Im slowly learning, and Ive definately slowed down. Crashing should not be considered a part of motorcycling.

Wanna talk about riding your machine stoned ?