Horror stories - Bikes

[b1g-fuLLa]

Ok guys, lets here a few Horror Stories and CLOSE CALLS to remind ushow dangerous riding can be......... List your close call stories here. Yeap it counts if your "close call" was coming off and almost getting bowled by a cage. My closest call so far......... Heading to work at 5am and someone drifted across into my lane.............. Had no warning!!! A quick dodge and i missed him by about a metre, scary shit for a learner lol

[Disco Dan]

One time at band camp...


...I opened a tin of worms.

[sunhuntin]

weve all had those... at least the guy without the head wouldnt have felt much. id rather go quick and end in pieces than have a "minor" and die in pain.

when i go, just say rest in pieces please. :done:

[fireball]

my mate and i were out riding home from work one night rain stormy etc a car came out of no where i managed to swerve out of the way onto the far right (the car was in our lane) my mate wasnt so lucky he swerved left hit a parked car and died at the scene......

think that is close enough...

[HTFU]

Friday just gone, back road to Arapuni along Waikato river. Car came across centerline on straight bit of road, right towards me. I didn't really register what was happening, bit of bewilderment as she came towards me I guess, and thoughts of kids playing chicken with the nice little bike rider.

As I was braking hard and thinking about which way they were going to go I decided to go left, she finally looked up from her texting or stereo adjustment as I scooted past her inches from the gravel on the left and her car on the right.

After she had passed I still had a bit of speed to scrub off and at the same time readjust my line so I didn't gravel bin it. Felt like a tightrope walker leaning to the side as my bike rode about an inch from the roadside and gravel.

Just one of those "happened so fast moments"

[HTFU]

think that is close enough... bro thats a horror story. Can't imagine what that was like. Never want to know. Wish it was a close call instead for your mate as well. :(

[dogsnbikes]

My bro was cut in half by a logging truck while he was waiting to turn at a intersection although he just survived It was the start of a ten year battle for him to stay alive enough said:crybaby:

miss you bro

[98tls]

Bad off up the summit road.......6 days sleeping,woke up sat up and burst all the stitches down my hip then went back to sleep for a day,flipped a TT500 in the caves car park stuffing up back/Hillman hunter did a u turn in front of me which broke an arm/leg/inverted kneecapfor the 1st of 2 times.many other close calls but hey......im an old bugger and am glad i got through.

[98tls]

My bro was cut in half by a logging truck while he was waiting to turn at a intersection although he just survived It was the start of a ten year battle for him to stay alive enough said:crybaby:

miss you bro Jesus mate thats a shocker eh.RIP

[fireball]

bro thats a horror story. Can't imagine what that was like. Never want to know. Wish it was a close call instead for your mate as well. :(

yeah i stopped riding for a year after the accident, but i realized life was to short to stop doing the one thing we both loved so much,

i miss the van van 250 in my rear mirror, riding has never been the same....



RIP James

[puddytat]

Gosh theres been far to many over the years, usually folks cutting corners or the worst offenders have been the U-turners...collected a ute that u-turned in front of me,didnt even have time to even think about braking.Considering the speed & the lack of decent gear I had then, I got of with with grazes & an XR with its front wheel next to the rear...

[irish jamie]

loads of biker deads over here also .roads are shit over here and there is always something around the next corner like some farmer going 10 km ph in his tractor

[LilSel]

My horror story... being woken up this morning:zzzz: by Fireball:love: saying
'I just dropped your bike, cant pick it up, help...' :gob::shit:

(... doesnt really compare to others horror stories, but it was horrifying to me seeing my bike on its side soon as I woke up!!...)

[deanohit]

Oooohhh , Fireballs in the shit now, definitly not what you want to wake up to aye Lilsel.
Had a close call on last friday doing the Coro loop with some others, we come around a blind corner down hill, FUCK, cars stopped in the middle of the road, watch PirateJafa almost collect GIJoes rear end, I almost ran into PirateJafa, Out-law ran past me in a locked rear brake slide and so on through all the riders, cops at the scene of an accident, but none around the corner to warn anyone. They were lucky we were following traffic and not at our usual speed or else there would have been another accident.

[scumdog]

They were lucky we were following traffic and not at our usual speed or else there would have been another accident.

You might have learnt something here....maybe.


And oh, btw, 'accidents' are rare, 'crashes' are common.

[deanohit]

Point taken Scumdog. We wern't following each other very close, it was on a 25 corner so we were already slowed down, it was more the suddeness of coming around a tight corner and having no warning. The guys following us, they had enough warning after seeing us in front suddenly stopping.

[ManDownUnder]

Friday night just gone spiltting on the way home as one does when this head shot out of the right rear window (already open) I thought it was going to be a dog barking and growing but not...

A girl, head out the window and :puke: out the window right at me! How the hell she missed I don't know but it was close enough to make me check my boots etc when I got a clear piece of road and I could afford to look down for 5 seconds.

If fact - that (:puke::scooter:) is a remarkably accurate visiual account.

[Oakie]

Well I guess many of us have has the same nasty moments and probably for the same reasons ... but probably the scariest I had was with Mrs Oakie on the back (before she was Mrs Oakie) and a drunk driver trying to deliberately trying to knock us off. I avoided him by driving into the gutter infront of a parked car so he couldn't get at us. Fortunately a cop was going the other way and saw it all, chased the guy and he finished up losing his license for 6 months.

[peasea]

My worst ever horror story on a bike: Heather. Horny as all get out, but man, she stunk.

[peasea]

You might have learnt something here....maybe.


And oh, btw, 'accidents' are rare, 'crashes' are common.

I've never crashed in my undies but...........had an accident or two

[howdamnhard]

Close calls,too many to separate.Theres the early hours of the morning ,I'm the only one on the road,idiots who skip red lights in front of you.:2guns:Then there is the I'll just turn in front of you without bothering to look idiots and my favourite when you have them on both sides of you trying to turn in front of you and catch you in a combined pincer movement.:argh: Or the I'll ride up your back wheel because I thought you had pulled off already and didn'nt actually bother to check.:bash:Had a guy walk across the road in front of me with a lawnmower blissfully unaware of my oncoming presence:angry2:.Fortuneatly being aware of my surroundings and treating all other road users as idiots has stood me in good stead so far.

[Zapf]

Oooohhh , Fireballs in the shit now, definitly not what you want to wake up to aye Lilsel.
Had a close call on last friday doing the Coro loop with some others, we come around a blind corner down hill, FUCK, cars stopped in the middle of the road, watch PirateJafa almost collect GIJoes rear end, I almost ran into PirateJafa, Out-law ran past me in a locked rear brake slide and so on through all the riders, cops at the scene of an accident, but none around the corner to warn anyone. They were lucky we were following traffic and not at our usual speed or else there would have been another accident.

wow... what a scene. Had that happen once around coro as well, around a 45 k corner to find a stopped car waiting for a set of road works traffic lights. Those of us that stopped quickly moved to the side to make room for those behind us. Some of us even ran back to the corner to slow everyone down.

[LilSel]

Oooohhh , Fireballs in the shit now, definitly not what you want to wake up to aye Lilsel.


Yeah it wasnt the nicest way to start the day lol...

This morning... She came in to get me... I went oh shit 'not again?!?'...

But just needed me to move it for her. My 'If you not sure you can move it from where its parked (cars in drive this morning, not much space)... wake me up/come get me to do it..' has worked, so thats all good. 'no tryin to move it yourself...' lol :)

[pzkpfw]

Coming down off the TV transmitter hill (near Palmy North) on the RD350LC.

Round the last corner of gravel road, almost on the tar-seal, and there was a low Japanese import (this was in 1990) parked right in the middle of the road.

He'd stopped to check if he had the clearance to drive on the gravel. Both of his doors were open. Nowhere to go so brake and fall and bend and rip and tear.

Suck (and multiple lessons learned).

[petesmeats]

I was riding to get a warrent last week and going along a stretch of road a car decided that they would reverse out onto the road and stop, covering both lanes. Had to emergency brake and managed to pull small stoppies. Wound up stopping about 1m from the car while the girl in the car just stared at me... Bloody scary. Kinda my fault for not expecting it i guess.

[Bonez]

Being t-boned by a car coming out of an industrial driveway while I was on a a main street was the worst "incident" I've had. Gerty suffered a bent peg mount/shock and cracked side cover wereas I received a broken tibia and fibia. Didn't realise it till I tried to put the side stand down then went into shock.........................

Neither me or the driver of the car were speeding. Gerty had only 80kms up and was being run in.