Bloody hell... My boy's been bowled off his bike

[JimO]

im working at home today, lovely sunny day and Aaron says he's off for a ride as always i give him the lecture "watch out they are all trying to kill ya" about a hour later i get a call from a young lady is this aarons dad, dont worry but he has had a accident so i jump in the truck and hightail it over there expecting to see him standing on the side of the road looking sad, when i get there there is 3 police cars, fire engine and a ambulance there and he is lying on the road with a blanket covering him as the ambos checking him out, he has a bad graze on his leg with a few cuts but should be ok and is in Dunedin hospital at the moment but will be out soon, the cops said he was riding along doing everything fine and a old bloke went through a compulsary stop and collected him, the front guard of the car is mangeled and the bumper ripped off and the bike looks ok apart from a few more scratches and broken gearlever and footpeg hanger....every parents worst nightmare

[quallman1234]

Bloody Lucky! Yet unlucky at the same time, could of been so much worse.

Glad he's ok, Keep ya eye's open for those evil cages. :laugh:

[007XX]

Damn jimjim, really sorry to hear mate.

I hear ya about the "parent's worse nightmare"...but at least he's ok :niceone:

Good on him too for not having been at fault. Hope he gets back to it safely and quickly.

[Lteejay]

Jeez - dread that phone call myself in regards to the other half and his bike. Sounds like he will be on the mend soon and back on the bike in no time.

[onearmedbandit]

Fuck, that must've been almost too much. Good to hear he's on the mend.

[NighthawkNZ]

Sorry to hear that Jim... hope is all ok... anything I can do, let me know..

[yungatart]

Your heart does flippity flop thingies when you get one of "those" phone calls, eh?
Hope your young fella heals up well.
Glad it wasn't worse.

[vifferman]

Your heart does flippity flop thingies when you get one of "those" phone calls, eh?
Yeah.

My recent one was from the cops: "We've just arrested your sons".
Not quite as bad, but not what you want to hear either.

I hope your boy is OK, jimjim.

[tri boy]

Magoo is everywhere.
Glad the boy isn't too bashed up.

[Coyote]

Hope I don't put my parents through that

[Damon]

Glad to hear he's ok, i had a similar incident my self recently, a boy racer decided he didn't have to give way to me as he was comming out of the mall and i was going in, he hit me square across my right side, he was pretty applogetic at the time but denied it all when i showed him the $4000 bill, now he has to pay it to my insurance company :laugh:

[Mutley]

Sorry to hear that jimjim. Hope he is ok. Thought I saw one of your boys at countdown carpark yesterday lunch time. Anyway hope this doesn't knock his confidence too much and that he is back out there soon.

[MSTRS]

A reasonable outcome, all things considered.
I know the feeling...chewing on chunks of heart until you know they are OK.
Regards to your lad.

[Nasty]

Crikey Jimjim ... that is terrible ... I am sure he will be fine and will think it future is that car just coming to get me!!

[avgas]

Ah yes, step 7 of the "How to make your Parents feel bad about the bike thing"
Glad to hear he is ok, and your mental space is ok.
Just remember bikes can be fixed, people can heal.........but some lessons cant be taught, they have to be learnt.
An arrogant person, never makes any mistakes. A wise one learns from them.

[PrincessBandit]

Sorry to hear about your sons collision. I too dread the day I may get one of those calls, whether it be son on bike or daughter in car. Hopefully that will be your (his) quota filled already and its good that he doesn't seem to have come out of it too badly. Given the number of emergency crew at the scene if it had been me turning up there I'd have probably had a heart attack and had to join him in the ambo! Have you recovered yet?

[Oakie]

My son-in-law did that about three years back. Collected by a u turning vehicle, over the bonnet, bounced down the road, ambulance, police, the whole nine yards (sorry, 8.2296 metres). He came back pretty well though and was right as rain in a few days. Pretty resilient these yung'uns.
Not a good phone call to receive at 6.50 am though for sure!

[JimO]

he is back home :niceone: limping about now and hoping the bike will be fixed in time for the vincent rally, good job i bought a spares bike last week

[McDuck]

Did he get to beat the shit out of the guy who did not stop? I would...... Once some dude knowcked me over on my push bike and i bet him up. The docters did not know if i had broken my arm in the crash or the beating lol (BTW i was on th freeking footpath)

[MVnut]

he is back home :niceone: limping about now and hoping the bike will be fixed in time for the vincent rally, good job i bought a spares bike last week

Great attitude Jim. Glad your boy is okay.

[Grub]

Having your kids hurt is really tough isn't it Jimjim. You spend your whole life trying to protect them and you know you can't really.

In a bizzare way this is a good story. It's not about young hoon going too fast and hitting things or just plain falling off. Sorry for his hurt, good awareness lesson and you still have your boy all in one (slightly creaky) piece.

[Boob Johnson]

Did he get to beat the shit out of the guy who did not stop?
Yeah that sounds appropriate to beat an elderly gent :oi-grr:


Moron.



Wow Jim, he's a lucky lad aye. Got off real light. I had a similar thing happen to me in mid June last year except it was the opposite end of the age bracket (18 yr old girl licensed for 6 months). She hospitalised me for two weeks causing pretty major physical carnage, so yeah ya boy got off real light which is great.

I reckon you can extract good from ANY situation. For me it has made me ultra paranoid about intersections, I always slow to well under the speed limit & eye ball the driver for any sign of an early departure & I would imagine Aaron will do the same which can only make you a safer rider :niceone:


Heal well Aaron :msn-wink:

[JimO]

he was wearing a good leather jacket that has scuff marks all over but no rips and funnily enough grazes on bits of him that were protected by the jacket, jeans and boots and in all the running about i have done today between crash, hospital, home ,hospital,home then off to pick up the bike with a trailor all i see are people on bikes wearing tshirts and no gloves. hopefully this will be his only brush with the reaper. the cops and ambo guys were great but i was annoyed the cop that came to the hospital asked him 3 times how fast he was going as if he didnt believe that a young guy on a bike would be doing the correct thing. The old guy was 82 years old and the cops are going to reccomend that he hands in his licence and i dont know what charges he will face

[sidecar bob]

Bad buzz jim, but the good bit is, that your young fulla has had an extremely cheap lesson & he will never trust a tin top again, That could have just saved his life in the future.

[Bikernereid]

Sorry to hear that, hope he is ok and gets well soon. One consolation is that at least you know that your lad is riding correctly and safely.

[Leong]

Glad he's OK....

[kiwibryn]

he is back home :niceone: limping about now and hoping the bike will be fixed in time for the vincent rally, good job i bought a spares bike last week

Sweet!! Nice to know he's not been scared off the road by this. Key point my father told me when I first got a cage licence.. "Remember that every-one else out there is an idiot... act accordingly!" Double that for us poor sods on bikes...

:niceone:

[RantyDave]

a old bloke went through a compulsary stop and collected him
Yeeeee shit. We can all live without that kind of carry on. Lad's going to be OK though?

OMG. What a nightmare.

Dave

[Daffyd]

Glad he's thinking ahead to the VCR. Shows he's not going to be discouraged from riding. Hope to see you both there.

[Chickadee]

Glad your sons' relatively unscathed, glad no fatality resulted! Hope the old fella hands in his license and gives up driving, you do worry about some folks on the roads!

[fredie]

make shore the dickhead fuckhead driver gets a ticket by the cops . get his insurence details and claim . bike . all clothing . helmet . and medical . and compo :2guns:

[JimO]

got the bike operational today :2thumbsup easy fix as i robbed some bits off the donorcycle both Aaron and the bike got off really light, there is white paint from the car on the front tyre, brake rotor, horn, left hand fork, tank, plastic bit (also cracked) under the seat, ripped seat.

[McDuck]

got the bike operational today :2thumbsup easy fix as i robbed some bits off the donorcycle both Aaron and the bike got off really light, there is white paint from the car on the front tyre, brake rotor, horn, left hand fork, tank, plastic bit (also cracked) under the seat, ripped seat.

Have you checked that the frame is strait? (a quick ride would probebly tell)

[JimO]

Have you checked that the frame is strait? (a quick ride would probebly tell)

yea it rides as true as prior to the accident here is a couple of pics id be pretty safe saying if it wasnt a old shitter but a newer fully faired sprotsbike it would have ben a write off as the car punched it on the left side and it slid for a while on the right side and for all you people out there that dont use a l plate when you should the cops were pretty quick to check the wof,rego and his licence to see what $$$$ could be extracted



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[TimeOut]

Good to hear he's getting better could've been a lot worse. Not a nice call to get, got mine when my daughter worked out the hard way you can't TEXT and drive at the same time.

[Conquiztador]

Yes, the old NZ250's are built well. (Have some experience here...)

I have also long ago learnt that even if a minor accident, and you are not at fault, get the cops involved!! The: "Sorry re that, just contact me and I sort you out" is a total waste of time.

And even if she is only a $1,5K bike she is still a decent one, so no need to ride around with bits missing because some egg cant watch where he goes!!

[McDuck]

yea it rides as true as prior to the accident here is a couple of pics id be pretty safe saying if it wasnt a old shitter but a newer fully faired sprotsbike it would have ben a write off as the car punched it on the left side and it slid for a while on the right side and for all you people out there that dont use a l plate when you should the cops were pretty quick to check the wof,rego and his licence to see what $$$$ could be extracted


Why dont you use an L plate? I never had a problem with morons and when i did get nabbed doing somthing wrong with it on i got let off almost everything i did wrong because of the L plate and having not drunk that night....

[JimO]

Why dont you use an L plate? I never had a problem with morons and when i did get nabbed doing somthing wrong with it on i got let off almost everything i did wrong because of the L plate and having not drunk that night....

we do have a L plate, just as well as it turned out...what's the fine for no L plate?

[McDuck]

we do have a L plate, just as well as it turned out...what's the fine for no L plate?

Just re read your post and just as well, the fine is 400 bucks.

[McDuck]

BTW there was a 2007 kawa sports 250 wright off on TM a few months ago because it had been pushed over by a reversing car.

[YellowDog]

Sorry to hear this. Hope the graze heals quickly and he 'gets back on that horse' asap.

[JimO]

Sorry to hear this. Hope the graze heals quickly and he 'gets back on that horse' asap.

he was back on the horse today:headbang:

[JimO]

got a cheque for $575 from the old coffin dodger to cover the damage on the bike and a new helmet:yes:

[Trudes]

got a cheque for $575 from the old coffin dodger to cover the damage on the bike and a new helmet:yes:

Well that's nice eh! Better than if a dole bludger, "oh man, can I pay you $5 a week?" Glad the boy's ok and back on the 'orse!

[Conquiztador]

got a cheque for $575 from the old coffin dodger to cover the damage on the bike and a new helmet:yes:

Decent!! Enuf for a second NZ then...

[Guided_monkey]

Good to here that there is no permanent damage and he's straight back riding.

Unfortunaely accidents do happen..... we are all human, but luckily this can be put to 'life' experience.

Having had too many near misses (Ak rush hour) your riding style and awareness definitely improves.

[JimO]

Decent!! Enuf for a second NZ then...

already got 2..the :Police: said if he didnt pay for damages they would do him for careless driving causing injury but if he did pay it would be failing to give way

[McDuck]

Lol make shure it is a good helmet ;)

[Macktheknife]

Very pleased to hear you got a good result from this one Jim, great news indeed.
Did the gentleman have to hand in his licence? It seems it would be the appropriate thing to do in this case.

Best of luck to you and your son, ride safe.

[howdamnhard]

Glad to hear your boys on the mend.

[fredie]

happy too read everything was sorted . did the driver get a ticket by the pigs :lol:

[Squiggles]

he has had a accident so i jump in the truck and hightail it over there expecting to see him standing on the side of the road looking sad, when i get there there is 3 police cars, fire engine and a ambulance there and he is lying on the road with a blanket covering him....

Fark me, skim reading that had me going there, good to hear he's recovering well :)