road crash on bike [Archive] - Kiwi Biker forums

Hooks

8th January 2005, 09:43

Never on this one .... :yeah: and the last time was in 1984 !! Nice front tyre blow-out on my GS550 !! :shit: low speed, high cost.... :pinch: hit the wall of the on-ramp by the Ferry Terminal in Welly !!a nice big solid concrete one at that ... :confused2 ... The first was so long ago it hardly counts .....again only a small one and this one was driver error...... I knew there were road works at that spot but still shot through too quick..... and...off... !! :angry2: was very angry with myself too... ;)

slob

8th January 2005, 10:40

Most of my crashes (over a 7 year period) have been thanks to dodgy tyres (you'd think I'd learn...).

Also, there was one incident (back in the learner days) when I got my GN125's handlebar stuck on a lorry's bumper while filtering through traffic..

moko

8th January 2005, 10:44

Must have fallen off about 15 times in the first year(seriously),learnt the hard way but did learn and the last one was in 1979,that was a learner driver who`s foot slipped off the clutch and shot out directly in front of me.Since then and averaging 20,000km in all weathers not so much as dropped a bike.Loads of near misses though and take nothing for granted,still got a bit of tar in my face from my first biggie.

White trash

8th January 2005, 10:49

Ghost Lemur

8th January 2005, 11:24

I am a star crasher. All except this one and the one previous.

Now that's good crashing!

Coolest one had to be flipping my GS125 on the Hutt Rd in 3rd gear. Took off from the Haywards lights, northbound, spotted my ex girlfriend and her smugasfuck new boyfriend in the car behind me. Hoist, 2nd, 3rd, bwop, bwop "Arrghhhh FUCK!" Screeeeeeech!

Brilliant stuff.

:killingme Bahahahaha

Had a similar experience on my bmx when I was about 10. This girl I quite liked walked past the bmx course as I was about to start a run, so put in a bit to much effort on the first jump. Unintentional backflip resulting in me being knocked out by the handlebars, two black eyes and a bloody face.

Mates pissed themselves laughing, particular as the girl just kept walking while I lay in a bloody mess.

Two Smoker

8th January 2005, 11:52

Sort of lost count.... But i think its 6 crashes on the road, 2-3 on the track... All within 12 months :( hate to think how many i would have had in 10 years time....

aff-man

8th January 2005, 11:54

Well 3 on the road but the way i see it....
first two were in the first 2 weeks of riding so they dont count.
Next one was in my driveway so doesn't count
And last on was in the coro.... sa in a different are code so doesn't count

So if you look at it i have never crashed :thud: :2thumbsup

NinjaBoy

8th January 2005, 12:10

Not couting the times I've dropped the bike off the stand, None in the first two years of riding, then 1 slow speed off on a roundabout in the wet. Then the last one in Nov '04 which wrote off the bike. :bye:

Bonez

8th January 2005, 12:18

Hmmm. Fell off doing a u-turn on my first ever long m/c ride on the CJ250T, Woodbourne-Whenuapai. Slid into a gutter on the Napier/Taupo Rd in the wet one winter.

Hit the back of a trailer at the Hobsoville Air Base gate, blinded by the sun, on the cb400t.

on the CB650 custom in a period of 12 months.Got hit by a car in Nelson while on my crissy holidays, came off in cow shit on the Mapua corner a few days later, felll off the road on the Napier Taupo on with a vastly overtired rear, just sat up watching it bouncing down the road laughing my tits off. Not injured that time either, bike needed a bit of attention though.

Non on th gsx750ez-mates kept falling of the road though-good cickle that was wished I'd kept it.

Non on the CX500, quite an underated cycle by many, but it stopped for no reason in the middle of nowhere often, i think it ended up being rust fromthe tank in the accelerator pump. Met a couple from south africa in Bulls doing a tour of NZ with the same prob and sorted it out at my flat garage at OH.

Hit by a car side on, doing around 40-45 kmh, thank goodness, in Wiapuk on the Integra with 80kms up, broken tib and fib,not too much damage to the bike funnily enough-try putting your sideside down in a situation like that. Had a few beers one night and decided I was going to ride up to Auckland from Ohakea and fell in another ditch before Taihape, promply sobered up, push it out and rode back to OH with no real damage apart from my pride. It was dark, wet, i was pissed, fell off the road go figure.

Cb550s been in far too many backroad ditches to remember. Keeps coming back for more. :ride:

Non on the gasaxe 750ex YET touch wood.

I think thats it.

Motu

8th January 2005, 12:38

I've lived a life that's full.
I've traveled each and ev'ry highway;
And more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

Regrets, I've had a few;
But then again, too few to mention.
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption.

I planned each charted course;
Each careful step along the byway,
But more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew.
But through it all, when there was doubt,
I ate it up and spit it out.
I faced it all and I stood tall;
And did it my way.

I've loved, I've laughed and cried.
I've had my fill; my share of losing.
And now, as tears subside,
I find it all so amusing.

erik

8th January 2005, 12:43

Twice, and I've been riding for about a year. The first time was on the way to my restricted licence test, going around a tight roundabout in the early morning. I leaned over a bit too enthusiastically resulting in the peg digging in and the rear wheel losing grip. It was at less than 20km/h and the only damage was the right mirror broke out of the thread, but there was just enough thread left for me to screw it back in and go and pass my restricted test. Didn't tell the testing officer I'd binned on the way there though ;).

The other time was at considerably higher speed on SH22, I was way at the back of the group and rode into a ditch before falling off the bike and tumbling into a creek.

Magua

8th January 2005, 12:57

I've crashed twice, one at the roundabout at the end of Kaipatiki outside my school in 3/4 pants. I lowsided in gravel at work at 10kph, I'm not counting that though as it wasn't onroad, though it fucked my bike over.

NordieBoy

8th January 2005, 13:05

1985: Highside on wet slick tar on Yammy QT50 - No damage to me or bike.
1990: Up the back of a van that suddenly hit the brakes at 20 kph on SR185 - Sprained wrist.
2002: Hit from behind whilst stationary at the lights on the Nordie - Bike written off - Sore little finger on right hand.

loosebruce

8th January 2005, 13:50

Its all fun n games till you break both your hands :mellow:
I've had more than a few destroyed 3 bikes, never broke any bones until now but oh well had my reflection time, now to heal up and ride again asap.

bane

8th January 2005, 15:53

Hopefully dropping the bike in driveway - trying to maneuver the bike whilst standing beside it - doesnt count :crazy:
...three times!... :brick:

The previous owners one piece of advice was, "its heavier than you think - always sit on the bike when trying to maneuver it"

Two lessions:
1. dont ignore good advice
2. dont be a dumbfxxk slow learner

R6_kid

8th January 2005, 16:28

had a few close calls resulting in heavy braking and major tank slap...

one bin which im still paying off - my bike was fine but everything it hit got nailed.

and i dont know if it counts, but i fell off in the driveway into the ditch besides the house - too quick approach, too narrow gap, no where to put my foot, landed with bike on top of me. Dad had a mental and my pride was hurt but :whocares:

I am Milky

8th January 2005, 16:32

I've crashed twice if you count the one first time i took mine out and when me back tire popped when i was full throttle round a corner on my scooter :scooter: but I ain't guna deny that they count coz a crash is a crash unless it involves another vechicle :shit: (most likely a car, in which case not many people would be able to write after a crash :weep: ) I know a workmate of mine did that on the same kinda bike as mine :eek: but I aint worried: driver error nothing wrong with the bike. :sweatdrop but I riden while drunk :puke: n never crashed not adviseable though bad feelings :crazy: !!! n the cops :Police: ain't to appreciative of things like that. :Playnice:
And thats my two cents or five seeing that that is the smallest currency in coins in New Zealand :)

Coyote

8th January 2005, 16:38

Haven't crashed out on the road (yet). The CBR is too slow :p
Crashed plenty of times off road and a few times in motard

zooter

8th January 2005, 16:44

Having just got my licence I failed to look to where I wanted to be and consequently went where I was afraid I was going to end up, in the gravel on the left side, which I could still have ridden out of if I had stayed off the front brake :doh: a firsthand learning experience and only road crash in my couple of years on bikes,
(dropped it a couple of other times though :doh: :doh: )

Please also vote in my poll for the illumination of the pommie dude with the new 1200 Bandit as his 1st ever bike. They can go on an accellerated weekend (or three?) course to go directly to full bike licence ovr there.

rG-150

8th January 2005, 16:59

Only once in my total of 6weeks legal riding...going about 50ish around a right...understeered and used the brakes :nono: and i was looking aT the ditch an the side of the road so that was were i ended up :whistle: but no real damage :niceone:

I am Milky

8th January 2005, 17:10

Just something i thought id whip up just for the sake of it

Jackrat

8th January 2005, 18:15

To many to count but only really hurt myself a couple of times.
The first three bikes I ever rode I came off in the first few minites.
Then for a while I had an unhealthy attraction to ditchs.
Ran up the arse of a car in hamilton while watching the girls one friday night.
Hit a sheep on Hwy22.
Hit a coconut in a toyota in Manurewa.
My last five road bikes I havn't even dropped in the driveway.
When I get another dirt bike I plan on dropping it heaps.

SpankMe

8th January 2005, 18:42

The SV thou has been on its side twice. Both of them caused by blind cage drivers. But if we're talking about all the bikes I've owned, I don't have enough fingers and toes to count up the number of times I've hit the tarmac.

Extend-a-slide

8th January 2005, 18:51

How many crashes have you had in one day?

mattt

9th January 2005, 07:52

Never, although I think I deserve a few :no:

Biff

9th January 2005, 08:38

One road crash back in 1989. I was riding along a dual carriage way when some cage idiot changed lane suddenly and hit me off. I hit the central barrier and did a triple back somersault with pike into oncoming traffic. An alert oncoming cage driver screeched to a halt and the woman driver in charge of the car that nearly finished me off burst into tears thinking I was dead. Surprisingly enough I'm not. The only damage to me being a dent to my pride and a strange, small circular bruise far too high up my inner thigh for comfort. Oh and my KTX 125 was a write off as was my life saving helmet.

The :ar15: wanker that hit me apparently slowed down momentarily then took off. Police tracked him down thanks to roadside cameras and several witnesses. He got an 18 month suspended jail sentence and I got heaps of cash from him for his fukwitedness.

avgas

9th January 2005, 08:54

:ride: Hundreds of crashes come to mind, but these have been the most potent.

Took a 45K corner, at 120K in the RG - when the powervalves kicked in and it lifted the front, not only sliding it down the road, but off a 6 ft bank and through a farmers fence.

Hit diesel in town on the GB, felt the back sliding out - so had just enough time to lift my misses off the back of the bike as i went down with the ship. :thud:

and the doozey, riding, minding my own buisness in the bus lane (about 35kph),
when some bright spark turning right didnt see me and booted it into my right hand side, Tboning me with his car.

oh and about 5 times highsiding with a disc lock on the front

magnum

9th January 2005, 12:27

twice,same bike xr250,late 80s.roundabout on new rear tyre,eer.fast round a corner,pedestrion went stop,go,stop in the middle and i ran her over,oops. :msn-wink:

Blakamin

9th January 2005, 12:46

Blind cage driver doing u-turn + wet tram tracks (in melbourne) = z900 on ground with angry rider throwing helmet at the door that the bike didnt hit.... :ar15:

**R1**

9th January 2005, 13:21

HEAPS

had a bad highside on a rgv(not a good first bike) on the way to Akoroa doing around 180kph thought it would be cool to pass a mate on the inside on a 85k corner, last thing i remember seeing was the headlight upside down, broke a wrist, shoulder, ankle, and 2 ribs and had to be cut free of a barbd wire fence...ALLBAD. had a few more since then but nuthin to bad. The most shameful was doing a 3rd gear wheelie on my ZXR750 past a boy racer in a 50k zone saw a copper up the road and put the front down at the same time as grabbing a whole lot of front brake, that was a cool display of sparks, even the copper felt sory for my studitity :thud: and sent me walking home without a ticket :2thumbsup

Coyote

9th January 2005, 14:25

riffer

9th January 2005, 19:11

My GP125 got wiped out when I swerved to avoid a drunk driver in a Holden Ute and rode the footpath into a powerpole.

Ouch. Lucky GP125's don't go too fast. Still, four weeks off work and my neck sticks and I have to twist it until it frees with a great 'crack' noise on a daily basis. Lots of bruises, a couple of bust ribs. Oh, and photophobia and migranes for a couple of years after.

Second one, about a year later - a highside in the middle of winter going around the old Lower Hutt roundabout at 8.00 in the morning and my pillion decides to turn and wave to this girl he knows just as I twist the throttle. Both of us thrown over the handlebars at around 60 km/hr. Bike slides down the road. Its still going when we run over to it. No damage to rider and pillion, no damage to bike. Tough bike that CB350.

Third one, you all know that one. Lanesplitting with no regard to idiot cagers in rush hour traffic at 80km/hr. Cagers doing about 50. See a gap and fly into it, then an SUV with boat trailer pull in front of me. I swerve into the lane he came from, he sees me and swerves back into the lane (right in front of me), I attempt to turn and brake at the same time. Not a good idea. Bike hits the road, then the bike trailer. Once free from under the bike I fly a bit then land on head. Luckily no lasting damage. Just pain for a week or so after.

Bike costs $1100 in parts to fix. Six weeks to get parts.

JohnBoy

9th January 2005, 20:33

i was a bit of a slow learner when i started on bikes as i was a late convert. didnt start riding untill i was 17, and i wasnt a natural. :doctor:

Holy Roller

9th January 2005, 20:44

I think that there needed to be other options, but I suppose that after 3 one is an old hand at it. Any way I've been forbidden to crash again it gets too expensive and takes heaps longer to recover. Not to mention old injuries playing up from time to time can take the fun out of a ride. :crazy:

bluninja

9th January 2005, 21:43

Just once 9/10/2001...the day after my birthday....Brand new RSVR 14 hours out of the showroom. Overtook a car and struck a tractor turning out onto the road where I was. Written off RSVR, leathers, helmet, boots....multiple severe heamatoma on all limbs.

Ghost Lemur

9th January 2005, 22:31

Draco

10th January 2005, 08:12

i was a late convert. didnt start riding untill i was 17
Jeez that must make me a geriatric convert learning to ride at 30!

Sniper

10th January 2005, 08:17

How many crashes have you had in one day?

Umm about 3, 2 of them were from shock of crashing the first one :o :o

Jantar

14th January 2005, 01:10

The following are listed with respect of the first time I went solo on a motorbike and do not include accidents while in any form of competition riding.

At 4 weeks, Head on with a car while avoiding a truck being driven on the wrong side of the road.

At 3 months, Side swiped a post.

At 6 months, Skidded on a white line in the wet.

At 11 months, lost it on a gravel road and over a bank.

At 20 months, Was hit side on by a taxi. (hospital trip)

At 42 months, Lost control on a badly rutted, icy gravel road.

At 6 years, High sided when a rear wheel collapsed on an icy road. (Hospital again)

At 11 years, Skidded and low sided on a diesel spill at high speed. No damage or injury.

I've now been riding for 34 years with no road accidents for the past 23 years.

bluninja

14th January 2005, 01:34

OUCH. So the RSVR you have now was the replacement?

Yup, left my crutches in the showroom so I could ride it to Bristol (from Bournemouth) and get the export tax docs done. Funny....but at the same mileage as the last crash I came round a bend in the dark and saw the flashing light atop a tractor.....but I avoided that one. First bike was named Sophia, after Sophia Loren and this one is named Gina, after Gina Lollabrigida. Better not crash as I don't know any more famous beautiful italian actresses.

Jantar

14th January 2005, 01:41

...First bike was named Sophia, after Sophia Loren and this one is named Gina, after Gina Lollabrigida. Better not crash as I don't know any more famous beautiful italian actresses...

Now you ARE showing your age. I used to drool over Gina when I was a teenager. :innocent:

RiderInBlack

14th January 2005, 05:47

First bike was named Sophia, after Sophia Loren and this one is named Gina, after Gina Lollabrigida. Better not crash as I don't know any more famous beautiful italian actresses.Are Sophia Loren:love: :sweatdrop Now she was one seriously Hot Babe:whistle: (wolk whistles).

Fryin Finn

14th January 2005, 07:36

My first crash was in front of the cop doing my test - bit of loose gravel on seal undid me. Still got my license.
My next road crash was at 100kph into a parked car on the other side of the road. I ran away from that one - didn't want to get caught but got done the next day when picking bike up.
Since then a few slideoffs - flat tyre, hooning in the wet with knobblies etc. All at relatively slow speed - still managed to write off my TRX though.
Hundreds of bins off road.

Dodgyiti

14th January 2005, 09:14

It was once in 20 years, apart from Christmas day just gone :angry2:
Another mean one too, how you lot seem to mostly walk away is just plain luck.
And it had to happen on the Guzzi :crybaby:

vifferman

14th January 2005, 09:35

It was once in 20 years, apart from Christmas day just gone :angry2:
Another mean one too, how you lot seem to mostly walk away is just plain luck.
And it had to happen on the Guzzi :crybaby:
Yeah, I crashed on Christmas day once too. That was hmmm... back in 1975? Got roundly abused by the A&E staff at the hospital too for being so thoughtless...:o
Wasn't too badly hurt - 9 stitches in right knee, some other cuts, and grazes. Amazing, considering I T-boned a car at about 65km/h, and somersaulted over the roof of it. Put a big dent in the side of the car, and totally trashed the bike - the front wheel ended up beside the engine, the frame bent so much the top mount was ripped out of the rocker cover, front end munted all to hell, etc.

TonyB

14th January 2005, 10:09

Three in total.
First one was on my first big ride on my first bike- RZ250. Fell off in a major oil spill on the Lewis Pass "I 'll just ride over that patch of shiny tar. Hmm, the bikes leaning a bit much... HEY, WHERE DID THE BIKE GO?!... " Found myself sliding on my hands and knees with my face planted on the road. Thank god for full face lids. Rolled myself onto my back and watched as the bike slid on one side, then flipped over onto the other side, then stopped when a nice big bolder hit the tank. EEEeexcellent.

Second one was on an icy roundabout on the FZ400R that I'd bought the day before. The hilarious thing was that I was going into town to pick up a film so I could get a photo of it "before I fall off"

Third one was getting T-boned by an HQ Holden that ran a red light while I was turning right on my GPX750R. Let me tell you, it's not a nice experience to hear a horn, look left, and see a big red HQ Holden about to plow over you! Prolly lucky to survive that one. The Kwaka was totaled. Nearly wrote off the Holden too.

**R1**

14th January 2005, 10:29

Yeah, I crashed on Christmas day once too. That was hmmm... back in 1975? Got roundly abused by the A&E staff at the hospital too for being so thoughtless...:o
Wasn't too badly hurt - 9 stitches in right knee, some other cuts, and grazes. Amazing, considering I T-boned a car at about 65km/h, and somersaulted over the roof of it. Put a big dent in the side of the car, and totally trashed the bike - the front wheel ended up beside the engine, the frame bent so much the top mount was ripped out of the rocker cover, front end munted all to hell, etc.
My mate fell off on christmas day just gone, it was all bad, i went over to say merry xmas and all that shite, when he suggests we go for a nana ride to little river(christchurch) so off we went jeans and jackets(normaly always wear full leatehrs on a ride) then on the second 65k bend we come to i look in my mirror to see him disappear in2 the side of an oncomming car :Oops: :doctor: :shit: to be quite honest i thought he was dead...i didnt even want to turn and go back...but as it turned out he was still kiking...well one leg was anyway :pinch: , so he spent a week in hospital with a broken leg, arm, finger, hand, elbow, and a whole bunch of stitches...and is now at home on the mend

TonyB

14th January 2005, 10:48

My mate fell off on christmas day just gone, it was all bad, i went over to say merry xmas and all that shite, when he suggests we go for a nana ride to little river(christchurch) so off we went jeans and jackets(normaly always wear full leatehrs on a ride) then on the second 65k bend we come to i look in my mirror to see him disappear in2 the side of an oncomming car :Oops: :doctor: :shit: to be quite honest i thought he was dead...i didnt even want to turn and go back...but as it turned out he was still kiking...well one leg was anyway :pinch: , so he spent a week in hospital with a broken leg, arm, finger, hand, elbow, and a whole bunch of stitches...and is now at home on the mend
Is that 65k corner the left hander just after Tai Tapu going towards Akaroa- the one that leads onto a fairly long straight? If it is, I reckon that one has the wrong posted speed on it. On the way home from doing the Arthurs/ Haast loop I thought I'd get some more corners in by going home through Gebbies Pass. I got to that corner and after having ridden 1100+ k's on unfamiliar roads I thought I could just cruise around at the same speed as I'd taken all of the other 65k corners. Didn't work too well. Made it round OK, but based on a few hundered other corners, I'd say that one should be posted as a 55. Hope your mates OK.

**R1**

14th January 2005, 11:49

Is that 65k corner the left hander just after Tai Tapu going towards Akaroa- the one that leads onto a fairly long straight? If it is, I reckon that one has the wrong posted speed on it. On the way home from doing the Arthurs/ Haast loop I thought I'd get some more corners in by going home through Gebbies Pass. I got to that corner and after having ridden 1100+ k's on unfamiliar roads I thought I could just cruise around at the same speed as I'd taken all of the other 65k corners. Didn't work too well. Made it round OK, but based on a few hundered other corners, I'd say that one should be posted as a 55. Hope your mates OK.
Yup thats the corner....not sure about the speed i took it at 150ish...but then i ride to akoroa 2 or 3 times a week and no the lines and dodgy corners, plus he had only had the bike for 3 weeks and hasnt done many trips to akoroa

Will

1st February 2005, 06:01

:2thumbsup
Jeez that must make me a geriatric convert learning to ride at 30!

:2thumbsup No don't you believe that!

Bikers are young at heart ALL THE TIME and I have seen many learning even later in life :banana:

Sniper

1st February 2005, 06:22

Had a major one when my front mud gaurd fell off into my wheel on the CG125
Had a fall off in gravel on the CG125

Had a moron in a BMW come through a give way and collect me on my RGR.

All in all, I have had a couple of accidents

Midnight 82

2nd February 2005, 08:08

:disapint: Had a fall few years ago now on a dirt road. Only doing 18ks hit a bit of clay and it crossed up and thru me over the bars bike landed on top of me and broke all the ribs on my right side. Bugger 18ks can you believe it pissed me off. Amazing how much damage one can do at so little speed :doh: :yes:

SPman

2nd February 2005, 17:03

Every bike - low speed - once each! At least Im not prejudiced in abusing my steads!

RiderInBlack

2nd February 2005, 17:26

When did you have you sex change SPman (or should that be SPwoman now)?

Ranzer

2nd February 2005, 17:42

Three that I recall...

First one was the day after I bought my bike, I must've had less than 50km under the belt total and thought I'd be clever and go for a blat along Scenic Drive. Took a downhill right hand corner too wide and gravel on the side of the road (and me grabbing the front brakes like the idiot n00b I was (*cough* am?)) put my bike out of action for 2 weeks (had to get the bracket that the right footpeg attaches to welded and a couple other minor fixes). Very depressing, but at least I was mostly unhurt... although after 2 years my right shoulder still doesn't feel quite right.

The other two were both locking up the front wheel and sliding under at fairly low speed trying to stop too quickly, once coming up to a roundabout too fast and once trying to stop behind my brother in front of a one lane bridge... I really need to learn how to brake properly. :disapint:

Oh, and I erm... fell over on my bike (stationary) while trying to turn around on a hill when I took it for a test ride :o but I'm not counting that cause I was on the footpath when it happened... :doh:

Rainbow Wizard

2nd February 2005, 18:31

I really need to learn how to brake properly.
I got that prob too somewhat amd I'm actively doing something about it before it does ME!!!

phantom

30th May 2005, 10:32

dropped the GB once a couple of months ago while doing a U turn in rain on a country road and the front wheel ended up in the wet grass, only doing about 5k so that doesn't count. when I was a teenager on my CB125 it was just about a weekly occurence, including into the back of a parked bus and once on a Friday night outside the local bike shop