Death, taxes and crashes

[red675]

It's with some foreboding I go to work today - after the 3 day weekend there'll be rash of crash claims to tackle - some time back I read an article in BIKE about the World's most stupid crashes, but they also had one story about a man who hadn't fallen off in 46 years ... is there anyone out there who can make a similar claim ?

[vgcspares]

6 months (oops) .....

[DarkLord]

Erm...10 months? :o

A friend of mine has been riding for 17 years I think and has never come off. Mind you, I'm not sure how hard he rides but still, 17 years is a good record.

[Insanity_rules]

Err nearly a year...

[R6_kid]

I've never fallen off, I always seem to fly.

[GSXR Trace]

i use to be proud of my 6 years without crashing, and then it happened 4 weeks ago... and a van took it upon its self to ensure it was written off
so only 2 weeks riding for me :pinch:

[vifferman]

I wrote off my first bike, and was incident-free on subsequent bikes, until I moved to D'Auckland, and started communtering.
On a pre-crashed bike.
I think it had a taste for lying down in the middle of the road for a rest.
Ruined a nearly 25-year accident free run of sweetness.

[dpex]

Apart from on the track, and that doesn't count, I haven't been involved in a crash in 41 years and gazillions of miles of road-use.

I got my bike licence from the Glenfield MOT on November 13th, I think, 1967. Back on those days there were no rules about protective gear, so I used to ride, in high summer, in shorts only. No shoes, nothing, on a 350 single, Royal Enfield.

Being a stupid youth I refused to wear my much need glasses. Didn't see the '55 Vauxhall till I started eating some of the panel work. That hurt. Munted the bike, too.

Since then, nothing. Fingers crossed I shall maintain the record till I stop breathing. Mind you, breaking the record could also be the cause for me stopping breathing. :--(((

[Nasty]

Whats strange is it don't matter how long since a crash .. its if you have a crash that you can survive .. or if it will be one that kills you. Nothing to do with how long you been riding .. or even if you have crashed or laid a bike down before.

Might sound cynical ... but it is fact, if you survive - well done, if you don't ... its really thoughts to the family left behind.

[DarkLord]

...and started communtering.

Hehe. :) That's a good way to describe it.

[Morcs]

Depends how and where you ride.

Id be more impressed by someone not crashing in a few years from commuting in auckland, or
someone not crashing in 6 months who does a coro gp hard every weekend, than
an old fart who tootles along highways.

[Brian d marge]

if the track isn't included ...then 9 years

Stephen

[slofox]

Thirty four years between crashes.....course, twenty of those years I didn't have a bike.....

[vifferman]

Hehe. :) That's a good way to describe it.
I don't think I invented it - IIRC it's a KBism, like gargre, sprotsbike, crusier, prak, worngA, etc.
But commuting in D'Auckland is fraught with danger. When I first moved here and collected my bike, I decided, "I'll give communtering a go, and if it's not too dangerous, I'll keep the bike, otherwise I'll trade it on a couple of dirt bikes".
<_<
Nearly got squashed by a bus on my very first commute. :blink:
I think I got addicted to the excitement....

[Gremlin]

15 days!! :laugh:

but it was a minor one, with a tiny scratch as the only damage

[vgcspares]

So the Top of the Pops reads like this then (in YEARS) :

dpex 41 unbroken
Slofox 34
vifferman 25
Brian_d'marge 9 unbroken
GSXR_Trace 6

seems like the popular wisdom that bikers average 20 years between spills is a bit on the optimistic side .... or was that between MAJOR spills ?

[Ixion]

Haven't been involved in a moving crash on a public road. (car or bike) . I'm phrasing carefully here, excluding off road, driveway, traffic light kickstart down trouser leg type incidents.

Thats about 48 /49 years or so (can actually remember when I started riding on the road)

[driftn]

20 days:shutup:

[SPman]

Generally one "incident" per bike, ranging from falling off on a freshly base- coursed farm drive at 20kph (FZR750 - dented pride and bike scratches), to inexplicably riding into a bank, whilst taking minor evasive action that should have been quite straight forward (GSXR1000 -rather more dented pride and f*cked m/cycle), and most scenarios inbetween..........:crybaby:......over the course of........umm.....43 yrs.

[Anarkist]

traffic light kickstart down trouser leg type incidents

Ahahaha.. I can just imagine that. :laugh:

[slofox]

Haven't been involved in a moving crash on a public road. (car or bike) . I'm phrasing carefully here, excluding off road, driveway, traffic light kickstart down trouser leg type incidents.

Thats about 48 /49 years or so (can actually remember when I started riding on the road)

If I was to use your definition above Ixion, it is errrmmmm 41 years since the last "moving crash on a public road". The rest were on the track or in driveways - like the last bloody one.......:angry2:

[vgcspares]

I think we need to be a little stricter here - every claim I see blames the bike, or the road, or some other external agency for the prang (about 1 in 100 accepts the blame themselves) ...

so when claiming decades of crash-free riding I really think that should take account of any incidence on a public highway (especially if it cost money to fix)

[Swoop]

I think we need to be a little stricter here - every claim I see blames the bike, or the road, or some other external agency for the prang (about 1 in 100 accepts the blame themselves) ...

so when claiming decades of crash-free riding I really think that should take account of any incidence on a public highway (especially if it cost money to fix)

The unwritten KB rule on a bin, is that the incident must involve the bike travelling more than its length.
Just dropping it in your garage is a "twatism", annoying, etc, but not a bin.

[light]

I havent come off a bike since I was a kid. Though since then till aobut 10 years ago I didnt have a bike.

In the last 10 odd years I have been commuting to a from work + riding on weekends. Still havent come off touch wood.

[Brian d marge]

I think we need to be a little stricter here - every claim I see blames the bike, or the road, or some other external agency for the prang (about 1 in 100 accepts the blame themselves) ...

so when claiming decades of crash-free riding I really think that should take account of any incidence on a public highway (especially if it cost money to fix)

yup 9 years....NEVER claimed any insurance ,,,( never had any when young ,,,,:love:)

Stephen

[Bass]

I fall off the DR often.
If I don't, I'm not trying hard enough.
I have yet to damage either myself or the bike though.