Crashed bikes

**woody68** · 21st March 2005, 20:19

Over the years I've had two brand new bikes in 1986 a VF400F crashed 3 months old and in 1990 a VF700 Magna crashed 12 days old.

Has anyone else crashed new bikes?

On the VF400 going hard over the Whangamata hills I had a head on with a campa van got two scratchs , bike totaled.

On the VF700 gf on the back hit a dog broke five bones in my left hand , bike not to bad.

Has anyone else crashed new bikes?

**erik** · 21st March 2005, 20:22

I've never ridden a new bike, let alone crashed one

Was your girlfriend hurt when you hit the dog?

**StoneChucker** · 21st March 2005, 20:27

You'd have to be pretty dumb to crash a new bike...

**Two Smoker** · 21st March 2005, 20:32

2005 GSX-R600 crashed within 4 weeks.... 10 grand damage...

But i think loosebruce takes the cake with him crashing a brand new GSXR600 K2 with in 4 weeks too...

**woody68** · 21st March 2005, 20:38

Gf no scratchs.

Don't buy new bikes seems a good idea now never crashed a secondhand one and I've had heaps.

Dumb you say I've herd guys say I'll never crash. Next time you see them there with out bike. :spudwhat:

Funny how thing work a.

**Krusti** · 21st March 2005, 20:39

Originally Posted by StoneChucker

You'd have to be pretty dumb to crash a new bike...

A journalist for Fast Bikes Mag destroyed a readers 40,000 pound GSXR1000 special while test riding it. Now wouldn't that rot ya undies !

**crashe** · 21st March 2005, 20:43

Nope not at all.

**woody68** · 21st March 2005, 20:44

Hell that would f#*k you off.

**Motu** · 21st March 2005, 21:49

I smacked up my 1972 CT2 in a bike to bike off road less than a week old,bent bars and broken levers,when it was 3 weeks old with 1000miles on it I ripped open the side of a Trekka with it,bent the frame and nearly everything else,damge was nearly half the value of the bike.

**James Deuce** · 21st March 2005, 21:51

Originally Posted by woody68

Dumb you say I've herd (sic) guys say I'll never crash. Next time you see them there with out bike. :spudwhat:

It was a pisstake. There is some "history" there.

This is exactly why I hate the Internet, and why can't I get my medication when I need it?

Old Hobgoblin is a nice Ale.

**Kwaka-Kid** · 21st March 2005, 21:59

Im with erik,

Dont think i personally will ever own a bike from brand new. cant afford it. cant afford to loose it, cant afford the rate of its devalueing(sp?).

**Lias** · 22nd March 2005, 09:26

I wrote off my shiny new GN250 at the end of last year.. it was a day short
of being two months old.

Bastard cagers :-(

**vifferman** · 22nd March 2005, 09:41

I've never ever ever even owned a new vehicle. Even my pushbikes were secondhand.

But I have wrecked two bikes, and I don't feel proud of that, even if neither accident was legally my fault...

**Wolf** · 22nd March 2005, 10:51

Originally Posted by Krusti

A journalist for Fast Bikes Mag destroyed a readers 40,000 pound GSXR1000 special while test riding it. Now wouldn't that rot ya undies !

Dunno 'bout rotting my undies, but I'd certainly cancel my subscription to the mag! Not that I'd trust a culture vulture to ride my bike.

Poor bastard who owned the bike. Gotta feel for him/her.