Story of my first crash

[Timaa]

Heading down a back road in palmerston north last night bout 4am when i realise im going too fast, check my speed and look up to find i need to emergencey brake no worries so far.
Weather conditions had the road wet and slippery and my bike was in need of a new front tyre so traction wasnt great.
locked front tyre and started to lose it. re-applied brakes and lost front again by this time running out of space to brake and too fast to take the corner i begin to turn and end up laying the bike down and low siding.
It all happened very fast, bike slid a good 20-30 metres from when i lay it down and police believe it would be a write off at the moment. I havn't had a chance to inspect it yet. lots of small bits strewn everywhere across the road and bike leakn petrol in the middle of the road. i was wearing the "Qmoto viper jacket and sps gloves", steel cap sneaker boots and standard jeans. main damage is gouged knee and grazed tibia, i was walking immediatly after the crash and even tried to pick up my bike (failing miserably). Helmet had 3 heavy abrasion marks from three impacts as i was rolling along the road to start with i believe. jeans ripped to shred and skin gone with it. gloves and jacket performed very well and only small damaged area on right shoulder. sps sliders also worked very well and only damage is a sprained thumb and cant move it much.
so 5 hours in A&E and not much pain killers later and im home to bed at 930am after a mcdonalds breakfast.

lessons learnt: ATGATT, keep your bike in top maintainence including tyres and ride to the conditions.

Flaming and rude remarks will be replied to with RED rep. just posting the story for others to read.


So am now looking for a good priced SHARK RSR2 helmet in large size, will be getting new gloves from Quasi as these ones probably shouldnt be used again for crashing at least.

Big ups to Qmoto and the quality gear they provided +1 no questions asked.

Questions comments and the like, im going back to bed now! lol
Timaa

[EJK]

Have a good rest! Sounds like the jeans were like toilet papers when put into action.

Yea, take a good rest for now dude.

[Cheshire Cat]

Glad to hear you're ok!!
I came off a week or so ago...not as bad as you though!
Take care!!
I like exclamation marks hahaha!!!

[Indiana_Jones]

Well you walked away from it mate, so that's the one up.

The second bonus is that you knew what went wrong and will try to prevent it from happening again.

-Indy

[PirateJafa]

Sounds like you need to "chillax" more, mate.

Remember - it's the chillaxed riders who survive.

[howdamnhard]

Glad your okay.Hit up ol Quasi for some leather pants. Also factor in fatigue/alertness as most of us aren't to bright at 4:00am .

[Forest]

Riding in jeans at 4am in Palmerston North in winter?

You might have been mildly hypothermic. That could interfere with your co-ordination and reaction times.

[MaxB]

Glad you are O.K. If can still walk after an accident-thats a good thing.

Did the cops charge you with anything? A few threads about that recently.


I see you are a fan:
Peter- Hey Brian! I turned the stairs into a waterslide!
Brian (after Peter falls down and starts screaming): I'm not going to call an ambulance this time because if I do you won't learn anything.

[YellowDog]

I take it that it was a right hand bend. More chance of going down on those, but also more chance of surviving.

That's not a nice feeling when you realise you don't have enough braking available to you for the speed and conditions.

You must have done somethings quite well as there was no Pizza all over the road (just petrol).

I know you don't want criticism but:

1. You cannot expect to get away with a poor tire tread in the wet.
2. Jeans are not adequate protection and it sounds like you were very fortunate and potentially quite skillful.
3. Steel toe sneakers - In the highly unlikely event of you coming off your bike, you need motorcycle boots to have a chance of saving your ankles, shins, and feet.

If you have learnt from this and your bravery in posting what a fortunate plonker you have been (an accident waiting to happen), then thank you very much for the great experience others on here can learn from.

Hope you heal quickly and will be back riding, in less vulnerable to death attire, asap.

It sounds like it will be quite uncomfortable for a couple of weeks.

Take it easy.

[dogsnbikes]

Glad you still here Tim and good too see lessons learn't and you will put them into practice when your mobile again

Get well not long till summmer now

[Mom]

You are going to be sore for a little while. Thank goodness the damage was not more. Sounds to me you learned a couple of valuable lessons and lived to tell us about it. Make sure you take them on board eh.

Hope insurance sorts your bike quickly.

[discotex]

Good to hear you're no hurt too bad Timaa. Could have been much worse for your legs eh? Guess you've already figured out the lessons to be learned here.

How about showing us some pics of the damage?

3. Steel toe sneakers - In the highly unlikely event of you coming off your bike, you need motorcycle boots to have a chance of saving your ankles, shins, and feet.

Last thing I'd want to be wearing is steel toes. If they sheer off they'd probably take your toes with them.

Get some cheap leather 10 ups at a bare minimum.

[Laxi]

farrk there was a time when KBers wanted to crucify you for locking up your back brake even the slightest bit, there are soooo many lessons to learn here, awsome that you're ok

[sinfull]

I'm old, i'm limping around the house today (usuall occurrance) and no i haven't crashed lately, been a good twenty years since my last crash, in jeans, where i gouged my knee and tore it up !
Nowdays i cant ride without good knee armour (warmth) or i cant walk for the next two days !
Shame to hear man, is a bit of it going on in the last few weeks !
Shout yaself some Quasi trou while ya wait for some more wheels, i can vouch for em too ! Won't go out without em !

[Quasievil]

Shit Bro sorry to hear that, not good, glad youre mostly okay dude.
If you want some pants I will help I have some stuff on clearance as well as some samples I can flick for F all.

take it easy out there bro