Will You Crash Your Motorcycle?

**SARGE** · 12th August 2005, 13:08

Originally Posted by Waylander

with all the crap on the roads today from sand or loose dirt to gravel and moronic cagers the odds of a wreck happening are quite good

what hacks me off totally is the overabundance of Diesel Fuel on the @#$% CORNERS!!!.. cant these twats tighten the @#$ gascaps??.. makes me want to drop a match on the rainbow and follow the flames to the truck.. and then while the truckie is trying to douse the flames.. kick him in the cunt

**Smorg** · 12th August 2005, 14:13

Remind me not to mess with you sarge

3 times ive come off so far

1. Side swiped by a silver volvo in takapuna (didnt stop keep an eye out for a silver volvo with yellow paint streaks down it side)

2. Cow shit on a corner out riverhead

3. Perving at chicks in mission bay not watching traffic

My bike's at Reflections after number 3!

**oldrider** · 12th August 2005, 15:48

In answer to your poll, I have been riding motorcycles for 51yrs, does that make me a safe rider? if so what are the secrets? None, its just luck.
In that time I have had two good "road" crashes. The first when I was about 17/18yrs old. I hit a pile driving truck side on (off side cab door) and nearly cut it in half. There were 4 people inside. They received only minor injuries. We did not have all the flash gear available today, no crash hat, leathers gloves etc, just jeans work boots and an old air force surplus flying jacket. My old BSA 500ccB33 single was completely wrecked. I received head injuries in front and back and cut off my right ear. I had a gallon tin of red roof paint on the tank stand, that did not help the situation. It was at night (the truck had no lights on) I landed unconscious in the red paint and everyone thought it was blood! what a panic, a lady fainted and got taken to the hospital with me in the ambulance. The next day a compulsory stop was put up on the corner and I was charged for failing to stop ( but that's another story). The accident really was my fault (this is the first time I have ever said that) because I was showing off to a group of girls on the main street, racking up through the gears making as much noise as possible dragging my muffler shooting up Nelson street Petone with all the gas I could get out of it when the lights of the world switched off, BANG.

The next one was on the road to Cape Reinga light house (about 1993)when we (my wife and I ) canned off just because I refused to be intimidated by the road conditions at the time and was going too fast where I shouldn't have been going at all on that bike, in those conditions, CRASH. Honda ST1100 $8000:00 worth of damage and pride out the window.

Riding safely over a long time is just luck. You try your best but if you drop your guard or get too cocky the odds are stacked against you. That's the fun of it. As we used to say before birth control, do what the girls do and "risk it."

If I could claim a dollar for every inch of skin I've lost on gravel and off road I would be a millionaire, but does that make for a good safe rider, NO. The older you get the worse you get. The kids I see riding around today are bloody fantastic they leave us oldies for, well dead I suppose. Cheers John.

**Pancakes** · 12th August 2005, 15:49

No off's but there is crazy crap all over the place. Half of Brighams Creek Rd has chunks and pats of clay all over. It comes from one drive leading away from a ploughed paddock and goes to an earthworks place, I recon the "boy racer" laws would cover this "dropping material on the road that causes loss of traction" or whatever it is. They wouldn't be hard to find either.

**Smorg** · 12th August 2005, 15:54

Would be interesting to see how many blokes had stacked showing off or perving at the front bums (no offense at all intended)

**John** · 12th August 2005, 16:13

Originally Posted by Smorgen

Would be interesting to see how many blokes had stacked showing off or perving at the front bums (no offense at all intended)

nope your the only one....

**Dadpole** · 12th August 2005, 16:27

Originally Posted by Smorgen

Would be interesting to see how many blokes had stacked showing off or perving at the front bums (no offense at all intended)

Guilty as charged your honour x 2

**Smorg** · 12th August 2005, 16:28

Sweet im not the only one

**Lou Girardin** · 12th August 2005, 16:46

Originally Posted by SARGE

what hacks me off totally is the overabundance of Diesel Fuel on the @#$% CORNERS!!!.. cant these twats tighten the @#$ gascaps??.. makes me want to drop a match on the rainbow and follow the flames to the truck.. and then while the truckie is trying to douse the flames.. kick him in the cunt

Like the diesel slick right along Newton Rd and down Khyber pass this morning?
They should find the prick and make him lick it up.

**Smorg** · 12th August 2005, 16:49

Originally Posted by Lou Girardin

Like the diesel slick right along Newton Rd and down Khyber pass this morning?
They should find the prick and make him lick it up.

HAHA or snort it like a real man

**Gremlin** · 12th August 2005, 18:36

I hoped I wouldn't ever, then I had 2 in 3 days...

both my fault, nobody else involved, minimal damage... just couldn't seem to leave the corners behind

**HCW** · 13th August 2005, 17:30

Have crashed due to perving, showing off, going far to fast and drunkiness, Whats next?

**mstriumph** · 14th August 2005, 01:46

OK - once in the dirt when i was arsing around on a strange bike and it cost me 3 ribs and the skin off my lower face - was totally my fault, but doesn't count here because it was dirt

once in south africa when a cage driver turned left from the centre of the road whilst indicating right .... luckily i had friends with me to show him the error of his ways - cost = a rib and some skin [me] various abrasions and a black eye [him]

once in england when i put a family friends bike thru the veggie garden and headfirst into a brick wall - i was seven at the time - cost = my pride [and the veggies didn't fare too well, neither]

once in central perth west australia -got cleaned up by a van speeding illegally in reverse up a one way street i was turning into - cost = torn clothes, smashed ankle and footpeg thru lower leg

once in benoni south africa when a car came out of an uncontrolled intersection in the rain without stopping - cost = i had to travel home on the bus with my coat tied round my middle to cover the fact that the arse was torn totally out of my jeans

again in south africa when a pedestrian [whom i had OBSERVED looking both ways for traffic from the kerb] walked straight into my front wheel, thereby stalling it and causing me to describe a graceful arc over the handlebars, landing in the path of oncoming traffic with a dislocated knee. now - when i recovered conciousness two days later, my knee was back where it should be ---

police say that they had onlooker statements that it got that way thru my approaching the pedestrian concerned [who was apparantly sitting on the curb moaning and holding his leg], asking him sweetly which leg had been hurt ............ then kicking the sh3t out of it with MY injured leg. i can't remember a thing about any of it personally except the bike's front forks had been twisted out of alignment so the bastard obviously deserved watever he got.

that's about it ...... would be interested to hear everyone else's war stories?