NO MORE FUCKING CRASHING

[John]

ha!
Legend in me own lunchbox, mate.
'If there is anything bigger then my ego around i want it caught and shot immediately.'

Now that’s modesty for ya.

[Motu]

ADVrider has a Face Plant forum for the crash reports - keeps them seperate from the rest of the site...I never go there,I don't read about crashes....I keep negatives out of my brain.

[John]

ADVrider has a Face Plant forum for the crash reports - keeps them seperate from the rest of the site...I never go there,I don't read about crashes....I keep negatives out of my brain.

I like where your going with that?..

[Two Smoker]

Im going to keep posting my crashes.... and there are MANY more to come...

Also some crashes are funny (a very select few) such as Dangerous looping it... and me highsiding a CT110... all very slow, and while being dickheads only hurting ourselves...

[John]

I think that going on what motu said that it maybe a real good idea for a 'crash forum' where one could bitch and moan in there own little forum save filling up 'general biker ravings', becuase in doing that learners can look at how a majority of incidents happened and learn (??) from them by example to an extent?..

Just an idea, as for those CT's god they are more fun than crashing a CBRR they are just so rugged and fun to try crash/jump...

[R6_kid:Me]

i support the idea of a 'crash' forum. Would definitely help to keep ppl like myself contained and not ranting as i have been

who do we go to about this? SpankMe?

[Big Dave]

i support the idea of a 'crash' forum.

I'll second that. I don't come in here to 'share pain' - yet i respect the need for folks to vent.

[Pixie]

Big difference to what you are all implying, you cant honestly say that you can laugh about hitting a car head on, sure you can be light hearted about it - but you can 'laugh' that’s just really playing with fate, I also know that humour helps our mind send out endorphins in our brain? or a similar chemical I cant be sure I know I heard similar somewhere that effects the operation and memory of the brain don’t know how cock and ball it is but yea, thinking about a crash is a much better idea, that way not only your subconscious will remember the incident but your active mind will also there by providing you with a two fold protection against further incident>>

Endocannabinoids relieve the stress.Adrenaline reinforces the learning/memory process,endophins relieve the pain.
The subconscious mind processes virtually all sensory inputs but the conscious mind may or may not retain it as a conscious memory.
The last thing I can remember of my recent collision was thinking "This will hurt",as it happened it didn't but I still have a one second memory lapse ,probably due to sensory overload.

[John]

Endocannabinoids

Creative - I have the marketing covered .. You can work R&D .. still positions open.

[loosebruce]

No promises, but yee gods my annual crash cash fund is getting a bit stretched already so i'd better keep it upright for a while yet.

[250learna]

if you crash, for you its a big thing, you are glad to be alive and that your bike is not too damaged, or you are fucked up in a hospital and your bike is munched, in either case to you this is a big event.
Would you go home, put the bike in the garage put your gares away and not tell your partner or parents that anything happened? would you not tell your friends that you had an accident?
I know i would, I might not be proud of it, it might be my fault or it might not be but I would choose to share this with some people in my life. And unfortinutly for you guys, you fall into that group.
I dont support the, cool i just had an accident attitude that i had a chance to experiance from a good friend of mine a week or so ago, because lets face it, if you think crashing is cool your a fucken idiot. ... as i told my friend.
I dont like it, i dont look forward to it, i take what i can from the experiance and then i share it with you lot, than you guys tell me what you know and think, if you dont like that let me know because then this is obviously not the forum i thought it was.

[MSTRS:Me]

"its only funny til someone (actually) gets hurt"

Most of us don't deal very well with tragedy & often use humour as a way of not thinking about what happened/could have. We all know that bikes are at the top of the list for danger and, idiots aside, we normally do all we can to reduce the risk to ourselves. When it does go bad, human nature tries to ensure that we make light of it in some fashion. Only the idiots out there don't learn from their experience.
Your quote continues on to say "and then it's hilarious"

[vifferman]

Look at some of the more 'older' riders on here, some of them are up to 20-40yrs of riding with less than 3 crash's in the whole time... most of which happened a lot further down the line...

I had a few crashes in my first two years of riding, nothing serious, until I totalled my first bike T-boning a car that didn't give way. Luckily, it was just cuts'n'bruises.
No incidents at all on my second through fourth bikes (I'd learned some stuff, some of it from lots of off-road riding). That changed when I came to D'Auckland, when I nearly got squished by a bus, the first day commuting by bike. I had four crashes on my fifth bike, none of which were "my fault", but all of which were avoidable. One crash on #6, which was my fault, very stupid, and very minor.

I've never binned on the highway - all my crashes have been around town; three involved cars not seeing me, one was a pedestrian not seeing me, and one was a squashed soft-drink can that didn't see me (and I didn't see him until I'd lowsided).

[XP@]

So, let's accept the fact that people crash.
and that some of us want to learn from them.

I have already mooted that we should have a survival skills forum in here
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=12327

[FROSTY:Me]

It's the difference between the amateur and the professional. The professional doesn't take needless risks. Yes, "shit happens" but professionals minimise the opportunity for the shit. Both professionals and amateurs may crash. Only the amateur will think it's a joke. The professional will think "I stuffed up. By the Grace of my gods I'm still alive. How can I make sure I NEVER do that again"

By professionals I would guess you are refering to -motorcycle racers? Or perhaps to bike cops and couriers??
Given that you mean racers you couldn't be more wrong.
The way to win races is to explore the limits of tyre stick.of handling and of riding ability.
The point is this is done during PRACTICE and in a controlled enviroment.
Finding out 'what your bike can do' should be the same