Bike crash ratio E=MC^2 blah blah

[James Deuce]

I'm with Two Smoker.

[XTC]

Started riding at 15, Now 37 2 crashes, not serious ones. Only broken bones have been from off road riding. Fell off my bucket racer 6 times in 1 lap once

[Motu]

I've been riding 35 years and don't really know how many prangs I've had,they were all in the early days mainly - but we could round it out metric and say 10 - but it's possibly more than that,and that's not with all the low speed ones,I've dumped plenty of times at low speed,doing donuts and fast U turns,falling in gravel etc.Also uncoutable off road prangs - some of these were far more radical than just falling over on the road,and personaly I'd rather take out some of the road prangs and put in the dirt ones as being far more impressive.

I've had some really close calls,learned more lessons from nearly having a big one than having a small one...

[eliot-ness]

Started riding at fifteen, off twice on ice, once mud. Not even a broken fingernail. Did break a mirror though. Did few years road racing in the 60s, again without accident. Now 65 so may be pushing my luck a bit posting this.

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[Slim]

Started riding at 18, now 33. 4 crashes, all in the first 3 years of riding. Nothing since.

[festus]

Started riding at 15, 39 now, had 2 minors, and 2 serious (high speed), luckily for me I walked away from them all......

[Devil]

1 Year riding (was 23 when started), no crashes.

[XP@]

Started riding when I was 19 now 34 had 2 minor & 1 meduim crashes on the road.
Off road, I lost count after the first 100 or so...

[vifferman]

ok simple. I want to do a simple thing here.

Too simple. You'll end up with meaningless stats.

What's a 'crash'? Does that include off-road crashes? Does it include falling over while stationary? How significant an 'incident' does it have to be to be called a crash - injury vs. non-injury?

F'rinstance - I started riding at 15ish. I had numerous 'incidents' in the first year or so, of which two would count as crashes. Then I learned stuff.

I am now somewhere in the vicinity of 103. I had no crashes between the ages of 17 and four years ago, but when I started commuting in D'Auckland, I had four crashes on one bike, solely because it was jinxed and/or lazy, and because D'Auckland drivers are feckin eejits. All were other people's fault, apart from the "lowside on a squashed softdrink can while tipping in to the corner" incident. However, all were preventable. I'd un-learned stuff??

I fell off my next bike onto my head, but dunno that I'd count that as a crash, as the bike had more or less stopped moving (locked up front wheel) when that happened. There was little damage to the bike or myself. The mild concussion I got after the accident probably caused the brain fade that caused the accident. I can't think of any other possible reason for it.

[Anonymous]

I started riding at 15, then have had more crashes than I can remember (seriously). I'd say, I must have had at least 10 high speed ones or somewhere around there. It's been less than a decade since I started riding.

[surfchick]

hi mr pyro
been riding since march/april. no crashes, wiggled my tail in the rain the other day but hung on... i idolise everyone who has had no crashes, but am also stoked to hear the one's who have are still riding...

[Jabez]

Started @ 16 now 41, 1 over 100k (no other vehical involved) 2 x low speed.
Over 150,000k done on bikes.

[crazylittleshit]

Started Riding at 18 I'm now 23 and I have crashed 4 times.

[Badcat]

started riding at 15 - now 38.
1 crash (well - only a scuffed muffler) maybe 5 low-speed drops, gravel, wet corners etc (no damage - maybe scuffed bar ends sorta thing)

[pyrocam]

results so far

using my wacky maths and stuff. on AVERAGE. excluding the random posts and unclear posts.
the each person (on AVERAGE (caps for EMPHASIS)) has a crash every 5.755882 years

but also. you have riders who go 39 years without a crash. and some who go 1 year with 6 crashes.

also i havent put in the ages thing yet