Bike crash ratio E=MC^2 blah blah

[BUBBLE]

Started riding on the road when I was 12, now 27, 15years and no crashes. There are bonus's to living on a farm with all those country roads at your doorstep. Many, many crashes in the dirt.
Learning to ride in the dirt before riding on the road teaches so many skills. Look at how many leading superbike riders over the years have come from a motox history.
I've got a 4yr old boy that rides a QR50 and races motox....start them young. He'll be driving in less than a year....Subaru in Lo-Ratio....it'll be a while before he hits the road.

[NC]

I started when I was 17, I'm 24 now *sigh* I've had one high speed crash(100kms) and one low speed (30-40km) I've dropped my bikes, heaps

[JohnBoy]

Started when i was 16 now 22 i have had a few crashes:
5 lowside's at about 30, 50, 70 and 2 at about 120km/h
2 on the track, one not my fault and the rest just normal lowsides

[Pixie]

Ten crashes in 29 years riding.Twenty years between most recent crash and the previous one.One leg shortened by an inch.

[pyrocam]

Ten crashes in 29 years riding.Twenty years between most recent crash and the previous one.One leg shortened by an inch.

bugger, sorry to hear that mate.
but.... do you have a funny limp when you walk? or do you end up walking in circlles or anything cool like that?

[Beemer]

I started riding at 36, now 43. No road crashes - fell over with bike a couple of times when learning (forgot to put a foot down - duh!), but nothing at a speed higher than 5kph!

On dual purpose bikes I've had two minor offs - one when not giving the bike enough revs as I pulled away from the kerb fully laden, and the other in Black Forest Station - standing on the pegs to negotiate a really rocky section and the front wheel hit a larger rock on an angle and over I went. Scratched the plastic on the bike and I'm still having trouble with my elbow five years later.

[Posh Tourer :P]

5 years 2 crashes (both minor and in the first year or so)

[pritch]

dragging everything on the deck ..pegs knees ..seeing a snowman in the road and deciding ..while still cranked over to go through it ..... it had frozen to Ice ,,,

I feel guilty laughing but that was really special :-)

[Squiggles]

have been road riding for 1 1/2 years, went for a slide the other week on one of those painted man holes......so my total = 1 crash for 1.5 years

[Warr]

started riding at 15.. am 42 now, crashed every bike i have owned + the turbo the other day..

so that would be around 8 good crashes.. plus when i was racing the bucket i fell off every race and sometimes i fell off 3 times per race.....

Similar to you AJ, Tho never done any track work and I havent had a moving crash on previous CB750K1 and present XJ900. I have managed to drop them tho, over-balanced and bike goes down.

[pyrocam]

cripes. looks like I might need to do another calculation. will do soonerish