View Poll Results: How many times have you crashed on the road?

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  • Never

    77 26.10%
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    79 26.78%
  • Twice

    42 14.24%
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    37 12.54%
  • Four times

    15 5.08%
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    14 4.75%
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Thread: How many times have you crashed on the road?

  1. #46
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    None, and really hope to keep it that way

    Had a close call where I froze on a one way curved bridge and forgot how to turn, ended up in the gutter but just missed the railing phew

    Oh and one time riding my dirtbike back to the car, going up a hill bit of lean and gas = lowside.. hmm knobblies on road are shiiit

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    Quote Originally Posted by Animus View Post
    Ever since I began riding road bikes at 15 I've heard the age old saying "it's not if you will crash, it is when you crash" and in the past 12 years have crashed three times on the road.

    Would you be so helpful as to tell me how many times you have crashed on the road?
    define 'crash' See, stalling a car means turning the key and carrying on, stalling a bike can often mean losing your grip, and the bike falling over and getting damaged, which i dont really class as a crash.

    The statement would ring much more true if it was
    'its not IF you will damage your bike, its when'.

    Such an attitude is negative, and really not that helpfull. You are obviously human, and not perfect, so sooner or later you WILL make a mistake. and that mistake MIGHT cause damage to your bike, and it MIGHT cause you injury (or death), but none of the above listed reults of a mistake are certain.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tigertim20 View Post
    define 'crash' See, stalling a car means turning the key and carrying on, stalling a bike can often mean losing your grip, and the bike falling over and getting damaged, which i dont really class as a crash.

    The statement would ring much more true if it was
    'its not IF you will damage your bike, its when'.

    Such an attitude is negative, and really not that helpfull. You are obviously human, and not perfect, so sooner or later you WILL make a mistake. and that mistake MIGHT cause damage to your bike, and it MIGHT cause you injury (or death), but none of the above listed reults of a mistake are certain.
    what he said

  4. #49
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    None so far... but haven't even been on the road for a year yet. Nearly collected a cow at 1am the other morning though...

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    dig this, a front wheel tuck at about 60-70km caused by me letting pressure out of the front tyre cause there was lots of tread on the out side, I know, I know, it was the 250cc years and i am a tight scottish bastard. hey I fallen of both road bikes I owned, pushin my skills boundry cause im pretending iam the naki ginger (konini street) at the isle.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Animus View Post
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    if this guy writes as well as he takes care of his silky hair it should be a goldmine
    HA !!!! that golden silky smooth shiney hair is very off putting. unless ur a hairdresser, still thats me judging by the cover. must get to that superbike school
    then i 2 will be a Keith convert.

  7. #52
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    Cold, liter v-twin, gentle bend, bike prone to occasional hiccup and chose this time to do it. Big lurch, me on the deck, bike picked up by three lovely ladies. This doesn't count times forgetting to put stand down or two up, and the road with a steeper camber than my leg could reach.
    The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum

  8. #53
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    A chemical sprayer hanging off the back of a tractor broke loose and clothes-lined me in March. I got knocked back the way I came. I took the blow across my chest, head and right arm. I was lucky I wasn't decaptiated!! I got away with a swollen throbbing arm and some cuts and bruises. The bike didn't fair as well. It died and I lived. That's the right way round!

    It was a freak accident and his insurance company were anxious to keep me happy!! That's what's paying for my little NZ adventure!!

  9. #54
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    I have done 2 stationary "drops". Once when my feet where stuck in the foot pegs and another time when an old lady drove into me

  10. #55
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    twice and both were my fault. i had a low speed head on with a car once at an intersection, and threw my bike into a bridge the other time doing some rolling burnouts lol
    "your car is boring"

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    I voted 4 times but its 5. Forgot about the last time when i lowsided on a roundabout after failing to avoid a thick line of oil on the road. Two were due to riding above my skill level and other two were SMIDSYs.
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  12. #57
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    In the first 20 years of riding I had more accidents than I could ever recall. (And I can't think of one of them that was anyone's fault other than my own).

    None in the last 10 years and I'm determined to keep it that way.

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    Do gravel tracks count as "road"?

    Crashed twice. In 1990, both on the same day on the same "road", on my RD250/350LC. The gravel track to the T.V. transmitter on the North side of the Manawatu gorge had just been thickly re-metalled, and I lost it on a downward sloped right-hand bend. Partly because my girlfriend (now Wife) kept slidng forward and I was getting pushed up onto the tank. Second off was at bottom of that "road", came 'round a corner to find a car stopped right in the middle of the track, with both front doors open. Nowhere to go. Brakes, deep gravel, bars already bent from earlier off, down we go again.

    Learned a whole lot of lessons that day.
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  14. #59
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    Quote Originally Posted by Katman View Post
    In the first 20 years of riding I had more accidents than I could ever recall. (And I can't think of one of them that was anyone's fault other than my own).

    None in the last 10 years and I'm determined to keep it that way.
    Katman?! Someone must have hacked your account aye...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Katman View Post
    In the first 20 years of riding I had more accidents than I could ever recall.
    You of all people shouldn't come on here and tell us about your crashes, its fucking funny you did though
    You sound reckless dude, for me as said once back in 1982 smidsu

    anyway suck my knob, and come down to the taupo track on the 23rd I will buy you a coffee
    Ive run out of fucks to give

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