How many accidents have you had and what caused it/them?

[Ender EnZed]

How many accidents have you had and what caused it/them?

Some.

None of them would've ocurred had I not been riding like a cock.

[IlDuce]

During 1997 in winter, at 7:30am before school, entered carpark outside my work on VT250, doing about 20kph, touched front brake and instant hard bang down on ground on right side. Was a patch of black ice. Footpeg stabbed through my shoe and outside other side. Cracked fairing, scrapes on muffler. Local newspaper were on the scene, took photo and published in Saturday's paper.

[Muppet]

I've had a few.

1. Aged 18 and riding my 1986 CBX550F2 Integra that I'd saved up for, in pouring rain (Dad told me to take the car-did I listen? No.) High School student riding a bicycle, decides to do a U-turn on me. I hit her, we slide. No injuries. I sell bike after repairs-lost my nerve.

2. Ten years later on a 1991 CBR600FM, riding as part of a large group go around a right hand corner on the west coast too quick, panic and run off the left side of road towards a cliff. I jump off bike. No injuries.

3. Three years ago while riding on west coast a large tree falls onto road directly in front of me, I hit it, I fly for 16 metres, land and break my arm and hit knee on road causing extremely painful Edema injury (I had to look it up too). Tear open my thigh as I broke off handle grip with my leg, exposing metal bar riser, miss Femoral Artery by 10mm according to Surgeon. Four months off work.

I'm still riding.

[SPman]

A few over the last 40 odd years - all of which I've learnt something from (although one took a lot of pondering and analysis...), some due to being a newby (braking in the wet on a white line), some, part of a learning curve (if you lean a Suzuki T250 over too far, the side stand mount will dig into the seal and highside you...and also wear gloves!), some just stupid, (riding around Auk. stoned on a Kwaka triple...duh), some (most) preventable, a couple with circumstances totally beyond my control (the only way you can second or third guess wildlife on the road is to not be there in the first place.....)
Not too bad, everything considered

[Gone Burger]

Haven't been riding long (3 years) but had too many accidents already. 1

Memory is blank about what happened. Went over a blind brow of a hill, and the road sharply turned to the right. I continued straight ahead and down the bank, into a barbed wire fence. Was going 30km below the speed limit, and 15km below the police recommended safe speed for the corner. Broken neck, broken back, Shoulder, arm and leg with plate inserted. 5 hours waiting for rescue with no idea where i was, leg bleeding badly. Wish like fuck I knew what on earth I knew what I was doing that day. Major fuck up. Working til 5am on my second job that same day I assume to be that main factor behind it. Fatigue, and had not eaten and needed suger. New bike that I did not know how to handle either. Should never have been on it from the factors leading up to why i was riding in the wrong place anyway. Wake the fuck up or don't ride. Simple. Seems I am a slow learner.

[ellipsis]

....when I was fifteen, knew everything and owned a T250 Hustler...near new, I just about deconstructed most of the larger bits hanging off my body...first biggy was a major highside on the Summit Road above Chch...racing a mate, of course...10 feet down a bank with the bike on top of me...repaired bike, repaired ankle and set off for my next biggy...didn't make the corner by the white gates heading towards Corsair Bay just out of Lyttelton...instead of laying it down, it stood itself up...the bike went under the inch and a half metal rail on the fence, I didn't...took me right across the top of my legs/hip...then I followed the bike twenty feet down the bank...I remember my bike screaming its tits off...thinking I should get to it but realising my leg wasn't connected to my hip very well...was lieing there for a long time til my boss and workmate decided to find out why I was not at work...thrown on work trailer and dropped off at Chch hospital...repaired bike, repaired hip and set off for my next biggy...and so on...looking back, it aint half as painful now as it was then...I was still picking gravel from my thigh and knee up til about ten years ago from accidents twenty five years earlier...race related breaks dont count and there have been numerous amounts of those...I wasn't looking forward to my older years...I knew my past was going to make me hurt...I'm there now and I was correct in my thinking...there are still a few broked bones to come I reckon...hope not, but it's on the cards...

[Boob Johnson]

Had just the one, on the 13th June 2007 an 18yr girl (who was licensed for just 6 months) pulled out in front of me. I t-boned her & did a superman dive over her bonnet. In the process smashed my left hip to pieces & dislocated my left thumb. I now have 9 pins & a titanium plate screwed to my hip. She was fined $750 + $130 court costs & charged with careless use of a motor vehicle causing injury & ordered to pay me $1000 for "emotional damage". Pitiful really. The intersection is in the top ten of the countries worst "black spots" which is kinda stupid as you have a clear view both left & right (T-intersection). Even though I was doing 70km/h in a 100km/h zone (with headlight on) she still misjudged my speed! She said she saw me but thought I was further back so didn't bother to look to the right again & pulled out when I was right on top of the intersection. I had zero chance!

Had 3 bikes since then, the first of which I bought while I was still on crutches lol

[mossy1200]

23years
2 on the track caused by failure of bike to follow instruction about going around corners.
1 little ding on road. Car reversed into me and put crack in fairing.

[G4L4XY]

During 1997 in winter, at 7:30am before school, entered carpark outside my work on VT250, doing about 20kph, touched front brake and instant hard bang down on ground on right side. Was a patch of black ice. Footpeg stabbed through my shoe and outside other side. Cracked fairing, scrapes on muffler. Local newspaper were on the scene, took photo and published in Saturday's paper.

Upload the newspaper clipping :P

[G4L4XY]

I've had a few.


3. Three years ago while riding on west coast a large tree falls onto road directly in front of me,

Thats dumb luck, if it was america, they would sue

[crystalball]

Once again, the fact that they might not be aware of us doesn't mean it's not in our best interest to be aware of them.

Yup I am always very aware of predestrians now. I toot my horn when I see someone wanting or looking like they gona cross the road, makes them look and be aware of you as well.
My only crash was a school kid whom ran in front of me, he didint do to well after I hit him but i only had a compound fracture to the wrist. was his fault police said and I repaired my own bike....THE SILLY EMOTION PICTURES NEVER LOAD ON HERE FOR ME NOW POST JUST GOES BLACK!

[caseye]

None on a bike 0n the road, couple of pretty minor ones off road but last week I broke me leg in three places tripping over a water pipe.
So Now i can't even go out a ride for fun even if i wanted too. Bummer dudes.
Hurts too.