(Graphic image) Tennis shoes are great for riding, just not for coming off!

**EJK** · 19th February 2014, 12:34

Originally Posted by TheDemonLord

All these bad puns are really giving me a Headache

Cut it out, will ya?

**BoristheBiter** · 19th February 2014, 13:10

Originally Posted by EJK

Cut it out, will ya?

Don't lose you head.

**Banditbandit** · 19th February 2014, 13:31

Originally Posted by BoristheBiter

I'm not sorry i posted it, without the warning, the title was pretty self explanatory.
This is the aftermath of someone thinking it was OK to ride in sneakers and finding out the hard way it isn't.

If it makes you think about it next time you ride, good it had the intended out come.

Give that man a DB .. good shit ... show people what can happen ..

Originally Posted by TheDemonLord

on a tangential but related note - I get really fucked off by bikers I see riding around in Shorts, Tshirts, no Gloves, Helmet but casual shoes etc. etc.

To me its fucking irresponsible - am I alone in my mental condemnation of these twats?

Yeah - I could not believe how many of the dumb fuckers were on the open road to and from Paeroa on Sunday ... flash helmet, leather jacket, shorts and sandals/sneakers - no gloves .. and not all on Harleys, a few on jappers too ..

Originally Posted by blackdog

Prediction? Two more pages before we are talking lesbians.

Well- three pages ...

**noobi** · 20th February 2014, 09:01

Rejoice, and return to riding with tennis shoes.

Picture turns out not to be from a motorcycle crash, but a de-gloving(socking?) caused by a forklift.

Original reddit post from ~8 months ago. http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments...e_pictures_in/

Not that reddit is a reliable source or anything, just that the OP has more than the one pic and they say forklift. Still, tennis shoes probably arent going to do much for your feet in a crash anyway.

**rossirep** · 20th February 2014, 09:15

Originally Posted by Big Dave

It's a disturbing image that you have duped people into seeing. Very bad form.

what a pussy...

**felixx** · 20th February 2014, 09:18

I am happy you posted this picture as it makes people think.
I only ride a scooter, but alway wear longs and and boots and Im getting in the habbit of a jacket always too..

these pictures remind us not to be complacent

Thank you

**BoristheBiter** · 20th February 2014, 09:28

Originally Posted by noobi

Rejoice, and return to riding with tennis shoes.

Picture turns out not to be from a motorcycle crash, but a de-gloving(socking?) caused by a forklift.

Original reddit post from ~8 months ago. http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments...e_pictures_in/

Not that reddit is a reliable source or anything, just that the OP has more than the one pic and they say forklift. Still, tennis shoes probably arent going to do much for your feet in a crash anyway.

Yeah just read that on the agg racing page.

I'm sure that will slip right back on.

**munster** · 20th February 2014, 10:48

Originally Posted by SMOKEU

It certainly can be, and has been done successfully. There was one where a piano wire or other such material was placed at around head height across the road (what kind of asshole does that?!).

Jerry did it.

"The Jerries were known to string tough piano wires neck-high across the roads that Allied Jeeps traveled on. The steel tension wire provided a nasty way to lop off the heads of Jeep drivers and passengers. Often the wire couldn't be seen or if seen, it was usually to late to stop in time. The GI's answer for this booby-trap was the Anti-Decapitation Device, field made angle iron bolted upright to the front bumper. The device extended above the the heads of those riding in the Jeep, and at the top it is angled forward and usually notched to catch and cut the wire"

from http://www.jeep4ever.ca/heroes_facts_trivia_quotes.html

**Brett** · 20th February 2014, 11:57

That's surely gonna be an amputation. Wear boots. Pretty easy. Crash and you still may get fucked up...but hopefully not as much.

**yevjenko** · 25th February 2014, 21:59

Originally Posted by Yamahardman

shiiiiiit. I dont have motorcycle boots per-say i ride in sturdy ankle high leather work boots, lace up of course. Would they do alright in a whoopsie?

Also fuck, Im getting proper kevlar padded pants asap, imagine if that happened to a knee!

I've seen it happen to a knee. My brothers when he totalled his vfr into a car coming the other way while wearing jeans. Kevlar wouldn't have helped in that situation. 6 months in hospital, serious flesh eating infection, and can't bend his leg enough to ride bikes anymore. ATGATT

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**SMOKEU** · 26th February 2014, 07:49

Originally Posted by yevjenko

I've seen it happen to a knee. My brothers when he totalled his vfr into a car coming the other way while wearing jeans. Kevlar wouldn't have helped in that situation. 6 months in hospital, serious flesh eating infection, and can't bend his leg enough to ride bikes anymore. ATGATT

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Got pics? Did he get necrotizing fasciitis?

**yevjenko** · 26th February 2014, 08:22

Originally Posted by SMOKEU

Got pics? Did he get necrotizing fasciitis?

Nah I didn't get pics, but I looked into what was left of his knee before they took him into surgery. Scapula smashed away. missing the bottom inch of his femur.

The nurse took pics as it was a good teaching case!

He contracted Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus in the hospital. MRSA is the anti-biotic resistant bug that eats flesh and sticks to metal - which was the only thing holding his leg together.

6 months later he got out of hospital. can't ride anymore.

Like I said. All the gear all the time.

**SMOKEU** · 26th February 2014, 10:06

Originally Posted by yevjenko

Nah I didn't get pics, but I looked into what was left of his knee before they took him into surgery. Scapula smashed away. missing the bottom inch of his femur.

The nurse took pics as it was a good teaching case!

He contracted Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus in the hospital. MRSA is the anti-biotic resistant bug that eats flesh and sticks to metal - which was the only thing holding his leg together.

6 months later he got out of hospital. can't ride anymore.

Like I said. All the gear all the time.

Fuck that's bad if he had to stay in hospital for 6 months. I wish him all the best.

**yevjenko** · 26th February 2014, 10:10

Originally Posted by SMOKEU

Fuck that's bad if he had to stay in hospital for 6 months. I wish him all the best.

Yeah thanks mate. if it was just the bone injury he would have been out in 6 weeks or so, but the bug was what added insult to injury (plus the isolation he then had to be kept in).