Binning it: Bikes or Cars

[fpsware]

No car accidents at all. And 2 bike accidents both not my fault. First got hit behind at a set of lights, second truck pulled out in front of me.

I must admit my driving has changed since riding a bike. I am more defensive on the road.

[MD]

a mate of mine had a long standing record (not sure if it still stands) as being the only personn to ever ROLL A TRAIN in the Wellington rail yards!

Bet he was trying to get his knee down! That always catches locomotive drivers out.

[Jackrat]

Let me put it like this.....CARS DON'T PULL OUT IN FRONT OF 4WD's........they do however pull out in front of bikes,for some reason......

Sorry to disagree but the wallys do.
My last close call was a bloke that thought it was more important to talk to his mate than keep an eye on the road,He didn't see me but you should of seen the eye balls on his mate,,he sure did.
Of course they don't do it as often aye!

[Kickaha]

I've rolled one car and been a passenger in two other rolllover accidents,to be fair only one was on a public road and we were trying pretty hard(Mk2 Cortina with a 3 litre V6 in it)

I've been a passenger in a car vs bike accident in which the rider cut a corner and the pillon had to have his leg amputated.

I've been on a bike in a car vs bikes accident which wrote off three bikes (out of four) and a van and I walked away with minor bruises.

I'd rather crash a car it hurts less!

[Shazuki]

I marked me Mini Moke up against a fence about 17 years ago while adjusting the radio :spudwhat:

Another time, in a Holden LC Torana travelling at 100mph, My stupid passenger ripped the handbrake and sent us rolling(8-10 times) off the road through a fence, down a bank to wind up upside down in a wet, boggy paddock.

never dropped a bike, but.

[madandy]

I wrecked my RX7 as a 18year old...hit gravel under hard braking 30metres befor a T intersection...slid accross the road got her pointing the right way and accellerating( lots of smoke) only to hit more gravel on the opposite shoulder and slam into railway sleeper fence posts...the whole exhaust system just dropped to the ground and the rear hatch was bent horribly out of shape.

I learnt a valuable lesson there about late braking...

[SPman]

Wrecked a new Hillman Hunter in '69 in Kings Cross, when I went to sleep at the wheel between 2 intersections and got T boned by a taxi! Thats what 22hrs at work and no food for 15 hrs does to you!
Just got a works car in '99, had it for 2 days and had a young guy in Dad's Legacy RS reckon he could get across from a Give Way sign when I was 25m from him.......he didn't make it. Saw him when I was down at the panelbeaters, the next morning....with his dad. Actually felt sorry for the poor sod...the barracking he was getting when his Dad saw the car was far in excess of anything I could of thought of! And the eyeballs of his passengers...yeah, Jack...like possums in the headlights!

[Ms Piggy]

Well I've been driving since I was 16 and I haven't had an accident driving but I caused one back in 1997 I dunno what the hell I was thinking!! I'm cringing just remembering it! I changed lanes without looking and caused 2 cars behind me to collide! SHAME! Minor damage to both cars which I paid for.

Only started riding at the end of last year and had the bin on my bike last month & you all know about that!

[boris]

one car crash,seat belts work,i was knocked out cold. woke up on way to hospital.three motor bike crashes.Hit by a car on my pushbike as a kid,no helmet, so i was very mucked up in the head,didn't know were the hell i was or any thing else. .it wound be the most freakie thing i have ever been though.Dislocated shoulder crashing mt-bike at nignt rode home,doctor pushed it back into place next morning.

Boris

[Holy Roller]

one car crash,seat belts work,i was knocked out cold.

Boris

I hate seat belts back in the very early 80s 5 of my school mates died when drag racing, came to a one lane bridge no one chickened out Only one survived the others drowned as they couldn't get their seat belts undone.... Another reason to ride a bike NO seatbelts.
Being a suicidal scycopath at school I wrote off several cars Hilman Imp fell asleep on the Brynderwyns, Morris 1100 into a ditch at Ruakaka, Mk4 Zypher on the gravel going to Tutukaka, HD Holden blew up literally just out of Silverdale. Then God Found me and things changed. Starded to bin bikes instead but not cause I was suicidal, just over confident.