Yea right. Try saying that to a 'downed biker' in his wheel chair. One day lady luck is going to close her legs on you ol' son.Originally Posted by Ham
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Yea right. Try saying that to a 'downed biker' in his wheel chair. One day lady luck is going to close her legs on you ol' son.
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Free Scott Watson.
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Morphine is nasty shit. Spent over 3yrs of my life on the shit, gave all 35 pills of pain relief etc a day away about 5 yrs ago. Pain is intense, but at least I can think.
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Pfft, you gave them up when I started giving you a good price for them :P
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Ain;t that the truth OAB. Spent a year on pethidine and SSRIs. No one home.
Ham - on the race track I agree that to win you need to be pushing really hard and that has a higher level of risk. If you're racing for fun though and never go over 9/10ths you can have a pretty accident free run, barring getting caught up in OPS (Other People's Shit).
BUt on the road? I'm erring more and more toward Ixion and Motu's attitude about crashing. It isn't inevitable. Incidentally, did you pick a red hammer in the quiz Bugjuice posted Ham?
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
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Call that a good price. Shit I would've done better flogging them off down Manchester St!
Wish it all away...
I'll add myself to the list of guys that haven't had a crash yet. But then, I've only been riding since the beginning of the year. I'm not gonna say "it'll happen one day" for sure, because it might not. Law of averages says there's a damn good chance it will happen one day though, and the amount of close calls I've had already confirms that pretty well.
I'm not a nana and don't really wanna be, but like OAB said, time and place. If the conditions are anything but lovely, you've gotta keep a weather eye out enough just riding at comfortable speeds.
Take care this winter guys.
Soapbox house of cards and glass, so don't go tossing your stones around.
You musta been.... high. You musta been...
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The AG100 on the farm doesn't count for going down, she was used and abused well outside it's design range, and the falls were countless. My first real roadies were in the armed forces when I started earning enough in the 80's.
XL250, coal truck left a load of coal on the corner entering base, front wheel washout in front of a bunch of fellow recruits, embarassment.
XL500 with a mate on the back, wet intersection into Nelson, deisel dropped on road, slow motion drop with both of us sitting on top sliding down road...watched two cars spin out while picking up bike!!
CB750FA off to the Manfield six hour, back of Hastings, lots of one way bridges, inattention with a car on the bridge we were about to enter, locked the rear, tapped mates bike, both down...only bone ever broken in a bike crash, finger, when I looked up to see my broken bike on the road and smashed my fist on the tarmac!
CB750FA, two weeks after bike fixed from above smash woman did u-turn in front of me in Christchurch, front flip over the back of her car, backpack took the brunt of it in the slide.
Raising a family slowed me down to commuting on little Suzi and Honda 100/125's to work, but my latest (last) crash 2 years ago was on a GSX400F on the Waipu straights. Old fella hesitated then pulled out in front of me, slowed down enough not to hurt my self except for a few grazes, but the bike was a gonna. He drove me home back to Auckland, the slowest trip in my life, but we had a good natter about Lancaster Bombers...he flew them in the second world war!!
Lets hope the XJ900 fairs better, but hey, shit happens...
Show me a completely smooth operation and I’ll show you someone who’s covering mistakes. Real boats rock.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dBE
might have to up mine to five as there is another two
Had just rode the lenght ove NZ/ Auck to Invercargill 2 hours after ariving went to the Gassi to get fule ,saw an old mate talked it up how good i could wheely it (ZX9R), so off i went on the back wheel ,when i put it down in some there was some minor roadworks , couldnt brake for corner due to loose gravel wrode up curb across front lawn, lost the front wheel, down it went off through there fence.
Last year was crash starting a bike and it got a way from me ,draged me 3 -4 houses side sadel. when i got it under control , i tried to through my leg over grabed a big handfull ove gas and whent through someones fence again and hit a tree on front lawn (broke 2 ribs)
Bite my shiney metal ass
Add me to the crash list. I downed in 1992 under the petone flyover, leaned into the corner doing about 90ish and whoa oil or diesel on the corner. Landed on my palm and broke my wrist (scaphiod) plus a few patches of road rash, slight concussion but it could have been worse. It happend on a Sunday with bugger all traffic around.
Oh yeah and wrote off my extremely mint VF400, loved that bike too.
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire. -Samuel Johnson
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many years ago i was riding my Z1R up a reasonably steep street in Dunedin when a car did a u turn ahead of me i opened it up to zip past and he turned in front of me down a side street i jumped on the stoppers and had slowed from about 80 to 40 ks when i hit the back guard and did the flying thing totally munting the back of the car pushed the front wheel back into the pipes the bike slid up the road and i landed on my back and roled over and landed on my feet before i knew it i had picked the bike up and had it on the full stand (and it was a heavy old girl) taught me a lesson though fuck off before the cops arrive!!! hehe
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Had countless ones fu$#k ups offroad (flips, highsides, lowsides and everysides really), but only one on the road. As a learner on the old rg 150 giong over the tuckas down in welly trying to keep up with an experienced group. Overcooked it into a corner and lowsided. Slid across to the other lane and into the fence, but if id been 0.14797 seconds later I would have been a made into a bannna smoothie by the oncoming Nissan Pajero. Shit happens, dusted myself off and kept going. Slowed me down a bit, made me wary of the hill and more cautious so I dont attack some of the upside corners out of Featherston quite as aggresively as I should, but thats probably a good thing. Ive already been called a temporary new zealander by Jim2 but hey, im having fun.
Sargent Major: "Now then, who called the cook a bastard?"
Small voice from the rear: "Who called that bastard a cook?"
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Eeep, when did I say that? Are you sure it wasn't a death threat for calling me fat and bald?Ive already been called a temporary new zealander by Jim2 but hey, im having fun.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
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Whoops, I mean Fatjim. Few staff drinks after work, sorry man
Sargent Major: "Now then, who called the cook a bastard?"
Small voice from the rear: "Who called that bastard a cook?"
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When I was riding on the dirt track,on a practice day I would ride to crash - faster and faster and faster until I went down,then I'd get back on and push until I crashed again.At least 3 crashes a session,more often at least half a doz,I reckoned if I didn't dump it I wasn't pushing hard enough.Race day I seldom crashed,more often winning with half a lap handicap.I know how to push past the limit.
But on the road....once I grew up enough to realise that all the things I blamed for my crashes (car drivers,road conditions etc) were false,there was only one fault that caused the accidents,I set about a different approach to riding.Trials has given me the insight on how much the mind has to do with our skill - if you have a single doubt as to whether you can do it,sure as hell you can't,the power of the mind is vital to survival.In a trial we walk the section,knowing every inch of the terrain,we mentaly ride our bike,mapping out how we are going to do it,mentaly eliminating difficult parts,projecting ourselves through them.Pick a favorite piece of road and ride it in your mind,over and over...then go and ride it.
Rest In Peace
Dirt Bikes ... heaps
Road bikes nothing bad ,, will show my age here .
Dropped the GT380 near Coromandel in the shingle years ago . High sided my GT750 Suzi in Waipukurau in the 80's. That hurt me more than the bike. Dam were those old machines tough.
Hurt myself bucket racing my RD 50 a year or so back . Nothing major though
touch wood....
Dave
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