How many accidents in the last year?

[Squeak the Rat]

Just doing a little research on bikers and accident rates: How many accidents have you been involved in in the last 12 months?

Includes any spill, bin, drop, crash, scrape etc while on a public road (incl car parks etc) riding or driving a road going motor vehicle (car, bike, truck etc). Doesn't matter if it was your fault or not.

Open poll, nothing to be ashamed of......

[Cajun]

zip, nada, nothing.

[Motu]

Does that include beach?..?

[jeremysprite]

ugh I'm embarrassed... (not in chronological order)
1 at about 60 around corner, lost tyre or grip, or peg bit in, slid across road

1 at 30 in wet, small slide across road

1 at about 35, same corner as wet slide, couldn't turn sharp enough (n00b!) and hit the curb and fell over lol

1 at 10, again didn't turn enough, stared directly at the patch of gravel I was afraid of, and rode into it. Slipped and fell over.

Last one at 0.4km/h, trying to park bike on steep slope, back tyre slid out on the gravel and fell on top of me.

I should really post this in Jokes and Humour, but whatever.

[The Stranger:Me]

zip, nada, nothing.

You never say that.
That's like talking about speeding tickets. Don't do it!!

[SuperDave]

Fortunately none, but that doesn't mean I havn't come close.

I'm not doing what the stats say I will/should be doing.

[Whynot]

ugh I'm embarrassed... (not in chronological order)
1 at about 60 around corner, lost tyre or grip, or peg bit in, slid across road

1 at 30 in wet, small slide across road

1 at about 35, same corner as wet slide, couldn't turn sharp enough (n00b!) and hit the curb and fell over lol

1 at 10, again didn't turn enough, stared directly at the patch of gravel I was afraid of, and rode into it. Slipped and fell over.

Last one at 0.4km/h, trying to park bike on steep slope, back tyre slid out on the gravel and fell on top of me.

I should really post this in Jokes and Humour, but whatever.

look on the bright side .... you can only get better

[TLDV8]

One ..It seems i simply fall off for no good reason around each 5 year mark,just to keep my hand in.

6 in 29 years.

[Squeak the Rat]

Does that include beach?..?

-Consults rule book-
If it's a designated road or state highway and your vehicle is road legal and your intent while on the beach was to get from A to B (ie no off road shennanigans), then yes.

But if it's going to skew the stats then no.

[judecatmad]

Just doing a little research on bikers and accident rates: How many accidents have you been involved in in the last 12 months?

Includes any spill, bin, drop, crash, scrape etc while on a public road (incl car parks etc) riding or driving a road going motor vehicle (car, bike, truck etc). Doesn't matter if it was your fault or not.

Open poll, nothing to be ashamed of......

Just the one accident - first one EVER! Caused by some tw@t kid coming the other way round a blind corner on a dirt road at speed....uninsured too!

But we won at disputes tribunal - yay!

[Goblin]

I've been quite lucky I think, not to have crashed/binned/dropped in the past 12 months(touch wood!) Unfortunately I was first on the scene at a serious crashe this year. Put a real damper on the ride and I missed out on lunch. Being in that situation made me more aware of how riding beyond ones limits can bum out the whole day for others as well.

[Dodger]

Nothing ever... yet

[placidfemme]

doh! If you had asked this after the 18th dec I could have clicked "0"

[Kflasher]

Total of 7 in 18yrs (including motocrossing the nifty fifty )

[vifferman]

None!
Although there was that one time when my tyre exploded, I crashed, slid into a parked car, died, the gas tank exploded, throwing me in to the air, then I hit the asphalt again, died, got run over by a truck, tossed into the path of a bus, and died again.
Then my pacemaker exploded in the incinerator, and I died yet again.



I hate it when that happens....