How long was it until your were in an accident?

**mark247** · 9th March 2007, 09:11

I am just wondering, when you first started riding on the road, how long did it take for you to come off for the first time?

**Skunk** · 9th March 2007, 09:16

Four weeks.
Next time was a year later. I was hit.
Next time was a year later. Again, I was hit.
Then again about 12 years later. But that was off road.

**ceebie13** · 9th March 2007, 09:18

Originally Posted by mark247

I am just wonder, why when you first started riding on the road, how long did it take for you the come off?

er.... if I understand you correctly, I started riding when I was 16 and had a serious whoopsie about three years later when I tee-boned a Morris Minor and went for a short fly. No bones broken amazingly. I waited another ten or more years before attempting to get my bike under a London cab! That would have made me about 29, so I've now gone another 26 years without any serious "offs".

Shit! I hope I'm not tempting fate.

**Mr Merde** · 9th March 2007, 09:23

Didnt come off but was injured.

One of those great yank tanks with the rear wings pulled out in front of me perpendicular to the traffic flow, from a petrol station.

I served and caught the wing on my ribs and the bumper on my shin.

Wobbled up over the pavement and finished up on the steps of the Papakura Courthouse.

Woman driving couldnt see if the road was clear so she just pulled out anyway.

Still remember the old traffic police talking me out of pressing charges even though to this day my shinbone has a dent in it. Turned out she was engaged to one of them.

I was young (15) and thought that the police knew best, at the time.

**Steam** · 9th March 2007, 09:24

Three months. But I was stupid, it was my fault, part of the learning process I suppose. I could have avoided it if I had read and practised like Buckbuck.

**Jimmy B** · 9th March 2007, 09:28

First time within 2 weeks, both at fault although random U turn by the cage I slid into didnt help.

Second, about 18 months later following a Mate round a tight corner on a back road out of Paihiatua, If he can make it then....wrong...my fault.

17 years on and still a little boy waits...

**bobsmith** · 9th March 2007, 09:31

Does accidently wheeling the bike and falling off backwards count??? Hmmm first month...

**Dodger** · 9th March 2007, 09:34

Been riding the Bike for about 8 months or so I think, no issues.
Have been riding the scooter for about a year 1/2 no issues.

Yet...

**ManDownUnder** · 9th March 2007, 09:41

As a 16 year old, 550cc bike (legally.. full licence) and a really nice corner... gentle sweeping left... down hill then up to the right... preload the shocks - corner like she's on rails and nail it!

Beautiful!

Up I go... LOVING the power of my new toy and... CONCRETE TRUCK!

Angle parked, taking up 2/3 of the LH lane. Straighten up, brake and target fixate... *crunch*. Hit just behind the front wheel at about 20kph. No real damage done except the front wheel knocked out of alignment with the handlebars

Scared the shit out of me... and a good job too.

**-df-** · 9th March 2007, 09:50

Road bike...never. Many close calls (mostly my fault, tyre stepping out around courners etc). Thats since 1997.
Dirt bike...hmmm, owned the damn thing for for about 2 weeks if that (shit...might have been a week) and fractured my shoulder!!

**judecatmad** · 9th March 2007, 09:52

Never yet come off (2 yrs and counting..).

But dropped my bike last night and knocked someone's bike over this morning......don't know what's wrong with me at the mo! (Dropsy maybe??)

**surfer** · 9th March 2007, 10:02

About two years for the first off. A few topples before hand on loose gravel at very slow speeds.

The off was a slide down a wet road when I locked up the front brake. Ended up stuck under the bike with petrol pouring all over the place and the engine chugging away. Scary. Couldn't lift myself out or switch it off as I stuffed my shoulder and arm mainly nerve damage from whiplash. Motorist stopped to pull the bike off, so they can't all be bad. Still took six months before my arm would work. All my fault, going too fast in wet conditions with a pillion on the back and didn't take into account the extra weight on the bikes performance.

The good news was that I didn't plough into the car in front that had stopped. I managed to ride to the hospital with one arm functioning duh

never again, the effects of shock I guess. Pillion was ok, not a scratch on her. And I learnt leather is great for sliding down the road.

**Toaster** · 9th March 2007, 10:06

I'm too scared to say I have never crashed, just because I might jinx myself, so I won't...

**The Stranger:Me** · 9th March 2007, 10:16

Originally Posted by ManDownUnder

As a 16 year old, 550cc bike (legally.. full licence) and a really nice corner... gentle sweeping left... down hill then up to the right... preload the shocks - corner like she's on rails and nail it!

Beautiful!

Up I go... LOVING the power of my new toy and... CONCRETE TRUCK!
.

Lucky you didn't damage the concrete truck, that could have been expensive for ya.

**placidfemme** · 9th March 2007, 10:21

I'd been riding for just over a year before my first bin, wrote the bike off, no other vehicles involved. Second time was a few weeks back (again about a year inbetween accidents) and again no other vehicles invloved.

Sam binned on her first road ride after getting her learners. No other vehicles involved. Then she was hit from behind at a give way sign after riding for about 6 months. Then 2 months later she was hit again from behind at the same giveway sign... then about 7 months after that she wrote her bike off, no other vehicles involved.