Crashes That You Walked Away From.

[jrandom]

Hey! I never said I was right. According to my opinion, lane splitting at high speeds is more dangerous than the blasting the twisties crap but what do I know...

It's all dangerous when you screw up, innit. Blasting the twisties is less reliant on cage drivers not randomly turning you into a mince 'n' aluminium sandwich, but then IMHO it's difficult to get a good blast on the back roads without having quite a bit of trust in what you can't see around blind corners. I'm more of a 'smooth pootling' type on the open road. But then, you ride to the conditions, right? Just like I do in the traffic.

Maybe you are a bad influence on me LOL

[Motoracer]

It's all dangerous when you screw up, innit. Blasting the twisties is less reliant on cage drivers not randomly turning you into a mince 'n' aluminium sandwich, but then IMHO it's difficult to get a good blast on the back roads without having quite a bit of trust in what you can't see around blind corners. I'm more of a 'smooth pootling' type on the open road. But then, you ride to the conditions, right? Just like I do in the traffic.

Well put, I completely agree.

[wari]

THe other day ...

I PUshed my bike outhe gararge ...

putte the brake on wholst making a slight left veere ...

momentum ment the bike was going away from me ...

I COuldnt holder uppe and she flipped me overr the seat ..

I didda summersalte and landid on my .... head :spudwave:

NO Damadge ... I'm ok thanks ...

I Love bike stories ...

[rodgerd]

Ambling around Island Bay, wife's first time as a pillion. As we're coming up past the surf club and into the blind corner that leaves the bay, a Legacy Turbo wagon begins pulling out.

I think, "hmm, he's going to pull out in front of me", start slowing down, weave out wide in the lane so I'm easy to see and can dodge around him if needs be.

Silly fucker does a U-turn. On a blind bend.

Brake hard, bike hits his front tyre (knackers the steering), does a 540 degree roll sideways. Wife and I somersault over the bonnet and both land on our back/neck area on the road. I get a clear view of what a Legacy looks like upside down. My knee and boot tattoo a row of dents into the car as I go over, leaving silver paint embedded in the boot.

Bike loses a few minor bits (mirrors, indicators, engine cover, front mudguard), but is generally in good nick, considering.

Happily I was in full gear (including armoured leggings), so instead of broken toes and knee from the car, I had not so much as a bruise. Helmet was a write off.

Maire faired a bit worse, since she didn't have padded trousers, and had bruising on her hips and backside that left her walking gingerly for a few days thereafter. Her helmet was a write off, but it hasn't put her off riding.

Car driver got charged with careless driving, "didn't see me", but was at least apologetic. Ambulence staff had never seen knee armour before and were quite interested in it.

Had a few offs riding trail bikes (3 in 9 years), and was bloody lucky considering I never wore so much as a helmet during that time.

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Maire faired a bit worse, since she didn't have padded trousers, and had bruising on her hips and backside that left her walking gingerly for a few days thereafter. Her helmet was a write off, but it hasn't put her off riding

what an Amazing woman!, I've binned once on the kaimai's taking a corner too fast and trying to avoid going underneath a big truck and trailer unit, ended up on the wrong side of the road, just inches from a huge drop into oblivion, bike landed shortly afterwards ontop of me, I was 3mths pregnant at the time, me my bike and the baby were all ok, just bruised and pissed off, wrecked my jacket, and the bars got bent on the bike, but considering what would have happened if I'd gone over the bank, well.....

[Hitcher]

What I remember most is that it REALLY HURTS when you break the fall of 225kg of Kawasaki at 70kmh...

We're both all better again, thanks for asking.

[Kickaha]

Several,the worst being bike vs van which totalled my BMW R75/7 and left me hobbling for a week.

First guy to stack a bike on a local Ducati club ride,lucky it wasn't mine,it was my brothers 6 month old 1992 750SS,also crashed his 600 Pantah at Ruapuna

Put my GT550 Suzuki into a ditch and went over the bars down the Gore Bay road on my lunch break.

Got spat off the sidecar at Ruapuna and only got some a few scratches.

Crashed the Bucket and broke my wrist,but I was still walking and finished the race.

Crash the trailbike about 5 times when ever I take it out,this varies from banging into trees to highsides.

[badlieutenant]

spent all morning pushing my 86 vfr to keep up with my mates gsxr1100 (his bike been ten years younger than mine too), hadnt blinked in a while and 1 contact lens had fallen out. oops. stop at maraitai for fish and chips. Continued on our way and just before maraitai toilets i had to get past some trafic so i gave it a quik squirt with something nagging me at the back of my mind....isnt thier a sharp corner here somewhere?, oh thats right a 30km just before the toilets and im doing 130. It was drizzling but i thought i was making a good job of braking, could feel both front and back tyres juuuusst slipping, but the way the corner was coming up i knew i wasnt going to make it. Plan b.: land on the beach (tide was out as well)
Plan b might've worked if the little strip of grass wasnt so mudy and the front tire washed out. Im not to sure about the next second but i do remember seeing the bike following me, im upside down travelling on my lid looking back towards the bank and bike. I see the bike nose dive into sand and hear horrible crunch and engine just stop. Then the drag on my helmet made me do a 007 roll forwards and i came up running and saying some not nice words. thier were people near low tide with thier mouths hanging open but they looked away when they heard me swearing. sore neck, munted fairings and no pride. oh and a cbr400 radiator fits an 86 vfr
and dont try doing this now either, theres a concrete bin precisely where i left the road.

[wari]

I'vE forgotten more crashis than I'vE hadde ... :spudwave:

HOldon ... thats not quite righte ...

[moko]

Back in 1979 riding my5 month old GS850 home.Saw a learner driver at a junction so slowed(luckily)down just in case.He was looking right at me so all I can assume is that he was holding it on the clutch or something and his foot slipped cos he shot out right in front of me.The GS is a big bastard and I hit his front wing,went right over the bars and hit the corner of someone`s house head-on.Came too to find the Police there,my bike with barely a scratch on it up on it`s stand and the driver`s girlfriend in tears.I had a broken arm and could see daylight through the top of what was left of my helmet,best bit was the crumpled Mini wing laying in the middle of the road,ripped the bastard clean off.Apparently the householder had heard me collide with his brickwork and come out to find me in a heap on his doorstep.I actually knew of him,ex-biker called Lofty who was bloody huge,the woman had come up to me(out for the count)screaming "look what you`ve done to my car",Lofty hit the roof and totally lost it apparently and when the Police turned up her and the driver had locked themselves in the car.Seeing my mate picking the big GS up off the road as if it were a Honda 90 didn`t make them feel any safer.Sued the driver and picked up enough to pay the finance off the bike completely if I`d had any sense,sadly I didn`t and blew it all within 6 months.

[Blakamin]

Then the drag on my helmet made me do a 007 roll forwards and i came up running and saying some not nice words. thier were people near low tide with thier mouths hanging open but they looked away when they heard me swearing.

Shoulda whipped off the helmet, run the hands thru the hair and said "Bond, James Bond"

[aff-man]

Hmmmmm crashed the vt250 twice in the first two weeks of riding. Once locking up the back wheel doing 60 and low siding somehow so i got to go for a nice slide down the road after my bike. Second time back tyre hit some gravel and kinda bounced out. Both incidents i was wearing gear but only jeans on my legs so i got a little bloody. Once in the coromandel went round a corner on the edge of the front tyre and the bike just dissapeared from under me. Did a good job of crashing (ask FF) slide on my knee and hand and bounced myself up so i ended up stumbling after my bike as it came to a
"gentle" rest againts the cliff.


Worst crash was in my driveway wheel stepped out and then wen it was spinning nice and fast decided to grip, throwing me off so as i slid down the drive my bike "slide" up it. I almost cried

[badlieutenant]

By far the best accident (if there is a best) was on the maungamuka gorge (heading toward Kaitaia) on the northern side there are some nice twisties and i was following my mates rat yamaha 1100 and another mate on a gsxr750. mate on 750 dropped down to take last corner after a series of slight s's. mate on 1100 tries to fllow same line but cant because of 18 wheeler that comes around corner just then. he freaks out and locks it up.he looks like hes going to hit the truck but his continued rear lock up swings him away from the direction of the truck (and also the corner) at this point he looks like hes going to go over the gorge, about a 100m drop. then he high sides. he flips thru the air. my guess is hed have been 20ft in the air travelling about 60 kms/hr. he LANDS on the back of my mates 750 and if he had about 30 derees more rotation hed have been the perfect pillion passenger drop in except that the guy on the 750 isnt expecting an 80kg guy travelling at close to his speed to hit him on the rear seat. The drop in dude gets pulled off the back of the 750 cause his foots draggin on the road and the rider does a preety impressive job of recovering but as the front wheel hits the grass he lets her go. I have no memory of braking or changin gear or anything. The 750 has lost indicators and fairing damage and same also for the 1100, they are both riden home. As we're standing there going "wow", "holy shit" etc the truck which the truck driver has parked to come and see if my mates are alright, starts to roll back. Fortunately the driver has left his 3 year old in the cab and the screaming alerts him and us that the truck is going over the hill soon, our bikes will all be run over and his child doesnt want to go over either. Luckly he jumps into the cab in time to prevent a bad day getting worse.
Probably one of the freakest rides Ive been on and more stuff happend that day as well. Oh and injuries, the guy on the 1100 had a swollen knee. Hes racing in aussie last I heard.

[badlieutenant]

Shoulda whipped off the helmet, run the hands thru the hair and said "Bond, James Bond"

LOL, I would have but i think it wouldnt have been convincing after they had probably heard my sphinkter claping shut just before i became airborne.

[Jackrat]

I've had four falls on the road,two I walked away from two I didn't.
The two I got a ride to hospital were all me own doing,one that I walked from I had help from a woman in a car the other was again all me.
On my trail bikes I've come off so many times I never even bothered counting.
I've had quite a few drive way incidents but they don't count,,,Right!!