Crashes That You Walked Away From.

[James Deuce]

Had 6, and walked away from 4 without damage. "Best" was @ about 180km/hr exiting Coke @ Manfield on the RC30, having pulled off the pass of my brief racing career. Footpeg dug in and levered the rear off the ground. Flew in formation with the bike long enough to casually reach out and hit the kill switch. Was still doing about 30km/hr when I stood up. I thought I'd stopped you see. Excellent triple somersault with a half pike ensued. Was still PMPL when the van turned up to see if I was OK. Bike needed paint, right hand engine cover and a new footpeg. Cost $2200. Gave up racing.

[loosebruce]

Walked from heaps. Stretchered from one.

'Nuff said.

I'm with trashy on this one, funnily enough we both ended up in the same hospital after our crashes.

I'm sure trashy will back me up here, don't crash near tokoroa!!!!

[andy1]

I`ve had a few...
Lanesplitting gotta be my fav but thats a long story.....
IM a lucky guy! Thats why i pray to the father above AMEN...

おやすみなさい

[Zed]

I`ve had a few...
Lanesplitting gotta be my fav but thats a long story.....
IM a lucky guy! Thats why i pray to the father above AMEN...

おやすみなさい

Good on you for praying, but what has that to do with luck dude? Devine intervention is not luck, but rather blessing, amen andy!

[geoffm]

I have been pretty lucky (touch wood).
Most exciting was an off going over the hill at Puke on the FZR. A little wide, the back lets go and fires me and bike across the track into the armco on the other side at speed. I left a mark on the armco, and so did the bike tyre as it chased me down the grass. I got up, which surprised all the marshals, and the bike had a broken lever and fairing.
My missus was the flag marshal at Jennians and was said it wasn't a good thing I crashed at her corner, otherwise she would kill me :-)

Dumbest, and most injurious crash - trying to start the Impulse on New Years Day, with (ahem) some help from a tow rope and car. Don't try this least you end up with ripped jeans, and gravel rash. Jeans do not provide much protection against the road, even at 10kph...
Geoff

[badlieutenant]

one more i felt like adding
things not to do :dont ride from bay of islands to wellington in one hit without a break, in the rain.
after riding for 6 hours in torrential rain (drips inside helmet etc) and forced to follow a truck, a bus and four cars due to rain and spary from trafik in front dont overtake, even if you have been following them for 20 minutes.
after overtake dont forget that Ohakune (desert rode was closed) has a sharp bend leading into it and that its hard to take at 110.
dont bounce off wooden road barriers, it hurts.
if, like me, all of the above does happen quickly pick up indicators and bits while a truck, a bus and four cars go past. then jump back on bike and overtake the same bunch of vehicles. Swearing never really described just how much it all suked that day

[sAsLEX]

Hi there NC30, how long have you been riding 4? It sounds to me like you like to ride fast? In a prevous thread you said you were travelling at 210kmph on your NC30 - r u sure about that on your 400cc? Coming off in a road accident going 125kmph and walking away is fairly miraculous indeed - I say count your blessings.

I've had one bin and that was several months ago when I threw my CBR into an open road ditch going around a 25km corner...from that off I learned to slow down more on corners, especially those which are completely foreighn to me!


Zed

my little 250 nearly gets 200, well 190ish indicated

[Zed]

my little 250 nearly gets 200, well 190ish indicated

Are you ringing the nuts off it?...& I take it it takes quite a while to wind up to that speed range??

[sAsLEX]

comin back from kopu on those straight, just real slow accel from 175ish just keeps getting faster real slow but runs out of HP before revs

[rodgerd]

what an Amazing woman!,

She's a keeper, for sure. She's keen to get her own license and suggested selling the family car so we can afford a second bike.

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.....

Doesn't bear thinking about, really.

[That Guy]

There's some great crash stories in there. Luckily (touch wood) I never crashed on the road - lost count of how many times I've crashed doing mx though. Worst was practicing on a track in summer when I was a teenager getting ready for my first Woodville GP. In the summer the grass is really long. I jumped up this bank in 6th gear wide open, and flew a good 20 metres - hiding in the grass was a big rock - my front wheel landed in front of it, back wheel behind it. Last thing I remembered was the casing making this sort of grinding noise as the suspension compressed and connected with the rock. I woke up I don't know how long after (was practising by myself - dumb idea) with visor crunched in on my face, googles ripped to bits and blood all down my shirt and pants (small cut on face but bleed like crazy). Bike was miles away and looked like a chopper - rear sub frame wrapped around the rear wheel, handle bars tied in knots. I managed to get it going and putted home with a serioulsy awkward to control bike in the state it was in - with my head spinning - it looked like I was riding into a black hole as my vision played games. Got home and couldn't resist a huge urge to go to sleep. Went to bed with full riding gear and blood still on, in a dream like state. Woke up about 5 hours later with Mum shaking me - striaght to hospital with serious concussion.

[Firefight]

Done the same sort of thing, fucked up a big jump on motox bike, big off, lots of blood, Koed, got home washed the bike, took the bars off to starighted then, went inside had a cup of tea with Mrs F/F, then I said to her, "'Just going out to wash the bike"", and shes like you did that already, "When ? "" I asked, and next thing Ia'm in the car and off to Middelmore, Of course ,I should have known better.

So I guess I sorta walked from that one.

F/F

[NordieBoy]

Not me but a mate on a KX500 in the hills riding alone.
You know the sort of thing....

Favorite set of switchbacks.....
140kph or so.....
Forestry bulldozed road through middle of hill just after the crest.....
Split the helmet in half when he hit the tree.....
The bike missed the tree and was fine.....
He woke up, straightened the bars and rode slowly home.....
Couldn't get off the bike when he got home....
Panicked his mate who saw him pull up all covered in blood......

Can't turn his head at all to this day...

[vifferman]

That does it - all these tales have scared the crap outta me, and they're suposedly the "good" crashes! Time to give up riding - it's obviously too bloody dangerous!

Actually, I've been very lucky so far - my worst injuries have been the ones I didn't incur on the bike! Like doing a face-plant off the bumper of the Pajero into the concrete and door frame of the gargre - split my face open, cracked my eyebrow and nose, wrecked the rotator cuff in my shoulder, and got 8 stitches in my face. My wife thought I'd died when I collapsed on the kitchen floor...

Of course, I've never crashed my bike. Well... ahem... not this one.


Learning to ride (off-road): dismounted on the low side on a steep hill, with the F7 on top of me, damaged the nerves in my ankle. Not technically a crash, and I could sort of walk.
First bike:
* Clipped a Mini at dusk with my handlebar, because I was wearing a tinted visor, slid down the road a few metres. No real injuries.
* Lowsided in gravel. No real injuries.
After wheelstanding up my drive, lost the front end braking hard, and slid through the gargre.
* Hit a pushbike, when the rider turned in front of me without looking. Slid about 20 metres down the road.
* T-boned a car that didn't give way, while doing wheelstands at ~70 kmh. Somersaulted over the car, got grazes to my feet, ankles and badly cut right knee (9 stitches). Had a trip in the ambulance, and couldn't walk for a few days. (Guess I didn't walk away from that Christmas present...) Bike was almost totally ferked: fron wheel ended up beside engine, frame was bent and broken, headlight and instruments toast, rocker cover mount ripped out, etc.
Second bike: I'm learning! Probably some spills off-road, but none that I remember, although I've still got scars on my ankle from barbed wire being wrapped around it, and I nearly broke my kneecap when kickback shot it into the bolt on the bottom of the mirror.
Third bike: Nada.
Fourth bike: Nada (although I had some moments, like the tang on the centrestand levering the rear wheel off the ground, and bad headshake from a crappy 16" Dunlop Arrowmax).
Fifth bike: (Commuting in perilous D'Auckland...)
Lowside (squashed softdrink can under front tyre).
Hit a pedestrian. Silly bitch.
Lost the front end avoiding a crash with a BMW that changed lanes on me.
Hit a car that U-turned into me. Technically didn't walk away from that, but was walking later that day, with a badly bruised and swollen knee (still has numbness over a year later), and possibly a cracked heel (still hurts a bit).

I've learned stuff. Like softdrink cans develop good camouflage after living on the road for a while, and are very slippery. People are very unpredictable, whether walking, cycling or driving. And crashing sucks!

[jrandom]

face-plant off the bumper of the Pajero into the concrete and door frame of the gargre - split my face open, cracked my eyebrow and nose, wrecked the rotator cuff in my shoulder, and got 8 stitches in my face.

Gargre floor pretty handy with a needle and thread then?