How many times have you had an off on the road?

**LilSel** · 26th April 2007, 08:22

I've had one off *touch wood*.
Learnt from it tho... soooo... all gravy

**lowededwookie** · 26th April 2007, 08:48

I've had three.

The first, and only one where I got injured and wrote off my bike, was caused by a driver pulling out of an intersection.

The second was on the Wellington motorway just before the Johnsonville/Hutt turnoffs. The car in front of me for absolutely no reason slammed on his brakes forcing me to hit mine. Having had new pads installed that day the front locked and the bike dropped. Luckily we were only doing about 10Km. The thing that pissed me off about that incident was the tosser in the car behind me. As I was picking my bike up he was all "Can you push your bike to the side of the road so we can all move?" No "are you all right" or anything. No helping me push my bike to the side of the road. Needless to say that prick got the finger as I road past him up the middle.

The third was somewhat embarrassing. I had just picked up my bike from Wellington Motorcycles after getting new pads, new tyres, and some other minor bits done. I had just gone through Kent Terrace and was turning right into Cambridge Terrace when I hit a patch of diesel and the front went down taking me with it.

So with 17 years motorcycle experience behind me having only 1 major off is pretty good.

Actually I just lied. I forgot about the Akatarawas which makes 4 offs. I was heading up the Akatarawas from Waikanae when I came to a righthand corner. The corner would have been fine if the moron who built it didn't make the camber go to the left instead of the right. As such the bike wouldn't turn and I was heading straight for the edge of the cliff. The only thing I could do was an enforced drop, right the bike, aim it at the corner, and then take off. I seriously wanna smack the moron that built that road.

**RC1** · 26th April 2007, 13:53

in 20+yrs riding lost count i think around 9 or 10 and all but 1 was my fault

**Crisis management** · 26th April 2007, 14:02

I've lost count, basic stupidity and testosterone are a wonderful way of getting to know your local habitat.

I blame my mother, if i'd been a girl this wouldn't have happened!

Can I sue anyone?????

Does this make any sense?

Does anyone care?

All these questions and only one answer (42) how the fuck am I supposed to cope!!

I blame Spank for the pink cloud.

Have I missed anyone out???

**sunhuntin** · 26th April 2007, 14:03

itll be 2 years this may since i got my license [man, i love my crappy l plate!]

have had one major incident where a bitch pulled out from a stop sign on my left without being able to see clearly in either direction. i was overtaking cars turning left. i hit her front bumper. sailed over the bonnet, did a few mid air rolls, hit the ground and rolled some more. bike was jammed under her car, backpack was on her bonnet, and topbox just missed my head.
she got nothing, i got a cast for a week. bitch. i wish now id slapped her with my helmet like i wanted to.

dunno if this counts, but there was the infamous fence post incident in december i think... guy i was riding with overtook on a corner that tightened up way too fast. i barely missed his back wheel, and went straight through the corner and ended up jammed between two posts.
[have just had the forks straightened this week, and man, what a difference!! i can lean into turns again!!]

**Bend-it** · 26th April 2007, 14:03

Apparently it's your father's fault you're not female...

**Squeak the Rat** · 26th April 2007, 14:42

Originally Posted by Ixion

Sigh. This question (with poll) has been posited several times before. And the answer doesn't mean much unless you also factor in how long the respondant has been riding . If someone has been riding one week and not crashed it doesn't signify much.

Yes it has and one of those people regrets having brought up the subject.

The point of one of the previous occassions was to show people who had only been riding for a short time that falling of ten times was not normal for an experienced rider, let alone a learner.

**Her_C4** · 26th April 2007, 14:57

Originally Posted by Hitcher

It's not polite to keep count of such things.

Oh thank goodness!!! Then I will rewind back to zero

**Sanx** · 26th April 2007, 15:25

I wasn't looking to prove points to anyone - I was just interested in the numbers, and people usually have some fun(ny) stories to go with them

Obviously, the more you ride, the more likely it is you've had an off. To get a truly accurate view, you'd need not to consider the number of years a person's been riding, but how many kilometres they've covered on bikes; the same way that the general method of calculating accident statistics is not the simplistic "deaths per year" used by the government, but "deaths per million kilometres travelled". You could further complicate it by splitting the kilometres-travelled-per-rider and offs-per-rider into urban and rural categories.

I apologise for the repost.

**orange dog** · 26th April 2007, 17:10

WOW, what a safe lot, good on yeh's
More than 10 for me but no serious injuries so I get to laugh at all of mine, reasons for which include:
Checking out the Varsity chics
Racing cars
Racing self
Showing off to girlfriend
Being distracted by mate falling off
Not tacking careful note of female asian driver
Learning about road paint & rain mix
Learning about worn roads and rain (no stones just tar)

Riding time: 21 years (15-36)
Approx Km's: 150,000
Bikes: 7

**pyrocam** · 26th April 2007, 18:03

bah most of you never crashed? pssh
you haven't lived

**flash** · 26th April 2007, 18:42

ive never crashed on a road bike, all it means is i havnt been pushing it hard

. almost been hit tons of times if that counts though

**FruitLooPs** · 26th April 2007, 19:55

None but I did manage to whack a cars wing mirror being the filling in a car/truck sandwich (them going opposing ways me going down the middle) coming down the port hills to sumner. Nearly packed my undies on that one.

Bit of 1 year of riding.

**Mr Merde** · 26th April 2007, 20:02

After riding for 35 years and well over 1 million km, I have lost track of the number of times i've been off the bike on the road.

I have the scars and memories to remind me.

Trick is is to learn from them and get back on the bike.

Worst off was when I was 17yo and a kid tried to play chicken with me by running out in front of the bike. I hit him and the bike went down on top of him. At 30mph it wasnt a pretty sight.

Took me 6 months to get back on the bike. Just lost all confidence even though the cops and the kids parents said it wasnt my fault in any way.

Any way, prepare for the worst and invest in the best safety kit you can afford. If you never use it great but if you ever do you will be thankful.

Mr