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

[boomer]

i ride with crashers.. does that count??

upto now, never!!.... unless you call doing a stoppie, washing the bike twice, doing a u-turn over a white line and having shit tie downs....binning

and only once on the track

[jade]

Ive left 1 or 2 minor incidents out.
Before reading this, you should realise that out of all my crashes, I have walked away from all of them with nothing but a grazed knee or elbow except for 1 - where I hit a car and broke my leg in 5 places.
I might have been fine at the scene - But I can tell you for sure, EVERY CRASH - the next day - every muscle in my body hurt - like I was hit by a truck. even small crashes.
I should also point out that Every crash but the one I broke my leg - I had gear on - when I broke my leg I had my jacket - but was wearing jeans.
Wear your gear everywhere.

10, that includes 1 small one at taupo track on the grass, hurt my pride more than my bike or me

First one was when I went straight past my house on a friday after beers at work, leaning the gn125 round the 3rd corner of 3 to get back to my place, I was running wide when a car appeared and I had to lean over far enough to miss it, lowsided - along road, hit curb, along persons lawn and into tree, gave me a fright, got it started, Got home, got high. sprained ankle and a skinned knee, went bowling that night LOL!

Next I got a nsr250 2 stroke
Recipie for danger. Learner - 2 stroke
First time I binned it was pulling out of a road right on to another road
Too much power on wet road, Highside at 10kph,
Next was
showing off with my mate through takapuna a car pulled out on me after I accelerated to bowt 60 - I locked front and went for a slide while my bike slid into the oncoming car - rode home with flat rear tyre.

This was the only crash I didnt walk From.
NSR250, everyday I would go riding before work, half an hour to an hour, one day, I woke up late and went straight to work - a 4-5 min trip including the 3 traffic lights.
Came round the long right hander a little above the speed limit that my work was located on - oncoming car decides to pull across my path into driveway - makes it halfway before I hit it.
Broken Femeur in 5 places - no other scratch on me
7 days in hospital - 80 staples - 4 months off work - 40cm rod from knee to hip - No side effects or immobility 1 and a half years later

Next crash - I spent 4 months on acc rebuilding bike - had to make brake calliper mounts onto the forks - 15 mins into the maiden voyage (2 weeks after I ditched crutches) the discs had been rubbing on the callipers = front wheel locked on me at 60k - I went over the handle bars and up the road.

Sold the nsr and got a aprilia rs250, Mint. rode it for 6 months day and night and never got a scratch on it
Unfortunate asian man knocks me off it - on my way to court against the lady who broke my leg

Got it written off and got a 2000 rs250, crashed it 4 days after i got it, after coming into a corner too hot, doing a stoppie at 120 and hitting the far side of a ditch and flying thru the air for 10m then sliding between two fences for 20m
Bent Frame - front wheel 75mm backwards - got frame straightened while I did the fairings - have now ridden it for 6 months daily without any crashed, but near misses can happen - Im slowly learning, and Ive definately slowed down. Crashing should not be considered a part of motorcycling.

Wanna talk about riding your machine stoned ?