Testicular injuries due to bike accidents...

[Ixion]

Such a thread cannot be permitted to pass without mention of the infamous Meridan Triumph nut scrapers (also used by Suzuki at one stage)

[skidMark]

Such a thread cannot be permitted to pass without mention of the infamous Meridan Triumph nut scrapers (also used by Suzuki at one stage)

Care to elaborate Ixion?, most of us are were a scratch in our dads nutsack when these things you talk about happened.

SM

[skidMark]

Just stuff some socks down there and you'll be sorted. Most Honda riders do it anyway...

Imagaine that dent gooing so far into the tank straight ahead that it stopped at the gas cap....

that was the r1.

i think that fella probably a soprano now.

and i don't mean italian mafia.

[Magua]

Perhaps cups should be added to the list of armour that bike riders wear. _b

[jcupit69]

This came from hitting a 4x4 that pulled infrount of me at bout 50kmph on a zxr250. thankfully everything was ok, just VERY sore for a week!

[rasty]

Such a thread cannot be permitted to pass without mention of the infamous Meridan Triumph nut scrapers (also used by Suzuki at one stage)

Oh yes, I recall sliding up the tank of my Tiger 100 and leaving the boys under the grid - had to be experienced to truly appreciate it.

[JimO]

This came from hitting a 4x4 that pulled infrount of me at bout 50kmph on a zxr250. thankfully everything was ok, just VERY sore for a week![/QUOTE]

did ya have a stiffi

[Swoop]

Does not happen on Suzuki's, Yamaha's, Ducati's, BMW's, or kawasaki's.

One could say that Honda brakes are superior in performance than these "lesser brands" then?

[JimO]

You mean this... (Taken at Glenorchy 2007 but same bike mes think)

thats the bugger, the end of the tank is shaped like a rugby ball

[90s]

Maybe a box wouldn't be a bad idea. I still flinch when I think of an accident a cop showed me in the 80s where a sport-bike rider lost it on the motorway, and was sent 'star-jump' style over a bollard on the verge.
He was untouched.
Except he left his nuts on the bollard.

[madmal64]

Collected the fairing blade on the way over the bars on my RF900 a few years back.
Twas black & blue for a while in that area. Not much fun

[Ixion]

Box really isn't a silly idea. given that leggings nowdays come with armour here there and everywhere, y'd think they could put a bit in where it's *REALLY* important.

[twotyred]

Care to elaborate Ixion?, most of us are were a scratch in our dads nutsack when these things you talk about happened.

SM

In the late 60's the Triumph t100,T120 etc used to have tank racks that came to be known as "castrators"... apparently they stopped putting them on after many hapless riders lost their "racks" and had to go back to riding Vespas...

[fireliv]

When I worked at a pool, I had a guy come in who asked if I would talk to him in private. He told me how he wanted to stsart swimming, but he was in a motorbike accident where his "boys" were damaged so bad that he had to have one of them removed, and the other didnt function properly. He was nearly in tears telling me about it. He wanted to know whether I could tell because he had noticed changes, and wether he thought other people might be able to tell. I told him I couldnt and to where shorts not speedos and it will be sweet. Weird conversation to have but he left happy that a chick couldnt tell he was half a man. Scared me to think that could happen from a bike though....

[Ocean1]

Such a thread cannot be permitted to pass without mention of the infamous Meridan Triumph nut scrapers (also used by Suzuki at one stage)

The mere though makes one's arsehole clench *shudders*

I also have less than fond memories of early DT250/360 fuel caps, with the key-lock aft. Would be difficult to design a more clench-inducing protruberance, what were they thinking?

The thing that used to puzzle me was the number of deeply worrying impressions in the back of dirt bike tanks in general which apparently caused little or no testicular trauma.