Death, taxes and crashes

[vgcspares]

So the Top of the Pops reads like this then (in YEARS) :

dpex 41 unbroken
Slofox 34
vifferman 25
Brian_d'marge 9 unbroken
GSXR_Trace 6

seems like the popular wisdom that bikers average 20 years between spills is a bit on the optimistic side .... or was that between MAJOR spills ?

[Ixion]

Haven't been involved in a moving crash on a public road. (car or bike) . I'm phrasing carefully here, excluding off road, driveway, traffic light kickstart down trouser leg type incidents.

Thats about 48 /49 years or so (can actually remember when I started riding on the road)

[driftn]

20 days

[SPman]

Generally one "incident" per bike, ranging from falling off on a freshly base- coursed farm drive at 20kph (FZR750 - dented pride and bike scratches), to inexplicably riding into a bank, whilst taking minor evasive action that should have been quite straight forward (GSXR1000 -rather more dented pride and f*cked m/cycle), and most scenarios inbetween................over the course of........umm.....43 yrs.

[Anarkist]

traffic light kickstart down trouser leg type incidents

Ahahaha.. I can just imagine that.

[slofox]

Haven't been involved in a moving crash on a public road. (car or bike) . I'm phrasing carefully here, excluding off road, driveway, traffic light kickstart down trouser leg type incidents.

Thats about 48 /49 years or so (can actually remember when I started riding on the road)

If I was to use your definition above Ixion, it is errrmmmm 41 years since the last "moving crash on a public road". The rest were on the track or in driveways - like the last bloody one.......

[vgcspares]

I think we need to be a little stricter here - every claim I see blames the bike, or the road, or some other external agency for the prang (about 1 in 100 accepts the blame themselves) ...

so when claiming decades of crash-free riding I really think that should take account of any incidence on a public highway (especially if it cost money to fix)

[Swoop]

I think we need to be a little stricter here - every claim I see blames the bike, or the road, or some other external agency for the prang (about 1 in 100 accepts the blame themselves) ...

so when claiming decades of crash-free riding I really think that should take account of any incidence on a public highway (especially if it cost money to fix)

The unwritten KB rule on a bin, is that the incident must involve the bike travelling more than its length.
Just dropping it in your garage is a "twatism", annoying, etc, but not a bin.

[light]

I havent come off a bike since I was a kid. Though since then till aobut 10 years ago I didnt have a bike.

In the last 10 odd years I have been commuting to a from work + riding on weekends. Still havent come off touch wood.

[Brian d marge]

I think we need to be a little stricter here - every claim I see blames the bike, or the road, or some other external agency for the prang (about 1 in 100 accepts the blame themselves) ...

so when claiming decades of crash-free riding I really think that should take account of any incidence on a public highway (especially if it cost money to fix)

yup 9 years....NEVER claimed any insurance ,,,( never had any when young ,,,,)

Stephen

[Bass]

I fall off the DR often.
If I don't, I'm not trying hard enough.
I have yet to damage either myself or the bike though.