Help me with some research please

[hellokitty]

Haha yeah I forgot to add, I was learning to ride, and was using my dad's Bandit on gravel, was going really well, got a bit cocky and lost it on a tight corner. Made a mess of his bike!!!!

[Woodman]

Its all relative really. For example i fell off 3 times yesterday, but I think this guy was referring to road bikes on the road.
Is he the same guy who when you say how nice the weather is he will respond with "it looks like its going to rain though".

Ok in 28 odd years of riding off and on I have hit a drunk driver as a pillion, 5 or 6 lay downs on wet roads because of knobblies, and hit gravel on the Whangamoas on the gixxer and flown into the trees. One acc claim from the pillion ride, but that was the drunks fault really.

[blackdog]

once, in 1989, because of an engine seizure locking everything up mid corner and once in '94 lowsided when i hit a some gravel, nothing since

can't count the number of times i bailed off my pushbikes though....

[kevfromcoro]

Been riding over 40 yrs...
Never had an off on the road.. thank fuck..
Did a lot of enduro riding when i was younger . not unsuall to come off 3 or 4 times a day.......

[mashman]

8 years... plenty of close calls... but nothing bad has happened (touch wood)...

[hellokitty]

Been riding over 40 yrs...
Never had an off on the road.. thank fuck..
Did a lot of enduro riding when i was younger . not unsuall to come off 3 or 4 times a day.......

Yep! Had to give up the enduro/off road stuff - always coming off and getting injured

[Bikernereid]

I dropped my bike on some unmarked gravel whilst attempting not to ride into the rear end of OWNER who had missed the turn. Have had the bike about a year. I would say having an accident quite early on has assisted me in my riding, especially where gravel is concerned!!!

And dropped OWNERs motorx bike at the beach whilst stationary (legs too short to touch the ground).

[CookMySock]

hopefully i can prove him wrong or otherwise be scared into being very very careful!!

Best you just accept he is right and start being very very careful. That will make you part of the solution and not part of the problem.

Maybe this guy did you a really huge favour?


Steve

[Big Col]

kevfromcoro sums it up for me. Oh Thursday before easter was my last off. and about 30 years my last off on the road.

[thealmightytaco]

Best you just accept he is right and start being very very careful. That will make you part of the solution and not part of the problem.

Maybe this guy did you a really huge favour?


Steve

He has done you a favour, you'll be careful as buggery now (gotta be careful where buggery is concerned) but he definitely aint right. I been riding 5 years, never come off. About to start bucket racing, that'll be another story, but you can't live life on the couch can ya.

[FJRider]

Just be as careful as you can when you ride ... if you start thinking of all the bad things that could happen to you, you wouldn't get out of bed. Let alone ride a motorcycle ...

[Genie]

when I was younger and used to go out riding the firebreaks I fell of heaps, was part of the fun.

Now, having owned the bike since jan I have dropped it twice. Once on the forecourt of the petrol station, had me a blonde moment where balance was not my friend and then attempting to do a hill start whilst turning at the same time, I did succeed on the second attempt.

I have had so many people (non-bike) tell me I'll kill myself and it's so selfish to ride a bike when I'm a mum!!!! Those comments one has to take like a grain of salt, living is a risk, shit eat eggs and you're cholestoral goes high, drink to much and your lliver will pack up, sit in the sun too long and here is some skin cancer, everything is a risk, but what is life without a bit of risk?

[Oakie]

#1, Fell off at about 10 mph on short grass when I had to decide whether to turn or brake to avoid an object. Did both and the bike slid out from under me.
#2, Fell off at walking speed doing a U turn when I hit some gravel.
#3, Misjudged my stopping distance going down the driveway and hit mum's car's bumper ... (hardly counts).

All of these were in my first 18 months of riding. I reckon if you can survive the first couple of years and learn the lessons from the mistakes you make you're a long way towards surviving reasonably unscathed. Just as long as you never think you know it all or get over-confident. I still make mistakes but thankfully not major ones (touch wood).

[H00dz]

three years Licensed never been hit, dropped once in a driveway does that count????

[Bikemad]

been ridin 35 years
1......low speed drop on smooth concrete in petrol station forecourt
2.......medium speed crash when run off the road by car overtaking truck n trailer
3........low speed drop when moving bike while sittin on it holding hemet and hot coffee and the steering lock was on...........doh!!!
4.........medium speed drop after sunstrike and riding into gravel patch on corner