How many times have you crashed on the road?

**FJRider** · 7th March 2015, 06:10

Originally Posted by Driftmonkey

... Probably only happened because I was learning.

I would say it only happened ... because you weren't learning ...

**eldog** · 7th March 2015, 06:22

3 times, none related to speed or alcohol or taking risks. All under 70kph
All things I didn't know about until after accident(s) happened. I would have avoided all of them with what I know now.
All avoidable if I had known what to do and what to look for - that's why I do training, read motorbike learning books and take things easy, one step at a time. and ATGATT that has saved me most.

Learnt from every accident I have had, each case different causes and I have walked away no major damage (impact pads in gear help)
I try and help others 'discover' what some of these causes are so they can avoid them (or plan ahead).
Few want to listen to an old bugger. Even if one listens I am happy.

**Akzle** · 7th March 2015, 10:03

twice at fault, single vehicle (motobike).

one vs ditch - gave up on going around the corner,
one just having a liedown after some sick 270 skiddage.

three, if you count coming round a hairpin (drunk, no lights, at night - i was a fucking clever one.) to find a car stopped dead centre, epic somersault.

in *mumble mumble* years of riding. >10 <20.

**george formby** · 7th March 2015, 10:17

Dredgealicious.
I'm to old to remember. Crashed through just about every hedge in Northumberland as an under skilled over enthusiastic yoof. Must have had an angel on my shoulder and a demon in my ear.

**sugilite:Me** · 7th March 2015, 10:31

Oh, a thread dredge. My tally still remains at just 9, same as when I first posted in this thread. I must be slipping, or not as the case may be.

**mossy1200** · 7th March 2015, 12:45

Hit some diesel on a roundabout back in 1993 with a new back tyre. Ended up standing beside the bike. Does that count?

**puddytat** · 7th March 2015, 13:40

Hit a U-turning ute on me XR250 way back when they first came out at about 70k & remembered Freeths advice about unhooking thumbs before impact & to look at your toes while flying so you roll on impact with the road.....
it worked. Not a scratch on me.
Bike was pretty munted though & got a little more munted when I got home as I took to the tank with a hammer just to make sure I got a new tank as I'd dropped the bike a few weeks before & it had an unsightly dent in it

Target fixating a bank in the Buller Gorge so its just 2.

**caseye** · 7th March 2015, 19:19

Has anyone seen Cassina?
Sure he'll put you all to shame with his ability to be involved, but not involved and walk away, never his fault, not even a little bit.
Love to see if she/he,it actually tells you how many?
None, not anticipating any either, I try hard to make sure I am as safe as I can be while riding, these days I have my wife riding in front of me and that takes some doing as I am constantly pulling in the 6 feet of gap between her and usually the car following her, sometimes a bloody bike and brake checking them to get their attention and their road users skills back to something like normal.
But hey, tell me to stop because it's going to happen, Fuck off, it isn't.

**vifferman** · 7th March 2015, 19:42

Originally Posted by Banditbandit

Riding since 1973

Me too!
Had a few; wrote off my first bike (Christmas Day, 1975, my fault) and my last VFR a few years ago (not my fault, but there were things I could have done to prevent it). I've also run over a cyclist, and a pedestrian; low-sided on gravel roadworks on a corner (obscured by pedestrians wandering on the road); and the dumbest crash was locking up te front wheel bedding in the front brake pads on a slippery, tarsnake infested road.
Wrote off my first car too. That was on the road.

**JATZ** · 7th March 2015, 20:49

Define "road"

I've had a couple on farm tracks, some on skidder tracks, a couple on no tracks, 1 or 2 on gravel roads (1 of which hurt a bit

) and 1 on a sealed road (ice)
All were my fault 'cause I was in control of the bike.....or not

Hmmmm, all that in 8 yrs. Maybe I should stop now ?

**Ender EnZed** · 7th March 2015, 21:47

Originally Posted by cassina

I ended up standing too when I hit some ice in ChCh years ago. Such a crash would make a good video eh.

So anyway, just how many times have you crashed?

**nzspokes** · 7th March 2015, 21:49

Two. First an Indian guy decided to go for his driveway right in front of me, from opposing traffic. His argument was I should have been nice and let him go through. This didnt work out well for him in court. Next was an Indian lady that entered a roundabout I was on, was more of a fall over as my foot slipped as I put it down. We only just touched. Bike just needed a brake lever.

I keep an eye out for Indian drivers these days.

**nzspokes** · 7th March 2015, 21:51

Originally Posted by cassina

Is your wife putting you under pressure to keep up?? Will you blame her if you come to grief?

You are an idiot. HTH.

**nzspokes** · 7th March 2015, 22:15

Originally Posted by cassina

I bet you think there is no such thing but I have seen it myself. It is something that no one will admit to of course in case they are thought of as being a wimp or something. Maybe you ride under pressure to keep up yourself and I have hit a raw nerve eh sport?

You are still an idiot.

**george formby** · 7th March 2015, 22:27

Originally Posted by nzspokes

Two. First an Indian guy decided to go for his driveway right in front of me, from opposing traffic. His argument was I should have been nice and let him go through. This didnt work out well for him in court. Next was an Indian lady that entered a roundabout I was on, was more of a fall over as my foot slipped as I put it down. We only just touched. Bike just needed a brake lever.

I keep an eye out for Indian drivers these days.

Has this experience put you off curry and naan?