Crash tales. What happened and why

[justsomeguy]

Lessons learnt - Crashing isn't fun and you could die, which is cool/fine/not a problem if you don't care. What isn't cool or fine is that it isn't that simple.

Usually you don't die.

You also inconvenience a lot of people around you and really stress them out.

You could kill/injure someone else sharing the road with you.

Huge nuisance if you don't die and have to recover and live like a vegetable. A scenario much better avoided.

Some of us are accidents waiting to happen, the sad fact is most of us don't care enough to change ourselves.

Keep it for the track, or stop riding till you can afford enough track time to get it out of your system and let you cruise on the road. Otherwise find something else as a hobby. There is more to life than motorcycles.

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Details -

Crash 1 -

April 23rd 2005 3pm or around then. 3 months riding experience.

Bike shitty ZZR250.

Went for a ride with Zed, 6Chris6, Death, Draco, Loosebruce down SH22.

Started to rain on the way back.

Started raining harder.

I kept "practicing" late breaking and riding like that jerk JSG. Locked the front or something, lowsided, landed on my face at 70kmph and slid to a stop.

Bike was rideable.

I was fine.

Continued to ride even faster on the way back to Death's house for a warm cuppa.

Lesson learnt - Nothing really, was quite happy that I crashed and lived
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Crash 2 -

Sept 16 4pm or around then. Over 2.5 years riding experience.

Bike - Mint, near new gixxer thou with only 4500km, with the obligatory yoshi full titanium system, braided lines, larger rear sprocket - lots of little bling bits, phuckin noice bike in other words....meaning it hurt more to lose.

No memory of crash. Ambos said I hit a rock on the road. Massive highside.

Bike totalled. Bounced through the air several times damaged every panel, tank, both subframes and both wheels. All gear totalled including gloves and boots.

No insurance, I was too busy at work and didn't get around to transferring it to the new bike.

Damage to me: Lots of broken bits including my skull, two months off work to recover.

Real cause of crash - I got away with riding like that jerk JSG so many times I thought I'd developed it into an art....... I thought wrong.

[swbarnett]

There is more to life than motorcycles.

There are some of us that would strongly dispute this. To each their own...

[Ixion]

Piffle. Of course there's more to life than motorcycles. There's beer. 'S obvious.

[jrandom]

I got away with riding like that jerk JSG so many times I thought I'd developed it into an art...

I recommend changing the style of bike you ride when you eventually replace the pile of gixxer thou bits.

The GSX1400 is working a treat for me when it comes to staying happy while 'just cruising'.

[swbarnett]

Piffle. Of course there's more to life than motorcycles. There's beer. 'S obvious.

And good single malt Scotch... (And the wife of course).

Life wasn't nearly as good before I got back on a bike though.

[jcupit69]

Heres mine:
Riding down from my house, doing bout 45-55 kmh in a 50, just letting my bike warm up (little zxr250c), and some ass in a 4x4 coming the other direction decides he wants to do a u-turn crossing my lane. This charming fellow decides he doesnt need to check if anythings coming and doesnt need to indecate, he'll just go a do his turn.......

upon seeing this huge ass 4x4 pull rite in frount of me, i slam on the breaks and aim as far back on his 4x4 as possible, unfortunitly he only left me about 2 meters to do all this, so bang!!!!

Bike nailed into the back of the 4x4, i fly over the back and go bouncing down the road on my head, leaving a huge dent in my gas tank on the way.
From there i proceded to drift in and out of conciousness, untill arriving by ambulance at wellington a&e.

I spent about 10 hours in a&e getting my head checked and my balls examined by everyone and their friend in the hospital (not fun at all), their was talk at one point of sergery and potential amputation, which thankfully never occoured. I was discharged home with my mother, as shes a nurse, otherwise they were gona transfer me to a ward so they could monitor my poor testical

After having my head well and truely messed up for bout 3 weeks, and walking like john wayne for about the same amount of time, i was thankfully back to nearly normal and had my insurance pay out (100% his fault so i kept my no claims bonus ) so decided to celebrated by going and getting an rs 250!!!

Never did find out if it was a man or woman driving, all i know is the police said 100% their fault, and gave them an $80 speeding ticket for failure to give way (which i thought was abit pathetic really)!!!

Thankfully i wasnt driving like a nutter, and was very luck in so many ways....bottom line is it doesnt matter how good a rider you are or think you are, it only takes one prick in a cage to kill you, no matter what your doing.

Still would rather die on a bike than live without one though, but i dont intend to do eitha.

p.s. props to the ambulance man for taking the pics at the scene and bluetoothing them to me on the way to hospital, thats what i call good service

[Blue Velvet]

Heres mine

Weird. That cage is called an Isuzu Alive

[jcupit69]

Weird. That cage is called an Isuzu Alive

Thank you, id been wondering what the hell it was!!!

[Mikkel]

I spent about 10 hours in a&e getting my head checked and my balls examined by everyone and their friend in the hospital (not fun at all), their was talk at one point of sergery and potential amputation, which thankfully never occoured. I was discharged home with my mother, as shes a nurse, otherwise they were gona transfer me to a ward so they could monitor my poor testical

I can see from the 2nd of your pictures why your testicle might have hurt a bit!

Good thing you're okay - but ridiculous only charging the driver with "failure to give way". That would have been at least "careless driving causing injury"!

[Finn]

I'm getting nervous. It's been two years since I started riding and I haven't come off.

[Mikkel]

I'm getting nervous. It's been two years since I started riding and I haven't come off.

Damn, you must have a sore ass by now...

[Finn]

Damn, you must have a sore ass by now...

He's not sore, just resting.

[Mikkel]

He's not sore, justing resting.

How the fuck did you get him to do that? I've been trying to get my ass to lie down for years!

[vifferman]

Never did find out if it was a man or woman driving, all i know is the police said 100% their fault, and gave them an $80 speeding ticket for failure to give way (which i thought was abit pathetic really)!!!

I agree.
They should've been charged with careless use causing injury at least.

I bought my first bike from a gurrrl who'd been t-boned by some old lady who made a habit of not stopping at intersections. Her leg was broken in 6 places, she had spend a few eeks in hospital in traction, then had a plaster cast up to her chest for a couple of months, then another full leg one for weeks, then she had calipers, then had to walk with a stick. For all I know, she probably still has a limp.
The old lady was fined some pathetically small amount for failing to give way.

[Swoop]

Bike nailed into the back of the 4x4, i fly over the back and go bouncing down the road on my head, leaving a huge dent in my gas tank on the way.

Oooohhh! Cringe inducing photo if ever there was!
Your friends' don't call you "horse" by any chance?

I spent about 10 hours... getting my balls examined by everyone and their friend

You could have spent a lot of money, in certain places of town, to experience the very same thing...