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Spectacular motorcycling accident (Read 1749 times)
Reply #15 - Sep 8th, 2003 at 4:55am

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MMM let me see, I am 16 and have ridden a motorbike twice and have a crash rate of 100%.

On my 11th B'day i drove one off a 4 m cliff that left me very bruised across my face (That's what a spinning tyre does to you) but i surprisingly didn't break anything.

And 2 years ago i was riding a bike and hit the accelerator (i didnt know that i did) and ran fair into a fence.

As you can probably gather I am going to avoid motorbikes.
 
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Reply #16 - Sep 8th, 2003 at 9:20am

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When I was 15 I took my cousins ZZR600 Kwaka for a quick spin the local bypass (he is a policeman!) and I ended up under the bike and in a lot of pain!
Then about 8 years later a mate of mine suggested doing our motorbike tests together, and I thought what the heck, it'll help me get over the fear, and it'll reduce my insurance on the car.
A week after passing I had my first big boy bike, and every chance I get I ride.
Bikes aren't dangerous. Half-wits in a crash helmet and leathers are.....

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Reply #17 - Nov 15th, 2003 at 12:29pm
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Me got Volvo-Me no Moron-
You got Bike-See a Psyche Grin
 
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Reply #18 - Nov 19th, 2003 at 2:43pm

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My only crash was on one of my first bikes when I was 16...(1950)... Wink...!
A 98 cc Sun 2-stroke... 8)...!
I had removed the rear wheel for some reason, (probably a puncture), and when I put the wheel back in the frame I forgot to replace the rear brake torque arm... Roll Eyes...!
So...
The first time I applied the rear brake, the brake drum rotated and  locked up the back brake and tore the wheel out of the frame.
The bike finished up as a mono-cycle and I was firmly planted in the road.... Cry...!
..(I think I cried a little at the time...) Cry...!
I've been very careful ever since... Grin...!
...54 years clean licence, no more accidents... 8)...!

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Reply #19 - Nov 26th, 2003 at 7:00am

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.... been riding bikes scince I was 10 yrs old .... (off road) ..... trials, enduro and a bit of moto-cross ..... had numerous tumbles off road ..... broken fingers coller bone cuts and bruises etc ..... came off a berm once in a big cart wheel arms legs and bike everywhere ....  came to rest with the bar end in my mouth! ..... and I still had all my teeth!  Wink

..... in the early eightys I had a big one on the road, .... riding a 250 enduro on the road, came around a left hander to meet a car head on .... big bang! .... broken knee cap, wrist, serious head injuries ( the decelleration is that sudden in your helmet that your skull carries on moving tearing your scalp and bashing your brain) oh and my foot was just about cut off even though I had motocross boots on .... the AGV fibreglass helmet had definatly saved me but it was a nurse at home on maternity leave who came and saved me .... the people in the car just left me in the bottom of the hedge all messed up ..... probably thought I was a gonner .... she took my helmet of and stopped me drowning in my own blood , (cleared my airway) till the ambulance etc arrived (35 mins)  I hadn't flown through the air I just hit the car and got tangled up ..... my head pushed the roof away from the top of the screen by 4 or 5 inches! ..... I was only doing about 25-30 mph, the car around 40? .... the bike was unrecognisable and the car was a total write off .... the engine was all pushed to the side and back ..... was in a coma for eleven days and it took about 4 months to get all fixed up  Shocked  ..... still riding though  
 

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Reply #20 - Nov 26th, 2003 at 9:46am
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Im too smart to drive a moto, but my friend once drove his bike though a fence and flipped over.

and another time he was taunting an old lady when he hit a pot hole and some how he tore up his knee.  then the old lady laughed at him.
 
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Reply #21 - Jan 17th, 2004 at 11:16pm

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Motorcycles here really are mainly for recreation, not really as functional transportation. 

I know a person who got hit by a police car whilst they were chasing someone.  He got thrown about 15 feet in the air and the bike ended up underneath the cruiser.  Now he's got a Harley with illegal exhaust!

(Vroom Vroom)

P.S. Mark what have you against Volvo drivers! ???


And put me down for a bloody T-72, bi-turbo with the shiniest hubs you can find, spiked treads, urban camo, and make sure it is street legal!  And don't forget some rounds filled with some lovely BBQ sauce! Grin
 
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Reply #22 - Jan 17th, 2004 at 11:20pm

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Quote:
...54 years clean licence, no more accidents... 8)...!

Paul.

Fozz, you didn't happen to invent the motorbike, did you? Grin
 
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Reply #23 - Jan 18th, 2004 at 7:58pm

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I dont have any street bike accident stories....yet Cheesy

I do have motocross accident though, I went off this weird jump at the track, it was a real kicker, I ended up doing a unintentional superman mid air., after that I thought I got my feet back on the pegs, I was wrong and I entered a world of pain on the landing Shocked Cry
 
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