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DUI?: No
On
Road?: yes
Model Year: 91
2-up?: No
Hurt: No
Rider
Age: 25
Comments: Low speed fall while engine braking
Loaded?:
No
season: Fall
Group?: No
Model: EX500R
Bike Make:
Kawasaki
Helmet?: yes
DUI?: No
On Road?: yes
Model Year: 84
2-up?: No
Hurt:
yes
Rider Age: 29
Comments
--------------------
Rounding
a nice long sweeper that I had done many times before. Front tire
pushed out because it was NEW and I had not yet broke it in. I
made the most awesome two tire slide you ever saw, right peg
about an inch from the road for about 100 feet (I was near
readline in second, making it about 70mph). Both wheels hit a two
foot berm on the side of the road and launched me (high-side)
into the air. I cleared a six foot fence and travelled through a
tree top, the bike flipped through the fence and nailed the tree
trunk. I hit so hard the back tire burned throught the fender,
bottom of the seat and half way through the foam. Upon impact, my
face hit the tank top and broke the "jaw" off the full
face Bell I was wearing.
I spent the next week in intensive
care with a ruptured kidney and torn ligaments in my knee. No
broken bones or openings in the
skin!
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Loaded?: No
season:
Fall
Group?: No
Email Address: c.mackarness@rocketmail.com
Model: 750
Bike Make: Honda
Helmet?: yes
DUI?: No
On Road?: No
Model Year: 87
2-up?: No
Hurt:
yes
Rider Age: 32
Comments: Trail riding in the Nevada high
desert near sand mountain. I was hot-dogging on a BLM dirt road
and got air at the top of a nice long climb, only to find the
road made an abrupt right turn. I did not have enough time to
change direction and decided to ride it out down the ravine. As
the front tire was coming down the back tire hit the only rock in
miles large enough to make a difference. The bike stopped
suddenly and tossed me over the bars, I landed on my back sliding
down the ravine. I ended up with a fractured rib, three inches
from my spine.
Loaded?: No
season: Fall
Group?: No
Email
Address: c.mackarness@rocketmail.com
Model: 200
Bike Make:
Honda
Helmet?: yes
DUI?: No
On Road?: yes
Model Year: 91
2-up?: No
Hurt:
No
Rider Age: 25
Comments: My EX 500 has only been down
once. Making a slow right turn into the FDR in Manhattan I lost
concentration and didn't pick my line. Went way too wide and into
the concrete dividers where gravel and oil and gunk live. The
tires couldn't grip anything. As I tried to maintain balance I
inadvertently gunned the trottle--boy, did I take a tumble.
Shredded the left-front turn signal, shattered the windshield,
cracked & scratched the fairing, beveled the mirror &
clutch lever, scuffed the muffler, knocked the left clip-on out
of whack, scuffed my jacket and jammed my left shoulder. Don't
even mention my pride.
Loaded?: yes
season: Fall
Group?:
No
Model: 498cc's
Bike Make: Kawasaki EX 500
Helmet?:
yes
DUI?: No
On Road?: yes
Model Year: 1982
2-up?:
No
Hurt: No
Rider Age: 22v Comments: Entering freeway
onramp - right hand curve from street. I used this onramp
everyday and may approach got progessively faster.
Low-sided
when I entered too fast and leaned too quickly. Tires were
probably a bit cold. Destroyed the bike, but spared the
rider.
Loaded?: No
season: Fall
Group?: No
Model:
650
Bike Make: Suzuki
Helmet?: yes
DUI?: No
On Road?: yes
Model Year: 1995
2-up?:
No
Hurt: No
Rider Age:
27
Comments
--------------------
Damn woman in a red
2-door japanese hatchback car made an illegal u-turn in front
of/into me. I turn it into a 10 mph sideswipe (instead of a
t-bone at about 35 mph).
Put feet down after impact, left foot
ok, right foot (having just run into car) fails, bike tips over
to right side. Get off bike as it goes down.
Get up to hit
kill switch, get license plate of car, shake fist in air as
driver leaves scene of accident.
Bursitis in hip, and a broken
brake lever from dropping it, but that's about it.
Still have
to file in small claims court to try to get recompense for
doctor's bills.
Oh yeah, she got away with the felony.
As
the cop said to me, "Too bad you didn't chase
her."
--------------------
Loaded?: No
season:
Fall
Group?: No
Model: KLR650A9
Bike Make:
Kawasaki
Helmet?: yes
DUI?: No
On Road?: yes
Model Year: 1991
2-up?:
No
Hurt: No
Rider Age: 28
Comments: My first bike, just
picked up from the dealers. 50 yards up the road, tried to turn
right - dropped it on the right side. A passer-by helped me pick
it up and I proceeded 50 yards to the next junction and then
dropped it on the left side.
Loaded?: No
season:
Fall
Group?: No
Model: EX500
Bike Make:
Kawasaki
Helmet?: yes
DUI?: No
On Road?: yes
Model Year: 1991
2-up?:
No
Hurt: No
Rider Age: 28
Comments: My first bike, just
picked up from the dealers. 50 yards up the road, tried to turn
right - dropped it on the right side. A passer-by helped me pick
it up and I proceeded 50 yards to the next junction and then
dropped it on the left side.
Loaded?: No
season:
Fall
Group?: No
Model: EX500
Bike Make:
Kawasaki
Helmet?: yes
DUI?: No
On Road?: yes
Model Year: 1991
2-up?:
No
Hurt: No
Rider Age: 28
Comments: My first trip with a
group. The group was way out ahead.
I came round a left hand
bend and then saw a blind right hand bend.
Completely
underestimated how tight the bend was. Didn't make it round the
corner - ran out of road and came off when the tires only had
twigs and leaves to grip on. Fortunately the armored cordura I
was wearing protected me and the MSF advice not to hit the brakes
kept me from high-siding.
Loaded?: No
season: Fall
Group?:
yes
Model: EX500
Bike Make: Kawasaki
Helmet?: yes
DUI?: yes
On Road?: yes
Model Year: 82
2-up?:
No
Hurt: yes
Rider Age: 39
Comments: Entering curve on
country road at night and on comeing car coming into my lane.
Left road, bike started sliding, hit embankmane and flippes with
me breaking some ribs.
Loaded?: No
season: Fall
Group?:
No
Model: 920
Bike Make: Yamaha
Helmet?: yes
DUI?: No
On Road?: No
Model Year: 1990
2-up?:
No
Hurt: No
Rider Age: 28
Comments: Really stupid--I was
trying to bump start my bike in my back yard. 1st mistake: I was
not on the bike but pushing it on the side. 2nd mistake: not
enough room. After several unsuccessful tries, I finally got the
thing started but didn't get the clutch in and the brakes on in
time and ran the bike into a wall. Doh! The only damage was a
broken front brake lever and a bent rear brake pedal.
Loaded?:
No
season: Fall
Group?: No
Model: EX 500
Bike Make:
Kawasaki
Helmet?: No
DUI?: No
On Road?: yes
Model Year: 88
2-up?: No
Hurt:
No
Rider Age: 32
Comments
--------------------
I was
working away from home. It was a Friday so I was heading home
straight after work. I'd forgotten to pack my alarm clock. This
is essential on a Monday morning so I decided to pop back to my
digs to pick it up. It was a lovely sunny day in November. I
thought it would be the last decent day before the winter set in,
so I was slightly more enthusiatic with my throttle control.
Returning to work I entered dual carriageway heading into
Bracknell. Approaching one roundabout, I was in the middle lane,
since I was heading straight accross. The exit being two lanes, I
decided to power round the outside of the car to my left.
Unfortunately I had not taken into account the driving skills of
a teenager, chatting to her friends. She had decided that the
left hand lane was appropriate (of a three lane roundabout) for
turning right. When I saw the front wheels of her car turn it was
obvious she was about to drive accross the front of the two lane
exit infront of her. I got on the brakes, and turned to the left.
I alerted her to my presence by hitting the drivers door with my
motorbike. Unfortunately it was a little late and I ended up
having a quick lie down and slide. A passing police car stopped
and details were exchanged etc... --------------------
Loaded?:
No
season: Fall
Group?: No
Model: GPZ500S
Bike Make:
Kawaksaki
Helmet?: yes
Model_Year: 1984
Model: VFR750R
DUI: No
hurt:
yes
Comments: Kenny Roberts impression, 70 mph, long sweeper,
new front tire...
road: yes
Bike_Make: Honda
season:
Fall
Email_Address: c.mackarness@rocketmail.com
crash_age:
29
helmet: yes
DUI?: No
Model: KLR 650
On Road?: yes
Model Year:
99
hurt: No
Rider Age: 55
Comments: turned corner at 10
MPH, hit trans fluid, went down on right side of scoot. smashed
right knee, wiped out right rear turn indicator, Tim's highway
bars saved most everything else, bent handle bar scratches
etc.
Loaded?: No
season: Fall
Bike Make: Kaw
Helmet?:
yes
DUI?: No
Model: XLH 1200
On Road?: yes
Model Year:
95
hurt: No
Rider Age: 40
Comments: Turning a corner at
very low speed in pea gravel. Thought I was out of the gravel
patch & engaged the drive train (I had been coasting thru the
patch). The rear wheel spun out from under me.
Loaded?:
No
season: Fall
Bike Make: H-D
Helmet?: yes
DUI?: No
Model: EX500
Model Year: 1994
hurt: No
Rider
Age: 20
Comments
--------------------
Riding down a
friend's gravel driveway and
the front wheel went out from
under me around
a turn. < 10mph
Managed to jerk bike
back upright with slight damage to the chin fairing. No injuries
save a gash on my hand.
--------------------
road:
No
Loaded?: No
season: Fall
Bike Make: Kawasaki
Helmet?:
yes
DUI?: No
Model: EX-500
On Road?: yes
Model Year:
1993
hurt: No
Rider Age:
35
Comments
--------------------
Leaving the driveway, I
changed my mind at the last second about which way to turn.
Turned left, but not enough, and clipped the large truck across
the street with my right side. I broke my foot in two places,
three large puncture wounds in my shin (nasty scars still), and
shattered the fairing, mirror, turn signal, and clutch cover on
the right side. But I never went down!!!
Finally got back on
that horse last week.
--------------------
Loaded?:
No
season: Fall
Bike Make: Kawasaki
Helmet?: yes
DUI?: No
Model: Honda Hurt?: yes
Model Year: 84
Rider
Age: 28
Comments
--------------------
Going down a wet,
muddy, dirt road. Front wheel hit a wet stick or tree branch.
Bike slid out from under me, full weight of bike landed on my
knee! The right knee twisted and became swollen { size of upper
leg}in seconds. Had to pick up the bike and kick start it with
the knee in very poor shape, luckily started first kick! Was in
the wilderness riding alone many miles from home. Long a painfull
ride home!
To this day my knee is not the
same.
Rick
--------------------
road: No
Loaded?:
No
season: Fall
Bike Make: XL-350
Helmet?: yes
DUI?: No
Model: KLR 650
On Road?: yes
Model Year:
99
hurt: No
Rider Age: 55
Comments: turned corner at 10
MPH, hit trans fluid, went down on right side of scoot. smashed
right knee, wiped out right rear turn indicator, Tim's highway
bars saved most everything else, bent handle bar scratches
etc.
Loaded?: No
season: Fall
Bike Make: Kaw
Helmet?:
yes
DUI?: No
Model: 500
Model Year: 94
hurt: No
Rider
Age: 59
Comments
--------------------
At the end of a
very nice ride past the Berkeley wall, I was coming up to my
driveway...
It is steep, uphill and curved, with an Oak tree
near it 1/2 way up. I pulled up to the bottom of the driveway ,
shifted down, and started up. A deer was by the oak tree and
jumped over me causing a reflex of clutch and brake. stopped (
35degree upslope) and dropped the bike.
broke clutch lever,
left foot peg, and smashed my wrist. also significant redness of
face.. Blush
Stupid !!!!!
--------------------
road:
No
Loaded?: No
season: Fall
Bike Make: EX500,
Kawasaki
Helmet?: yes
DUI?: No
On Road?: No
Model Year: 91
2-up?: No
Hurt:
yes
Rider Age:
40
Comments
--------------------
Where:
Terlingua, Tx
October 1999.
Conditions:
Mining Trail, approx 50 degree
decline, hardpan surface w/3/4" layer of desert dust, good
solid rock with about the traction of baby doo
Whut
Hoppend:
Climbed hill crowding the right side of the trail
since there was a dropoff on the left. Cleared the top of the
hill downshifting hot from 3rd to second. On the downhill side of
the hill the dropoff is on the right and the trail narrows from
the right hand side. At the bottom of the hill were the 6 bikes
and riders that had just wiped out minutes previously. Large
boulder approx. 3 feet from right edge of road nearly halfway
down the incline. I repeat large boulder approx. 3 feet from
right edge of road. Loose rock between boulder and dropoff on
right side of trail. Poor traction so I pump the rear brake to
push the bike into a leftward slide hoping to miss the boulder.
The bike just slides sideways toward the rock. Thought I would
straighten up and just blow past the rock. Stood gave a little
hop and pumped the rear brake again. The rear moved predictably,
but the traction was so poor it continued swinging to my left and
I was skidding sidways again only with my left shoulder! facing
downhill. Still no problem. I figure that if I can get in that
loose rock I will have the traction I need. I only need to avoid
going over the edge and tumbling to the bottom. The bike skidded
into the rock, the front wheel obeyed the command to pick a
straighter downhill line. I was moving slow enough that I wasn't
worried. While concentrating on keeping the front wheel aimed
away from the drop off I didn't realize the rear wheel hadn't
come rightward enough to clear the big rock. The bike pinned my
left leg between the frame and the rock. Bike and rider flipped a
few times before coming to rest about halfway down the incline.
Left tib/fib broken nicely at mid shin. Also hairline fracture at
base of knee. 2 hours waiting for a ride to the highway, 1.5 hrs
with the paramedicts splinting me, 2 hour ride to the emergency
room in Alpine. Many cc's of demerol and I was casted. I'm just
now in a brace and begining to walk with a cane. This was not a
bad wreck as my 20 years! of trail riding goes, but it was my
worst injury ever. Were it not for the knee pads, M/C boots,
gloves, premium helmet, etc. I would not have recovered. I am
sure of it. I expect to ride again by mid summer, but there will
be a lot of therapy between now and then.
Moral of the
story:
You are not bullet proof. No matter how good a rider or
how safe you ride there is no substitute for quality safety
equipment and riding with some buddies. You never know what
Murphy is going to throw at you.
--------------------
Loaded?:
No
season: Fall
Group?: yes
Model: KLR650
Bike Make:
Kaw
Helmet?: yes
DUI?: No
On Road?: yes
Model Year: 1983`
2-up?:
No
Hurt: No
Rider Age: 21
Comments:
Inexperienced
rider trying out the bike on a mountain rain slick road. Fell on
a turn on a wooden bridge. Wet wood and tires don't mix.
Loaded?:
No
season: Fall
Group?: No
Model: 250
Bike Make:
Honda
Helmet?: yes
DUI?: No
On Road?: No
Model Year: 97
2-up?:
No
Hurt: No
Rider Age: 51
Comments
--------------------
I
have been riding since I was 11 years old. (52 now) I was a
Suzuki dealer for 6 years and have owned and ridden just about
one of everthing. I have personally built 16 choppers before the
factories discovered it made money. I cannot begin to remember
all the spills and chills as I used to leap from a 30'long 4'high
ramp and crash through a burning wall of fire 15 feet in the air
as my other means of income. I would say that 60% of my riding
has been in the dirt both for pleasure and competition. One of my
latest purchases was a Bandit 1200 which I modified and used for
Texas Hill Country sparing and sport. I decided to take it to the
drag races one afternoon just to see what it would do. My 10 year
old son was there cheering me on and said my 3rd pass had the
front wheel off the ground for most of the run. I never even knew
it. It was my fastest time of the evening @ 10.88/129mph. What
everyone did not know or see was the antifreeze in my lane at the
other end of the track where some car had puked. I was racing a
very ! fast Mopar and had him beat by almost 3 lengths when I
jammed my brakes ( to keep from braking out) and crossed the
finish line. It all happened in about 3 seconds but seemed like
an eternity. I noticed that I started to drift into the car's
lane and the bike was starting to lay over. The bars were turned
sideways and the front tire had stopped turning. When I saw this
I released the front brake and got hard on the back brake. This
began to right the bike and slowly the front end popped back up
and I regained control. I was lucky and narrowly avoided being
dumped at 130+mph under the wheels of a 2500# Mopar. The point of
all this is not about drag racing, or cars V/S bikes, but about
awareness. I will never again ride or race in an area that I
cannot first observe, test, and have some control over. This
could have been my worst crash ever. I am in excellent health and
physical condition with reasonabley good reflexes for a guy my
age. (0.120 reaction times) I can attribute my avoiding a painful
experience to three things. LUCK, good reflexes, and a lot of
experience. Wish you all out there an ample dose of all three.
JIMBO!
--------------------
Loaded?: No
season:
Fall
Group?: No
Model: 1200 Bandit
Bike Make:
Suzuki
Helmet?: yes
Bike Make: suzuki
Comments: head on with a camaro
DUI:
no
Dirt Or Road: Road
Helmet: yes
In A Group:
no
Injured: yes
Loaded With Gear: no
Model: 500
Model
Year: 91
Rider Age: 33
Two Up: no
Season: Fall
Bike Make: Kawasaki
Comments:
Just to add a bit
about the bikes ability to take a hit. I've had two hard spills
off Rocinante, the first was a header and the second was a high
side.
First time, I missed a curve at around 60 mph. We
traveled across a 4 foot bar ditch, just clipping the upper lip
of the far side. This started me off in the direction of the
bikes front and forward. At this point Rocinante is shedding
speed much faster than I am. Momentum carries us into a telephone
pole, just getting a bite of my right grip. This, of course,
slams the bars into the right side of the tank, increases our
rate of deceleration and sends my chest straight through the
instrument cluster. The bike and I, due to redirected energy,
wound up sliding high side through the front yard of a fine
country estate. After coming to rest, I got up, picked the bike
up, wondered how long the adrenalin was going to keep the pain
down, started Rocinante ( no problem. ) and road 5 miles home
with the bars cranked down into the tank and the throttle stuck
at a minimum 3500 rpm because the cable was pulled so far to the
right.
BDR (Battle Damage Report).
Handle
bars, cranked and bent hard, unusable - gas tank, large dent -
grips, torn up - each and every piece of the instrument cluster
except the tachometer, odometer reset knob and screws were
crushed or ripped apart - frame for front cowl was bent and not
serviceable - front brake light switch, broken - scratches in
plastic, you should all know about that one.
Second
time, we T-boned a doe, a deer, a female deer. 'Twas about 11:45
p.m., so there was no pocket full of Sun. The deer pulled the
front tire to the left and slowed it so quickly that the rest of
Rocinante and I just continued on in the same direction we had
been going before we were so rudely interrupted. Inertia soon
lost interest in us and Gravity, that zany, wacky, prankster cast
his playful gaze our way. Mr. Pavement, seeing all the fun goings
on, was the next to join our little party. At approximately 50
mph, probably faster, we high sided, hard. It wasn't one of those
where the bike and rider have a relatively slow roll over, as in
two bikes, at speed, contacting each other. This thing weighed
around 90 pounds ( as told by numerous hunters that I work with,
this all happened on my way to work, about 150 yards from the
front gate ) and was Hell bent for getting away from me. In doing
so, it managed to get in front of me. At speed and at right
angles. It just slammed us into the ground. I slid down the
center of the road, Rocinante on my six with tires in tow and
seat towards me. She stopped, I stopped, no tumbling or spinning
through the slide. It was a hard hit followed by a long, straight
grind. I got up, saw that the deer was dead, noticed headlights
approaching ( it was a co-worker on his way in ), picked up the
bike and got it started ( it took a couple of cranks ), turned
around and road to work where they called me an ambulance, which,
to my great relief, delivered me to a place full of lovely,
wonderful, pain killing drugs.
BDR
Gas tank,
dented and creased, at the least - right rear blinker, lens and
bulb gone, minor deformation to housing - front brake lever, bent
around in a U shape and away from me - rear brake lever was
snapped off almost clean at the joint where the lever meets the
foot pedal - front cowl plastic was ripped but serviceable - hand
guard on the right side was ground down - highway pegs, on the
right side, got a good friction welding in the upright position -
handle bars, minor bend - saddle bag frame ( stock ), ground down
a little - scratches in plastic.
In both of these
instances Rocinante was able to get me to where I needed to go,
with few or no problems. I have had no problems at all with the
bike being water cooled ( i.e. broken fans, pumps, etc. ) or
anything else for that matter. Rocinante has proven to be one
tough ride.
YMMV. Later.
A15 (Rocinante)
DUI:
no
Dirt Or Road: Road
Helmet: yes
In A Group:
no
Injured: no
Loaded With Gear: no
Model: KLR 650
Model
Year: 2001
Rider Age: 35
Two Up: no
Season: Fall
Bike Make: BMW
Comments:
I'll just tell this one for
now. WAKE UP!! That's what those damn red lights mean when you
see every thing come to a halt 20 yards ahead of you. Oh, I
should have fixed that rear master cylinder BEFORE I left the
house. Anyway, the front goes sideways and gets jammed up
underneath the car. I slide on my left side and hit the car also,
head-first. HaHa I guess my $700 worth of gear did help, because
I got up,pushed the old Beemer off to the side of the road w/the
help of 2 others. Once the LAW showed up,then the real pain
started. :)
DUI: no
Dirt Or Road: Road
Helmet: yes
In
A Group: no
Injured: no
Loaded With Gear: no
Model:
1000
Model Year: 1982
Rider Age: 30
Two Up: no
Season:
Fall
Bike Make: KLR
Comments: OUCH!!
DUI: no
Dirt Or
Road: Dirt
Helmet: yes
In A Group: yes
Injured:
no
Loaded With Gear: no
Model: 650
Model Year:
2001
Rider Age: 34
Two Up: no
Season: Fall
Bike Make: Kawasaki
Comments:
DUI: no
Dirt Or
Road: Road
Helmet: yes
In A Group: yes
Injured:
yes
Loaded With Gear: no
Model: 650
Model Year:
1991
Rider Age: 38
Two Up: yes
Season: Fall
Bike Make: Suzuki
Comments:
I was running about 60
MPH in a 55 two rural zone and came over the crest of a hill
about 11 in the morning. There was a big doe, maybe 200 pounds in
ditch to my right, along a corn field, with woods across the
road. The minute I saw the deer, I got on the front brake as hard
as possible. I don't recall the rear locking, but the front tire
chirped twice. Sure enough the deer jumped in front of me. I
almost missed her, my fairing hit her rear flank. I was probably
slowed to about 20MPH. The front shimmied, but I continued
straight. It cracked the fairing and I was able to continue after
bungying it to hold it together.
Lesson learned, practice
panic braking.
DUI: no
Dirt Or Road: Road
Helmet: yes
In
A Group: no
Injured: no
Loaded With Gear: no
Model:
Bandit 1200S
Model Year: 2002
Rider Age: 56
Two Up:
no
Season: Fall
Bike Make: kawa
Comments:
i was riding with a
freind. we approched a stop sign. after stoping at intersection i
took a right hand turn a car coming from that same direction
locked her breaks slid across the center line and hit me head on.
i hit dead center of her bumper. i rember time stood still as i
thought of a thousand way's to avoid hitting her while i dug my
knees in to the gas tank. i then began to pray but never finished
that day. every thing went black right at the moment of impact. i
came to a few min. later. my motorcycle on top of my left leg
motar screaming. my freind that was with me was standing over me
and helped me turn motor off. he then got the motorcycle off me.
he help sit me sit up and kept asking if i was ok. i then stood
up took my helmet off. my left foot was numb. i stomped it on the
ground to wake it up. it took untill the third stomp for the pain
to take me to the ground. by then there was acrowed gathering.
one man helped me take off my hipoint boots. one look at the
blood and bones sticking out of my socks and we sliped the boots
back on to use as a splint. h.p. officer then was asking me alot
of questions. by now i was going in to shock but still knew what
was going on. my step father then arrived he was out side and
herd the crash. then heard the call on the scanner he was in the
vol. fire dept. he picked me up and placed me in his truck to
keep me warm. at this point all i wanted to do was sleep and get
warm. the ambulance arrived cut off my boots loaded me up an off
to the hospital. that is my memory from the time of my crash.
facts i didnt know at that time. the freind with me was trailing
behind me approcamently 150 feet. when i was hit it through me
back on top of him with enough force it busted his motorcycle
frame into two sections and shoot him off in to a feild about
another 100 feet down the road. he went to church with me. driver
of the car was 17 and this was the first time her parents had let
her drive alone. she said she thought i was going to cross the
road in front of her so she locked the brakes down and came
across the center line into my lane. h.p. officer arrived so
quickly because he had clocled the same girl doing 70 in a 45. by
his estamation and lingth of skid marks she was still doing 70
when she hit me. man that helped me take my boot off was another
church member i've never met and also a EMT. he also put his coat
on me to help keep me warm. ambulance EMT was church member and
distent kin. this just shows god ansewrs prayers even if there
not finished. i'm currently 39 i have a wife of 21 years i love
dearly two girls one son in law and my first grandchild on the
way. god is good and prayer not only helps the more the
better.
DUI: no
Dirt Or Road: Road
Helmet: yes
In A
Group: yes
Injured: yes
Loaded With Gear: no
Model:
250
Model Year: 70 somthing
Rider Age: 16
Two Up:
no
Season: Fall
Bike Make: Honda
Comments:
I learned how slippery
wet groundup leaves were. I was turning left, at approx. 5-15mph,
and the rear tire went out from under me. The repairs to the bike
included a new magneto cover, as the shifter cracked it when I
fell.
DUI: no
Dirt Or Road: Road
Helmet: yes
In A
Group: no
Injured: no
Loaded With Gear: no
Model:
NX650
Model Year: 1989
Rider Age: 32
Two Up: no
Season:
Fall
Bike Make: Kawasaki
Comments:
Lost traction turning
at an intersection and highsided. Broke several bones in right
foot.Very little damage to bike. Planning several upgrades and
modifications to bike to return riding in spring.
DUI: no
Dirt
Or Road: Road
Helmet: yes
In A Group: no
Injured:
yes
Loaded With Gear: no
Model: KLR650
Model Year:
1999
Rider Age: 44
Two Up: no
Season: Fall
Bike Make: Honda
Comments: I was riding back from
Walker Pass, on Horse Cyn Road, pushing "Piglet" my
Trail90 to the limit, the road is very sandy.
The place
where I crashed had a hard pan hump to deep sand, when I hit the
sand the bike stopped I didn't.
Being very hot at the time
I was wearing hiking shorts OUCH! removed a good hunk of skin off
my left knee, glad I did't break anything as the only vehicle to
come by my campsite at the top was 1 day later.
People can
say what they want but I'm wearing my armor!
DUI: no
Dirt
Or Road: Dirt
Helmet: yes
In A Group: no
Injured:
no
Loaded With Gear: no
Model: 90
Model Year: 1978
Rider
Age: 49
Two Up: no
Season: Fall
Bike Make: Suzuki
Comments: One night I had stopped to
visit my girlfriend at her work place. When I arrived, I found
that *another* guy was also "visiting". So, after
stopping, talking and getting usual "he's just a friend"
spiel that I didn't buy, I fired up the Suzi and took off. As
luck would have it, to get back to the highway I had to make all
right hand turns. After making a right hand turn onto the ramp
and starting to accelerate to freeway speed, I leaned the 850
over a bit to the left to do a merge.
PRANNG!
The next
thing I know, I'm off the bike on the side of the road and the
Suzi is on it's right hand side about a dozen yards away! I was a
bit shook up but sustained no injury other than a bit of a sore
hip. I got over to the bike and I found the cause, I had left the
side stand down when I left my now former girlfriend. When I
leaned to the left to merge, the side stand glanced off the road
instead of folding, knocking me off and the bike over. The
damage, bent the handlebar, dented the tank and bruised my
ego.
To this day, if I'm ever in a "foul" mood, I
stop and remember the Suzi incident and get my mind on my
riding.
DUI: no
Dirt Or Road: Road
Helmet: yes
In A
Group: no
Injured: no
Loaded With Gear: no
Model:
850
Model Year: 1980
Rider Age: 27
Two Up: no
Season:
Fall
Bike Make: kawaski
Comments: on coming car turning
left
DUI: no
Dirt Or Road: Dirt
Helmet: yes
In A
Group: no
Injured: no
Loaded With Gear: no
Model:
KLR650
Model Year: 2004
Rider Age: 59
Two Up: no
Season:
Fall
Bike Make: klr650
Comments: THE ROAD TOOK A HARD LEFT, I
WAS JUST RIGHT OF HARD LEFT. SLID FOR ABOUT 25-30 FEET, JUMPED ON
CYCLE AND ROOSTER TAILED OFF OF SOMEONE NICE YARD. THE ENTIRE
WRECK AND LEAVING TOOK LESS THAN 2 MINUTES.
DUI: no
Dirt Or
Road: Road
Helmet: yes
In A Group: no
Injured: no
Loaded
With Gear: no
Model: 650
Model Year: 2006
Rider Age:
35
Two Up: no
Season: Fall
Bike Make: Buell
Comments: I was on my way to work, about
7am Monday August 3rd 2009. On a four-lane bridge under construction,
to handle the un-planned traffic loads. 25 to 30 mph close traffic,
about a car length between each vehicle. The car ahead of me suddenly
locks up the wheels, and slides the back end to the left (strong
camber on the left curving bridge). I hit my brakes and my back tire
also slides to the left, as I am sliding I see the driver ahead of me:
a woman with a cell phone to her left ear. My tire catches traction
and I high side. I launch into the center of the four lane where the
road is blocked off for a new pour of concrete. Lucky for me, there
is no traffic oncoming. I land on my head first, sliding long enough
to realize I am destroying my helmet. My left shoulder and arm hit the
roughened concrete next, then my left rib cage. My jacket at this point
is shredded on the left side – shoulder to waist. I came to a stop, and
when I tried to sit up, I could see a sheriff pulling into the
construction zone I stopped sliding in. Obvious to me, I was broken on
my left side. The sheriff stayed with me until the ambulance showed up.
A week or so later the CHP called me and ask if I knew I was hit from
behind by a SUV, which I guess was also hit from behind, it was being
put on the same flatbed they sent for my bike. Cell phones should be
turned off while driving, was that call really worth all this?
DUI: no
Dirt Or Road: Road
Helmet: yes
In A Group: no
Injured: yes
Loaded With Gear: no
Model: X1 Lightning 1203cc
Model Year: 1999
Rider Age: 52
Two Up: no
Season: Fall
Bike Make: Harley
Comments:
Old man in a white Toyata Tundra looked right at me and still turned...said he "didn't see" me. Bounced of the back of the truck at the rear wheel. Nothing broken. Since it was October I was wearing leather chaps and a heavy leather coat and a 1/2 helmet.
DUI: no
Dirt Or Road: Road
Helmet: yes
In A Group: no
Injured: no
Loaded With Gear: no
Model: Sportster 1200
Model Year: 1995
Rider Age: 49
Two Up: no
Season: Fall
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