Worst bike wreck.

bigdaddyjunior

An old biker once asked me if I ever had laid down my bike."Sure lots of times", I said. "Oh", he says, "An honest man". He proceeded to tell me how there are layers and liars when it comes to bikes. If you have not laid it down you haven't been riding enough. Or something to that effect.
For me the worst was coming back from Fort Bragg one afternoon when this guy in a red pickup pulled right out in front of me and hit his brakes. Been ok maybe if he'd had brake lights. That split second it takes to realize that a vehicle is slowing down was enough time lost for me to have but two choices. Hit the truck or hit the dirt. I chose door number two and slid about seventy five feet along the road before going off the edge into some ladies petunia patch.My legs were protected by the crash bars ,but my right arm was denuded of tatoos and skin embedded with tar and road crap. Also my right side and back were my jacket had ridden up. My bike was scratched up real bad and a few things were bent,but it started up and went into gear.The pain of a sixty mile an hour wind on those open wounds is something to remember. I stopped at a crossroads 7/11 to clean up some and have a coffee and when I got done in the restroom it looked like someone had slaughtered a horse in there. The lady behind the counter asked if I needed an ambulance. Huh? She handed me her pocket mirror[there wasn't one in the bathroom] and I saw a half of a face looking back. I got back on the bike and road the last 45 minutes home and after my wife stopped freaking out had a couple doubles of the good stuff and let her pull the glass and junk out of my face and body.Next day when I awoke I felt like I'd been beaten with a bat all over.

Big Daddy my heros have always been cowboys,they still are it seems

kingjoey

I had a motor lock up on my old Yamaha on me once at around 45-50 mph. A piece of the crank seal retainer broke loose and jammed between the crankshaft gear and the clutch drum gear. Before I could stabilize it the bike had gotten too far sideways and was going down. I was wearing jeans, a tucked in cotton button-up, helmet, boots and jacket, but after sliding on my back about 30-40yds I looked like I slid my * down a cheese grater. I hand sand and grit stuck in me all over my backside and my helmet had a flat side worn on the back. Fortunately I had just left the house and was only 1/4 mile away when it happened so I didn't have far to walk, but it hurts to walk when it feels like your backside's on fire[:0][;)][B)]

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gunpaq

Laid my Bonneville down on I-80 just east of State College in 1978. Had leathers on and it was raining luckily. I didn't know one could slide that far. had to replace my leathers, put some sav on road burns, replace a foot peg, and handle bars. Bike was runnable afterwards and completed the trip. An old lady in a green Delta 88 olds cut me off, she stopped and asked "young man are you dead?".

Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.<BR>

TOOLS1

Too many to list.
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Don't go blaming the beer. Hank Hill

So much Ice, So much Beer. So little time. Shooter4

I don't have an anger problem. I have an idiot problem. Hank Hill

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now that I am grown, I just wish I could act like a child and get away with it.

jjmitchell60

I have had too many to remember but a couple stand out and a third I will never forget.

I had a rear tire blow out a 85 MPH when I was a youg lad. Had a good looking * back of the bike at the time. We both spent a few days in the hospital with some major road rash.

When I was a kid I had a 100 cc dirt bike that was a tad bit souped up. I was showing off for some girls and wrapped it around a electric pole! A few days in the hospital then back to getting another bike.

The one that will always stand out happened on 10-10-1991. I was rear ended by a Pizza Hut delivery driver while I was stopped at a stop light. He was running in excess of 40 MPH. The contact raised me on my rear wheel of my 85 H-D FLHT and I did a wheely for over 200 feet where I connected with the back of a city bus! Crushed 2 vertabra, cracked an ankle, shoved the left side of my face 1/8" upward, and did a lot of internal damage. I was temporarly blinded in left eye and could not walk for 3 months. Had to learn to walk again and now I have perment spine damage as well as degernitive disc disease. I still ride that same 85 FLHT and will till either I die or am killed on it! Learned a very valueable lesson that day, always look behind you when stopped at lights! The ER doc. told me that if I had been 20 pounds lighter it would have killed me!

Will I lay one down again, probably but there is always hope I won't have to! I have learned that when you begin to think you are really good on a bike is when you screw up! I will say this and am sorry for it but I hope non of my kids ride bikes when the leave the nest. It is getting way too dangerous out there. The only problem with the way I feel is I know that the open road on a bike runs in all 3 of my kids veins. All 3 want me to build them a custom!

shooter4

Years ago I was at a friend's place and we were riding his dirt bikes out back.

Forget what kind of bike I was on but the clutch was on the right and the front brake on the left.

I went over this little hill to jump and when I came down I grabbed a handful of front brake instead of clutch, ouch.

Dislocated my left thumb, hadda ride home on my then 450 Honda for 2 hours.

First one I was around 16, had an old 650 bsa that needed a lot of work but ran. Took it to the milk machine to get a quart of milk for mom, I snuck the bike out and started it a couple of houses away. On the way back, got up some speed, shut it off so you wouln't hear it, was going to fast to make the driveway, knocked down the neighbor's fence and bent up the bike pretty good. Dad sold it about a couple of days later [:(]

fragments

There are 2 kinds of bikers, Those that have been down and those that will!! I got my first set of "broken wings" graduation night from high school!!!

elect1mike

I have 2 times that will last me forever the first was stupid on my part the 2nd was not
the first was a friend had a chopper he was real proud of and ask if I wanted to take a spin well I was bare footed but was young stupid so I said yea I was going down the street when a old lady pulled right out in front of me without thinking a bit I put my feet down and cut the front end to miss her. Well I missed hitting her but my feet were hamburger. I got off the bike went over and kicked her door in o yea broke 3 toes doing it. Like I said I was stupid in those days.
The second time I was on a bike riding from ohio to Illinois when a semi in front of me threw up a chunk of asphalt off the rode it hit me in the right leg it took all I had to get the bike to the side of the road and slowed down before I dropped it The slide in the grass was not bad just a little rash but my leg was a bloody mess went right through my chaps.


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gunnut505

Six weeks after I had spent almost 3 years building my basket '47 Knuck into something that I didn't have to push around, I was returning from the Golden Inn along Hwy 14 at about 3 in the afternoon, had just stopped for some smokes in Cedar Crest, had one dangling outta my mouth when a li'l ol' granny whipped out of a dirt side road with a load of groceries and a kid in the back of her station wagon about 100 feet in front of me. She decided to pull a u-turn while using both available lanes. I had already corrected my trajectory to glide by on the passing side when she whipped the wheel to the left, and stopped.
I impacted the LR wheel with my front, sailed over the stylish ape hangers, through glass on the drivers' side rear window,looked to my left at 1 each kid; scared and wide-eyed, 5-6 bags of trash/groceries, crashed through the glass on the rear passenger side, landed about 30 feet past her (still) parked car, rolled, slid, tumbled to a stop about 100 feet past them; did the 3-point check (spectacles, testicles, where's my bike), then walked? back to the car and collapsed on the hood with a punctured lung, broken ribs, shattered patella on left knee, no pants (left 'em on the glass on the drivers' side), and blood cascading around my head.
This upright citizen did what anyone would do to help; she threw it into reverse, floored it and split! I was found about 5 minutes later by a friend of mine driving an ambulance to respond to a wreck about 2 miles down the road. Took 16 weeks to recover, the bike didn't make it.

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HappyNanoq

I was expecting to see this one in here.

Bike-Accident by speeding.


Don't do anything that I've allready done - That'd be just plain STOOOOOOPID.

IAMACLONE_2

Fall of 1978, Intersection of 405/Fairview next to South Coast Plaza Mall in Costa Mesa CA.
Riding a 1975 Harley FXE 100" stroker with a Jerry Maggisson belt driver blower hanging up front. About 11PM at night with a couple to beers under my belt, going north on Faarview to 405 Westbound, when a red 911 Porsche flew by me doing about 90, I could not take being passed by a damm Porsche, so I nailed it, passed him up in about 500 ft,. Both of us go into the left handed on ramp side by side doing about 90-100mph, I'm on the inside the Porsche on the outside.
The Porsche driver crowds me into the 18" high curb, the FXE flips, I
land against the curb with my left sholder and leg over the curb. Looking up I see the bike up in the air coming at me with its side down. Bamm it hits me, broken sholder, cracked pelvis.
Lay there for about 5 minutes a couple of cars pass but did not stop. I get up slowly get the FXE up, broken clutch handle and big dent in tank only damage to FXE. Got on it rode in home about 3 blocks, put it in the garage.
Next morning could not move, on to Hospital.

Lesson learnt: Dont try to out run Porsche's going around freeway entrances, they will always win. And stop being stupid, it hurts!
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He Dog

It is not a question of if you will go down, only of when. I was riding to work some years ago and had riden through an intersection when the light changes. The street (4 lanes, 2 each way) went up a small hill and into an off camber left curve. As I topped the hill a guy not paying attention to the traffic stopping for the light in front of him, suddenly slammed on the brakes and came across the center line. I was on an enduro bike, and had just time to stand up on the pegs, start to lift my left leg and hit the kill switch (I was a LOT quicker back then) before I was in the air. I ended up under a car going my way in the outside lane. Did a mental check and figured everything was pretty much where it was supposed to be, so I crawled out from under the car. I looked into the windshield and saw a poor guy with a horrifed look on his face. He knew there was a dead guy under his car. When I rose above the hood, two huge tears rolled down his cheeks. Did $900 damage to a 6 month old $945 bike. Knee still predicts rain some times, and the tedon tears easily leaving me limping for weeks at at time, and I figure I am way luckier than that poor bike was. Great bike too.

From what I have seen, most guys who say they "had to lay the bike down" actually locked the front break in a panic. Done that too.

My heros have always killed cowboys.

Big Sky Redneck

When I had my KX125 I used to lay it down twice a day, never could judge when the power band kicked in[:D]

Only street wreck I had was when I was 16, for some reason I still can't explain I froze up on a turn, went off the road into the woods and dumped it. It was wierd because every muscle in my body froze for no reason, I wasnt speeding and was not taking the turn too fast, just froze and couldnt turn the bike. Hurt pride more than anything else.

QUESTION for those invloved in bike/car accidents. How may of you was wearing a helmet and could you have survived without it? BTW I am a firm believer that helmets should be worn by choice.

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He Dog

I am a firm believer that helmets should be worn, or you should show that you are able to support yourself as a vegetable for the rest of your life. I had to buy a new helmet after ending up, under that car. Arai does not make new heads.

My heros have always killed cowboys.

IAMaxxer

Thursday June 12th 1980, fate and a full face helmet saved my life. As I was warming the bike up getting ready to go to work I had a open face helmet on, my wife of six months stepped out on the steps and tossed my full face helmet at me and told me to put it on. No sense arguing with her so I did it. Three miles from home traveling down the highway at about 65mph a pickup ran a stop sign. I remember seeing it and thinking it wasn't stopping. I let off the gas and saw the front of his truck dip as if he had locked up the brakes. That was the last thing I remember, the state troopers report states that I locked the rear brake at 250ft from impact and the front at 200ft., but still put a perfect circle in the passenger door. Don't know how fast I was going at impact. But broke my shoulder, lost my spleen and broke my palate.. Front of the helmet was covered in blue paint and chin guard was broke up badly. Spent two weeks in the hospital. First thing I remember after waking up in ICU was seeing my feet under the blankets and making sure I could move my toes. The helmet still hangs in the garage as a reminder to me

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4GodandCountry

A friend e-mailed one to me last year where a guy lost control on a wet interstate and was hit by a tractor trailer. Very gruesome photos showing body parts strung along the road where he was dragged underneath the truck.

"Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet."

headzilla97

Well I was riding my old ten speed down a very steep hill doing about 30. some how I pulled up on my handle bars a little bit and off they came. So I gently flew over my handle bars anose dived down the hill. I scraped up my hands and knees real bad but im still here

After reding this I dont know if I still want to get a bike

He who dies with the most toys still dies "NO FEAR"

NickCWinter

It was in the 70's, back when I drank. (Say no more?) A Sunday afternoon, my then-wife and I hosting a couple for lunch, lots of white wine. I just had to show them how my bike ran. We lived on a curvy street, perfect course for a buzzed rider, NOT. Riding first alone, it felt like a giant hand swept both the bike and me to the left. One witness said he looked up to see the bike flying sidewise, both wheels off the street, and me flying, too. I landed in the welcoming arms of someone's front yard fir tree, the bike coming to rest on its side and still running. A bit numb to the road rash and hurting hip, I got back on and did a short country run with my friend's wife on the back. Stop me when this starts sounding crazy. The next day, pain arrived with getting up, but I refused to see a Doc. The rash did pain me. The hip has hurt over the years, especially as I took on poundage and lay on it too long. I still turn over constantly at night. One day a couple months later, I realized the fear of riding finally was outweighing the pleasure, as suddenly I was daily reminded of all that can wreck a bike. I sold the little auburn beauty with little regret. The alcohol was permanently retired just a few years later. Unmissed. Unmourned.

5db

I was about four years old when I rode my first bike. It was a large, possibly 26" tired bike. Got on by means of a boost from a baby sitter, which today, hold her motives as suspect. Without any instructions nor knowledge of the simple act of turning. A good shove and straight down the drive I went. Hit the curb head-on, for a brief moment my forward motion was slowed by the goose neck trying to castrate me. I think I was 12-13 before I learned to ride a bike.

Wasn't the worst I had but sure remember it well.

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jjmitchell60

For those of you that believe in helmets then that is your right but at the ER the Doctor also stated off the record that if my helmet had stayed on my neck would have probably been broke from the initial impact from behind! Like I said if you believe in helmets then wear them but be careful.

pickenup

Early 70"s, had just got off work. Going too fast around a corner that had sand on it. Not sure how far I slid. Got up, picked the bike up, cranked it up, off to a girlfriends house. She said the left shoulder, side, and back looked like hamburger. Nothing broken, (whew). She picked gravel out, & cleaned it up. She was worried about it more than I was. It was all said and done when I finally realized what had happened. Still bear the scars.

I was the first on the scene of a guy riding an old Indian that went under an 18 wheeler. There was not one piece of metal on that bike that was not bent. You can imagine what he looked like.


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nitrouz

About 1991 I was riding my bike down some twisty curve's in Pennsylvania when I noticed the speed limit sign...I'm ok, putting at 35 in top gear enjoying the mountain air when...

A big Dodge van came flying around the last corner in my lane at about 60mph..I had 3 choices and a few feet to make up my mind:

a. keep going and pray he corrects
b. go right, which was off a bank as there was no guard rail
c. go left and pray he doesn't correct

I chose b as the safest route. Jumped the bike over a 75 foot ravine and landed nose first on the other side. Bike received minor damage. I layed there for an hour. Now have 'Questionable narrowing of the disc in my neck'.....There was a bar 2 miles from where this happens and I'd bet this guy was there.

I don't ride a bike right now...but I will again.



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