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dcon12dcon12 Member Posts: 32,040 ✭✭✭✭
edited May 2006 in General Discussion
I see a lot of you act like bikes are the world. If you do not ride, you suck. How many of you have been a bad bike/car wreck? Do you still feel the same? Don
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  • dcon12dcon12 Member Posts: 32,040 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That I havent heard ask in the Chiavo Case.. Suppose the Husband were granted a Divorce, and the Care turned over to the Parents..Here is the Question, Who will have a say in what happens to Terri, if something were to happen to the parents, or say she exists longer than her parents? Would she then become a ward of the Court??

    Boy, sure am glad it aint my decision to make.....


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  • spanielsellsspanielsells Member Posts: 12,498
    edited November -1
    I got hit with a 110mph impact back on January 26, 1996. I was driving a 1992 Mazda Protege and a drunk driver was coming the wrong way without his headlights on (it was nighttime).

    The impact was hard enough to shear the front axle off his Mercury Mystique and send it about 200 yards down the highway. It spun my car around 180-degrees so that it was facing the wrong way. We were both doing 55mph.

    There was very little left of the Mazda -- I saw it about two weeks later in the tow yard. The cops and my friends all thought I should have been dead. How I got out of there with nothing more than soft-tissue injuries and a "dead" spot on my lower left jaw, I've no idea.

    Why my dog wasn't killed in that accident, I also don't know.

    What was really screwy was that the drunk spent the next two years trying to pin the accident on me. What was worse was that his insurance company was siding with him (they felt that since I was an insurance adjuster, I must've made up the whole thing).

    Anyhow, I got sick of it and filed suit. Negotiations took all of about two weeks at that point. His attorneys took my deposition, and it consisted of about ten questions. The first nine revolved around my name, address, etc.

    The last questions were, "How many accident injury claims have you handled?"

    My answer, "None."

    "What do you mean? You just got done saying that you've handled claims for the last ten years."

    "Yes. As I've spent the last two years trying to explain to your adjusters, I handle homeowner insurance claims."

    That was the end of the deposition, the case settled the next morning.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yes, and Yes. I don't see how anyone could look down on any one who does not ride. The truth is that with bikes it is not if you will go down, only when. I have been hit head-on, doing $900 damage to a 6 month old bike I paid $950 for. Riding motocross I was down several times per day. I still love to ride and have done road trips from NM to NY to VA and back, I have ridden the Black Hills and the Grande Canyon. Your choice, ride or not, it is fine with me.
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  • dcon12dcon12 Member Posts: 32,040 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    Yes, and Yes. I don't see how anyone could look down on any one who does not ride. The truth is that with bikes it is not if you will go down, only when. I have been hit head-on, doing $900 damage to a 6 month old bike I paid $950 for. Riding motocross I was down several times per day. I still love to ride and have done road trips from NM to NY to VA and back, I have ridden the Black Hills and the Grande Canyon. Your choice, ride or not, it is fine with me.


    For some reason I exspected no less from you. An honest answer to a honest question. Don
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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The fifteenth of this month I go to the surgeons about having my ankle fused together from an a car making a left turn in front of me back in 1979. [V]

    That was on my 56 Panhead.
    The same bike I ride today. [:D] [:D] [8D]
    Keep your Powder dry and your Musket well oiled.
    NRA Lifetime Benefactor Member.
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  • IAMACLONE_2IAMACLONE_2 Member Posts: 4,725
    edited November -1
    Guess I suck.
    Cant ride now, due to a screwed up back.
    In all my crashes I was able to avoid the DR's, and thats just pure stupid luck.
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  • spryorspryor Member Posts: 9,155
    edited November -1
    Downed dirt bikes a few times, but was fortunate with the street bikes. Yes, hardly a day went by that there wasn't a close call of somekind, people pulling out in front of me, etc.. I'd probably still ride a little if physically able, but not near as much. Ride or not though, peaople's choice, and I harbor no ill will either way.
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  • BlckhrnBlckhrn Member Posts: 5,136
    edited November -1
    High sided a 750 honda at 70 mph 30 years ago, won't ride one of them again, still have my HD from the 50's. Yes and yes.
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have wrecked a bike. (I pretty much looked like a pile of hamburger)
    Wrecked a van. Flipped it, end over end. (Permanent back damage)
    I have friends that are not with us anymore, due to both kinds of wrecks.
    I think you have to be at least a little bit "nuts" to ride in this day and age.
    I know a few that have never, and will never drive a car....by choice.
    Don't fault ANYONE for not riding, or driving.
    Riding is what "I" like to do. It's not for everyone.
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  • zipperzapzipperzap Member Posts: 25,057
    edited November -1
    My first wife (she was a head nurse in a trauma unit,
    here in San Diego), and I, happened upon a horrendous
    cycle/pickup accident back in the 70's, on an almost
    deserted desert road. We were the only two there ...
    next to the drunk, who was no help.

    We were in the Toy with a pretty complete medical box
    but she couldn't stabilize/save either the guy or his
    young bride of a week. Not even a MedChopper could have
    saved them. It was the most aweful thing I've ever had
    to witness - that and talking to their families a week
    later.

    I sold my 750 BMW a month later. Never drove/rode on one
    again. I still hate to think about it - forbade my son's
    to own one, either.

    Pickup driver was a drunk. His fault ... swerved into
    them head on - attracted by their headlight. He apologized
    at his sentencing... actually got a little jail time.
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  • kristovkristov Member Posts: 6,633
    edited November -1
    I rode a Norton Commando back and forth between my parents house in Santa Monica and USC for four years rain or shine in heavy urban traffic without so much as a close call. Two weeks after I sold the Norton and was driving to grad school (also at USC) in my "new but used" F-150 pickup I was rear ended while sitting at a traffic signal to the tune of $750 and a stiff neck.
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  • shellitoutshellitout Member Posts: 345 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    About 8yrs. ago I was turning into a convienance store, making a left turn, and the next thing I remember was glass showering me from head to toe. This man and his wife were riding a croch rocket, going well over the speed limit, and hit my passenger side window/door of my 89 Chevrolet truck. The sun was in my eyes when I was turning and they were rounding a dog leg in the road. Both him and his wife came completely through my window and then was ejected about 30 yards away from the truck. I got out of my truck, lap and face full of glass, and the woman and man were unconscience. It split the mans helmet into and the womans' knee cap was completely folded over down to here ankle. They both lived but had to go through extensive rehabilitation. You just can't see motorcycles like you do cars. I would love to have a Harley but I would never have a croch rocket.
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  • KK Member Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have mashed more bikes than most folks have ever owned.
    When it rains...I tend to walk rather oddly.
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  • DancesWithSheepDancesWithSheep Member Posts: 12,938 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I rode my Yamaha V-max into an oncoming train at 110mph. The train was doing 60mph. I still feel the same, only not on my left side.
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  • wanted manwanted man Member Posts: 3,276
    edited November -1
    In the late summer/early fall of '84, I took out a mailbox with my head/face, at about 110 mph, just AFTER I had turned loose a drunken, rogue GS 1100! The whole incident was THE BIKE'S FAULT, no reason for it to not handle that S-curve at 120 mph +/-, after all I was drunk, NOT THE BIKE! ! Thankfully that's the only "serious" crash I ever had (to date!)
    I sold my bike last year, intend to buy another when I can pay cash for a FatBoy without sacrificing other habits *LOL*
    I have no ill will who don't ride but I feel that most "cage" drivers are not nearly as observant as they should be (for other 4-wheelers and bikesw alike!) If you hate me 'cause I ride...............oh well
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  • texaswildmantexaswildman Member Posts: 2,215 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    DWS - is your \/-max also now an /-max? thought maybe it was a left side impact.....
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  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    Had a very, very bad accident in Dallas, Texas in 1974 on a Honda 750 Four. A little old lady decided to change lanes on I-30 without looking and took me out at 70+ MPH. 24 days in the hospital and another 20 in rehab. Off from work for 4 months and two surgeries to remove scar tissue.

    Thank God for God and helmets! Still love to ride and still do. The other accidents were small, and there have been a couple of close calls (one last summer when a sheet of plywood came off a trailer on the highway) but I've been involved in less bike accidents than automobile accidents, and none of them have been my fault.

    To each his own. If you love to ride, do. If you don't, then don't!
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  • oldemagicsoldemagics Member Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    drunk, wrapped my "gift" norton around a tree far enough that it made a "u". had also spent about 20 min UNDER same bike once useing it like a dirt bike, comeing out of sand onto hard pack came completely around leaveing me with the bars around my neck bike wheels straight up.
    other (actual) dirt bike drops by the hundreds, put my 750 down and bailed as it kept going under a mini van, my older 750 blew stering at about 75 and laid it down to control which way it went down and rode it to a stand-still about a block and a half (broke 3 metatarsels (sp?) when my steel tow bent back that time)
    650 over guide cable/embankement into field
    if ya ride great, if ya dont i feel you are missing out on something great, but your choice.
    have also totaled 2 cars (not at fault in either) as well as a number of fender benders
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  • FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,279 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by dcon12
    I see a lot of you act like bikes are the world. If you do not ride, you suck. How many of you have been a bad bike/car wreck? Do you still feel the same? Don


    I have done my share of 40+mph face plants in the dirt.
    The pavement isn't so bad, [;)] if you follow the rules just like a motor LEO.
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  • COLTCOLT Member Posts: 12,637 ******
    edited November -1
    ...no matter how good, careful you are....someone else, will try to * or kill you...how many times a year, just depends on how often you ride...In the dirt, I did it too myself,...on the road, it was almost always...cars, trucks, not paying attention to two wheels.
    As someone said, not if, but when...[;)]






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  • dcon12dcon12 Member Posts: 32,040 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I rode a montesa in the dirt and thought I could do anything. I bought a street bike and lasted 6 hours. 5 of those I was at work. Cars can not or will not see you. I spent a year and if I do not mention it, most do not notice my hand. I think on a bike, you do not have a choice as to safety. Don
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  • wizard78wizard78 Member Posts: 3,144 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by dcon12
    I see a lot of you act like bikes are the world. If you do not ride, you suck. How many of you have been a bad bike/car wreck? Do you still feel the same? Don



    Remember the old,"small BallPark Frank carry a large gun" substitution theory? Well, It's the same with bikes, with some people..

    I guess, I only "suck" a little. Although I've got the bikes, I have enough herniated disks that riding for more than 1/2 hour on smooth roads would probably * me.
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  • COLTCOLT Member Posts: 12,637 ******
    edited November -1
    ...back when...Yammi 360 MX...in the dirt, I could do anything!
    ...after a few breaks, the loss of a lot of skin, which did grow back...a little funny colored...but did grow back. I told myself, "this is too dangerous, I'm going to buy me a SuperGlide...and ride on the street"!...[:D]

    ...scar on my leg, from the first time I took the SuperGlide into the dirt...their heavy resting on your shin...[:0]

    ...then I began dodging traffic, that seemed hell bent on running over, or in front of me on a regular basis...[:0]



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