frayne
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If so what were the consequences and was it your fault ? If you had to do over again what would you do differently ?
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feejer222
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Age 21 racing Suzuki 550 on open roads against 3 mates. Overshot a bend onto rough ground where property had recently been demolished. Heading for a parked van at about 50-60mph, dropped the bike on its side trying to stop. The bike slid under the van and I hit it, we moved the van 4' sideways and bent the chassis on it. It was brand new and was a write off as was the bike. I got away with a severe beating and a broken femur.
Racing.....how long have you got?
Worst was a high side coming out of Park corner at Cadwell Park. Again probably about 60mph, maybe a bit faster. Out cold for 3 hours, broken colar bone & elbow, soft tissue damage to my left heel which is still swolen to this day. Dizzy spells of the type where you lie down on the floor and hold on tight for about a month afterwards. These subsided over the next 6 moths but have left me completely stupid.....not that I wasn't before.
Both my fault completely....what would I have done differently? Probably nothing, both happened with the red mist down.
COME ON GUYS, SHOULD BE SOME GOOD STORIES HERE
Racing.....how long have you got?
Worst was a high side coming out of Park corner at Cadwell Park. Again probably about 60mph, maybe a bit faster. Out cold for 3 hours, broken colar bone & elbow, soft tissue damage to my left heel which is still swolen to this day. Dizzy spells of the type where you lie down on the floor and hold on tight for about a month afterwards. These subsided over the next 6 moths but have left me completely stupid.....not that I wasn't before.
Both my fault completely....what would I have done differently? Probably nothing, both happened with the red mist down.
COME ON GUYS, SHOULD BE SOME GOOD STORIES HERE
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rammer9460
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I'm not sure if the get off speed is fast enough for you but.... 60-65 MPH, Goldwing Vs. South Dakota Antilope. I was tossed off the left side of the bike, and remember thinking "I'm I ever going to stop rolling?". When I finally did stop I thought "I've got to get out of the road, there's at least one more bike behind me".
End results. bike in the shop for 8 weeks, my 3 week vacation cut to 2 days, 4 hours at the hospital, reamaining days of 3 week vacation spent at home limping around. In order to avoid being "gun shy" about riding, I bought the FJR 2 weeks after the accident. Some permanent road rash scars, but I wasn't all that good looking to begin with.
What did I learn, or would I do differently? Wear the helmet no matter how hot it is. If the helmet is too hot buy a better one that vents better. It won't work if you dont wear it!!! Wear the mesh/armored pants. Jeans offer NO protection!! Just because you're almost there don't think you've got it made and nothing could happen. It's unbelievable how fast things can happen.
Erik
End results. bike in the shop for 8 weeks, my 3 week vacation cut to 2 days, 4 hours at the hospital, reamaining days of 3 week vacation spent at home limping around. In order to avoid being "gun shy" about riding, I bought the FJR 2 weeks after the accident. Some permanent road rash scars, but I wasn't all that good looking to begin with.
What did I learn, or would I do differently? Wear the helmet no matter how hot it is. If the helmet is too hot buy a better one that vents better. It won't work if you dont wear it!!! Wear the mesh/armored pants. Jeans offer NO protection!! Just because you're almost there don't think you've got it made and nothing could happen. It's unbelievable how fast things can happen.
Erik
feejer222
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Am I to take it that no-one else has fallen off....or are you all shy? -_-
radman
R.I.P. Our Motorcycling Friend
Not shy at all, just haven't gone down, in 40 years of riding, not that opportunities haven't presented themselves. Guess practice makes perfect, eh? And, I'm lucky.
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red2kcbr
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A couple of times, but once at speed, in Germany. Left the road doing 70 mph, after slowing from 90 or so. My fault completely, target-fixated instead of looking my way through the turn. Ran into a beet field. ******* beets were the size of basketballs, buried about half in the ground and half out. We got maybe 10 feet into the field and went down hard on the left side. $400 damage to the bike, a cafe 750 Honda. No damage to the finace, but her daddy was pissed. I broke my left wrist and a bone in my left hand.
That little fiasco earned me light duty for 3 months. And I had to borrow the money to fix the bike from the wife, er, girlfriend. Future wife. I think that was when she figured out I wasn't really a Texas millionare. She married me anyway. That was the last time I tossed anyone off a bike, by the way. Must have been 1977. Yeah, that's right, '77.
Shouldn't have rode with a cast, though. That left hand ain't exactly square. Don't hurt much, unless the weather changes.
That little fiasco earned me light duty for 3 months. And I had to borrow the money to fix the bike from the wife, er, girlfriend. Future wife. I think that was when she figured out I wasn't really a Texas millionare. She married me anyway. That was the last time I tossed anyone off a bike, by the way. Must have been 1977. Yeah, that's right, '77.
Shouldn't have rode with a cast, though. That left hand ain't exactly square. Don't hurt much, unless the weather changes.
feejer222
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Well done mate, thats a record to be proud of. I have lost count of the spills I had when younger. Not come off on the road for 25 years......(oops make that 6 slid off on deisel, no real damage). When I was a kid, someone out of our crowd would drop it every week at varying speeds and doing varying damage. Always seemed to be someone scrounging lifts with a pot on their leg or arm. I could write reams about the antics, and near misses. Only lost one member of our group while we were young.
Heard since that another was killed about 5 years ago. I found out about 6 months after it happened. I hadn't seen him for 20 years. A German tourist forgot to look the right way when changing lanes on the motorway apparantly.
All part of lifes rich tapestry. Makes you appreciate what you have.....and glad you lived long enough to enjoy an FJR!!!!
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I described one of only two get-offs I've had in another thread about gear in a get-off. That one was on a Kawasaki Z1 in '77 and the other was in '68 on a Honda 90. Neither was at any appreciable speed, so I didn't figure they qualified were responsive to the question posed here.
Something about this makes me laugh out loud. Makes for a hilarious visual. Do the beets get bigger everytime you tell it?
Don
dwrider
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I was following a pick-up truck when we entered a area where the speed limit dropped from 55 to 45. I slowed down and he didn't. While I was looking down to verify I was doing 45 mph another pick-up truck pulled out in front of me. He was 1/2 way into my lane when he saw me and stopped in the middle of my lane. I looked up with just enough time to see him.
Hit the truck on my left side and skidded 66 feet before coming to a stop.
I lost left index finger tip, broken hand, broken hip, compound fracture of femur, broken knee, tore out all of the ligaments in my knee, compound fracture of the tibia, broken ankle and tore out 1/2 the cartlage in my ankle. Still have a plate, a rod and 12 assorted screws in the leg.
36 days in the hospital, 6 months of therapy and spent 4 1/2 years walking with a cane. I still have pain every day with every step I take.
It was completely his fault and I can talk quite a bit about insurance companies and their treatment of their own policy holders, (State Farm agents and adjusters will burn in hell for what they do on earth).
My 95 Triumph Trophy 3 was a complete loss.
But, I was riding my new 99 Suzuki SV650 back and forth to therapy.
The only thing I would do different, not slow down and stay with the truck in front of me.
dwrider
Hit the truck on my left side and skidded 66 feet before coming to a stop.
I lost left index finger tip, broken hand, broken hip, compound fracture of femur, broken knee, tore out all of the ligaments in my knee, compound fracture of the tibia, broken ankle and tore out 1/2 the cartlage in my ankle. Still have a plate, a rod and 12 assorted screws in the leg.
36 days in the hospital, 6 months of therapy and spent 4 1/2 years walking with a cane. I still have pain every day with every step I take.
It was completely his fault and I can talk quite a bit about insurance companies and their treatment of their own policy holders, (State Farm agents and adjusters will burn in hell for what they do on earth).
My 95 Triumph Trophy 3 was a complete loss.
But, I was riding my new 99 Suzuki SV650 back and forth to therapy.
The only thing I would do different, not slow down and stay with the truck in front of me.
dwrider
03HiYoSilver
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Well I had one.
I was traveling early in the morning down Mt. St. Helens in Washington on a 2 lane Hwy on my Seca750 w/faring. While I was enjoying the beautiful scenery and going about 70mph, I spotted a deer coming in out of the woods from my left to cross the road....now what? So I cut down the speed to 55mph to maneuver fast enough to dodge the deer as it is crossing the hwy, just as it got to the right lane and I moved to the left lane...I had the thought in my head I made it!! Wrong, just as I had that thought, the deer did a 180 and BOOM!!
Up goes the front end, I am seeing sky and drop off the bike then start sliding like Clark Kent on asphault on my rear and arms watching the sparks fly off my bike as I am trailing behind it. Soon as I stop I am thinking is this the after life or am I still in the present? Then a couple of guys in a pickup stop and look down at me a ask me...Did you kill the deer? (Wow, I am thinking thanks for your concern). They help me up and the bike. Luckily for me, the bike only suffered a broken windshield, couple of turn signal lenses, and a few scratches...I would have thought for sure the wheel was driven back to the shifter pedal but it was not. Thank goodness the case savers I installed saved the bike and the rest of the trip.
I made the rest of the trip to Montana and back to Los Angeles but I was walking like Festus for a couple of weeks...Thanks be to God it was not worse, not the same for the deer though.
I could not do anything differently for it was the deer's fault not yielding right of way and reinforced the notion to wear good gear and helmet(even though it never hit the ground).
That's my story and I 'm sticking to it.... deer are QUICK!
I was traveling early in the morning down Mt. St. Helens in Washington on a 2 lane Hwy on my Seca750 w/faring. While I was enjoying the beautiful scenery and going about 70mph, I spotted a deer coming in out of the woods from my left to cross the road....now what? So I cut down the speed to 55mph to maneuver fast enough to dodge the deer as it is crossing the hwy, just as it got to the right lane and I moved to the left lane...I had the thought in my head I made it!! Wrong, just as I had that thought, the deer did a 180 and BOOM!!
Up goes the front end, I am seeing sky and drop off the bike then start sliding like Clark Kent on asphault on my rear and arms watching the sparks fly off my bike as I am trailing behind it. Soon as I stop I am thinking is this the after life or am I still in the present? Then a couple of guys in a pickup stop and look down at me a ask me...Did you kill the deer? (Wow, I am thinking thanks for your concern). They help me up and the bike. Luckily for me, the bike only suffered a broken windshield, couple of turn signal lenses, and a few scratches...I would have thought for sure the wheel was driven back to the shifter pedal but it was not. Thank goodness the case savers I installed saved the bike and the rest of the trip.
I made the rest of the trip to Montana and back to Los Angeles but I was walking like Festus for a couple of weeks...Thanks be to God it was not worse, not the same for the deer though.
I could not do anything differently for it was the deer's fault not yielding right of way and reinforced the notion to wear good gear and helmet(even though it never hit the ground).
That's my story and I 'm sticking to it.... deer are QUICK!
Thug
A shy retiring flower in a Thug's exterior
DucatiSSsp
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#1
Rear ended a volvo on I-90 in the mt. Baker tunnel. Wrecked my Suzuki XN85D and totaled the Volvo.
Ended up with a trip to the e-room and a good case of road-rash. Just gotten of work and was just wearing my slacks and dress shirt.
#2
Switched bikes with my cousin and after shifting into 3rd gear and leaned over to take a left sweeper and realized the old GS750
didn't have the auto-retract kickstand like my Ducati had. Ran it through a 4X4 mailbox post and into a ditch. Thank God there was mud in the bottom of the ditch. Still had a sore neck for 2 weeks. Wearing a Hein-Gericke V-Pilot Jacket which probably save me a broken shoulder.
#3
Coming through turn 6 @ Seattle Int. Raceway, hit a rider who jammed on his brakes because the rider in front of him was highsiding.
slightly fractured wrist in 5 spots. Was wearing a Vanson Velocity suit. Probably save me from back injuries as I landed on my back!
#4
Down hill left hander on the North side of Yosemite, hit a patch of gravel left by a dumptruck and lowsided. Slid about 40 yards.
Was wearing my Vanson Velocity suit again. Would not have a knee if it were not for the suit. Also had heavy abrasion in the shoulder area, with some seam-seperation.
I won't post my off- road riding experiences as I can't count that high :blink:
Luckily no accidents in the last 7 years.
Bryce
Rear ended a volvo on I-90 in the mt. Baker tunnel. Wrecked my Suzuki XN85D and totaled the Volvo.
Ended up with a trip to the e-room and a good case of road-rash. Just gotten of work and was just wearing my slacks and dress shirt.
#2
Switched bikes with my cousin and after shifting into 3rd gear and leaned over to take a left sweeper and realized the old GS750
didn't have the auto-retract kickstand like my Ducati had. Ran it through a 4X4 mailbox post and into a ditch. Thank God there was mud in the bottom of the ditch. Still had a sore neck for 2 weeks. Wearing a Hein-Gericke V-Pilot Jacket which probably save me a broken shoulder.
#3
Coming through turn 6 @ Seattle Int. Raceway, hit a rider who jammed on his brakes because the rider in front of him was highsiding.
slightly fractured wrist in 5 spots. Was wearing a Vanson Velocity suit. Probably save me from back injuries as I landed on my back!
#4
Down hill left hander on the North side of Yosemite, hit a patch of gravel left by a dumptruck and lowsided. Slid about 40 yards.
Was wearing my Vanson Velocity suit again. Would not have a knee if it were not for the suit. Also had heavy abrasion in the shoulder area, with some seam-seperation.
I won't post my off- road riding experiences as I can't count that high :blink:
Luckily no accidents in the last 7 years.
Bryce
Silver Penguin
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Since my DH is forum shy, I will reply on his behalf. His first unplanned dismount, in 30+ years of riding happened last year on a two month old BMW K1200S. Riding to work in the HOV lane, doing around 65mph. The adjacent lane, as did all the others, had stop/start traffic. Lady Lexus was more interested in tuning her radio and didn't see that the car in front had stopped. A last second swerve meant that she rear ended the car obliquely, at 65mph or so. Victim car was spun ninety degrees across two lanes, giving DH about twenty feet to stop.
He braked to the max, then let off the brakes, aimed the bike towards the hood rather than the door of the SUV then tried to let go the bars. The impact launched him into the air, over the car, over the median and onto the southbound side of the freeway. Fortunately, traffic was crawling and he was not hit.
The only point where he briefly lost consciousness was while being lifted into the ambulance. His memory of the accident remains clear.
Damage: bike totalled. Skin intact thanks to good leather gear. Brain intact thanks to good helmet. Both elbows shattered. Left wrist shattered. Right femur broken in two places. Intra-medullary rod placed. T9 compression fracture. Four surgeries, four blood tranfusions, five weeks in the hospital and two months recovering at home.
Today, ten months later: 7000 miles on the new K12S. Even firmer devotee of ATGATT. Constant pain from titanium plates and screws. Awaiting surgery to remove some of the stuff.
What to do different? Stay in bed that morning and forget going to work.
Jill
