As I am just getting into bikes I am interested to hear your heart stopping tales so I can avois similar situations !

Ta !

J4cko, still to scared to go out on his own on his 125, well its not got an MOT yet is my excuse.

nearly bought a harley once.

LMAO @ Tiggs

Scary moments? Lots, cars pulling out on me, getting target fixation and nearly not making the bend, wondering which way the road goes after the blind crest and guessing wrong, watching a mate bounce of a fence after missing his braking point and hitting gravel, huge tank slapper while accelerating hard of rough tarmac without a steering damper, nearly highsiding myself in the dry, spinning the back up off roundabouts in the wet, hitting big bumps @ 140mph, finding a cattle grid on the apex of a bend, finding a mud slide on the apex of a bend.

I consider myself to be a very safe rider ;)

where do i start :rolleyes: only crashed twice, first time i came over a hump back bridge to find an old duffer in a Sierra sat in the middle off the road indicating for junction that didn't exist, locked the front wheel, slide down the road on my arse, bike just missed the car in front & my leg missed the car coming the other way by millimeters :eek: second time, i came off a roundabout and hit a patch of gravel sitting in the middle of the lane (it had been raining really heavily the day before), lost the front wheel on it, bike slide across 2 lanes, across grass median and came to rest on the other carriageway

both times i've been really lucky with damage to me & my bike and only needed new bodywork and a couple of lever & pegs :cool: shame you have to learn the hard way really :rolleyes:


kev :)

...and then there's the close shaves, footpeg snapping off when i was nailing it into a right hander (had visions of my foot in the back wheel) hitting diesel on a roundabout at 70 :eek: made Rossi's powersliding look ameteurish ;) bike seizing on me at god knows what speed, never reached for the clutch so fast in my life :D

oh the memories :D


kev :)

Coming round a bend on the Rhine valley, a cliff on one side and a 300 foot drop to the river on the other, I was faced with a jack-knifed Volvo with its caravan its side blocking the whole road. I knew there was no way I could stop and in that time dilating instant remember thinking "River, cliff, car, caravan".
In flash of inspiration I remembered caravans are built on an H frame. I hit the caravan at about 40 MPH and went all the way through.
The bike was not too bad, bent wheels, trashed fairing, etc.
I got away with two broken collar bones, bruises and a number of knife cuts, as I went through his cutlery draw.

Z

Passed a junction@27ishMPH, traffic light on green, moron in plastic pig (Relian Robin) pulls out of police station without looking. I collide with him and end up led on road wondering why I can't stand up. Look down at leg- bone is trying to pierce skin!!!!! Guy gets out of car and asks me "why didn't you stop?", I'm still in shock but have my wits about me and ask him why he pulled out onto a main road without looking. Guy replies "I've lost my glasses which is why I was at the station seeing if they've been handed in". At this point I'm considering trying to bite his ankles as I can't move enough to punch him. The police finally come out and proceed to try and remove my helmet, despite the fact I may have a spinal injury and am obviously breathing OK as I am now screaming insults at the robin driver.
In the end the guy was banned for dangerous driving and I got a few thousand from his insurance company- and a huge scar down my shin.
I still regard all 3 wheeler drivers as the enemy.

that should put you off nicely ;):D


kev :)

Oh, and last week, rounding a bend going very fast, to come up behind a Royal visitor Roller with 10 (count them ten) police outriders. . .

Now that was scary.

As it was they waved me past.

[Edited by Zanlin - 7/21/2003 11:23:03 AM]

First night on my then new VFR800.

It was wet - but just got the bike - i'd only just passed my test - went round right hander - but pulled clutch in rather than break, panicked - threw bike into corner - over revved it and then let out the clutch - causing me to wheely a bit... shat me pants HUGE time.. how i stayed on i have no idea.

MORAL: Your bikes a lot better than you are ;)

1st time I ever rode a bike, went off for a spin, came back & found that there was no rear brake, it was gravel and I was stuck in neutral. Wearing a T (ok, 17 at the time & know better now) & I decided that using the front of a house to stop rather than gravel was a good idea... Still managed to put my hand through a window so blood everywhere :rolleyes:

Cartwheeled a GPZ750R when someone did a U'ey and my front wheel locked on some white paint between the shell grip - remember sliding down the road trying to roll out the way of the bike coming behind me - which I did as it went past in a cloud of sparks & debris & whomped into the silly bugger that had done the U'ey - broke my thumb.

Crossing a road when all of a sudden a parked car, went into reverse & came barrelling back towards me - hit me square on & knocked me off & I landed slap bang on the top of my head - ow!

Couple of U-turn through traffic scenarios, one that did not a great deal of damage to me but £2.5k to the bike. The second one was when I'd just repaired it & gone to pick up the last few shiney bits & on the way back the same happened, except this time I landed on my shoulder (armoured jacket even) & sublimated my acromia-clavicular joint to grade III. Bloody hurt then & it still hurts sometimes now (7 years ago)

Countless other u-turn stories, pull outs, losing front-ends, back-ends, slappers, punctures, engine failures etc

Enjoy the bike J4cko!

They say there are two sorts of bikers - those who have fallen off and those who are going to! :p

I swore I wouldn't be a faller off, but hey I was wrong!

One of my scariest moments, I didn't actually fall off. I was looking for a bike after passing my 125 test. I thought a ZZR6 would be a good idea. Dealer let me out on it and I pootled off to the nearest dual carriageway. Trouble is no one had told me about counter-steering at higher (>45 mph :rolleyes:) speeds. At about 70 on the dual I needed to make a relatively tight left. I ended up doing about 20mph and tramlining both wheels along the kerb on the outside lane :eek: Don't know how I didn't fall off. Figured out countersteering and leaning pretty quick after that! Bought the bike as well ;)

Have fun, stay safe :)

you girls!

a harley for gods sakes...with tassles and everything...you cant compete with that!

The two that come to mind that I willing to type about..

On a DT50 of all things.. down hill.. down a low as I can 45mph on the speedo.. exhaust screaming.. come round a bend and someone has stopped there car and is putting a can of petrol in the car.. it is hill FFS why didn;t he roll to the straight??
I lock the rear and slide the bike like speedway.. realised I am not going to stop... there is cars coming the otherway.. see a gap and I release the brakes, open the throttle and jump to opposite side of the road.. miss on coming traffic and return to the left.. stopped up the road at the pump and rang in sick for work!! lol..

On my Fireblade.. has been patchy rain but now stopped.. am on the motorway.. come off at my junction (J8 M20) up the slip road and around the roundabout cranked right over.. the road off the roundabout curves left.. it is a lovely bike junction etc..
set the bike up cranked to the left as I exist.. going pretty quick.. then realise the left hand turn has a wet road surface!!
eeekk.. no way I can brake.. so I just leave it cranked over and close the throttle as much as I dare.. back on the throttle and lean in expecting the front to go.. it did.. open throttle and it comes back.. couldn't have let go properly etc.. then the back went, close throttle a little and the back comes back in line.. bike snakes and slithers slightly and I end up in the outside lane rather than left but without dropping it..

Just thought of another...

Reversing the car up the driveway and hear a donk sound look in rear mirror to see my new blade fall over.. forgot I had parked it there! doh..

JGM :)

Zanlin, that "Oh ****" moment's a killer isn't it?

Last time it happened to me I KNEW I was dead.

I'm still here though aint I?

YAY ME!

Two that come to mind both on my GSXR600 -

1st - 1 week after getting bike uphill dual carriage way right-hander with chevrons in the centre, doing 80ish bank right over said chevrons and handlebars begin to wobble. You all know what comes next, wobble becomes worse and worseunitl I manage to straighten up and get off chevrons. Moral - steering dampers are made for a reason.

2nd - M3 coming towards Basingstoke junction. 100ish and the steering starts to feel heavy all of a sudden. Think that's a bit odd and begin to slow down - at this point my rear tyre explodes (!) and I somehow (to this very day I have no idea how) manage to make it through heavy traffic from the outside lane to hard-shoulder without hitting anything or falling off! Found a nail in what was left of the tyre.

Mine was a year and a half ago and made me quit biking..well for a year anyway ;)
90mph on a motorway, no junctions, light rain. Couple hundred metres in front a truck driver falls asleep, swerves inside, clips a TOyota hatchback and spits it directly at me. Whilst sliding down the road on me arse my frontwheel overtakes me...
Sprained a thumb, got off really lightly...then had nightmares/flashbacks for a couple months dreaming about what could've happened.
A year later I was so sick of the train comute that I just had to get another bike..pulled my old boots outta the attic and noticed I'd worn all the way through all the ankle protection and has a layer of liner between my anklebone and the tarmac when I stopped skidding....eek!
Chucky-got-lucky

I remember talking to you about that when it happened Chuck..

Not nice at all..

Simon

mine was 12 years ago, straight into the front of those fecking great big army trucks, very messy, ended up two broken legs 1 busted arm bike was fecked and all they were worried about was the damn paint work i chipped when i bounced off it.
But i got the last laugh when i sued the bo**ocks of em, got bloody thousands,downside was took me 3 1/5 years to get it but less time to spend it once the missus and kids started.....but im all repaired, got the bars out of my legs as souveniers and have full movement back again, so im happy.

Dazza,

Wow nasty...

JGM :)

Being tale ended by some pratt in a tin can and having my arm stitched back on must be my scariest moment.

not nice either... and your first post too!!!

For Sale
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1998 Fireblade.. one scared owner..

:)

JGM

JGM,
Too make matters worse, the missis let me buy another bike last year,gsxr600k2,well had that fecker 3 months before it got wiped out,luckly it was a minor ding but dinted the frame and totalled the bike see pic, so im now banned from owning other bike....that is untill next year tho...
http://images.fotopic.net/?id=874461&outx=600&oq=0

Dazza,

with that history it might be wise to avoid bikes..

JGM :)