| Author | Message | ||
     Fl_a1a |
Survey: How many total life-time miles have you ridden when you went down on your bike. What where the circumstances? Me: Around 15,000 - 20,000 miles I did a high side. Gave the bike too much throttle coming out of a turn. | ||
| Dick8008 |
I was a newbie. I had just gotten my license after taking the MSF course. I'd say only a few hundred miles. It was my fault. I worked TONS of hours and got little sleep. Basically zoned out in the middle of a corner. The front wheel hit some gravel, over the bars I went when it stuck. The worst part....IT WASN'T MY BIKE!!!! My buddy was good about it. I still ride with him but on my own bike now. lol | ||
| Fl_a1a |
I think the Hurst stats show you are most likely to have a mishap in the 1st year of riding and something like after year 3 ( due to over confidence ) | ||
| Nickcaro |
under 1k gravel and sand left over from winter on a curve after I recklessly passed an SUV on the right side. (Message edited by nickcaro on June 10, 2007) | ||
| Bugman |
Over 20 years and 150K miles. Tank slapper; then high sided my XB12. Neck Injury. Now I wear a helmet. | ||
| Fl_a1a |
Bugman That is a lot of years. What caused the tank slapper ( flat tire, mechanical failure of some sort ). Just wondering so we can learn from your experience. | ||
| Fookinbueller |
approx 3 riding seasons... Came around the apex which was also the peak of a hill and noticed a car stopped at the bottom of the hill approx 60-100ft away at a stop sign I didn't know was there. Hit the brakes, the bike stood up a bit and ran wide and into a rainwash. There I was trying to get the bike out of the deep groove carved by the rain and back onto the pavement, clipons slapping back and forth... As soon as I managed to get the bike on the pavement it threw me down onto the blacktop sliding to the bottom of the hill for about 30ft. Thank god for gear! All I suffered was a 2x2in patch of road rash on my forearm where my jacket sleeve pulled up out of my glove... Honda racing textile jacket still looked new after a wash... my gloves were torn to shreds, down to the thin inside liner under the leather! Had a bout with Target fixation in my first three weeks of riding with a spicy little girly on back, ended up blasting through the woods and back onto the road dragging a huge roll of 4x4 concrete re-bar that hooked my foot and probably would have cut it off if it weren't for my new Sidi vertebra boots! Could have been a nightmare but it worked out OK with a lesson learned and no damage to the bike or precious cargo... thank you Lord once again... | ||
| Cityxslicker |
over 30 years riding, first time I went down was when I was learning to ride in the sand at 5, most recent time was riding fast over shale rock that was a bit wet, and 30 mph was too fast for conditions... ouch | ||
| Wantxbr |
before my accident i've been riding for 14 years I was 23 when an 85 year old woman took a left in front of me and my girlfriend. T-Boned her car at 35mph moving her car 6ft sideways. I can safely say I have had over 200,000 miles of riding before this accident. I ride everyday rain or shine. | ||
| Doerman |
350,000 lifetime miles (as best I can figure)80,000 of those on Buell. Never down. Yes, I know. This has a lot less to do with skill and much more to do with a very attentive guardian angel  because I have been close several times. Asbjorn | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
682 miles. Lack of experience, gravel strewn right hander, old bastard in a read pick up truck. Mostly lack of experience. | ||
| Sneth |
3000miles or so. took an exit ramp too fast. didnt drop, but i had to straighten and hang tight through the grass. I saw loose rock as a started to hit the edge or the road, and said straighten up, or you are going down. | ||
| 01ccfronty |
4 years, riding as much as possible every summer-- some kid in a dodge dakota went off his shoulder coming at me, over corrected and ended up shooting back across the road and side swiping me and my g/f. she almost lost her leg, i have a couple scars. i didnt even see him till he was on top of us, got really lucky, 1/2 a second early'r and it would have been head on - we were both doing ~50...... | ||
| U4euh |
Over 29 years riding experience, 18 on the street. When I went down it was my own fault. At the time it was easy to say this and that happen. BUT as time has gone by and thoughts of running offthe road in the mountains(doing about 65-70 going into an uphill decreasing radius left hander), I have come to realize that it was purely my fault at not paying attention and doing the proper set up for the corner. I was catching upto an important person in the Buell community and was so enthralled at watching how beautifully he took corners, I didn't pay any attention to the fact that I was doing about 90mph, hard on the brakes 3 downshifts and a folded up footpeg 2 seconds later I realized again that I was not going to make it. Experienced in dirt, I figured I would just ride out, but what I couldn't see at that lean angle was the drop off at the edge of the road! I was very very lucky that it was not a right hander with traffic, of one of the thousand curves in the area with a guard rail or a 200 ft drop off. | ||
| 12r |
Probably less than 50 miles lol. I failed to negotiate a left-hand corner on a hump-back bridge and sideswiped the retaining wall. It broke the brake caliper and twisted the forks of my SS50, but I was unscathed  Crash #3 was spectacular. I overtook a French-registered Deux Chevaux on a narrow road in Scotland, travelling at close to the speed of light on my Honda CBX-6. Just as I smugly pulled back in, a submarine surfaced in the loch, distracted me and I completely missed the next left-hander. The CBX skidded across the road in a shower of expensive sparks, hit some rocks and turned over. It was completely f**ked. As I lay in the road groaning, the Deux Chevaux pulled over and the passenger asked me "Eef I waz Ow-kay ?" lol | ||
| Jandj_davis |
The 1st time I had my bike out. I tried stopping and parking in a gravel parking lot,l and it fell over. That is the only time I have gone down. | ||
| Irideabuell |
Probably at 10-15,000 miles when I was 18 or 19. Kid ran a stop sign and plowed into me. Swore I would never ride again and rode it home from my girlfriend's house the next day. | ||
| Skully |
Over 100,000 miles, a Harley Night Train, and gravel at an intersection: recipe for disaster. | ||
| Dongalonga |
10K miles beginning of this season. Too fast on what had always been an "easy" left hander. This year the was a nice frost heave at the apex and I was going aprox. 75 mph. Right into the ditch. I did about three back flips after being ejected. The bike and I survived and are having better luck lately. | ||
| Xbullet |
first crash -- 9 years old on a honda trail 70. sliding the rear tire on gravel didn't work like it did on my honda 100 in the dirt.... my first "road rash" first street "crash" -- i was 17 and had about 9-10K miles on my 883. i left the masterlock in the front brake rotor. turned left, lock hit the caliper. stopped dead in front of 20 people or so. fell to the left and the handlebar hit the asphalt. i had that little scooter back up before my pop even knew i'd gone down. zero damage. there have been two more since on the street since then. a 3 mph highside on a rigid 72 shovel (25K miles or so into street riding) and a backflip at less than 35 mph playin' wheelstanding squid on my buell (50-60K miles on me, <10K on my XB). remember guys...always cover the rear brake!! my guardian angel wears a hard hat. | ||
| Xb12mel |
Newbie.... Less then 100 miles. slowed down for a right turn, saw the gravel and hit the front break lever, down I went. Road Rash on right knee... bum shoulder and big bruise on hip. | ||
| Blake |
A couple hundred miles, not really much of a crash though. Tipped over in a grassy ditch after running wide on a turn. Serious crash was in 1999 after around 50K miles. Went off road, again running wide on a turn, but this time at around 70 mph; hit mud, went down hard. Spent a week in the Tulsa hospital with a pneumothorax, seven busted ribs and a clavicle broken into three pieces. Learned to appreciate pain meds. Morphine good. Red capsules good. Started racing afterwards. No more running wide on turns. Better to lay the bike down trying to make the turn. Thusly wisdom was gained. And now I can tell with certainty when it's about to rain. | ||
| Xbullet |
pneumothorax  | ||
| Jackelfox |
been down twice once after maybe 500 miles slow turn slid out on some gravel, then maybe 500 more miles totalled that bike understeering into a turn then trying to break to slow down went wide till i hit gravel.... And that was my first buell.... | ||
| Xbullet |
gravel gravel gravel. i'm seein' a trend..... quick gravel story... my dad has been riding since 1965. he has VERY few accidents on two wheels. however... one bright summer day, dad put mom on the back of the geyser glide and met some friends... another couple on another geyser glide, a couple on a heritage, and a couple on an FXR. long story short, they pull up to a gravel parkin' lot and down goes the newbie couple on the heritage. foot slipped in the gravel. the other couple on the other geyser-glide had been riding together for 10 or fifteen years without incident. he hit too much front brake and down they went. the couple on the FXR are stopped at this point. he turns his head, and she turns her whole body around to see what all the commotion is. yep. down they go. he let off the clutch with it still in gear. it lurched and dropped. so they go inside and eat. laughing about their slight misfortune and how fortunate they were that no one got hurt. they get on their bikes to leave. pop gives it too much throttle, rear tire breaks loose as he's turnin' right, and that mean old gravel takes a fourth moto-victim. i'm so glad i wasn't there that day. | ||
| Blake |
XBullet, Sorry, "pneumo" meaning air, and "thorax" meaning uh... thorax? LOL. Punctured--doc said it actually burst--and collapsed lung put air into my chest cavity, not a good thing, if you want to live. (Message edited by blake on June 12, 2007) | ||
| Prof_stack |
In 2002 I went into a freeway on-ramp, a 270 degree curve, and gravel took me to the curb and threw me off the Blast, high-siding onto some soft grass/brush. Lucky. That was after 34 years of riding and somewhere over 50k miles. I discovered that day that there is no one riding ahead clearing off the roads for me. | ||
| Buelleghoulie |
1st day out....did some slow figure 8ts..refreshing myself on MSF stuff, turning left. dropped it. twice.. put bike away for a week, defeated. 1000ks later, droped it again doing a right turn, slow speed tip over reallyin parking lot. same thing. scratched faring and engine cover. Whatever. Oh BTW, I decided on an 03 cbr 600RR. No buells for the price I could afford. got it for 7100 bucks with 8000Ks on it. Still love buells, not the price tag. | ||
| Mndwgz |
14 years old, after 4 years of stepthroughs and a SL90, Hodaka CombatWombat, barbed wire fence gate that was supposed to be open caught me at night riding home from a party.... 2 welts across the chest, the open face lid stopped the strand across the face, knocked out, broken nose, woke up on my back, couldn't see cause the eyese were full of blood, could hear the bike still running on its side. Wiped eyes carefully, saw the moon, crawled over to click off kill switch, stood up and wobbeled 1/2 mile to the house. Mom was a RN, set my nose, folded back the torn skin and taped it in place and hauled me into the doc the next morning. Still have the scar. 1982 low sided on a wet left arrow at 50 mph on the way to work one morning after 130,000 on my /6. Crawled on top, kicked myself off when I saw 2 cars coming around the corner, missed them they missed me. Scratches to the left cyl and mirror, new rain suit butt worn through to my jeans.  (Message edited by mndwgz on June 12, 2007) | ||
| Daves |
about 200,000 flubbed a wheelie in 02 |
