What are you worried about hurting the most?

[Maduro Mistress]

This is not meant as a foreboding thread by any means, but if you were to go down / slide, whatever, what would be the part of you that you are scared of hurting the most? I think about this from time to time when I'm flying down the highway doing 90...

For me, I am afraid of breaking a bone - specifically my collarbone. Almost everyone I know who's ever been off has broken their collarbone! It doesn't sound pretty at all.

What abouyt you guys and gals?

[Chuck]

Cognitive abilities.

[Longinus]

I'm a newbie, and i crashed my 05 f a bit more than a month ago. All i could think of immediately afterwards was how glad i was that my hands and feet were ok ( even though one of my shoes flew off ). However, while i was tumbling all my efforts were to protect my head.

[Maduro Mistress]

hey Long - I'm from Melbourne!!!! Small world eh!

What does it fell like to come off? What did you land on?

[red_phil]

? What did you land on?

Duh, like the ground man, don;t you know anything

     :mrgreen:

[dgyver]

Being paralized.

I have already broken my left thumb, broken right arm, severed a ligament in my right hand, broken left collar bone, fractured sinuses, and a compressed vertebrae in my neck along with several concussions.

[synchro]

Maduro Mistress: A car just me off in july and was ejected....just make sure you go limp!!! Try not to tense up and just take it.

[Maduro Mistress]

Thanks Synchro - I wasn't planning on coming off any time soon, I just wonder odd things from time to time... I don't know if I'd even have time to tense, ya know.

dear lord dg! that's a whole lotta injuries! OWEY!  

[Jake D]

Spinal Cord.

[Longinus]

i was wearing a Dri-Rider summit 2 jacket which i can't rate highly enough, it made it feel like i was flopping into a bed. But i still ended up with a bloody great hole in my left leg that i didn't notice till my mate brad informed me "dude, you're bleeding."
 The crash was a single vehicle incident. I was taking a left hand bend at about 100-110 km/h ( stupid as i can only legaly travel at 90 ) and about three quarters of the way around a kangaroo decided to cross the road diagonaly from the inside of the corner heading in the same direction as me effectively running me off the road, and as the tyres hit the gravel on the side of the road it was low-side city, the bike went one way while i took a slightly different trajectory. I landed on the outside of the corner and tumbled for about 30-35m all the while listening to the crunching sounds coming from the direction i think my bike would be. Upon reflection i should have hit the roo, it wasn't very big. i just panicked.

[dgyver]

dear lord dg! that's a whole lotta injuries! OWEY!  

That is just from motorcycling over the past 25 or so years. I did not include my other injuries from other sports.

[Maduro Mistress]

you know long they make some damn nice leather suits out of kangaroo! : )

Same problem with deer over here - you just never know. Glad to know you're okay though! Sounds like quite a spill!

dg - tell us more!

[Stephen072774]

When I slid underneath the rearend of that car I hit I remember sliding out the other side wondering if I still had arms attached.  I was quite glad to find them still attached when i stopped sliding.

[snowhownd]

As I see people on the road, it seems if they are wearing gear at all, it is usually just a jacket, and sometimes a jacket and helmet.  The thing I see left off most is gloves.  I must say I am scared to death of falling on my hands... take the skin off them, and you can't do anything (of course the whole head thing kind of beats that out - you really can't do anything without a functioning brain!)  So outside of a helmet (which I will always wear), is the 'ol hands.

[The Buddha]

The head and spinal injuries are what I'll be afraid of really, but ligament tears, and sprains hurt like hell.
Cool.
Srinath.

[jbeaber]

Definitely head and spinal cord are the biggest fears....  Prolly extremities next, which is why I am recently the proud owner of Sidi Vertebra boots (which cost me almost as much as my GS), a nice set of gloves, jacket, helmet, etc....  A nice leather suit is next on the list...

[LizardQueen]

Spinal cord, for sure. A friend of mine wrecked his Katana about 15 years ago and has been in a wheelchair ever since.   I had been contemplating getting a bike at around the time he wrecked, but his crash and injuries put me off buying one for more than 10 years.

LQ

[Alphamazing]

Spinal and head traumas are my biggest fears. After that, I'd have to say my hands and feet, especially after experiencing road rash on my fingers and dealing with the scar tissue build up and nerve damage now. I love my Sidi boots as well. They are definitely worth every penny I paid for them.

[NiceGuysFinishLast]

take the skin off them, and you can't do anything

agreed.. I just suffered 2nd and 3rd degree burns to my left hand, and, even though it's my left hand, I find myself severely hampered, and I'm hoping for a quick recovery... and before you offer sympathy (if it was forthcoming at all), the hand was pure stupidity, didn't wipe it off after filling my zippo... zippo + zippo fluid + hand = pretty cool torch... and just in case anyone was wondering, stop + drop + roll DOES work, very well....

[davipu]

severe head trama will kill you, but not as fast as blood loss waiting for the ambulance.  so to just wear a helmet is just stupid in my opionion.  I seem to worry the most about my hands and feet, not in getting injured but in preventing injuries, say you were riding without gloves and a car flipped a pop can up and hit you in the hand it could easily cut tendons or whole fingers off, resulting in a situation that you no longer can control.  I worry about my feet, as several times I have come to a stop and my toes have been so cold that my feet have gone numb, and dumping the clutch was what kept me from falling over.