Did you crash this year?

[scratch]

Wow!  Glad you survived!  Hope you heal quickly.  A valuable lesson to be learned indeed!

[pandy]

Oh that sounds like scary one.  Glad things turned out as well as they did! Heal up quickly!

I think I've gone a whole year without crashing or pandying my bike.... I think.... 

[CVK 81]

I crashed this year, twice.  Both were within in the first 500 miles I have ever ridden on a motorcycle and both were lowsides caused by target fixation because of my inexperience. 

The first happened my second day of riding.  After spending the first 200 miles the day before on straight Illinois roads, I finally found a road with linked corners.  Only problem was the gravel, which I have been afraid off since before I learned to ride.  I got nervous about about the little bit I was going to roll through in a left hand curve.  Instead of turning my head to follow the corner I stared at the gravel which caused me to run off onto the gravel shoulder, fumbled the clutch and brakes and layed her down on her left at about 30mph.  Jacket, helmet, boots and gloves really saved my ass.  Jeans ripped right through and got some rash on my knee, the gloves torn both palms and the jacket has two rips but I still wear it.  Helmet took a decent knock behind my left temple. 

My second crash was more of an involuntary dual sport ride with a drop at the end.  I was following my brother in law, a very experienced rider and blew a slow right hander out in the country.  Ran through some 12 inch tall grass and dropped the bike on her right side once I we were almost stopped.  If I can recommend crashing into anything, 12 inch grass is way better than gravel. 

I'm a little glad that the first crash happened, I did not get hurt too bad, and it showed me how important the gear is.  I think without the wreck I would be riding without AGATT by now. Wow this is my longest post, thanks for reading and Merry Xmas.

[yurtinus]

Just finished washing it, pushed it back in the garage without starting it (key was upstairs). Knocked the side stand back just enough that it was still sticking out, but not enough that it wouldn't fold right up against the bike when I tried to set it down. Realized too late that the bike should have stopped leaning ten degrees ago...

Boy did that one make me feel dumb.

[Pelikan]

No crash, thankfully, but I had a really close call.  Two lane city street, I'm riding in the center-left portion of the right lane, slowing down for a red light with ample following distance from the car in front of me.  All of a sudden, I see a mini van passing me on the right, literally about three inches away.  It swerves in front of me, then slams on the brakes, as by this time it's right on the ass of the guy that was in front of me.

Good thing I took MSF and practiced braking, 'cause I was about as close to that mini van's rear as I could have been without touching when I came to a stop.

I have absolutely no idea what that person was thinking...I haven't been riding long and am very safe and alert.  Nothing I did would have provoked that kind of reaction.  In retrospect, I wish I got her plates, but was so shook up in the moment I didn't think of it.

[tt_four]

  In retrospect, I wish I got her plates, but was so shook up in the moment I didn't think of it.

You must be a forgiving person. I never would've thought about the license plate, I would've waited until traffic started moving, went around the right side, knocked her mirror clean off, and kept right on moving.

[Grommett2k]

Never had a crash, pushed the bike over once in the garage.

[GI_JO_NATHAN]

No crash, thankfully, but I had a really close call.  Two lane city street, I'm riding in the center-left portion of the right lane, slowing down for a red light with ample following distance from the car in front of me.  All of a sudden, I see a mini van passing me on the right, literally about three inches away.  It swerves in front of me, then slams on the brakes, as by this time it's right on the ass of the guy that was in front of me.

Good thing I took MSF and practiced braking, 'cause I was about as close to that mini van's rear as I could have been without touching when I came to a stop.

I have absolutely no idea what that person was thinking...I haven't been riding long and am very safe and alert.  Nothing I did would have provoked that kind of reaction.  In retrospect, I wish I got her plates, but was so shook up in the moment I didn't think of it.

That's pretty crazy. I've had some close calls but nothing as blatant as that.
No wrecks for me. Although I did have an incident in the garage when I was putting my wheels back on from a tire change. Bike ended up on it's side and scratched my new Zero Gravity ST windscreen. Had to get a little creative trying to figure out how to get the ass end back on the track stand with no help picking it up.

[mike__R]

My GF did on her GS500E - well somebody hit her and rashed up the bike pretty bad.  Frame got dented where the car hit the bike, so I have to do a swap to a new frame (most of the bike survived) - I already bondo'd the tank about to the best of my ability.  Got the new frame and just need a few odds & ends (peg, shifter, mirror, etc.) and should have a good bike again.

She was mostly OK, twisted ankle and some rash on her leg - her gear saved her.

[The Buddha]

Yea sadly I was pandy'ied one time by a fool in a car. Oh wait, that is a buddha - so were you buddha'ed this year = did some moron ram your ass off the road.

Thanks pandy for the new expression.

Cool.
Buddha.

[skirecs]

No crash, thankfully, but I had a really close call.  Two lane city street, I'm riding in the center-left portion of the right lane, slowing down for a red light with ample following distance from the car in front of me.  All of a sudden, I see a mini van passing me on the right, literally about three inches away.  It swerves in front of me, then slams on the brakes, as by this time it's right on the ass of the guy that was in front of me.

Good thing I took MSF and practiced braking, 'cause I was about as close to that mini van's rear as I could have been without touching when I came to a stop.

I have absolutely no idea what that person was thinking...I haven't been riding long and am very safe and alert.  Nothing I did would have provoked that kind of reaction.  In retrospect, I wish I got her plates, but was so shook up in the moment I didn't think of it.

shoulda punched her mirror off and peaced

i have to lay on my horn pretty much every single ride through town

[fontanarider]

I just crashed on November 11. I was riding and some J-walking tweaker lady walked in the middle of the street, the car next to me almost hit her and she kept running across the street, and she ran in front of me. I swerved to avoid hitting her, and my left handle barely hit her, bit it hit her enough that my handle bars jerked left and low sided my bike. I flew of my bike and landed on my right shoulder, then rolled on my back and slide till i hit the curb, then i spun in a circle and rolled up the driveway of a gas station. After i finally stopped rolling, i tried to sit up because i wanted to see if i was in the middle of the street (i was afraid of getting hit by a car). I barely sat up but i felt dizzy and fell back down. I couldnt get up so i just stayed laying down. After about 1 minute, my right shoulder started to hurt bad, i felt my shoulder and i could feel one of my bones was dislocated. I turned my head to the side and saw that tweaker lady staring at me, she was scared. She started to freak out, and she ran away. 3 guys in an SUV stopped and helped me, 2 of the guys ran and got the tweaker lady, they brought her back and watched her to make sure she doesnt run away again. Someone said they called the police and ambulance. The police showed up within the next minute, then the ambulance showed up another minute later. They took me to the hospital, and took x-rays of my shoulder. They said i dislocated my shoulder, collar bone, and shoulder blade. I also dislocated and ripped most of my shoulder tendons. I had a little bit of road rash, but it wasnt much. My bike wasnt damaged to bad, it needed new foot pegs, fairings had some damage, and my right fork got bent a little. My shoulder still hurts once once in a while. Everytime my shoulder hurts i think od the damn tweaker B!%(h J-walking across the street, when she could have taken the crosswalk. She wall only 10 FEET AWAY FROM THE CROSSWALK. 

[pandy]

Yea sadly I was pandy'ied one time by a fool in a car. Oh wait, that is a buddha - so were you buddha'ed this year = did some moron ram your ass off the road.Thanks pandy for the new expression.

I was buddha'd a couple of years ago. 

[sneakystodd]

No crash but to many close calls to count. Thank you middle aged women texting! you've aged me 20 years

[Cal Price]

I was about to put my hand up to a low-speed bike-bike incident when I remembered it was December 2009, St Niklaas rally in Ooostende Belgium so 2010 was pretty much incident free.

I did have a very nasty scare on a narrow right-hander in the late summer 2010 when I found rather too much loose grit for my likeing and got into a front-wheel slide, potential highside, pulled her up and then slid on the other angle, potential lowside. I was at the point where I has resigned to going over, thinking about how best to try and land when somehow i got her upright and under control. I think it must have been when I relaxed thinking about the landing that was the crucial point but these things happen PDQ. The road was a little-used one on the Romney Marsh so it got little priority, the grit was from potholes caused in the freeze in Feb-March still unrepaired in the summer.
Luckily for me no other traffic around but it was a hell of a scare.