I can't believe it happened. I know everybody will do it at some point. I was riding in the canyons and as I was cornering a car was driving on the wrong side of the road! I had to bail and just slide into the dirt. Luckily nothing major happened to my bike except for a few scratches and a cracked windscreen.
How did you fall and were you as pissed as I was?
2006-12-26 05:30:49 · 19 answers · asked by OH yea! 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Motorcycles
havent gone down yet...yet being the key word. never expect a cager to do 'the right thing'. if u had been straddling the white line going around the curve to begin with, u wouldnt have gone down. always assume a cage is gonna come across the corner on the wrong side.
2006-12-26 05:42:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've gone down twice. The first time I had my first bike for only a week or two. I was leaving a parking space and was giving it too much gas and let the clutch out too fast and ended up in the fender of the car next to me. No damage to the bike or myself. The second time I was approaching a red light with a right turn arrow. I was watching the traffic and not paying as much attention to the gravel covered turn lane. As I leaned into the turn, I went one direction and the bike went the other direction. No damage to myself but I spent the next month piecing my bike back together. Both times I was really PISSED. The thing to remember is that you have to get right back on the bike and keep riding. Don't get freaked and hang up your leather jacket for good. Learn from it and ride on.
2006-12-27 19:37:11 · answer #2 · answered by BikerBob 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh Yes!!!! A good few years ago i rode an 850 Norton Interstate. One journey I made was from Northern Ireland to London to see my girlfriend (now my wife). It was in November and it was just above freezing for the whole ride. I arrived at the nursing home where she lived and rode into the car park. I turned slowly into the parking bay stopped and slowly keeled over onto the grass. I was so cold that my brain was saying put your leg out to balance the bike but my muscles said bog off I'm to cold to move. All this in front of about a dozen nurses just going on duty who by the way helped to get the bike off my leg. Talk about feeling foolish. It took a long time to live it down. My girlfriend decided to tell everyone.
Such is life.
2006-12-29 16:32:16 · answer #3 · answered by F650 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh Yea, I've fallen a few times never my fault. And I always get pissed off. First thing you do is check and make sure your bike is OK, then you worry about yourself. Then you fix it and get back on. Then hope like hell it doesn't happen again. I figure if I got up and still can ride then it wasn't to bad. I have very little feeling in my hips because of accidents but what the hell, I can still ride. It's all apart of the experience.
2006-12-26 15:54:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First time I went down was the first year I was riding (age 16) on my Moped back in 1977...it was a rainy day, I caught the RED Light at the signal at the wrong time, I was going too fast, I tried to stop and ended up sliding sideways into the wet intersection. I was not hurt, just embarrassed. 26 years later I had my first major accident on a motorcycle....after I lost my job I went riding up in the mountains with some friends. I threw caution to the wind that day, drank a beer, smoked a blunt, and had my first major accident for my trouble. I deserved what I got for being so stupid. Yes I still ride to this day, and I will NEVER (did you hear me?)
NEVER give it up!
2006-12-26 20:57:44 · answer #5 · answered by John P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hadnt crashed for years until i was over riding in india. Overtaking a bus on a narrow mountain road I hit gravel and lost the front. Landed on my hip but just bruising and that is all. I forgot how much it hurts to fall off and I was only doing like 20km/h. You should have seen how quickly a crowd forms in india (even in the mountains), all standing around wondering why there is a westerner crashing on their roads. Bike was tough so it didnt damage it so I wasnt pissed, it was all kind of funny and is a story to tell. You cant beat riding and crashing in india for putting things on a western sanitised road in perspective.
2006-12-30 06:57:28 · answer #6 · answered by vertical c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes ive put down 2 bikes when i was 17 i was tryin to get my g/f to go for a ride when she wouldnt i got a lil pissy and went speedin up n down the road it was march in maine and the snow was still coverin the yards i went around a corneer goin 85 mph and hit black ice the bike went down hard luckaly i only got a fracetured coller bone and a few cuts n scrapes on my head and arms but the bike i fixed the 2nd time i was comin home from work at 3 am and 4 deer jumped in front of me luckily i only got a few bruises by perposly layin the bike down it hit the trees i hit the grass...
2006-12-26 18:47:23 · answer #7 · answered by rs_camaro_04062 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, with the help of a deer. Went down hard and was stuck under the cycle. The deer, about a ten pointer just ran away. Hobbled around for a couple of weeks refusing to go to the doctor. Bruised ribs, ankle problems and a couple of toes were the worst of it. This happened the end of October two years ago. New paint and several new parts added to the cycle and I was riding by spring.
2006-12-26 18:20:27 · answer #8 · answered by bgt242 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to take this 35mph curve at 80mph almost daily taking up both lanes.One day my luck ran out,a car was coming from the opposite direction.My bike was layed over to the point that the leftfootpeg was just starting to fold up.When I saw the car,I moved to the right as far as possible(left hand turn),then the front tire went off the edge of the road.It was a 1 to 2 inch drop,so the frame hit and I lost traction on the rear wheel,I knew it was time to bail.I dove left and stayed on the pavement and the bike flipped end over end,hitting a large pine tree.The bike was totaled.I only scraped up my elbows and scratched my helmet all to hell.A car coming behind me damn near ran over me.Just one of several near death expieriences.Been riding for 32 yrs.
2006-12-26 15:57:55 · answer #9 · answered by gdwrnch40 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow what did he think that he was in England.It has been so long ago that I don't remember being mad.But I do remember slideing on the pavement with the insides of my hands and my knees...Hurt like hell and I still have the scares. Oh your talking about a motorcycle.hahahaham 20 years ago I rode a Harley and I was at a light and it started to tilt and down it went...Never tried to ride it by myself again.
2006-12-26 13:36:37 · answer #10 · answered by sweet_thing_kay04 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋