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Thank you all for the get well wishes  My legal council suggests I STFU about any details for now, I'll let you know how it turns out when all is said and done. Deleting any quotes of me would be appreciated too!
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Hey Becktastic, may you recover with unnatural speed and grace! On a lighter note, after much steeling of resolve and nerve, I got back in the saddle and didn't crash. Quite the exhilirating feeling that.
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This just unfolded down the street from my house today  http://www.wcpo.com/dpp/news/local_news/2-motorcycles-collide-with-semi-catch-fire-in-new-richmond quote:NEW RICHMOND, Ohio - Two people are dead and two others are injured following a fiery crash involving three motorcycles and a cement truck in New Richmond Tuesday afternoon.
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dietcokefiend posted:This just unfolded down the street from my house today Ugh, that's loving horrific. Big vehicles give me the shits sometimes. Some months back I (fortuitously) hesitated at a junction one morning and a dumptruck breezed through at the speed limit, close enough for me to see the whites in the glazed eyes of the driver.
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hosed up...I ride that bit once or twice a year, I like the other side of the river better. Sounds like a weird accident, will be interested to get more info. My first thought was AFJ but that's a bit too far south for them. nsaP fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Jan 31, 2012 |
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ReelBigLizard posted:Ugh, that's loving horrific. Intermodal trucks in particular scare the poo poo out of me
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Just had a car push me off the road. Turning left at a T-junction (Australia) and stopped at the stop sign. The car behind me tried to roll through and collected the exhaust of my bike between the fender and door of her car. My bike is fine apart from a some more scratches on the exhaust, a bent gear level and a couple of the fins that protruded from the engines sump have been snapped off, I think from it hitting the kerb. I think they are only there to protect the oil filter and drain plug so it should be fine but I just want an opinion before letting the other driver know that everything is okay. Red circles are broken fins, blue is what they looked like. There is no oil leaking or cracks so I think it would be fine. My right shoulder is a bit sore from trying to catch the bike and stop it from falling, but nothing serious (my wife is a physio). I can straighten the gear lever myself, so all in all a $0 cost accident.
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ReelBigLizard posted:Ugh, that's loving horrific. As a motorcycle rider, I call myself extra lucky that I got a HC Lisence (Heavy Combination in Australia, basically being able to drive things like this) before I got my motorcycle license. After driving a B-Double for a even the 6 months that I did, I can predict what they'll do 90% of the time which helps avoid accidents ALOT because as a B-Double driver I know that they're going to take the slimmest of openings possible to save waiting, and hence falling behind schedule, at any chance they can.
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Ninja.Bob posted:Just had a car push me off the road. At least charge for the new parts. Looks like it would be painless to do the swaps yourself.
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Hey gently caress you, this thread! And gently caress LA drivers (actually a Texas transplant that's been here a week)! Just went down on Cahuenga in Hollywood earlier today when I tried to avoid some loving asshat attempting an unsignaled left turn from the right lane. I just changed my front tire yesterday, that might have had a little to do with it, but I've put about 15 miles on it already and I think I just grabbed too much. Washed out the front, missed the fucker but laid down on the right side, and the bike slid just under the front of an oncoming Cherokee that slowed down enough to not kill me. He apparently ran over one of my arms (according to bystanders) but there's nothing to indicate as such. Didn't contact the truck that I was avoiding, which might gently caress with insurance proceedings, but at least everyone stopped and I was looked over by EMTs, and a police report was taken. Waiting on my insurance in the morning. From what I can see, the real damage is pretty much the handlebars, radiator and headlights. There's a couple dents in the tank where both handlebars hit it (right side mount rotated back when the bike came down, I guess the left side broke off when it hit the Cherokee). Rear brake lever's tip busted off. Hydraulic clutch and front brake reservoirs were both trashed so I've got DOT5 all over the controls and front end. I think I left most of the coolant in the street. The bike either shut off during the crash or someone else turned it off right after. Right side frame slider broke off, but the exhaust and front end took the slide. Getting it onto the flatbed without one of the front wheel dollies and without any brakes/steering control was a bitch, as was getting it off. Left it at work so I'll have some room to tear it apart. I've got good coverage, aside from collision. I figure if the guy I swerved to avoid isn't found liable at all, I'll just piece it back together and use this as an excuse to get some higher bars. The Cherokee should by all accounts be covered by my liability, but I guess we'll see how it all plays out. I wasn't terribly banged up. My left thigh is pretty sore, as well as my left wrist. Tourmaster jacket held up remarkably well, as well as the Scorpion pants (this is their second trip to the asphalt, in fact). Also got like half a dozen different personal injury rec's from random passerby. Hollywood. 
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I'm convinced that the entirety of southern California is one gigantic machine created by The Man to terrify and eventually destroy every person on its concrete wastelands-- one car, pedestrian, bicyclist, and motorcyclist at a time Glad you're okay dude. Hollywood is no joke. Driving in my car there makes me nervous.
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Saw a lady on a cruiser get slammed while splitting out into a yellow light... I don't know how the person coming was able to get such a high rate of speed with the traffic and the light having just changed. Anyways, called 911 and shut off her bike and directed traffic around the crash while some other people calmed her down until paramedics showed up. I guess it wasn't technically her fault, but poo poo.. Westlake has to be the WORST place to drive in LA, possibly even worse than hollywood by a slim margin. I know first hand, having commuted on my DRZ through there for about 8 months. Could've easily been me... Except, not really, because I'm always oppressively careful. For reference, this was near 8th street and Alvarado in Los Angeles.
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soy posted:Saw a lady on a cruiser get slammed while splitting out into a yellow light... I don't know how the person coming was able to get such a high rate of speed with the traffic and the light having just changed. Anyways, called 911 and shut off her bike and directed traffic around the crash while some other people calmed her down until paramedics showed up. Betting they jumped the light. See the Crossstreet turn yellow? Gun it, nothing bad will ever come of this!
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Welp, the Tahoe's (the guy I avoided) insurance is accepting all liability, and I'll be getting a rental while the SV is being repaired. Just gotta get it over to the shop.  That's gotta be the fastest turn around I've had. My stolen car claim was resolved in about a week, the last moto crash was about the same. I gave a statement to all three companies involved, mine and the guy I hit were on my side from the sound of it, and the last company called back accepting liability within about 45 minutes of my statement to them.
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sirbeefalot posted:Welp, the Tahoe's (the guy I avoided) insurance is accepting all liability, and I'll be getting a rental while the SV is being repaired. Just gotta get it over to the shop. Wow, that's incredible. I had a very similar accident and the person who I avoided wasn't even reachable for a week, and even after giving their statement their insurance wouldn't accept responsibility until after the police report (which completely exonerated me) came in a week later.
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dietcokefiend posted:This just unfolded down the street from my house today For a bit of   Ride safe folks, heard second hand from the woman in the van behind that the guy likely just target fixated into the truck and then a mess of poo poo happened afterwards. It helps me to remember the fundamentals and appreciate every return from a ride. And for lurkers, again, take the drat MSF. edit: I don't mean to sound like an rear end in a top hat but I currently have a friend who wants to ride and is avoiding doing the class at all costs because he thinks he has the confidence and skills already...I just don't want him to be the next story
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nsaP posted:
Re-entry riders are at almost the same level of risk as the 18 year olds on a supersport
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Jesus loving christ people, stop doing this. Stop being idiots, please.
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Man, I wonder just what it's like to be a 18 year old on a SuperSport. I'm turning 28 in two weeks. So old.
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It's probably loving amazing for about a month before your terrible crash. Actually, I know three 18 year old dudes that got supersports (one got a 1000 GSXR  ) this year and promptly crashed them. I should ask.
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the walkin dude posted:Man, I wonder just what it's like to be a 18 year old on a SuperSport. I bought my 1989 GSX-R 750 when I was 20. Not technically a super sport but still capable of 200 KPH+ speeds, and sub 4 second 0-100 KPH. It was fast, and I didn't kill myself. From my own experiences though, I'd try and make sure my future children don't get sport bikes until they're well mature. I definitely got lucky a few times.
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18 years old nothing. How about 14 year olds on supersports?
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-Inu- posted:18 years old nothing. How about 14 year olds on supersports? My nephews first "street bike" was one of the Buell XB12's (I think that's it?) he got it the day he turned 16. It's fully farkled out, has a custom dyno-tune, pipe, suspension and possibly cams. The kid's been riding since he was 5 though and he's probably one of the fastest riders I know. I really expected him to get hurt when he got the bike. Imagine my surprise when my uncle wrecked his Buell (same model but belonging to my uncle) and ended up being lifted out by helicopter after pretty much falling off a mountain. I've talked with them both several times since then and one thing is glaringly obvious. My uncle is absolutely insane, while somehow my cousin seems to be a conservative safe rider. This is more evident by the fact that my uncle just broke his coccyx on a dirt bike doing wheelies. My cousin can be heard on a video that was taken telling him to be more careful right before he loops his new KTM. I think some people are just born to do stupid poo poo, how they make it to 43 with 4 kids and not pass on their insanity is beyond me.
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It's less of matter of skill and more of self control. I for one drove reckless 100% of the time at those ages in a series of slow cars. On a bike I would've been 10/10s on my way to school. No regard at all.
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Same here with cars. I find myself more reckless on/in lower horsepower machines. I drive like a maniac in my n/a Volvo 240 and I'm pretty cautious on my sv650. I'm pretty sure if I had a supersport I'd be slower than on my SV. 
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Xovaan posted:Same here with cars. I don't drive my slow car like a dick because I'm afraid it will blow up (83 supra) but I definitely pin the throttle on the WR250 many times during my commute.
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Yup. First car at age 16 was a CVCC Hondamatic Accord. I still drove like an rear end in a top hat occasionally. However, the only damage I did to it was bend a wheel after hitting ice and then a curb at like 20 MPH. Its utter slowness probably saved me from getting into trouble a few times. 15 years later and I've yet to crash a car. Odd that my first wreck would be on a 49cc scooter at the age of 30. Stupid gravel.
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I'm guilty of this too, I used to do crazy speeds up the old pacific hwy on my ZZR250, but am a lot more tame on my Daytona, I used to crash my ZZR250 every couple of weeks too... maybe it's that I'm 25 now rather than a 19 year old with his first bike. or maybe I'm just too scared of the 675
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My first car was an 86 Fiero and I drove it like a dong every day of the week. So many times I should have been dead, but somehow got out of it since the car was so tiny. On my bike I ride like a grandma, it pisses my friends off to no end when they want to do 120 down the highway and Im just chugging along at 70 in the slow lane.
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I just ride a magical 60mph wherever I go, highway, boring interstate road, tight twisties, it's all 60mph. That's kind of an exaggeration but in reality I just ride the speed limit everywhere (I'm one of the slower vehicles on the highway, I'm never in a rush) and I only really gun it in fun turns. Then when the road straightens out after the turn, I mellow out again. Think the exact opposite of what a Harley does.
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I ride like a grandma who rides like a dong, which is to say breaking almost every traffic law except the speed limit.
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I stick fastidiously to the speed limit everywhere I go, including hi-lar-ious sudden braking/accelerating up/down to whatever the sign I'm passing says. Discovered quite early on that some of the corners are borderline whether you can actually make it round without going less than the limit.
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FuzzyWuzzyBear posted:I just ride a magical 60mph wherever I go, highway, boring interstate road, tight twisties, it's all 60mph. That's kind of an exaggeration but in reality I just ride the speed limit everywhere (I'm one of the slower vehicles on the highway, I'm never in a rush) and I only really gun it in fun turns. Then when the road straightens out after the turn, I mellow out again. Think the exact opposite of what a Harley does. I always ride like this, but at first I thought it was because I was limited in top speed by my Enfield (top speed, according to the manual, is 70mph, I've gotten it up to 85...once, downhill, with a tailwind etc). Then I rode around for a week on my friend's CB400TII, and I was exactly the same. 60mph (or the speed limit) is...nice. Comfortable. Corners are 35mph are more fun than straight lines at 70.
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I ride 5-10 over everywhere. Cars passing me freaks me the gently caress out, and if I'm passing everyone I don't have to worry so much about someone running up behind me.
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I've always figured it safer to lane split up to a light, look for runners, and take off to keep you away from traffic patterns. I pass people all the time because it's one less car to worry about Of course it's easy to do this when you live in Santa Cruz and the average speed of vehicles is 10 miles under the speed limit for some ungodly reason
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invision posted:I ride 5-10 over everywhere. Cars passing me freaks me the gently caress out, and if I'm passing everyone I don't have to worry so much about someone running up behind me. I've been wanting to bicycle to work but this is why I haven't. Compared to a motorcycle where you're not only geared up but have enough power to take control of most situations, on a bicycle you're completely at the mercy of cars. So if some retard is on the phone and starts drifting toward the curb, you're going to get hosed without even seeing them coming. As for lane splitting, I only do it on the highway. Splitting up to lights in a state where it isn't legal is asking for a ticket because often cops like to sit in the center grass median there. It's not like you're losing much time or anything either, so risk/reward and all that.
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Errant Gin Monks posted:On my bike I ride like a grandma, it pisses my friends off to no end when they want to do 120 down the highway and Im just chugging along at 70 in the slow lane. Yeah, I get that too. I was riding back to Sydney from Brisbane which is a 12 hour journey, not even an hour into it they he took off and left me because I wasn't speeding, wouldn't even stop off anywhere long enough for me to catch up with him. "gently caress theperminator, he rides too slow" I was glad the bike made it without breaking down, I would've been screwed since I only had enough cash for fuel.
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invision posted:I ride 5-10 over everywhere. Cars passing me freaks me the gently caress out, and if I'm passing everyone I don't have to worry so much about someone running up behind me. It's better to have traffic behind you instead of in front AND behind you. Staying with the pack on a highway is pretty dangerous because then you're playing traffic wack-a-mole. (ps you're the mole) also don't forget about creating your own safety zone! Cars have crumple zones, you have thin air. use your acceleration to create space on all four corners so that you'll have some time if (when) some doofus tries to run you over. Gnaghi posted:As for lane splitting, I only do it on the highway. You're Russian?!?
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