Yes and Yes. Some interesting stories.

 

I've almost crashed hundreds of times, just never had the proper motivation to take the plunge.

 

Yup, almost high-sided so I bailed off the back on my FZR. Hurt like a sob the next day, worst pain ever and I've done some damage to myself over the years. That was definetly the worst pain ever, I was crying the next day trying to get out of bed. I remeber it like it was yesterday and I don't EVER want to go through that again.

You either love riding or you don't, if you love it you know why you ride and nothing will deter you from doing it.

 

If I were going to be discouraged from riding, I think hitting a deer at 60 mph and totaling my first 02 Warrior would have done it. Just bought my second 02 Warrior two months ago.

Riding is worth the risk. It keeps me feeling young and alive.

 

Crashed? That happened lots on the dirt, collision? yes, hit a car once, he turned right not left,hurt like **** ,remember it well, must be 33 odd years ago.God i love my Warrior!

 

Left turning mach 1 mustang, totaled my bridgestone 175, back in 69, put me on my back for a week, still hurts when it rains.[/emoticons/emotion-2.gif]

 

Hit by cars six times, third time spent nine weeks in the hospital and five months in a body cast. Last time was told my right leg would be junk and the doc wanted to fuse the knee joint, no way. Let's ride. [/emoticons/emotion-1.gif]

 

Yes but I have never gotten hurt at all. not even a scratch.

 

dirt crashes don't count....worse street crash, hit a curb and high side through the windscreen. I flew off a 30' cliff @ 50+ mph after that.

still ride

 

Lots of crashes on many bikes. Still riding.

 

I've crashed alot on street and dirt.And nearly every time it's been my fault.And I'm sure I'll crash again.Quiting has never entered my mind.
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Yes (street and dirt) and yes I still ride...

 

Always my fault and always doing something stupid but other than some liqid on the knee and road rash Ive been real Lucky..

 

Yes and Yes. Wreaked my sport bike.

I almost blew off the back of it one time doing 150. Had to change my shorts when I got home for sure. So glad I did not wreak it this time, but if I did I might not be here today.

 

Yes and Yes, Totaled my v-max a year and a half ago. Ordered my Warrior 3 weeks later.

 

Yes and yes. Countless times in the dirt.. they might not count, but some of them sure hurt like ****! 55mph seems to be the bad speed for me. I've wrecked twice on the road, both times from 55. First time I was showing off to a couple of girls walking beside the road. When I looked in front of me, glanced at the speedo, saw 55, then saw the idiot in the pick up stopped just in front of me getting ready to make an illegal U-turn. I was on my way to a friends house to replace the front brake lever, broken earlier that day hill climbing. Back brake worked but not near well enough. Azz end of the pick up stopped the bike just fine but I kept going. Second time was 55 mph into a damned deer that had jumped in front of me. That deer beat the **** outta me but I kept the bike up until it was safe to pull over and stop. From that point, lil over 20 years ago, I just avoid 55mph and haven't been down again![/emoticons/emotion-2.gif]

 

In May '76 I was pulling Suzuki 750 water buffalo onto road and got t-boned by a Goldwing doing 70 mph in a 20 zone. My toe hit me in the knee-over 11 months before I got a walking cast.

In July '77, on back of a friends Kawasaki 650 when he hit a Buick Lesabre head on. Wrote off the Buick and we were in pretty rough shape. The roads were already wet from earlier rain but they had a firetruck come to wash the blood out of the intersection.
Had 4 steel plates, spent better part of 4 years on crutches but have been very fortunate as my knee is still holding out when the docs thought it would fall apart by 1980.

I am still an aggressive rider but I reeeaally watch for the other guy!

 

yes, yes totaled two harleys + a woman pulled from the curb into the side of me once. Dis located toes and broken foot. I was watching a hot babe driving the other way.
I waited till the cast was off to tell the GF (now wife) how it happened.

 

Ran through a very sharp curve, going too fast and hit a spot covered in sand from a driveway. Went throught a ditch nearly hit a tree but managed to lean hard enough to hit a bush next to it instead. Flipped over the handlebars as was thrown about 50'. Totaled the bike but I had no serious injuries. I've had several very close calls since then but nothing that would make me stop riding.

 

Yes and Yes, cut off by grandmother who cut across a no turn lane.

 

Yes; no injury on 1st bike, a Benelli 250 (Sears Riverside) way back in 1969. Fork lock broke off into front fork bearing on a curve while doing about 35. Ran off road and crashed into road grader gouge behind a pushed boulder. Flew about 15-20 feet.
Free new front fork fixed bike.

 

31 years dirt and 20 years street. Yes to both.

 

3 crashed to date with no real injuries. Clipped the rear end of a car on a 74 Kawi KZ400 back in high school because I was driving too fast and not paying attention. Too fast for a corner and not paying attention were the cause of the worst accident. (Starting to see a pattern) Slid the 92 FZR 600 over the edge of a very steep hill and was caught up in a barb wire fence that actually saved me from tumbling all the way to the bottom. Got rear ended once. At least I wasn't going too fast or not paying attention.

 

One crash in the street when I came up too fast on a turn and found out someone had spilled sand all in the road. I knew I was going to slide unless I did something drastic so I aimed at a huge bush on the side of the road. Let my bike crash into the bush and I jumped off, but on the wrong side. I slid down the road a little bit and got torn up, but not badly. Bike fell to its side after hitting the bush and broke a mirror and bent the handlebar. And once offroad on a KDX200 I hit a mud puddle that was a LOT bigger than it looked. Front end of the bike bogged down and I went over the handlebars. Landed on my back on the other end of the mud puddle. Not hurt, but it took a few minutes to get me and the bike out of that mess.

 

quote:Originally posted by Shag

And once offroad on a KDX200 I hit a mud puddle that was a LOT bigger than it looked. Front end of the bike bogged down and I went over the handlebars. Landed on my back on the other end of the mud puddle. Not hurt, but it took a few minutes to get me and the bike out of that mess.

LOL....I can picture that. That's funny.
I saw a friend do a "superman" over the bars once when the engine fell out of an old honda while he was going across a field. He was ok too. Funny as ****.