Anyone been in or know someone whos been in a nasty motorcycle wreck?

[PricklyPete]

Friend's Dad was in a bad one. Never walked after it. In the grand scheme, he's lucky to be alive...but I just don't see danger being worth it...but to each their own.

 

[Skitzer]

Been riding bikes for over 32 years. First bike was a 78 Sportster. Current bike is a Heritage Softail Classic. Never had an accident ..... "knock on wood" ...... just have to watch out for the crazies. If you ride long enough you'll be able to pick them out in a microsecond. Stay well clear. Always err to the side of caution in every situation.

 

[Bacstar]

My dad had a pretty major one when I was a junior in highschool, about 30 years ago. He was traveling down the road when a lady going the opposite direction, made a left-turn into him.

He was in a coma for 2 1/2 weeks and suffered brain damage that affects him for the rest of his life. His short term memory is shot and has some mental deficiences that is hard to explain. He isn't the same man and makes it very difficult every time the family sees him. His recovery was a long arduous process that eventually caused my parents divorce.

I like motorcycles and even owned one for a short time, but after my dad's accident, I won't even consider riding one again on the streets. It's just too dangerous, and the lifetime consequences when an accident occurs are simply just not worth it.

 

[ntrthamatrix]

sorry to say this, but anyone that dies riding a motorcycle deserves a darwin award.

Motorcycle drivers can be the safest drivers out there - we have to look out for the other drivers. They just dont see bikes - the ones that do stupid things like go 100mph and pop a willy should get darwin awards but the guy in the story who started this thread doesnt deserve one.

As with anything in life there is chances we take it all comes down to how much you want to risk.

 

[Evadman]

About 3 weeks ago I was in a car with a motorcycle in front of us. A car made a left across traffic into a gas station, cutting across the motorcycle's path. The motorcycle ran into the passenger side rear tire of the car, he had nowhere to go. As the bike went up, I saw a bit of metal go flying by my passenger door (turned out to be the end of the front brake lever).

The bike and rider went past vertical, the rider actually pushed (with his hands) off the top of the car's trunk so he wouldn't go over. and the bike came back down to the street. The rider calmly got off the bike, took 1 step and fell over unconscious. Thankfully, the bike fell the other way and not onto him. He was dressed in a tshirt and jeans, no protective anything.

Not only did the guy have the reaction time of a fighter pilot, and some serous strength to push off the car's trunk, but he had the luck of the irish. I have emergency accident training from when I was in the Ski Patrol, behind me was an off-duty police officer, behind the car that turned in front of the motorcyle was an off-duty nurse (she even had her work pants on), and right down the street was the fire station. An ambulance was on the scene in about 90 seconds. The guy has to be the luckiest person on the planet that day. Well, besides the car turning in front of him.

The best part? When I was giving my statement to the police officer, I noticed that there was a sign by the entrance to the gas station. I made a comment (in jest) that the sign was a no left turn sign. The cop went and looked at it, and it was. Besides turning in front of a motorcycle, the turn was illegal anyway.

 

[FuzzyDunlop]

had three friends in three different accidents die while riding bikes.
None of the accidents were from their fault.
Im never getting one.
Too many unattentive car drivers (more specifically truck drivers: Ford F350 assholes.)

 

[Ns1]

FOAF died. She was passenger on a bike, they got cut off, she fell, died a week or so later.

 

[Zebo]

My dad raced dirt track for years so he has been in more wrecks than I will ever know.
He has all kinds of rods and metal plates holding him together.
Off the track he has only hit a deer, or rather a deer jumped into him. Hit the bike in the side and took it straight down. The left side of it didn't have a scratch.

Where did you dad race? My dad raced flat track professionally in Ca in the 60s. I'm not sure he ever broke anything but has some nasty scars.

 

[Zebo]

We need to save this thread for the idiot squids starting out of 600's.


I know lots of people who have been in bad accidents. I'd guess a solid 90% were at fault (or at least negligent - i.e. it was not only preventable but predictable based on their riding habits)


The worst one.. A girl I was dating and I sat down with this guy and had an intervention.. He basically bought a literbike as a first bike and was riding it all the time, had dropped it in a parking lot etc. The next morning he had a horrific single vehicle accident (i.e. no one hit him..) and will be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He was a great guy, and it more or less ruined his life.

I don't know about 90% most accidents occur from people making lefts in front of bikes. I think it's because they can't see them due to head light masking bikes image..especially around dusk and dawn.