View Poll Results: Have you ever crashed a bike
Never crashed.
116
24.84%
Put a bike down once.
165
35.33%
Been down more than once.
186
39.83%
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How many have crashed.
Cruiser
Joined: Jul 2009
Posts: 200
Likes: 0
From: Clearwater, FL
Never "crashed". I've been involved in a few memorable incidents on dirt bikes, but I've been blessed to never "crash" one of my street bikes.
Oh, wait, my bad...I had a kid on a bicycle run into me and put me and the bike down back in 1969. Really! The little turd wasn't watching where he was going, I was doing boat 15mph in a school zone...he hit me on the left side, broke my ring finger when his handle bar connected with mine...fortunately, I took the worst of it. He had a charlie horse in thigh where my knee got him and a skinned place on his chin...Oh, the 125 I had at the time was fine!!
Oh, wait, my bad...I had a kid on a bicycle run into me and put me and the bike down back in 1969. Really! The little turd wasn't watching where he was going, I was doing boat 15mph in a school zone...he hit me on the left side, broke my ring finger when his handle bar connected with mine...fortunately, I took the worst of it. He had a charlie horse in thigh where my knee got him and a skinned place on his chin...Oh, the 125 I had at the time was fine!!
Road Master
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 799
Likes: 1
Dont think Ive even said, Damn that road looks nice, I think Ill lay down and sit a spell.
I have however been hit several times. Once a Camaro hit me so hard from running a light, I hit the traffic light control box so hard it stopped my heart.
As a few of my Buds drove by and saw the paramedics working on me they said:
Hey thats Fred, He looks dead....
Yup Ded Fred
I have however been hit several times. Once a Camaro hit me so hard from running a light, I hit the traffic light control box so hard it stopped my heart.
As a few of my Buds drove by and saw the paramedics working on me they said:
Hey thats Fred, He looks dead....
Yup Ded Fred
Advanced
Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 81
Likes: 0
From: Northern California
hit and wished they'd missed
Let's see... slid out on a turn in gravel and oil 1979... hit by a drunk driver while he was making a left hand turn from the 3rd lane to the right of me in 1981 or 82 and ... summer 1986 I was lane splitting while "loaded" and doing 65 mph in a 45 zone while traffic was doing 20 mph. Someone in a big ugly "tuna-boat" car did the "emergency brake and swurve" routine directly in front of me! 
I only broke one bone after flying through the air and then sliding to a stop. Afew close calls since then butt haven't eaten anymore asphalt. Thank God!
I only broke one bone after flying through the air and then sliding to a stop. Afew close calls since then butt haven't eaten anymore asphalt. Thank God!
Cruiser
Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 247
Likes: 0
From: Northeast Iowa
Been riding almost 40 years on two wheels, 30 of which on the street. Old couple pulled out right in front of me once. Second time was a patch of oil in a blind corner.
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