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Broken bone in my left foot 4 days ago while riding the dirt bike. Another guy and I almost had a head on, on the trail but both of us veered to our rights and did a pretty good side swipe. We both went down but the bikes are OK.
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My best friend whom I'm trying to get back into riding and now has the Honda 400 in his garage and took the Mrs. for a ride last night (she said, "I'd forgotten how much fun this is") The battle's almost won, we just have to get him on a Harley next year.
Anyway he was riding over to my house today on a service road that goes by some stores and a restaurant. Gets near the restaurant and a woman turns left directly in front of him. He hits the brakes and locks up the wheels a little. She hears this and STOPS directly in front of him! He lets off the brake and does a swerve around her. His comment to me after he got here and told me the story.
"If I hadn't taken that MSF class 2 weeks ago, I'd be in the hospital now instead of here."
BTW, I also pushed him to take the MSF class since neither of is had ridden in over 20 years. Thank God for those classes. And for no "broken wing" for my friend Mark. Art
Anyway he was riding over to my house today on a service road that goes by some stores and a restaurant. Gets near the restaurant and a woman turns left directly in front of him. He hits the brakes and locks up the wheels a little. She hears this and STOPS directly in front of him! He lets off the brake and does a swerve around her. His comment to me after he got here and told me the story.
"If I hadn't taken that MSF class 2 weeks ago, I'd be in the hospital now instead of here."
BTW, I also pushed him to take the MSF class since neither of is had ridden in over 20 years. Thank God for those classes. And for no "broken wing" for my friend Mark. Art
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Riding in a tight canyon in Colorado, I came around a blind left turn and found myself face to face with the bumper of a Ford truck that was on the wrong side of the road. I raised up to miss the truck, which I did, but couldn't make the corner. I high-sided the bike and cartwheeled off a couple of boulders and went head first into the river. The truck kept on going. I got two cracked ribs and a sprained ankle, but no road rash due to chaps, leather coat, boots and a good helmet which got broken. The bike and the insurance company were not as lucky 
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First one when I was a kid. Dirt bike, laid her on her side and shredded my knee. Next one in my early twenties, hit the throttle pulling onto a road from a lot and there was sand along the edge. Bike went right out from under me. Shredded the primary but not my knee. Then three years ago in a rain I was pulling out onto the road from a 7-11, lots of traffic, didn't see how close I was to where the pavement rises up into a sidewalk curb. The toe of my boot caught the curb, and the heel of my boot caught the bike, and I crunched my foot but good, dropped the bike, no damage to the bike. Foot busted to hell.
All stupid, all avoidable. It's the ones that aren't your fault that get me though. Friend of mine went down last week. He pulled over when he heard sirens behind him. The driver of the car the police were attempting to pull over had gone diabetic comatose. Plowed right into him. Now he's got a scar up his belly to remove his spleen. Broken ribs, broken clavical, and bruising everywhere. Still in the hospital. But he'll be ok.
Be safe out there.
All stupid, all avoidable. It's the ones that aren't your fault that get me though. Friend of mine went down last week. He pulled over when he heard sirens behind him. The driver of the car the police were attempting to pull over had gone diabetic comatose. Plowed right into him. Now he's got a scar up his belly to remove his spleen. Broken ribs, broken clavical, and bruising everywhere. Still in the hospital. But he'll be ok.
Be safe out there.
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