Broken Wing
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Some of us may have had an unfortunate experience on our scoots, maybe from a cager , wild life, weather or just the normal everyday road hazard. I'm one of those unfortunates that have had a broken bone from from an experience with a cager. Just wondering if there are any other Broken Wingers out there.
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Count me a victim of a left turning cager! Compound tibia/fibula of my right leg requiring 7 surgeries, bone grafts from my right hip, and a whole new appreciation of the company that developed liquid Dilauded!
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Broke two ribs and got some road rash going down to avoid a rear collision with a car. It was my fault. The car stopped while I was checking to see if I had hemroids.
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How about Bruised Wingers? (p.s. can't count broken body parts riding on the dirt... that's expected)
First one was when I was making a left turn, the lady behind me didn't pay attention and thought I was turning right... She went around my left side as I started to turn. Side of her car took my front tire down and side of her rear bumper put a notch in my helmet... um... stars and strawberries...
Second one was in college when a lady (hmmm... a pattern beginning here...) was in the left turn lane facing me and sure as ****, when I got up to her she pulled out, saw me and then stopped with her car facing me broadside. I overbraked, the front tire slid, let go, hit the brakes again and when I saw I wasn't going to stop in time, I let up on the front brake and let the rear end come around. I was doing only about 5 - 10 mph when we collided, and thank goodness for highway bars and bags as they saved me and put two hum dinger dents in her car. I wore my jeans down to my BVDs (ruined a wallet) and had the sorest *** I ever had for a few weeks. Minimal damage to the bike...
Thank God that is the worst of my encounters, although I have a few Oh ****! close encounters that would have been tragic (these I don't like to dwell on.... )
First one was when I was making a left turn, the lady behind me didn't pay attention and thought I was turning right... She went around my left side as I started to turn. Side of her car took my front tire down and side of her rear bumper put a notch in my helmet... um... stars and strawberries...
Second one was in college when a lady (hmmm... a pattern beginning here...) was in the left turn lane facing me and sure as ****, when I got up to her she pulled out, saw me and then stopped with her car facing me broadside. I overbraked, the front tire slid, let go, hit the brakes again and when I saw I wasn't going to stop in time, I let up on the front brake and let the rear end come around. I was doing only about 5 - 10 mph when we collided, and thank goodness for highway bars and bags as they saved me and put two hum dinger dents in her car. I wore my jeans down to my BVDs (ruined a wallet) and had the sorest *** I ever had for a few weeks. Minimal damage to the bike...
Thank God that is the worst of my encounters, although I have a few Oh ****! close encounters that would have been tragic (these I don't like to dwell on.... )
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In 1972 had a guy pull in to a parking lot from the Hwy. hit me dead on broad side broken right ankle. Pretty tuff on the old 305 Honda Dream but I did do some damage to his nice new Torino bent the bumper with my ankle and bent his hood up were the bike and I landed.
Then in 1977 a friend of mine and I were out for a ride (her first time on the bike) a cager ran us off the road at about 65mph in to a stack of rail road ties about 3ft.high. The guy never even slowed down, two guys I new were coming down a side road and saw the whole thing they said Cathy and I were 12-15ft in the air and the bike was a good 15ft above us we landed 47ft from were we hit and the bike landed 68ft from were we hit. Very lucky I only ended up with 3 cracked rib's and tore up my right arm a bit, I don't know how but she only got a good sized bruised on her leg. Never did catch up with the cager but just got to hope its like they say Its all on the wheel and it all comes around, some day they will get there due.
Then in 1977 a friend of mine and I were out for a ride (her first time on the bike) a cager ran us off the road at about 65mph in to a stack of rail road ties about 3ft.high. The guy never even slowed down, two guys I new were coming down a side road and saw the whole thing they said Cathy and I were 12-15ft in the air and the bike was a good 15ft above us we landed 47ft from were we hit and the bike landed 68ft from were we hit. Very lucky I only ended up with 3 cracked rib's and tore up my right arm a bit, I don't know how but she only got a good sized bruised on her leg. Never did catch up with the cager but just got to hope its like they say Its all on the wheel and it all comes around, some day they will get there due.
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You can count me a Bruised Winger too. Went around a curve after a rain shower, there was gravel washed out on the road, hit it almost lost control, went onto the grass, regained control, figured I'd just ride right back onto the road when a ditch appeared in front of me, buried the front tire flew onto a bridge landed on my helmet, elbow and knee, bruises, rashes and a scraped helmet.
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I had an incident involving gravel... Too fast around a turn... I went strait, laid the bike down, scratches bruises and burns everywhere. I was sore all over for about a week and a half. Could've been much worse.
I started to be a little more careful after that. I had a lady pull out in front of me once, stopped just inches short of her door. I passed one of our local farm markets last year at the same time a guy was riding a lawn tractor across the gravel parking lot with the blade engaged (don't ask me why!!!!) and caught a few peices in the face.
I started to be a little more careful after that. I had a lady pull out in front of me once, stopped just inches short of her door. I passed one of our local farm markets last year at the same time a guy was riding a lawn tractor across the gravel parking lot with the blade engaged (don't ask me why!!!!) and caught a few peices in the face.