I have crashed three times, and those were all before age 17.
They were also on dirt bikes.
The first was me on wet pine needles where I slid out the rear end and smacked a tree -minor injuries, no dislocation or fractures, but I was sore for a couple days.
Second was in a field on one of the most familar trails we had, and I hit a hole we had dug for the paperboy earlier that fall. I know, Karma. The front wheel went in along the right edge of the 3'X2'X1.5'deep hole and the bike went down and I launched into a combat roll, minus the deft experience of a combatant. -That one hurt for a week or more, and knocked the wind out of
me.
Third one was on the old Yamaha 500 enduro we modified for "trials", lol. Really we just stripped it down and put a HUGE rear sprocket on it. -Torquey!
That stupid thing used to pull hard to the left, after the many accidents it was in, and I low-sided one of the trails doing about 35mph.
I went one way, the bike went the other. No injuries noted, due to my lucky landing in a fresh pile of dirt. My frined Max said I went airborne and then *Poof!* right into the dirt pile.
Lol
Havent wrecked the FZ, but cam close after locking the rea wheel up on a curve.
A cool head got me out of that one, and I haven't panicked since.
