Buckle up....here we go.... (nah, there's not that many:BLAA:...lol.)
First bike, night time, in the back streets, fogged up visor, going to a mates place, before getting smashed on scotch and heading out to a club, so I was wearing my dress boots, jeans, a 't' shirt, and a dress shirt, and a helmet. Came up to a left hander (RH side of the road users think Right Hander) braked, tipped in, and then recognised that the there was an inch deep of gravel strewn across the road from where someone I'd seen earlier that day was emptying their trailer. Lost the front and lowsided. I just rolled to my feet running, and jogged to a stop, in time to watch my little 250 endo-ing down the street. Cracked a windscreen, and scuffed the ends of my indicators
. Total damage unless you count my pride, and my dirty white going out shirt
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First bike, night, I was riding to the same mate's place, and happened to look down at my speedo on a long straight bit of road. When I looked up I saw 4 headlights side by side (see video below). I made use of that tiny strip of road between the white line and the dirt (3 inches max) and was ready to bail onto the dirt and crash if I had to (100km/h zone). The guy coming the otherway, locked his brakes after reefing on the wheel and was sliding sideways by this time. I actually felt the car brush my sleeve (so it counts as a crash right?:BLAA
. He then managed to flip it onto the dirt, and roll a few times. Damage...I had to throw away those under durps as they were totally unsalvagable
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FZ6, driveway drop. Didn't have a race stand and nekkids don't come with centre stands, so I was squatting down and wheeling the bike while lubing the chain. Stood in some of my brother's trans fluid, and when c***-up. Bike falling in slow motion, me squealing, "No" like a 6 year old girl...
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRIrg-bAU-w]YouTube - Chris Tucker Scream[/ame]
Yup that one again.
I scrambled underneath the bike as it fell on my head and shoulders....only damage.....sore head, and .......you guessed it, wounded pride...lol.
FZ6, just relaxing after 7 hard laps of Lobie Road, and turned off to go home. Came up to an easy 55km/h RH bend and as I looked through the turn to see if there was going to be any obstacles, I saw this turbo toy, drifter effwit, coming into the turn with no possible chance of holding it in his lane. This was at the tip in point that I discovered it, so I had no choice but to turn left, and try to keep my bike just off the shoulder. The car missed my rear indicator by an inch or so, and had forced me into a position from which I had no hope of making the turn, and would more than likely end up tangled in a barbed wire fence, so I layed it down with the bike between me and the fence. I was fine, and my gear I still wear now, as I wasn't going very fast. My bike was pretty messy. Tank, pickup rotor cover, Oggie, rearset, lever, mirror etc.
FZ6, misjudged a decreasing radius turn on a road I didn't know, and got too close to the centre line, at just the perfect time for a 4WD coming the other way with equal amounts of road either side of it, and me unable to lean it any further, as it was all scraping the deck anyhow. Braked a little and rolled off, and tucked my leg under the back of the seat (no pillion pegs), and gritted my teeth. Smashed into the front of his back wheel, and sheered of the right hand side of my bike, and managed to also smash my foot into his wheel too. Then as the bike was forced upright and my bar end hit the tray on the back, I lifted my fingers up vertically so they wouldn't get chopped off and pushed the bar forward to keep from crashing, and then spat out the back facing the side of the road...BYE BYE FZ6
. Broke a boot too. Didn't come off though. Takes more than a head-on with a 4WD to knock me off my bike
:spank::ban:.
Anyhow, I've learned some stuff, and I have managed to keep ticking over but it is a bit scarey that nearly all of my incidents are head-on
..WTF?
