Author Topic: Got a motorcycle? (Read 649 times)

Ripsnort · « **on:** April 24, 2003, 10:22:02 AM »

Wear a helmut! Scarey stuff here! Caught in a red light camera. Note the guys shoe in the upper left hand corner.(with circle around it)

Martlet · « **Reply #1 on:** April 24, 2003, 10:24:01 AM »

right...left, what's the difference?

hawk220 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 24, 2003, 10:40:49 AM »

what's that green car? is that a Rambler?

damn, dude was wearing shorts too..

Curval · « **Reply #3 on:** April 24, 2003, 10:41:18 AM »

That is reminesent of an accident I had when I was 18. I hit a car in roughly the same spot this guy did..went over that one, over the next car and landed on the grill of the car behind that one. (the car I hit had tried to turn in behind a bus that had blocked my view...I had judged my line based on the bus getting out of the way by the time I got there, but the car turning behind it took too long..the bus cleared and there was a car..not clear road as expected....WHAM)

I was wearing a helmet.

My knee took all of the damge...they thought I had crushed the kneecap, but surgery proved otherwise.

The funny part is that two days later a friend of my mother's was talking to her and mentioned a horrible accident she witnessed while riding on a bus. "The poor young man broke both his arms and legs" was what she said. My mother clarified that I did not sustain those injuries but just smacked up my knee. The woman couldn't believe that was all that happened based on what she saw.

ra · « **Reply #4 on:** April 24, 2003, 10:45:26 AM »

What's that thing with a big red dot at the top of the picture?

Wlfgng · « **Reply #5 on:** April 24, 2003, 10:50:55 AM »

send us a link Rip...

Ripsnort · « **Reply #6 on:** April 24, 2003, 10:53:48 AM »

Quote

Originally posted by Wlfgng
send us a link Rip...

Don't have one, got it off a automobile forum, that was taken off another!

BEVO · « **Reply #7 on:** April 24, 2003, 12:23:15 PM »

looks like a red X to me.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #8 on:** April 24, 2003, 12:38:39 PM »

Pic was taken down off the server of the guy who had it. I shoulda done a save..oh well!

Maverick · « **Reply #9 on:** April 24, 2003, 01:35:10 PM »

I still have a motorcycle. I was also paid to ride one by the city as an Officer. After 12+ years I was tagged. It cost me some use of my right arm but I pretty much do what I want anyhow. Later the arthritis will become a major factor and I'll likely have to get more surgery.

It was a Ford Mustang that hung a very quick left in front of me in a residential intersectionnear the U of A. The driver never saw me until after impact. It was his 3rd collision in two weeks. I T-boned the car at 30 mph and most of me went over the car. Part of me tried to go through the car. The impact caused a hydrostatic shock to trnsmit from my right hand up the arm. In transiting the wrist area all the ligaments that hold the wrist bones together were blown apart. It is now held by surgical material and a couple stainless screws. the alignment is not as it was before but better than what the city wanted to do. They just wanted to fuse the wrist. The city surgeon said I'd likely have about 30 degrees total movement, enough to wipe my butt with and that was all I needed. I stayed with my own surgeon and declined the citiy's "kind offer". I lost about 25% of my right arm use but can certainly live with it as the other possible consequences were much worse.

I figure I'm pretty damn lucky. Six months later a buddy of mine had a very similar accident but the cars rear bumber caught his left knee and traumatically removed it at the scene. His leg now will not bend as they made a bone graft around a steel pin. He can walk but will never fly or even drive a smal car. It has to be large enough to allw him to sit with his left leg fully extended.

Be careful riding a bike, it can bite you in a major way.

rpm · « **Reply #10 on:** April 24, 2003, 03:29:33 PM »

I was very lucky in Seattle 1980. I was riding my Suzuki GS750 along Alaskan Way, a 4 lane undivided street, at about 45mph. Just past Pier 36 a Chevy K-5 pulled out trying to beat 2 gas trucks coming toward me. The Blazer chickened out and stopped blocking my path about 10 yards infront of me. I was a choice of head-on into the Peterbilts or take the drivers door of the Blazer. I chose the latter and laid the bike down. Here is where the lucky part enters the story. As I laid down the bike the centerstand dug into the pavement and spun the bike, throwing me off the road and into the grass. I did not get a scratch but the bike was mangled. I was wearing a helmet, which I removed and proceeded to start smashing the windows of the Blazer. The driver declined to press charges.

senna · « **Reply #11 on:** April 24, 2003, 04:08:07 PM »

The furthest I ever slid or rolled on cement was 150 feet according to the police report. I think it was actually 75 feet, mostly rolling then the inevitable scrub (ouch) when you slow down. I was side swiped by a Canadian in a rental car who just left the airport and was lost. I pulled up alongside him to simply pass and he side swiped me faster than I could react. Im still paranoid about cars but I'll just keep away from them. I still love motorcycles, I just hate cars now.

senna · « **Reply #12 on:** April 24, 2003, 04:24:48 PM »

I was lucky that time, cough cough.

squelch_19 · « **Reply #13 on:** April 24, 2003, 11:04:39 PM »

Nice avatar there BEVO

capt. apathy · « **Reply #14 on:** April 25, 2003, 02:20:11 AM »

there's an old saying I remember from when I used to ride (kids are just to expensive, so I wont get another bike until the last one moves out in 5 years)-

"there are only 2 kinds of riders. those who've crashed, and those who will"

in other bike news Oregon legislators are considering repealing the manditory helmet law for adults-