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05-18-2006, 09:45 PM
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Free Rides On A Silverback
SAXON117 is offline
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When asphalt cowboys go down......
When asphalt cowboys go down like cheap whores. Lets hear it, crashes; where, when where; how?
I'll go first. I have crashed a few times, minor mostly. slid in the gravel type thing. BUT one beautiful afternoon lets say May 29, 1997 around 4 pm, Route 46 Mount Olive. I was on my way home from work and it happened, quickly I'm sure but it seemed to take forever in my eyes slooooooooow motion. In rush hour traffic the Ford Explorer in front of me locks up and I try to do the "CHIPS" slide. But I was to close and the tires desided not to slide, instead I high sided against the truck and then flipped over the roof as the bike lauched into the other lane of traffic. The damage: FORD- not a cratch, my SUZUKI GS 650 - dented tank and bent bars, ME- that is where it gets expensive..... from the bottom up, compound fractured heel, broke both lowwer leg bones and snapped the femur, covered with road/jean burn on said leg... the repairs: bike a few hundred dollars and the leg cost me $52,000. Eight pounds of metal in my left leg, 12 screws and two rods in place of my bone marrow. All better now but still have some ugly scars.
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05-18-2006, 10:05 PM
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Mr. Megadeth
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Was a BEAUTIFUL summer day, not a cloud in the sky and that demon on my shoulder screamed bring her up, let her play... and I did.. only when I brought her down, she was under gravel.. rear slid out, and was going down on a nice smooth lowside.. when she caught traction and chucked me. No real damage other than to the bike, a bit of rash but all completely minor, healed in a week... I remember blacking out, but it turns out I musta just had adrenoline punched to the max because I remembered it later... nothing exciting or fun, just a stupid mistake...
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05-18-2006, 10:48 PM
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Stiffy Pooh
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Ok here goes:
1. After having bike (sv650)/ license for one month-
Try to see how fast I can corner, remember peg touching ground then lowside going around 40mph, then me sliding a little, thinking ooops. Had full gear on, somehow managed to ride bike home with busted clutch lever and broken shifter.
2. After 3 months
Stopped behind 2 cars in front of me, 1st car is making left turn, i decide to ride past them on shoulder, as I pass the car in front of me, the car making the left decided to turn right. Pull off sweet stoppie trying to stop, the front tire hit sand, washes out. Bike hits car, busted guage cluster. No fault accident, never hear about it again. Full gear no injuries,
3. Figure out how to do burnouts on sv650, attemp rolling burnout, bike goes sideways, regains traction, unfortuanly I go other direction. Scraped knee, broken clutch lever, hole in exhaust. Have extra lever, duct tape exhaust, good to go!
4. Leaving school one night, kids blows a stop sign when I am 12' from intersection, I T-bone an 83' pontiac seden. Launched over trunk, land on head. Snapped the front forks apart, bike is totalled. Just a little sore and have some scraped knees. Contemplate quitting riding. Wind up buying new helmet month later and looking at used bikes.
Get insurance check in march 04, purchase a 2001 f4i.
Things go pretty good for a while. Do some trackdays, ride everyday.
5. In june 04 I try to drag my knee in a culdesack. Bike lowsides, just a scraped frame slider and case cover.
6. end of October 04 I figure out how to throttle steer bike on wet roads. Coming out of turn to much thottle steer going 30 mph, bike gets really sideways, hits steering lock, slams into ground. Broke a turn signal, sprained my right shoulder.
7. November 04, lowside on VIR north, sprain left shoulder.
8. April 05, bottom out front forks braking way too late at end of front straight on VIR north, feel handle bars vibrate the kick hard to left going around 90ish. I tumble, see sky, tumble, slide, see sky again, slide, stop. Get bike fixed and ready to go back out, discover front forks are tweaked.
9. May 05, somehow manage to spin up rear tire on pocono north banking, lowside going around 130 - 140 mph. Slide a good 150 yards into wall. No injuries, just a cut on my shin and rug burn on my left forearm.
10. Sept 05, lean bike over to far on left handed at beaver run, peg hits ground, picks tire off ground, lowside and slide on my ass. Bike was still fine so I went back out and did a 1:03!
11. April 06, highside on the beaver, (see post), r6 catches on fire!
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05-19-2006, 01:56 AM
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No thanks, I'll pass on this one...I'd rather discuss pleasant sportbike topics.
But I can say I'll be adding a few of these to the leathers of my left leg just below the knee.
http://www.brokenbonepatch.com/index.html
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08-14-2007, 09:19 PM
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Stiffy Pooh
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pillaka
Ok here goes:
1. After having bike (sv650)/ license for one month-
Try to see how fast I can corner, remember peg touching ground then lowside going around 40mph, then me sliding a little, thinking ooops. Had full gear on, somehow managed to ride bike home with busted clutch lever and broken shifter.
2. After 3 months
Stopped behind 2 cars in front of me, 1st car is making left turn, i decide to ride past them on shoulder, as I pass the car in front of me, the car making the left decided to turn right. Pull off sweet stoppie trying to stop, the front tire hit sand, washes out. Bike hits car, busted guage cluster. No fault accident, never hear about it again. Full gear no injuries,
3. Figure out how to do burnouts on sv650, attemp rolling burnout, bike goes sideways, regains traction, unfortuanly I go other direction. Scraped knee, broken clutch lever, hole in exhaust. Have extra lever, duct tape exhaust, good to go!
4. Leaving school one night, kids blows a stop sign when I am 12' from intersection, I T-bone an 83' pontiac seden. Launched over trunk, land on head. Snapped the front forks apart, bike is totalled. Just a little sore and have some scraped knees. Contemplate quitting riding. Wind up buying new helmet month later and looking at used bikes.
Get insurance check in march 04, purchase a 2001 f4i.
Things go pretty good for a while. Do some trackdays, ride everyday.
5. In june 04 I try to drag my knee in a culdesack. Bike lowsides, just a scraped frame slider and case cover.
6. end of October 04 I figure out how to throttle steer bike on wet roads. Coming out of turn to much thottle steer going 30 mph, bike gets really sideways, hits steering lock, slams into ground. Broke a turn signal, sprained my right shoulder.
7. November 04, lowside on VIR north, sprain left shoulder.
8. April 05, bottom out front forks braking way too late at end of front straight on VIR north, feel handle bars vibrate the kick hard to left going around 90ish. I tumble, see sky, tumble, slide, see sky again, slide, stop. Get bike fixed and ready to go back out, discover front forks are tweaked.
9. May 05, somehow manage to spin up rear tire on pocono north banking, lowside going around 130 - 140 mph. Slide a good 150 yards into wall. No injuries, just a cut on my shin and rug burn on my left forearm.
10. Sept 05, lean bike over to far on left handed at beaver run, peg hits ground, picks tire off ground, lowside and slide on my ass. Bike was still fine so I went back out and did a 1:03!
11. April 06, highside on the beaver, (see post), r6 catches on fire!
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Brought back from the dead! Adding some more.
12. Get bike to replace burnt r6, ride on beat tires, loose front tire on VIR South resulting in crash.
13. After going good most of the season in 2006 (did drop bike off trailer and bust windscreen), I did pretty good, then in october at summit I braked too hard and did an endo, bike came down into a tank slapper, went off turn 1 into pea gravel, tried to ride it out but tucked front end.
14. At VIR North in November 06 during lunch time race I was pushing to catch up to guy in front. Guy in front was a ama privateer, needless to say not catching him! lol! So after almost getting highsided once nothing clicked in my head to kick it down a notch, so coming out of turn 8 or 9 the rear snapped out, bucked around then launched me off the front. Did a superman, flew about 50 yards, landed face first. Didn't break anything, minor concussion.
After all this, riding my dirtbike messing around in my backyard, hit tree, break thumb.
15. At summit this past July, I braked to hard into turn 1 and bottom out my forks and lock up front tire, bike didn't like that. Slide onto my back into pea gravel.
16. Pocono Fusa carry to much lean angle going onto front straight, hit bump slide front tire, stay on gas and try to save it, bike lowsides.
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05-19-2006, 07:13 AM
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Craigslist Champion
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thats hardcore. I TOLDUIWASHARDKORE.
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05-19-2006, 08:03 AM
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Shoutbox Killer
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Wow stiffy!
1. About a month after I started riding (again) girl in front of me brakes hard to turn in a "driveway". Signals last minute, I panic, lock up the rear and slide into her. bike gets sandwiched between the ground and bumper. No major damage to the bike, all cosmetic, I walk away without a scratch. I was definately too close for my riding skill at the time, and was too hard on the rear brake.
2. End of July last year.... VIR South... CBRBob goes flying by me (on a half wet track) and stupid me thought I should try to follow him. Took T2 a little wide and ate some wet grass.
3. About 2 months ago leaving Monmouth cycles... Just got off the phone with Stiffy (aka: pillaka, crispy) and we planned on doing some riding so he could get some miles on the new R6 before pocono... I had new Racetecs on the bike, it was just over 40 degrees and I took a jughandle a bit too fast and the rear slid out. Left rearset, stator cover and coolant bottle need replacement. Plastics a bit cracked up but usable.
4. 2 weeks ago at Tremblant T4 got on the front brakes a little hard and tucked the front end. Right clipon and right rearset broken. Plastics are in pretty bad shape.
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05-19-2006, 08:10 AM
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BlackBerry Tech Support
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I had 3 minor ones:
1st) Had my bike for a month and a half, led a boring shore ride that turned into fun. We were sitting at a gas station talking smack after gassing up. I guess i wasn't paying attention and the bike fell right over on top of me. That was a great way to prove that i was a good leader.
2nd.) middle of first season coming home after a long ride. go to make a left turn onto a regular back road. didn't see the gravel in the road and went down at about 5-10mph. scared me more than hurt me.
3rd.) Another long night of riding. Came home in 40 degree weather. went to make a uturn in the drive way and she fell right over on top of me. I guess i was so cold i couldn't do a u turn.
So all in all mine have been minor. But they were enough to scare the crap out of me.
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05-19-2006, 08:11 AM
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The Solution
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Summit point track day on Halloween back in 03. Was my 2nd track day, thought I was coming in to T-1 to hot, started to drift wide, saw the outside edge of the track, paniced due to lack of experience, tapped the brakes while mid lean = not good. Lowsided. Broken pinky Had I just kept lookng where I wanted to go and stayed on the throttle I would of been fine, live and learn.
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05-19-2006, 08:50 AM
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PigHoof
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Low sided on a turn doin about 10 mph. Bike slid out from under me and i jumped off. Cracked some of my plastics, but i came out ok. The funniest thing i said afterwards was, " My wife is gonna kill me!"
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05-19-2006, 09:45 AM
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Foot Fetish Guy
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First lobster run in 05.. trying to keep up with you assholes
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05-19-2006, 11:38 AM
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First lobster run in 05.. trying to keep up with you assholes
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Hey man, we're glad you walked away from that one. Heading around the next bend and finding the rear half of the group gone after a quick headcheck was very un-nerving.
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05-19-2006, 12:20 PM
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Foot Fetish Guy
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Originally Posted by High_Revs_17
Hey man, we're glad you walked away from that one. Heading around the next bend and finding the rear half of the group gone after a quick headcheck was very un-nerving.
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Haha I was kiddin, it was entirely my fault and I'm glad I made it through the run earlier this year near the front even though the pace was pretty slow. But yeah a shitload of people turned around and came back.
Also, I forgot.. my bike went down another time but I wasn't on it. Somebody rolled their bike into mine when everyone was stopped for Rev's crash. The damage was mechanically worse in that one then when I crashed it because the front brake lever broke off! Then the guy mysteriously took off pretty soon after that..
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05-23-2006, 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Jake
Haha I was kiddin, it was entirely my fault and I'm glad I made it through the run earlier this year near the front even though the pace was pretty slow. But yeah a shitload of people turned around and came back.
Also, I forgot.. my bike went down another time but I wasn't on it. Somebody rolled their bike into mine when everyone was stopped for Rev's crash. The damage was mechanically worse in that one then when I crashed it because the front brake lever broke off! Then the guy mysteriously took off pretty soon after that..
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lol..wtf i didn't know that....was his name crystal..lol..
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05-19-2006, 11:54 AM
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Tank Slapper
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jake
First lobster run in 05.. trying to keep up with you assholes
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