Motorcycle Deaths
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- albums0
Scarabin, your opinions, statements about riders and reasons for you not to ride are close minded at best, strange considering how open minded you are.
This just sounds ignorant. "yeah... eating shit even once on a bike isn't enough to justify "looking like a tough guy" or whatever. a car, yeah. bike no."
if you want a bike to "look like a tough guy, or whatever", stay off them. seriously, stick to the bus.
- vaxorcist0
we're all temporarily immortal... till we realize we aren;t
- scarabin0
i'm not attacking anybody, not sure why you feel the need to single me out on this issue. i'm not trying to convince anybody either. i personally am too worried about fucking myself up in a serious way to get a bike, though i'd love to have one.
so what?
- GM2780
There are plenty of things we all do on a daily basis that require a certain level of accepted risk. Are motorcycles dangerous? Sure, but so are many things each of us choose to do in our lifetimes. As a lifetime motorcycle rider, riding instructor and racer I've accepted the good as well as the bad that comes with what I've my passion.
Some, like Scarabin (not singling you out to attack you, so please don't take it as such) don't want to take on the risk associated with getting on a motorcycle and who can judge him for that? I don't think he'd judge me for what I choose to do with my own life. I do think the notion of people primarily risk their lives on bikes to look cool is really missing the whole picture though. Is part of the initial allure of bikes is the danger factor? Absolutely. From the first time I saw a pack of clubbers thunder past my house when I was a kid to pretending my bicycle was a dirt bike, I dreamed (read;obsessed) of having a motorcycle. But from the first time you actually throw a leg over a bike and fire it up, the reality that what you are doing requires utmost concentration and responsibility you becomes all too clear.
That being said, most bikers are a superstitious bunch and feel that talking about accidents, or even worse deaths, is really bad luck. @dbloc sorry for your loss.
- sorry that should read: comes with what I'm passionate about.GM278
- robotron3k0
I've noticed you meet lot's of people who used to ride bikes.
- employee0
Well...there are certain things you can do to minimize the odds. Pick up a copy of motorcycle for dummies and you will see some startling figures.
Some samples:
75% [I forget if it is 65 or 75%] of all fatalities occur to drivers who are unlicensed and/or not on legal bikes.
90% [I forget this number also, but it was a large number] of all accidents come from the front, so be very aware when making a left or right hand turn.
So just by being legal and taking note of when the majority of accidents happen can greatly reduce the risk.
I have owned 4 motorcycles. I have been in two accidents, both very minor.
- In my training course, they told me 44% of fatalities occur while under the influence of alcohol.********
- In my training course, they told me 44% of fatalities occur while under the influence of alcohol.
- fyoucher10
Used to ride when I was younger, had a Honda CBR 600 (purple and yellow). I rode VERY safely, not all crazy as one might expect when you have a crotch rocket. I liked riding for the free feeling and the open air.
One night I was riding behind my friend on a normal road, we were going to the shore and had girls riding on the back. Out of nowhere, a pickup truck turns in front of me. He never saw me and just did a rolling turn after my friend passed him, he didn't stop and turn (my friend was ahead of me). We were going 50 mph, less than the speed limit. Just cruising and feeling the night breeze. I remember saying "oh shit!!!" and then hit the truck's rear wheel, and immediately everything went black.
I remember slowly opening my eyes at one point and seeing a Spanish lady on the side of me with her hands up praying, headlights everywhere, all around me...and then remember slowly closing my eyes, and seeing a helicopter now down the road and paramedics all around me the next time I opened my eyes. The next time I opened my eyes, it was two days later and my family and friends were all around me, and I was being given more morphine and went back to sleep.
I ended up having a serious concussion, even with a helmet. Serious road rash. I dislocated my right shoulder, broke all major bones in my right arm, and broke all my fingers. I was VERY lucky. It could have been a lot worse and I'm glad I'm still alive. They said I must have flew off the bike, over the pickup truck, landed in the street with my arm hitting the ground first, and then slid for a hundred feet. The girl on the back of my bike broke the tip of her finger. She was fine and landed on the grass on the side of the road.
The guy (old man) whose truck I hit never got out of his car. He said he thought he had killed someone and admitted fault to everything. My friend riding in front of me, said he rode for a good 20 minutes before realizing that I wasn't behind him anymore and didn't find out until the girl on the back of my bike called him.
I took the entire axel off his truck, wheels and all. I had pictures of my bike and it was literally split in half, both wheels off, going as far as to crush the gas tank and split the seat. I'm fine today but have road rash scars, can't straighten my arm, and my fingers are crooked. Will never ride on a bike again (I have a kid now though).
It's great and exhilarating but even the best rider can be killed instantly, at no fault of theirs. Not a chance I'm willing to make nowadays I guess. I see folks riding without helmets and think to myself, "Now that's just plain old stupid".
- Nathan_Adams0
It's this kind of stuff that makes me completely amazed at the people who wear next to no safety gear whilst riding. The number of scooter riders I see wearing shorts, t-shirt, flip-flops, no gloves, and a token open face helmet is unbelievable.
When I bought my Vespa, I was lucky enough to have a salesperson that was very keen to drill in to me the safety message, and outright insisted I buy a full face helmet (he even showed me his old one, which had the chin guard smashed to pieces from a crash). Lucky, because I eventually wrote it off when the scooter slipped out from under me when I hit a patch of oil going round a bend. Had I been wearing what those idiots wear, I'd still be feeling it, but instead I was leathered up and thankfully came out of it with nothing more than a bruised ego and an insurance cheque.
- i_monk0
Cyclists get killed at an alarming rate too. The problem is any fucking moron can get a license to drive a car.
- albums0
where's that horrible gif from the animation thread? it belongs here.
- albums0
This is obviously the riders fault & irresponsibility (as are most accidents I see, but some unfortunately as linked above, are not.) sad there is a passenger. If you ride like this, squid status is inevitable.
- BozMan0
I don't ride to look like a "Tough Guy" sorry Im not a squid who wears khakis, a muscle tee, no gloves and just a lid. I ride for the sheer enjoyment of it and I wear full gear head to toe even if its a ride around the corner when its 110F outside. Motorcycle boots, armid kevlar jeans with CE knee and shin pads under the pants along with a full jacket with armor in the shoulders elbows and back and a DOT Snell approved helmet. I even still ride after my accident when a 85 year old woman broadsided me trying to get in her driveway. She crossed a double yellow with traffic. She said she never saw me and was cited for careless driving. it's not always the riders fault. But its guys like the below that give bikes and true riders a bad name.
this is the definition of a squid...
oh he nearly dropped the bike twice trying to make a U-Turn in traffic - idiot.
- d_gitale0
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- mydo0
Hmmm. There is no law to wear a helmet here. And i figure my bike run's on batteries so it can't be dangerous. It will do 40MPH and (kind of) legal to drink drive. Reading this thread is a bit of a wake up call!
- go fuck yourself for saying anything remotely near trying to drive drunk legallyalbums
- goldieboy0
"not a case of if, but when?". Yep, tonight. Some dick doing a U-turn in front of me from stationary traffic in central London without looking or indicating. Left hand side of bike total screwed and top of left leg messed-up. Great!
- ntslide0
I've seen a bunch of pretty nasty wrecks on bikes and to be honest it seems like a ton of them are from new riders being dumbasses. Riding within your ability (speed and equipment) are so important.
I WILL say it's important to keep the track riding on the effin track. main reason being the safety equipment that lets you survive something should it happen.
Everyone crashes.
This movie gives me heart palpitations it's so good.
- ernexbcn0
I flew over a car that made an illegal turn while I was going to work on my brand new Yamaha Neos 50cc, somehow I managed to land in a way that I got no major harm done other than a bruise on my knee (plus jeans and jacket ripped) and my left hand. I had to make some x-rays on there just in case I didn't broke anything.
So I agree with the general consensus here, it doesn't matter how good you ride the thing or which bike you have, some day one cunt can fuck things up for you.
- tap0
Yesterday had a crotch rocket pull out of a driveway right in front of me with only 15 feet to spare... If I was going any faster he would've been ground into the pavement.
There are stupid bikers and car drivers... to many are careless.
My father in-law ( Harley Rider ) has been hit head on by a truck that came around the corner in his lane. Been clipped and knocked off too. Latest one, he got t-boned by a truck that fled the scene. He's still alive and still riding, currently from San Diego into Canada.