i just had my first motorcycle accident a few hours ago due to me losing confidence during a turn. i was doing everything right until i got to close to the shoulder then i panicked i straightened up the bike. so i went of the road onto dirt. i kept it Straight for like 10-20 feet i didn‘t hit brakes to hard because it would‘ve locked up but went in between a electricity pole and the wire that holds it up then it hit like a dirt mound, then the bike caught like 2 feet of air and when it slammed down i bounced of the seat and over the front of the bike. i broke the fall a little bit by rolling. i got up cleaned my self up and looked at my beautiful bike she was hurt broke a couple fairings and rearset but was still rideable i looked at my buudy who was hella woried then i started laughing and then requested a hi 5. but now im really sad my bike is hurt but im glad i was able to walk it off
I can't remember, but here's a funny one - I was riding down a track that had a chain across as a gate. I figured there was enough slack in the chain that if I rode over it, it would touch the ground. It did, but it also got stuck in the front tire tread, so when it reached the front fork the wheel stopped dead and the bike did a perfect somersault landing exactly on the front light. I ended up sitting in the dirt. I don't remember being particularly hurt, except in the wallet - bike parts seemed ridiculously expensive.
I was riding some twistys with a buddy and we came up to the sharpest left hand turn that happened to be a little blind and dropped down to 40mph. At the apex of the turn, I saw a massive lawn mower going about 4 miles an hour cutting six inches of grass and taking up the whole lane. The road in front of him immediately veered to the right and I couldn't see if there was oncoming traffic. I stood it up and braked as hard as I could without loosing traction and the plan was to break to the left right before I touched that white line but my hands said **** That and I went right into a ditch. Got off lucky -that road has killed many motorcyclist.
I was hit by a drunk driver on my 2 day old brand new Harley Davidson 9-12-1986. Fractured my skull as well as many other parts of my body. Died in air ambulance going to hospital, was revived died 2 more times revived spent next 2 years in recovery and still ride my Harley when the weather permits I go to work everyday!
