View Full Version : Your strangest crash? - sponsored by Pete m
Lets hear yours , after youve heard mine...
Monday 4pm , conditions good, i go round Vauxhall one way , under the bridge , heading south to Stockwell, i cross the traffic to get in left hand lane...the red lights are on, i touch the front brake and....wham...the bike washes out, im spat off and land in the middle of the road under a stationary vans rear tyre....i get up , feel ok , walk back to see WTF ...theres a perspex sheet in the road, exact shape of a reg plate, must have fallen off and was sitting there...i just happened to hit the brake just when my front was on it ....:eek:....thats a freak....
today my back hutrs at the cocyx ( wish i could spell my fave word !!!:cool:) dk how that happened...the bike - no worries for the sturdy Kwak !:))
OK - can anyone beat it , or equal it for a strange/ unlucky one?:confused:
I was following a guy on his new ZX10 (the original one) at "spirited" pace in Northumberland in Late Spring on my VF500 F2.
He was ahead by about 80 yards when I saw him go straight through a hedge into someone garden on a tight right hander.
I hit the brakes to slow down to help him, changed lines and hit the same pile of road salt he had and went through the same hole in the hedge. :)
We were lying next to each other with the Man who owned said garden looking in disbelief as he tended his flower beds.
If I hadn't slowed to help him I'd have never hit the salt and wouldn't have gove through the hedge.
And none of the other 10 bikers we were with stopped to help! :)
Ironically his bike broke down the hedge and had a tiny crack in the fairing. Mine, went through the hole he left and needed a new to fariing.
Karma got it wrong that day :)
C
Well not so much the accident but the events afterwards left me mortified! when i was 17 I had a yamaha DT 125r and on my way to work along a single laned bypass slow moving traffic about 25mph I got ready to overtake did my lifesaver and took a double glance at an advertisment truck (to read the advert!) when I looked where I was going I hit the car infront as it had slowed, luckily I only hit the tow so no damage to the car, I however went straight over the bars catching the crown jewels on the handlebar as i went over, needless to say, very embaressing and painful!
The guy got out and put my bike to the side of the road and I said I was fine just had ball ache! so on he went after a couple of minutes. The accident had ripped some of the spokes out of the front wheel so I decided to push it the 2 miles to work.
As I was pushing it up the bypass there was a couple of ambulances that went passed which I wasnt sure, but they were for me, couple of minutes later a Leather clad copper on a bike pulled up in fornt of me and asked if I was the biker who had been knocked off, after putting my bike on the stand I explained that i was and what had happend. He asked if was okay and I said yeah fine, bit shaken (as it was my first off) but I cracked my balls on the bars as i went over the handlebars.
He asked if I had checked myself to see if I was bleeding down there, as I could have cut a major blood vessel and because of the shock I would not have noticed, I said no, it felt tender but fine, To my dis-beleif he replied pull your trousers down and let me check, I said Pardon? he said he needs to check as explained i could be in shock and bleeding!
So there i was, my pride and joy bike damaged, my personal pride bruised, painfull balls with my trousers round my knees on the side of the busiest bypass's in Poole at morning rush hour, with my back to the traffic and a leather clad copper on his knees inspecting my balls, the slow moving traffic was beeping, laughing and taking the pis*, shouting out of the window!
Maybe not the worst accident, but probably the most embarressing!
Do i get a prize?
hongman
17-08-10, 02:03 PM
Oh Shi* LOL
DaveW_42
17-08-10, 02:05 PM
that is brilliant!
warrenhewitt10
17-08-10, 02:08 PM
i love these posts :) always a good laf!
maviczap
17-08-10, 02:16 PM
In my early years, I was riding a CG125 on our usual Friday rideout to a pub for half a shandy. Going round a bend in a twisty country lane I got caught by the wind (was blowing somewhat) and got blown across the road into the bushes. Low speed spill no damage.
Strange thing was, same happened on the way home. again no damage and everyone had a laugh
AndyBrad
17-08-10, 02:33 PM
Did he kiss them better for you?
mister c
17-08-10, 03:11 PM
When I was 17 (a long time ago) I was following a car on my brand new Suzuki X5 a little too close. He put his brakes on & stopped in the middle of the road. My bike hit the rear of his car, just glancing his rear quarter & knocked me off.
Now, I know it was my fault, but when you are a spotty 17 year old oik it's anybody's fault but yours. I picked myself & my bike up off the floor seething, put the bike on it's stand & stormed over to the bloke saying "What the F@*k did you stop in the middle of the f@*king road for"
The guy looked at me & said "Sorry mate, I missed my house"
When I asked him where he lived he pointed to a house about 10 yards behind us
i think it's really bad energy to talk about old accidents...
davepreston
17-08-10, 03:22 PM
i got pushed by a car who moved fron lane 2 into lane one in to kerb, as he was grinding my bike wheels into it (while both of us were still moving forward) i lent over and knocked his window, at which point he moved further right and speed up at which point my front completey dug in and i went superman styley over the front of the bike and near through his back window, he carried on for a mile or two down the road, parked came walking back asked what happened, to which i informed him, he said it wasnt him and fecked off
thankfully the court disagreed
muppet
After a "spirited ride" was heading to the local pub. I stopped at a set of lights only to witness a very strange sight (accident). My mate came past me, stood up with feet together arms flailing at about 20-30mph. Followed by his bike sliding after him. He's washed out on a line of wet manhole covers.
...copper on knees...willy out...
Maybe not the worst accident, but probably the most embarressing!
Do i get a prize?
I reckon he was pulling your plonker.
great story - if true ...then your prize must be featuring in your own movie on you tube as we speak.....:cool:..(if its a recent tale that is)
missyburd
19-08-10, 01:33 PM
a leather clad copper on his knees inspecting my balls
Ermmm not being funny but why would the copper have much medical knowledge? Either you're confised and meant he was a paramedic or you were had big time :lol:
benji106
19-08-10, 04:29 PM
not sure on police protocol for chacking damaged balls, but surely you wouldnt need to be a paramedic to see if they were bleeding/missing?
hongman
19-08-10, 06:10 PM
Im sure it doesnt take a very qualfied person to see if they are missing ;)
andrewsmith
19-08-10, 06:13 PM
*cough please*
Dave20046
19-08-10, 06:20 PM
Great thread.
Chin up alex atleast he didn't inspect your @rse.
Sid Squid
19-08-10, 07:26 PM
I'm following a car and another bike is following me, approaching a junction the car indicates and slows to turn right, I slow down so as not to come to a complete halt and when I'm about ten yards behind the car I get hit hard from behind by the other bike who, seemingly, hadn't slowed at all.
So far, so unfortunate, but this is where it gets odd.
In the melee my bike and the other rider slide off to the left and onto the verge, I somehow end up face down across the side fairing of his now horizontal bike and surf it along the road until we quite firmly hit the back of the car that was waiting to turn right.
The driver gets out to see what had happened and finds me and a motorbike wedged under the back bumper of his car, he therefore takes some convincing that no, this is not my fault, that no, this is not my bike and that no, I wasn't riding it.
Oh its definetly true, When i say balls I mean my groin area! apparently there are major arteries within that region, It was either that or see the paramedics!
If Im honest I've only seen the funny side of it in the last few years, at 17 (7 months after leaving school) I was pretty mortified!
Another good one which was a few months later, Pulling up to a set of lights in the wet theres some good looking girls stood at the bus stop so as i was checking them out, revving the bike a bit (bit sad in hindsight) came to a stop putting my foot on a wet storm drain cover, foot slipped and dropped the bike, Must of looked a right tw*t! the lights seemed to take forever to change!
how long ago was it ? i dk how old you are now, you wrer 17 then you could be 19 now... or 29 ....or 39 ....:confused:....but if you re 19 now some white van mans mate would have filmed THAT sight on his mobile ;)
Re the original tale which admittedly most will have forgotten, ive realised how i did my back....the bag :rolleyes:....as soon as i put it on next day it hurt right there, so as has been noted on the org before, be careful how you fill your back sack and have the soft bits resting on your back, so if something ontoward happens, it dont bust you in your crucial cocyx (?):cool:
Im 25, so a long time ago!
timwilky
20-08-10, 07:25 AM
Not mine, but I was a witness to it.
I was stopped (in the car) at the bottom of a hill whilst numpties tried to fight the sheet ice up. In the distance I see this poor sod on his LC sliding down the road/hill.
He is square to the road, his left leg is behind them holding up him/bike and I bet the poor sod was terrified, there is nothing he can do, they are both sliding down a sheet of ice. If he is unlucky he will go across onto the opposite carriageway where muppets are struggling, if he is lucky he may stay on his own side of the road. I want to shout let go but cannot. I don't think it has occured to him what is going to happen when the ice runs out. Fortunately he does part company and bounce onto the grass verge. and bike bounces off one of the muppets with spinning wheels.
Initially nobody is going anywhere to help him. They all know if they stop spinning their wheels they will slide back down the hill. I am still stationary waiting my run at the hill so get out and whoops flat on my backside with one leg still in the drivers footwell.
Turns out I knew the lad, he drank in my local of the time and after getting his leg plastered he recovered, but I don't think he would ever ride on ice again
Steve_God
20-08-10, 01:02 PM
Not me personally, but my brother has come off his bike before now at a junction on yards away from his home when he went over a carpet tile that was the same colour as the tarmac while on lean turning into his road - damn unlucky!
I've only crashed once so far, it was a bit random. Coming out of gerrards at Mallory Park, hard on the throttle for the straight, gently off the throttle and bam the front end went... slid on my ass for ages, got amazingly hot too.
It was wet and at first I thought it was change in tarmac from a wet surface to dry, but it was most likely the front end bottoming out as my suspension was set up by a complete fricking numpty (me :()
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