Relief

or indeed increase your chances of getting killed...

i feel like i want to help but often ill do more harm than good by distracting people from doing their jobs, other than if no one is there or no one experienced anyway...

Andy

Originally Posted by nick lord

Ride how you like, but remember to reap what you sow. Not always the case I know but if you ride like a tw@ you greatly reduce your chances of getting whacked.

Yup. Might not be a bad thing to see once in a while.

I know I personally used to call my helmet my virtual reality visor. Because, what I see through it is not really real.
But, it is though. Once in a while, you will get knocked off or lose it on a bend or whatever. And this wakens you a little.
Seeing a big off like that is going to scare you.

Seeing something like GetYerKneeDown... well. I suppose that's a "rest of the lifer".

In Dublin a while back, I was running home to catch the last train. I car drove up the road past me, and away behind me. Then, imedeately behind me I thought a bomb had gone off.

I dropped to the ground (involuntarily), hunched up, and covered the back of my head. Then I sneaked a look under my arm, back towards the "bomb". What had happened was the car broke a red light, and a bus had milled him out of it.

I stood there, looking at the dude in the car. Then the people near him headed over to him. And, I felt hugely guilty for some reason.

It took a few days to get over the whole thing. I suppose its a trauma thing.
A mate saw someone dive in front of a NYC subway right in front of him. He also seemed to have a similar sort of reaction...

[Lissa]

I've seen several serious/fatal accidents..................and it never gets any easier to deal with. The first was just after I got into bikes, and I saw a good friend go under an artic. Needless to say he didn't survive. I've seen the aftermath of several crashes since then, and as my father was a firefighter, I've heard all the horror stories you could ever want to hear too.

It is only human to feel upset/distressed/guilty about witnessing things like that. After all, it is someones loved one, and there but for the Grace of God........

I think if you ever become inured to something like that, then you have lost a little bit of your humanity.

Apologies not to comment too long on this subject.
To me I feel it is more a link or connection with the biking community. We all see the potential dangers and all have our narrow misses, I guess.

If it was a motorist we would feel extremely saddened but a biking accident/incident seems to hit home all the more.

Just hope you get over it and do not dwell on it too much.

I have been thinking about this for a while. (I had forgoten about that bus incident untill you mentioned the guilt thing...)

When you see the incident, there is going to be a big surge of emotion. Your heart jumps, your stomach drops away, and your eyes flood tons of information into your brain.

The thing is, maybe your brain just doesnt know what to do with all this sudden paniced surge of information and emotion. You dont know the guy. You have never seen him before. But, he is on a bike...
And, you start to think... that could have been me. I could be there, on the road, brown bread. And thank Christ its not me
So all this emotion, looking for somewhere to go in a way, just pours over into guilt.

Maybe?

Originally Posted by sharriso74

It's never nice when you see an accident. I feel concern (for lack of a better word) be it a bike or a car in a nasty looking accident.

Was reading this thread http://forums.sv650.org/viewtopic.php?t=33961 and thought , thank goodness i done mine last year, as part of the IOM TT course,

Hope i dont need to use it but it's a good skill to know